🎨 Artcow Iconoclast / Jonathan Mack Sweet - The Chris-Chan of Arkansas

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DrJonesHat said:
That could have done it. Wonder why he no-showed at his hearing?
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Nobody told him, his brother took the car, he'd lost his glasses, black people were there, TV ratings.

He has an incredible knack for not doing anything. Would you believe that this bastion of rock-ribbed Republicanism didn't even vote in the 2012 presidential election? He tells the story on AJM, in a post sometime from November 2012 which I can't access at the moment. I think he blamed losing his glasses and his brother.

DrJonesHat said:
His attitude certainly conveys that impression. It's not just laws, his behavior at college indicates a general "the rules of society are for other people" belief.
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He also seems to seriously believe that newspapermen are somehow exempt from normal laws. There's an AJM post of his which I quoted a few months back where he outlines his belief that having a press badge lets you trespass with impunity...
 
Absinthe said:
Nobody told him, his brother took the car, he'd lost his glasses, black people were there, TV ratings.

He has an incredible knack for not doing anything. Would you believe that this bastion of rock-ribbed Republicanism didn't even vote in the 2012 presidential election? He tells the story on AJM, in a post sometime from November 2012 which I can't access at the moment. I think he blamed losing his glasses and his brother.



He also seems to seriously believe that newspapermen are somehow exempt from normal laws. There's an AJM post of his which I quoted a few months back where he outlines his belief that having a press badge lets you trespass with impunity...
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I vaguely recall him saying a press badge let you break laws. Of course, even if that were true, he doesn't have one, and he's not going to get one. I'm sure he believes he's got some right to go back to ASU, laws and trespass warnings be dammed.
 
DrJonesHat said:
On further reflection, Sweet is unemployed (and unemployable) and his family is poor, so perhaps his former roomie didn't see any point in filing a libel suit if he did indeed lose his job because of Sweet's blatantly false allegations. In his position, I still would have filed and agreed to settle for a written apology and a written statement indicating Sweet was lying.
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Mr. Sweet claims to have written his letter to ASU officials shortly before his old roommate left the university. He then implies that his correspondence and its shocking revelations (i.e., lies) may have caused that departure. In reality, according to his Facebook page, Mr. Sweet's old roomie left for a similar job -- with a loftier title -- at another university. The guy also seems to be a minister or lay minister and devoutly religious, which doubtless explains why Mr. Sweet wasn't murdered in his sleep. Mr. Sweet now threatens that he is going to "defrock" his ex-roomie.
 
I know I'm beating a dead horse, but seriously AJM? If Sweets ever goes Elliott Rodger, your site is going to look worse than PUAhate.
 
Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said:
Mr. Sweet claims to have written his letter to ASU officials shortly before his old roommate left the university. He then implies that his correspondence and its shocking revelations (i.e., lies) may have caused that departure. In reality, according to his Facebook page, Mr. Sweet's old roomie left for a similar job -- with a loftier title -- at another university. The guy also seems to be a minister or lay minister and devoutly religious, which doubtless explains why Mr. Sweet wasn't murdered in his sleep. Mr. Sweet now threatens that he is going to "defrock" his ex-roomie.
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Sweet's hatred of his roomie has something to do with the Ashleigh incident right? Or am I getting that confused with something else?
 
DrJonesHat said:
I vaguely recall him saying a press badge let you break laws. Of course, even if that were true, he doesn't have one, and he's not going to get one. I'm sure he believes he's got some right to go back to ASU, laws and trespass warnings be dammed.
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That actually kind of makes his flipping out over losing the Herald position make sense. If he thinks journalists get a 007-style license to break the law it could explain a lot of his behavior. He might have assumed that by writing for ASU he was considered somewhat above the law, or at least the student code of conduct, and therefore the obviously racist crap would pass unchallenged. It would explain why he thinks it's an important enough career that the Herald staff would want to sabotage him, after all, those dang dirty liberals couldn't risk this bad boy of conservative journalism getting that oh-so-important press pass, why, then he'd be nigh-unstoppable. In his fantasies, Sweet would have worn that press pass like a police badge, bullying his way past limp-wristed liberals who sought to prevent him from publishing The Truth™, like a hero from some old time radio show. The Shadow, maybe.

