The lack of taking a break physically seems to add the most credibility to episodes of mania. 

Imagining Jaden Ivey in the woodshop is a hilarious imagine to me lol

Whens the dude eating???

Social media is reinforcing his beliefs. He won’t stop, unless someone he completely trusts breaks through to him, and even that is a long shot. He even talks about how his family is calling him “psycho” and that he’s losing his mind and thats not even enough to make him think twice. The internet gives people like him the platform to find like minded bigots and when you’re in a low point of your life, you want nothing more than for people to understand and agree. Made 100x worse if he really is going through some manic episode. One huge, giant mistake this social media thing was.

When the Web was first coming online, the early starry-eyed evangelists for it were encouraging everyone to get online.

I don’t think they really knew what “everyone” meant.

As someone who’s on instagram too much, please take it from me: stay away from comment sections on anything even mildly political. IG is the absolute worst medium I’ve come across for comments that make me lose faith in humanity. To be fair, there a lot of bot comments, but definitely not all. It’s an echo chamber for the most backwards, immature, and hateful fucking people on the planet. I felt a lot better once I actively stopped bothering with the comments on post, unless it was such an innocuous post that I was confident it wouldn’t bring out the scumbaggery

bots and trolls are pushing his buttons, but it is also likely a far right AI agent has been directed to manipulate him given the current sociopolitical climate

AI should have no access to social media at all, the fact it is allowed is just rediculous and terrible

Yeah one of the biggest dangers with social media. It can become an echo chamber for dangerous views

Dennis Rodman

No he doesn’t. The only person he could be referring to is Jaden Ivey.

What a stupid take lmao, this is obviously about Jaden Ivey 😂😂😂😂

Only an idiot wouldn’t understand who they were referencing

Didn’t he admit he was sexually abused as a minor by a man? If so, he probably has a lot of unresolved trauma, and it’s manifesting as homophobia right now as well.

That doesn’t excuse any of his actions (he’s a grown ass man and there are plenty of abuse victims who don’t go on to be violent or homophobic), but the dude clearly has had a difficult past and it seems like he’s not in a good mental state right now. Maybe he is just an asshole, but he could probably use help too.

Um. You’re saying Ivey BEAT his wife? On what is that statement founded? I don’t like anything Ivey’s ever saying or doing but like. wtf. Let’s not toss “wife beating” allegations around that aren’t definitely true, yikes. Unless I missed something somehow?

That’s completely disingenuous

Claims like this should have a source. Nothing i can find supportd your claim.

You should delete this, people will believe it and start regurgitating it.

Is there anything more holy than commiting atrocities and blaming it on the sins of others?

Dudes basically a prophet at this point

Great porn series though.

It looks like it was Joe Cowley from the Sun Times.

I think there’s just two ways: in and out

I prefer seeing comments like these rather than the endless “fuck him he’s a piece of shit” people that just want online pats on the back

This exact thing happened to a Michigan football player last season. He randomly quit like two weeks before the Ohio State game and was saying all kinds of stuff about his religious calling.

Inb4 jokes about the immorality and sinisterness of Michigan Football (yes I know it’s pretty low hanging fruit), But the point is it was incredibly sudden and random for a captain of the team to quit like that. Later it was revealed he was suffering from bipolar disorder and going through a manic episode

I don’t blame you for remembering that Africa idea he told his mom. That one’s going to stay with me for a while, imagining myself being led back to the Motherland by a sun-kissed SoCal dude in flip-flops.

when mentally distressed people start speaking ill about LGBTQ or jewish people… like maybe we should help these people first?

Where’s the evidence he’s mentally distressed? Nothing he said is out of the ordinary for a lot of evangelicals.

Also, what about all the people who are mentally distressed without turning into homophobes or antisemites? I’m not aware of a mental illness that makes you change your stance on those two things specifically

Losing your job for being outwardly bigoted isn’t weird or wrong.

He can get help and also not be employed. Both things can exist.

He has the right to disagree with someone’s lifestyle in the same way his employer has the right to fire him for public hate speech.

Oh fuck off, it’s not a “lifestyle”. People don’t choose to be gay. You don’t get to “disagree” with someone’s sexual orientation in the same way you don’t get to “disagree” with someone’s race. Or you can, and it’s “just your belief” but then don’t be surprised when people are offended and call you a racist… You can hide every hateful belief under the sun under the guise of religion, it’s still hateful. 

FWIW I agree people like that need help, but what else is his employer supposed to do? Do you really think that man is going to accept team mandated therapy/treatment? And why do they even owe that to him when they’re paying him millions of dollars and he represents them and he’s spouting insane/hateful shit?

 And when you have someone like Kanye saying “I love Hitler” and going full KKK/Nazi (because what else could you be referring to), like obviously yeah he’s super mentally ill but again what exactly is fucking Adidas or his label supposed to do about that? 

It’s not about cancel culture, it’s about being more trouble than you’re worth. Ant said worse shit and he’s still around.

Idk why people like you single out Jewish and LGBTQ people. You say offensive things publicly about any race or group of people/minority you are putting yourself at risk of being terminated from your job and facing other consequences. Do you really believe this is special to LGBTQ and Jews?

You’re a psycho

look I’m not saying reading is bad, I’m not say being gay is bad, I’m just saying reading is gay

I worked a security job in college about 20 years ago and the chud who would come in to replace me at the end of my shift told other people he thought I was gay because I was always reading a book (the job was basically sitting at a desk for 12 hrs straight).

It wasn’t “Leather Balloon?”

Lol, that’s true. Low bar, but 100% true.

Bots and teenagers fighting each other for upvotes

“I do really hope he gets help. It’s not going to be with the Bulls anymore, but wherever it is, I hope he gets it.’’

“Yea I hope he gets help, just as long as it’s not from my team.”

Is it really so different lol, it’s clear the OP is joking.

Some mental health issues manifest in ways that a person can’t be helped by external forces unless they want it.

One would think so, but that’s not always the case.

This story is very similar to Kai Jones’, and he was simply placed on leave, subsequently waived, and now plays in Turkey.

It was only after he was waived that he actually got therapy and support, and, it didn’t come from the league but rather the Players association. I’m hoping they’re able to offer assistance and support to Jaden too, because it appears the Bulls have chosen to wipe their hands clean and the league likely won’t bother/comment on it.

This might be the dumbest NPC I’ve ever seen

Beating his wife was a symptom too?

‘my mental health crisis is I hate gays’

Enough with this shit

Yup

That wouldn’t even be illegal in most states, but the girl was in California and that state doesn’t have a Romeo and Juliet exception. 

I think she was technically 16, but they were in an 18+ place. Extremely bad lack of judgement on Giddey’s part, but still not deserving of being labelled as a paedo like people tend to do. Just an idiot. I have a lot of leniency towards young people of similar age groups, it’s not like he was in his late 20s, which would change the dynamic. Not good, but absolutely not deserving of having his life ruined over it.