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

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Maybe it just never clicked with me but he just wants the perks as opposed to real pay? Just... fucking hell.

It's not about the pay. Salaries in professional journalism are actually pretty low, about $39,000-42,500/yr., by some estimates. And at a college newspaper only the editorial staff really sees any money. It's the power and the perks I'm interested in. As I've said many times, if you write a good column, the readers give you stuff out of appreciation. The better the piece, the better the goodies. I wanted to see how far I could go with this. And, according to the Kiwi morons, the only reason I as even allowed to stay at the paper was out of "Christian charity" and some behind-the-scenes string pulling by the managing editor, who used his authority to keep all voices of complaint silent. I want to know I can make it on my own at a school rag without help before I even consider moving to a real newspaper.
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DrChristianTroy said:
Maybe it just never clicked with me but he just wants the perks as opposed to real pay? Just... fucking hell.
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Really? This is the guy who wants to return to ASU... so he can live in a dorm there forever. Of course money wouldn't mean shit to Sweet. Just look at his idea of what perks are and power is. You could give this guy rubber dog poo and he would be entertained by it for hours.
 
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$42K is, according to google, a bit below average, but for a single man outside of a really expensive city like San Francisco or something, you can live on that. In fact, you can live juuuuuuuuuust fine.

To an unemployed country bumpkin like Sweet, that should be pretty fucking appealing!
 
Look guys. Getting pennies in your lock once is a prank. When they keep doing it, it is a reward.

It hasn't been proven to be a prank. It only takes six pennies and a piece of tape to jam a door lock. These people used five times that and no tape.That makes it a reward. With a position on a college paper I was almost murdered and set up with an underage girl for one or two dumb dumb mistakes. I can't begin to imagine the horrific punishments that come from getting fired from a real newspaper.
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Does Not Understand Money said:
It's not about the pay. Salaries in professional journalism are actually pretty low, about $39,000-42,500/yr., by some estimates.
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Still at least three times as much as he earns now, and would go a long way to fixing that fucking hovel he lurks in.
Thinks this is a Job said:
And at a college newspaper only the editorial staff really sees any money.
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Because the point is to again, teach Journalism majors the ins and outs of news work, and is not designed to be a job.
Idiot said:
It's the power and the perks I'm interested in.
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What power? What the hell do you think that power is Jonny? If it's that the people read your stuff, lolno. Most students don't read their college paper, and you at best wrote two or three pieces over an intermittent five months, meaning minimal people saw the shit your wrote. If it's the delusional retarded idea that a small program set up by the college somehow controls an entire campus, that's also blatantly wrong and has been explained to you. Going up higher means you're just sinking back into that delusional schizoid garbage where you accuse Obeme of stealing cable and lightbulbs.

As for the privileges, we already noted that you saw receiving garbage as a gift, saw that prison tier food was luxurious, and saw getting pennied in a room as a reward. Fuck, at this point, I'm half tempted to think you stole from people's desks since you probably looked at it and thought it was yours since you sat there.
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As I've said many times, if you write a good column, the readers give you stuff out of appreciation. The better the piece, the better the goodies.
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This makes the fact that they gave you garbage and pennies even funnier, since they basically called you worthless. Pretty accurate statement too.
Lunatic said:
I wanted to see how far I could go with this.
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I thought it was "I, through autism and uncreativity, plagiarized a skit I deny despite being blatantly wrong, got kicked out after months of being an autistic narcissist, and then proceeded to act like a violent and moon faced loon until I was forced to seek help, which I refused."
Literally A Sped said:
And, according to the Kiwi morons, the only reason I as even allowed to stay at the paper was out of "Christian charity" and some behind-the-scenes string pulling by the managing editor, who used his authority to keep all voices of complaint silent.
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People tend to tolerate the retarded more, yes. Mainly because for those with autism or something else wrong in the brainmeat, some behaviors have to be tolerated and weaned from. Your insistence on acting like a violent loon however stretched that tolerance to the breaking point. It's evident by how it took them a year to finally boot you after you acted like a stalker, tard raged violently, and regularly sent threatening letters to people for several semesters.
Leech on Life said:
I want to know I can make it on my own at a school rag without help before I even consider moving to a real newspaper.
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Not with them investigative and citation skills Mr. Kane.

And as for venerating thirty cents, this is while he shits on earning 40k a year. Keep that in mind.
 