Sweet seems like someone who is trapped at 15 in his head. Everything he does, from his fart humor to his sexuality to his comics obsession to his edgy try-hard interactions with people, would make a lot more sense if he were still a teenager. You hear the term "manchild" tossed around a lot these days but in Sweets case it seems accurate. I really wonder what hurt him so badly that made him apparently stop developing mentally. If it was abuse, or his own emotional oversensitivity, or what. I think if I knew that I'd know whether to feel some sympathy or just disgust.
 
DrJonesHat said:
I'm sure he believes he's got some right to go back to ASU, laws and trespass warnings be dammed.
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Sweet is an example why the law must sometimes use a firm hand.

Most people would have some moral compass that tells them that doing so would be wrong. Or, failing that, a mind that would have moved its attention to other fish to fry. From his constant spewing of hate all over the Internet, we can see that he lacks the former, and from his constant vows of revenge all over the Internet, we can see that he lacks the latter as well.

Like Chris Chandler, only the fear of jail will keep this sick jackass from shitting in other people's lives.

ASU said:
Sweet seems like someone who is trapped at 15 in his head. Everything he does, from his fart humor to his sexuality to his comics obsession to his edgy try-hard interactions with people, would make a lot more sense if he were still a teenager. You hear the term "manchild" tossed around a lot these days but in Sweets case it seems accurate. I really wonder what hurt him so badly that made him apparently stop developing mentally. If it was abuse, or his own emotional oversensitivity, or what. I think if I knew that I'd know whether to feel some sympathy or just disgust.
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It seems like a lot of stuff all kind of happened around a compressed period of time: getting fired from The Hatchet, his father dying, "Ashleigh," getting expelled. (His autism connects it to Bill Clinton being re-elected President.) It could be that's the time (about half-past 1997) when his mind just kind of "surrendered" and he opted out of life in general. Older than 15, but it would explain his aversion to change of all kinds.
 
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Holdek said:
It seems like a lot of stuff all kind of happened around a compressed period of time: getting fired from The Hatchet, his father dying, "Ashleigh," getting expelled. (His autism connects it to Bill Clinton being re-elected President.) It could be that's the time (about half-past 1997) when his mind just kind of "surrendered" and he opted out of life in general. Older than 15, but it would explain his aversion to change of all kinds.
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Yeah, that does make sense. I remember seeing a chart in class once that rated stressful life events on a scale and it was saying that 3 or more of the really high stress ones hitting in the teenage years was a huge warning sign for future problems and all of those events, at least from Sweets perspective, would have been that level of stress. It's hard for me to feel bad for him when it seems so much of it was self-inflicted, but I admit he's faced a lot of actual (again, from his perspective) adversity, though he didn't manage to overcome even his delusional beliefs enough to succeed. I feel like maybe where things really went wrong was in that he should have been in therapy and perhaps on some kind of medication to help him deal with his private demons, and ofc there is no real mental health care in most of the US, especially if you're poor, and double especially if you refuse to admit there's anything wrong with you.
 
ASU said:
Yeah, that does make sense. I remember seeing a chart in class once that rated stressful life events on a scale and it was saying that 3 or more of the really high stress ones hitting in the teenage years was a huge warning sign for future problems and all of those events, at least from Sweets perspective, would have been that level of stress. It's hard for me to feel bad for him when it seems so much of it was self-inflicted, but I admit he's faced a lot of actual (again, from his perspective) adversity, though he didn't manage to overcome even his delusional beliefs enough to succeed. I feel like maybe where things really went wrong was in that he should have been in therapy and perhaps on some kind of medication to help him deal with his private demons, and ofc there is no real mental health care in most of the US, especially if you're poor, and double especially if you refuse to admit there's anything wrong with you.
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Yeah. His delusional mind refuses the idea that he needs therapy (probably as a protection mechanism; he's complained before about us Kiwis causing him to doubt his perception of the past, and he has demonstrated to us an extreme stubbornness about acknowledging that the negative consequences of his choices were reasonable), but it's that very therapy that would be most effective at helping him overcome his delusions. Someone put it well earlier in this thread that he's kind of like a schizophrenic whose voices are telling him not to take any meds.
 
