• ExtremeDullard
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    4 days ago

    do we actually have reason to believe he has clearly not changed?

    Yes: people can change when they have some character flaw that doesn’t run too deep, or when they have bad habits that can be reformed.

    My point is, being this insensitive at the age he was when he wrote this doozie clearly shows the man is profoundly sociopathic and narcisist. And I don’t believe people like that truly ever change for the better, because the flaw is hard-coded in their brain.

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      4 days ago

      Didn’t realize we had a psychologist who specialized in child stars on Lemmy who could diagnose strangers so well. Pretty cool

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      3 days ago

      Honestly I don’t think I understand what you’re implying with the age thing. 19 is not maturity. It’s still teenage. 19 is very much well within the timeframe for crass, offensive, rude, stupid, self-centred bullshit that comes from total naivety and inexperience.

    • Squigglez@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      Bro don’t go around throwing the term “sociopathic” like that, Jesus. You wanna know what the last 4 letters of 19 spell? Teen. The dude was still a teenager, man. Yeah, he was technically “legal” in the eyes of the law, but he was still young as hell and didn’t know the meaning behind saying shit like that.

      Hell, if him saying that makes him a sociopath, what does that make Kanye, or Chris Brown, or Harvey Weinstein?

      And God forbid if you ever said anything insensitive and someone finds out about it, because I’m sure you’re not gonna feel too great about someone labeling YOU a sociopath because you called someone the n-word on COD 12 years ago.

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      3 days ago

      clearly shows

      profoundly sociopathic

      the flaw is hard-coded in their brain