It looks like Sweet never really matured past a certain mental age where some pocket change and perks are just as good as a real salary, and made up words count as real insults ("Kiwi Koalas" and the like).

Sweet said:
I can't begin to imagine the horrific punishments that come from getting fired from a real newspaper.
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Sweet seems to live in a crazy violent world where The New York Times has a medieval torture chamber for fired staff. A world where it's considered perfectly reasonable to brutally decapitate suspected Kiwi trespassers unfamiliar people who happen to be passing by. A world where you can live it up on perks and power from being a Bad Boy Of College Journalism.
 
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AJMLurker said:
You could give this guy rubber dog poo and he would be entertained by it for hours.
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If you gave Moonface a piece of rubber dog poo, you'd be lucky to escape with your head still attached to your neck.

Thumbskull spent his childhood out in the back yard playing with and eating real dog poo. He will accept no substitute.
 
Sweet The Journalist With A Major In English said:
"Piss Christ"? Is this what passes for art today? If it is, then I might have thrown out a goldmine. Some years ago in my old neighborhood... [goes on to discuss wizzing in a jar]
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ToroidalBoat said:
I forget where it was posted, but in it he revealed he stores pee in jars.
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Yeah, he said that if a crucifix in a jar of urine was art, then he had a fortune in his room, or words to that effect.

There's a link to it somewhere in the thread.

It reads like a 90-year-old man ranting about "I don't know art, but I know what I like." Also featured the usual hallmarks of Moonface's scribblings -- lack of originality, crappy writing and factual errors, including misspelling at least one of the artists' names.

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Maybe the mental image Sweet associates with the "Golden Ticket [To ASU]" isn't necessarily a golden ticket, but a jar full of golden-
 
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Sweet fails at art comprehension. I'm not asking him to "get it" or "think about it's context concerning religion" I'm saying that "Immersion (Piss Christ)" isn't a jar of urine with a crucifix in it, it's a photograph of a jar of urine with a crucifix in it. Nothing has been lost by Momma Sweet rightly flushing urine down the drain, as Sweets is not a photographer, or even knew that he'd have to photograph anything for this work of art. It's easy to see from his reading that all he thought it was, was a jar of pee sitting on a museum pedestal w/ trinket in it. This is what happens when you do no research prior to writing.

Also, article came out in 1996, "Immersion" was first unveiled in 1987. I had to look that last fact up. By the time I was in high school (prior to 1996) I was pretty sure the fervor over the work had died down more to eye rolling from "My goddamn tax dollars went to that?" status. I guess "Two Decades Behind Sweet" was still smarting over the spending of his parents tax money to take on the art world.

Also, I have to apologize, I didn't know much about Damian Hirst's "Mother and Child Divided" until now. I was aware of it, but not much more. First, it isn't gruesome at all. Second, I can find no reference to the cases cracking and clearing out a museum (take a look, those tales may be out there, but I wasn't seeing them). Hell, he states he had to re-create it because the original cows started to rot (from an interview in 2008). Third, Hirst is British, so once again, no tax dollars of Sweets went to this work of art.

Sweets, half assing it with the written word, since at lease, 1996.
 
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Maybe the mental image Sweet thinks of when he hears "Golden Ticket [To ASU]" isn't necessarily a golden ticket, but a jar full of...
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I choose to believe he's simply referencing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and not a urine fetish. I will brook no disagreement on this point, as I am currently suffering from a stomach virus, and cannot take any adverse stimuli.

Sweet has a massive cognitive disconnect if he believes he's going to be a reporter since he has a near-fatal allergy to learning. He would last maybe a day without being able to use Google, or Lexus/Nexus or any of the other specialized search engines. I mean, he couldn't even be assed to do the most basic research back when you could still look up stuff in the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, which was probably more his speed. He's not just autistic, he's intellectually lazy. Even if he hadn't gotten expelled from ASU, his life wouldn't have turned out the way he expected, because he would have gotten canned from one job after another since he refuses to do anything for himself without being shown, step by step, and will not change his methods, even if a provably better approach comes along. No paper (or website) would hire someone unwilling to do even a Google search. Since he refuses to acknowledge there's anything wrong with him (even a casual observer could tell Sweet is neuroatypical, to put it mildly), I suspect, even if he'd gotten through grad school, he still would have eventually ended up on SSI since his behavioral issues would preclude gainful employment.
 
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