Kanye West on Alex Jones

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And on Huggy Bear defending Ye due to his mental illness, as someone who’s on multiple antidepressants, that shit’s only a reason for his horseshit, not an excuse. To quote a podcast host I listen to a lot:



Bear in mind, Marcus Parks has bipolar disorder the same as Ye. But unlike Ye, he actually acknowledges that he’s got a problem and takes care of it accordingly. And if Last Podcast on the Left is any indication, he’s got lots of worst case scenarios from people who didn’t even try and take responsibility for their problems. If memory serves, that quote came from an episode about Joseph Kallinger, a man with a case of paranoid schizophrenia so severe that he robbed, assaulted, and tortured four families because he legit believed God wanted him to do so. And he would have actually finished them off if not for the fact that he tended to hallucinate that part and forgot that he didn’t actually follow through. It’s painfully obvious that Kallinger was mentally ill, but that doesn’t exonerate him in any way. The closest Marcus comes to doing so is saying that he probably should have been found insane, but even that, he takes pains to point that there’s a Lot of misconceptions about the insanity defense.

Maybe I’d be more inclined to sympathize with Ye if he was having trouble getting mental help, but everything I’ve seen of his relationship with bipolar disorder (at least now) is conspiring to make me not sympathise. It’s not like he’s been relying on mental health services that are slowly being defunded like in Joker. He’s a multi-millionaire who was a multi-billionaire a few months ago. And he’s got handlers who try to get him to take his meds, and he refuses to do so. He knows what he’s been diagnosed with, and he knows how it makes him act, but he doesn’t take responsibility.