Holdek said:
Yeah. His delusional mind refuses the idea that he needs therapy (probably as a protection mechanism; he's complained before about us Kiwis causing him to doubt his perception of the past, and he has demonstrated to us an extreme stubbornness about acknowledging that the negative consequences of his choices were reasonable), but it's that very therapy that would be most effective at helping him overcome his delusions. Someone put it well earlier in this thread that he's kind of like a schizophrenic whose voices are telling him not to take any meds.
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Is there any evidence of him having a better life before the college years? All I've read of it has been fighting with his brother and mom, I think it was posted before that he has at least one other sibling, but since we would probably highlight the bad it wouldn't surprise me if that's all I had paid attention to so far. Were his early teen years in any way better than the late ones, or was his childhood, that we know of?
 
ASU said:
Is there any evidence of him having a better life before the college years? All I've read of it has been fighting with his brother and mom, I think it was posted before that he has at least one other sibling, but since we would probably highlight the bad it wouldn't surprise me if that's all I had paid attention to so far. Were his early teen years in any way better than the late ones, or was his childhood, that we know of?
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Sweetstory kind of seems to start in 1996.

The only story I know about from pre-college is where the roving pack of black men attacked his mother on her front lawn and he was too paralyzed with fear to intervene, and then got made fun of at high school for failing to intervene. Something else about being insulted by black passerby before that incident (which he believes was the precursor).

But other than that, I've seen nothing, especially about his young childhood. I think he's intimated that after he moved from Chicago to Missouri when he was five, he thinks his environment was much worse because of black gangs around his home.
 
Was poking around the "FUQ" on his site, and re-read this:

Jon Sweet said:
There are back copies of The Herald featuring my published work--two news stories and seven columns--in bound volumes in the Arkansas Room, Dean B. Ellis Library, second floor, on campus. At least I presume they are there. I'm banned from campus because of my ongoing dispute with the paper, so I can't check personally. I'm a black mark in Herald history. I wouldn't put it past them to go as far as to conveniently lose about six months' worth of issues to make it look like I never worked there. I am damned with faint praise by a couple of my pieces buried in the Herald archives online:
...but you'll see none of my best work, the controversial stuff, and no hate mail. I do keep all my old clippings in my private papers, though.​
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Much edgy! So Pulitzer!

I mean, actually being a journalist involves a lot of "the Housing Office is holding a cookout on Thursday evening" kind of thing---much more of that than OMGWatergate!---but still.
 
meltychocolate said:
Of course no one believes Sweet's crazy phone dating scheme was normal but he has said some other weird stuff, like that "the system" didn't like offcampus girls, maybe some other stuff I'm forgetting.
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I missed answering this before, but yeah, there was friction there. I think it was more of a situation of "the campus security are paranoid because damn near everything including hardcore porno magazines and beer are illegal to sell at this time (when Sweet was there) in this county, and off campus people are mostly older, nasty, carrying drugs, and/or buying booze for college kids", so off campus people didn't so much have a bad reputation among the kids as they were simply unwelcome and seen as trespassers by the staff. There were very cool (and many not so cool) semi homeless painkillered-out drunk dudes that were around that would invariably end up being snuck into students dorms, caught, kicked out, warned or arrested... It was constant drama. For dating though I... outside of if this chick were an obvious meth-head, then no I don't think anyone would have cared. The thing to me is, how did they even know she was from offcampus in the first place unless he ran his mouth about how great that supposedly made her, or was she so obviously cracked out in some way that they could just tell?
 
MrsFrizzle said:
Much edgy! So Pulitzer!

I mean, actually being a journalist involves a lot of "the Housing Office is holding a cookout on Thursday evening" kind of thing---much more of that than OMGWatergate!---but still.
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I liked this bit from his Ross Perot column:

Newspaperman Sweet said:
First of all, the majority of presidents have seen some form of military service. If Perot has a military record, he can always pull it out and point to it, just like one of his trademark charts and graphs.
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Didn't even bother researching if Perot has a military record...how informative.
 
Imagine what it'd be like to be around Sweet with him doing that neck-cracking sound thing and peanut crunching thing around you.

And Sweet still marvels at how we could ever think the trolling he got wasn't adoration.
 
Holdek said:
Was poking around the "FUQ" on his site, and re-read this:


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Only Mr. Sweet could work this line into a review of The Nutty Professor:

It will fit an audience as a jogging suit fits Al Sharpton.

He just can't help himself. (And note that "as a jogging suit" should be "like a jogging suit." Standard American English does not exactly fit Mr. Sweet as a glove.)
 
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