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🎨 Artcow Iconoclast / Jonathan Mack Sweet - The Chris-Chan of Arkansas
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The only image editing software Sweet uses is "just fine."
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I just don't think he's all that dangerous. He may chimp out a bit though.
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At least the good news is that Sweetums couldn't ever make a shock video Nick Bate style because he'd never figure out how to work a video camera or smart phone.
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Can I just quote this recent post from Jon Sweet in response to @Treenbeen and Trollis:
You have to be kidding me said:
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Could you post the whole thing? I'm on my phone and can't connect.
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Dr. B:
Libel and slander laws, and, like, whatevs.
Yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater, and some junk.
The hypocrisy of trying to brand someone a dangerous pedophile over a throwaway line in a piece of fiction written a decade ago, while saying that arranging to have an actual 15-year-old girl solicit someone for sex is harmless and cute and a silly little prank, you know, like, cha'!
You need to stop and think if these are really peolpe you want to call your "friends", 'Beenie baby.
Me: The difference is that if it was a prank, then the girl was fully aware of what was going on and that nothing would ever happen... but I don't think that these "little girls" are aware that drastically older men are admiring *shudders* their puberty.
Saying this: "[The Southern sun makes] the girls’ breasts ripen faster, I think, like peaches somebody kept in the trunk of their car too long in the summer, or in a basement where ventilation is poor. Don’t know if it ripens the boys’ parts up early too--I don’t look, God, no--but I can safely say the sight of all that ripe and abundant lil’girl-flesh makes a lot of the older goats plain crazy with lust" combined with some other comments you've made about women, frightens me.
Dr. B:
The difference is that if it was a prank, then the girl was fully aware of what was going on and that nothing would ever happen...[/quote]
Which is pretty much the definition of solicitation. What happened to the battle-cry "Kids, not conquests!", hmm? The question now remains just how much she was aware of what was going on, if and to what extent she was coached by a third party, and who this person or persons was/were. Your "friends" suggest it was my would-be college roommate who set me up. I've discovered that up until very recently, he worked as a director of some department at my old alma mater, so I got in touch with his former bosses and told them of the station. I was informed he suddenly resigned not long after my first e-mail. Coincidence? Perhaps. I mean, it's not like like they shuffled him off quietly to avoid any appearance of impropriety...right? Still, in a world well-known for its lies, cover-ups, and resentful, jealous trolling that masquerades as love and respect, it seems very suspicious. According to his dossier, the suspected solicitor of barely-legal Betties is also the founder and spiritual leader of an outfit called Chosen Generation Ministries. Well, well. Looks like I might be defrocking a false prophet pretty soon... if your new pals' claim is true.
My theory, however, is-- as it was so perfect and felt like the work of someone who knew me pretty well-- that it was one of my old co-workers seeking misguided revenge on me for my TV ratings column almost shutting down the campus paper... and that if the late faculty adviser ordered the attack or had any knowledge of it, now would be the best time for such information to come out. Unless The Herald pulled a Hillary Clinton and threw away the internal memos, deleted the e-mails, and boiled the servers in acid to cover its tracks.
Libel and slander laws, and, like, whatevs.
Yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater, and some junk.
The hypocrisy of trying to brand someone a dangerous pedophile over a throwaway line in a piece of fiction written a decade ago, while saying that arranging to have an actual 15-year-old girl solicit someone for sex is harmless and cute and a silly little prank, you know, like, cha'!
You need to stop and think if these are really peolpe you want to call your "friends", 'Beenie baby.
Me: The difference is that if it was a prank, then the girl was fully aware of what was going on and that nothing would ever happen... but I don't think that these "little girls" are aware that drastically older men are admiring *shudders* their puberty.
Saying this: "[The Southern sun makes] the girls’ breasts ripen faster, I think, like peaches somebody kept in the trunk of their car too long in the summer, or in a basement where ventilation is poor. Don’t know if it ripens the boys’ parts up early too--I don’t look, God, no--but I can safely say the sight of all that ripe and abundant lil’girl-flesh makes a lot of the older goats plain crazy with lust" combined with some other comments you've made about women, frightens me.
Dr. B:
The difference is that if it was a prank, then the girl was fully aware of what was going on and that nothing would ever happen...[/quote]
Which is pretty much the definition of solicitation. What happened to the battle-cry "Kids, not conquests!", hmm? The question now remains just how much she was aware of what was going on, if and to what extent she was coached by a third party, and who this person or persons was/were. Your "friends" suggest it was my would-be college roommate who set me up. I've discovered that up until very recently, he worked as a director of some department at my old alma mater, so I got in touch with his former bosses and told them of the station. I was informed he suddenly resigned not long after my first e-mail. Coincidence? Perhaps. I mean, it's not like like they shuffled him off quietly to avoid any appearance of impropriety...right? Still, in a world well-known for its lies, cover-ups, and resentful, jealous trolling that masquerades as love and respect, it seems very suspicious. According to his dossier, the suspected solicitor of barely-legal Betties is also the founder and spiritual leader of an outfit called Chosen Generation Ministries. Well, well. Looks like I might be defrocking a false prophet pretty soon... if your new pals' claim is true.
