I think the assessment of “just crazy enough” to step past that boundary is spot on, but to say that the man is batshit? Not at all.
This is a man who looked at a complex societal problem and chose a path, very deliberately. He didn’t just snap and walk into a building, guns blazing.
He also very deliberately limited his damage to one guy. A woman with coffee walked right up to what was happening, he looked right at her, she left, he let her.
It’s straight Jury Nullification within an hour of deliberation unless there are people on the jury who have been bought, by monetary means or otherwise.
I think the billionaire class will have an assassin ready to go. We’re not supposed to fight back. If he can be an example of punishment via the legal system, great. If not, well, they’ll pay to make that example of punishment so.
There’s an overlap on that Venn diagram that includes false realities, gaslighting, “it’s not my fault”, and a need for a nemesis (to blame things on). There’s a reason they both exist under cluster B.
The difference is BPD ultimately turns inward and damages themselves through suicide or self harm. Sometimes bordering on outright mutilation of self. Whereas the narcissist never does. It forever remains other people’s fault, for them.
It’s more about the entitlement. They feel entitled to children but can’t have them without going through another human being to make it so. As such, laws are made to give them control over said human beings.
It’s like all those proposed save all the kids on the internet laws. The kids are not what it’s really about. Sure, you can dig up a rare human or two who really does want it to be about that, even to the point of belief, but the kids are never what it’s about.
They feel entitled to us and are simultaneously annoyed and angry that we profess to be human beings, which are actually entitled to the same legal rights.
That’s how all the thumbnails work now. Even HCR started a lighter version of it post Trump win, and she was very basic, straight up content prior.
Thumbnails/algorithm have killed hobby channels, like woodworking and sewing, all of it.
We need an “anti” algorithm slam on YT to fix it, but I doubt there are enough creators/makers/whatevers willing to engage such an operation en masse. Journalism/podcasts have always leaned on the present state of the algorithm.
The other issue is the thumbnails exist as they do due to the predominance of phone users over laptops/desktops. It’s a size thing. The thumbnail is designed for small phone screen reading.
Fair. Even so. To what degree that was the case, or not, is anyone’s guess. They’ve not pulled the trigger on a mental health defense, last check.