• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      The frantic part is because he’s the crackhead version of a dry drunk. I’m not being sarcastic about the crackhead thing. That’s part of his own supposed redemption story. If it’s even true and he’s stopped smoking the rock or snorting the nose candy. Maybe it’s adderall these days.

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        I don’t believe so.

        As I understand it, he was an actually recovered addict, so it would be “fueled by the damage drugs had already done to his brain before he quit”.

        And I think it was crack.

        Not to defend the guy, but for a while there pre COVID, while I was doing some volunteer work, I heard from a connected volunteer that Mikey was donating cases upon cases of pillows to rehab locations in his home state, which, speaking as the bleeding heart liberal that I am who wishes we provided more for services like mental health and addiction, is pretty awesome.

        A tax write off is possibly just a tax write off, but for a while, at least, it’s possible he might not have been totally reprehensible.

        I mean, he also professed to be Christian and there was a stink about him not paying employees like four or five years ago too, so since the Bible has specific things to say about THAT behavior too, it’s pretty easy to draw conclusions but even people who behave like shit bags can perhaps sometimes be nuanced.

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          3 months ago

          he also professed to be Christian and there was a stink about him not paying employees

          As William S. Burroughs said: “if you’re doing business with a religious son of a removed, get it in writing. HIs word isn’t worth shit, not with the Good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.”

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          3 months ago

          he also professed to be Christian

          According to Luke 16:13 Jesus Christ said “You cannot serve both God and money.”

          Mark 10:21 “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”