My theory, however, is-- as it was so perfect and felt like the work of someone who knew me pretty well-- that it was one of my old co-workers seeking misguided revenge on me for my TV ratings column almost shutting down the campus paper... and that if the late faculty adviser ordered the attack or had any knowledge of it, now would be the best time for such information to come out. Unless The Herald pulled a Hillary Clinton and threw away the internal memos, deleted the e-mails, and boiled the servers in acid to cover its tracks.
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He can't let go of the idea that someone "arranged" for a teenager to phone him, like kids living in college towns didn't do that all the time on a dare, back in the days of landlines.
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I'd pay good money to watch Mr. Sweet attempt to produce a video using any nonlinear editing software on the market. The first step in his workflow would almost certainly involve having to return to ASU's "state-of-the-art computer labs" to transfer all of the files to 3.5-inch floppy disks. The rest of his life would be spent attempting to color correct the clips in MS Paint.
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Dr. Merkwurdichliebe
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Mr. Sweet has some strange ideas about libel and slander. For starters, he doesn't know what they are.
But he does seem to understand quite well that these statutes, like all others, apply to everyone else but not to him. If he had ever taken a course in media law, he would understand that his ravings about his co-workers at The Herald and his roommate at ASU constitute libel per se. He spreads falsehoods intended to hold them up to public ridicule and to damage their reputations. He clearly identifies them. And he has been doing this for almost 20 years.
On the other hand, when someone repeatedly boasts on the Internet about having created child pornography (state and federal felonies) and about intending to send that child pornography through the mail (federal felony), thereby distributing that child pornography (state and federal felonies) with the final intention of publishing that child pornography (state and federal felonies), speculating that the person doing the boasting might be a pedophile is about as far from libel as you can get.
Mr. Sweet's use of "plots" that involve men engaged in statutory rape or attempted statutory rape or fantasizing about statutory rape is a long-standing habit. In his story "Dark Hunger" from 2003, for example, we have a 16-year-old girl taking off with a guy in his twenties whose Internet handle is -- wait for it -- Iconoclast. That the adult male with designs on the 16-year-old girl is the same age and uses the same Internet identity as the author is, of course, merely a coincidence, not more evidence of the author's obscene fantasies.
And then there's the 15-year-old love interest of Mr. Sweet's self-insert in his comics, discussed by Absinth here:
And yet...and yet...and yet...Sweet seems always teetering on verge of self-awareness. One page on his confusing, antiquated website appears to be a selection of short stories he uploaded in 2005. In it, the narrator describes a "novelist" who is very likely a reference to Sweet's favourite topic - himself.
Deep down, Sweet probably acknowledges that he frequently says racist and misogynist things - but takes issue with the labels "racist" and "sexist". It's an odd position.
Also, the story shows Sweet revisiting subjects he covers on a recurring basis: school shootings, the debauchery of college life (and its fattening food) and...underage girls
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Another wiki page about one of his characters, another confirmation of Sweet Bro's inability to let go of the past. The same character appears in two separate stories about a man wrongly forced out of his job by a conspiracy.
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Using sexualised terms to describe underage girls appears to be a recurring feature of Sweet's work.
The Belch Dimension comics feature a character named Angela who is canonically 15 years old, and his self-insert's love interest. She is apparently often shown in "skimpy" outfits.
Land o' Goshen!
Holy smoke!
Great Jumping Jehosaphat!
As mentioned in my previous post, Mr. Sweet is aggressively ignorant of libel law, one of the key tenets of which is that you do not have to name the person you are libeling, you only have to identify him. In his post, Mr. Sweet accuses the founder of Chosen Generations Ministries of engaging in pimping "barely legal" girls. (Elsewhere he identifies these girls as being underage.) He then boasts of revealing this information to this person's former employer, Arkansas State University. Mr. Sweet then implies that his actions cost this person his job, and that Mr. Sweet plans to repeat his performance.
I'm going to share this information with the founder of Next Generations Ministries, who was an undergrad at Arkansas State University from 1996-99, who is the former director of development at Arkansas State University, and who now holds a similar position at Clark Atlanta University. I do not think he will be well pleased.
And by the by, here is the LinkedIn page of that person. Notice any reason why Grand Dragon Sweet might have it in for him? I thought you would. (It will be funny to see how Grand Dragon Sweet's accusations go down when his target works at a historically black university. Why do I suspect that, after they Google Mr. Sweet, there will be consequences of Biblical proportions?)
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Micro-hairsplitting: GIMP was originally released in 1996, though a) it was obviously much more limited than it is now in its earlier versions and b) it was pretty much limited to Linux and like. (And given that around that time the rest of the graphics apps for Linux were about as capable as MS Paint, GIMP was still absolutely godly.) I started my serious attempts at making digital art around that time. