A postscript to "what happened to me"

[vulcanlogician]

And he would then be able to help us better understand how the alt right operates by taking advantage of isolated people.

We crossed that bridge with rob awhile back.  This is the result, lol.

His delusions are self protecting and aggressive.  We’re not a mental health service or an asshole support network.

It’s not as if no one mentioned to rob, on the way down, that he was being taken for a ride by a bunch of predatory asswipes.....or that no one asked with real concern wtf was up....but beyond that, what are the boards qualified to do, and is it really anyone’s responsibility to mama bird his silly ass back to s place where he isn’t a flaming douche?

At this point, we’re just having fun with a troll.

I know we're not responsible for Rob's mental health. But the real issue isn't whatever conspiracy theories he's obsessing about. The issue is, he feels unhappy and vulnerable and has come into contact with online entities who use that vulnerability to manipulate him and sell him a bogus ideology. In a way, it's not his fault. That doesn't give him the right to annoy forum members as he has done, true. But I'm choosing not to focus on that.

It just sucks that the problem could be solved if Rob stayed on a farm, did a couple weeks of honest work in the outdoors... maybe ate a few batches of pot brownies or something... shit would be cool again. I guess a vacation in the Bahamas might achieve the same result. Rob just needs to chill. But the conspiracy mindset has placed him in a world where it is impossible to chill. There are to many plots and schemes going on! And it's making him wig out.

When I first met Rob, I followed a link he had in his signature. It was his personal webpage where he discussed logic and logical fallacies. It was awesome. Anyone who appreciates critical thinking so much as to create a webpage like that can come back from whatever conspiracy trip that he is on.

I understand that he's annoying you guys. I'm not shaking my finger at you or anything. When someone's being an asshole, sometimes they need to hear it straight up. Go ahead and tell him how you feel. I dig it. That's a perfectly valid way to deal with shit like this. But I have a different way of dealing with shit like this. And I think it's just as valid as other ways.