Mr Beast has like this haunted look, I’ve disliked his shit from the jump

I think that’s an age thing.

He’s overtly sleazy. Like I don’t see how people don’t see snake when they look at him. I have experience with narcs though, I’ve been gaslighted into rejecting reality by them and once you’re through it once, you see the signs from far away. I guess a lot of people don’t have that experience.

Definitely the suit who is revealed to be secretly behind the terrorists halfway through the movie.

Finding out that he did a photo op tearing down homeless camps definitely vindicated my initial bad vibes.

…electric boogaloo!..

So basically years ago Newsom gave you a momentary vibe which matches the way Trump has actually spent two presidencies.

Now let’s all talk about how much we hate Newsom.

Gates was smart but mostly he is just another selfish manipulator with a huge hole in his soul. Home computers were new and he made them less than they could have been to keep his company on top. He lied he stole and in the end tried to convince everyone he was a decent person. Everyone else is just catching up.

The rehabilitation of Bill Gates’s image after he left MicroSoft was mind blowing. Like here’s the most capitalist capitalist in the world, the Elon Musk of the 90s/early 00s, and otherwise progressive people were fawning over him because he did a little philanthropy at the behest of his wife.

It’s like listening to gamers talk about Windows being an OS with such wide compatibility, when the only reason for that is market share forcing everyone else to bend to it and write Windows drivers for everything.

And I still wonder where we’d be in computing if MS hadn’t anointed Intel and their old-timey architecture as the winner of the CPU wars.

They weren’t old enough to remember what a prick Bill was. Him being a retired philanthropist is standard whitewashing

Mark Cuban is a difficult one. He has reduced drug prices to the cost plus a profit margin (which is low*) and so its like “Wow somebody cares!” And this has benefited thousands. But then he says I might fund a new venture and sell Cost Plus Drugs one day; So really he doesn’t care, he’s looking for a big buyer to come in and offer a huge payout to stop the big pharma company losses.

I think from a Utilitarian approach, Bill Gates still falls into a net positive effect on the world. His foundation alone has saved millions of lives by nearly wiping out Polio and Guinea Worm, and severely reducing Polio. And you can try to argue that it isn’t him personally doing these things, but the dedicated people working at his foundation, but it’s his name on it, it’s his money funding it, and if he didn’t exist the foundation wouldn’t exist.

But I get it. Not everyone is a Utilitarian, and he’s done a lot of shitty things that are hard to overlook.

OH GOD YES. He gives me the heeby jeebies

I guess I’m out of the loop, what did he do?

If it helps, people with autism tend to see straight through people with narcissistic personality disorder. People with NPD tend to try and isolate and ostracize autistic people as soon as they recognize them, because autistic people miss or disregard basically all of their attempts at manipulation. And if a person can’t be manipulated, a narcissist will see them as a threat to be excised.

People with autism will usually be baffled at why everyone likes the narcissist, because the narcissist comes off exactly as you described. Manipulative, petty, vindictive, immature, etc… And for some reason, the entire group just seems to go along with what the narcissist wants.

I’m a DA outreach worker i say 100% trust your gut instinct it’s telling you something. DA perps are manipulative and so tend to be well liked IME. Just fyi there’s a list of DA warning signs here. Every tip for narcissism is someone that does more than their fair share of the talking, always brings things back to them.

But from what you’re saying, not a shred of evidence either. I mean srsly, sometimes we’re just wrong about things, and everybody else feeling differently can be a clue. Not saying you’re wrong, because I don’t pretend to have psychic powers, just that it’s healthy to question our own process sometimes.

That’s just every popular person. No shit, how else would you achieve that.

Anyways, our company got acquired and he was let go during HR vetting. The company doing the acquisition obviously had better due diligence then there was when this guy had been hired: sex crimes against a minor.

At a previous job for several months I worked 2 desks away from a new guy they hired who’d been in prison for raping his kid. I didn’t find out about this until he got fired for unrelated reasons. I was pissed because when I’d gotten hired at that place the background check they did raked me over the coals about my education history but they didn’t catch THAT. I treated that prick like a human being FFS. Now I google new hires myself to hopefully avoid that situation in the future.

Wow that is crazy what a twist.

“If you look for the light, you will often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.” - Iroh

I suspect that’s exactly why he became famous. He feels like someone you should hate, affable at first but there’s just something off, so you watch for it and his characters eventually display it.

I wonder if allegations against him were dismissed simply because he played that kind of character, and people assumed it was a character and not Spacy himself being the character he’s best at playing.

Or perhaps the characters he played eventually bled into the actor and he became that kind of person. That also seems to happen to actors over time.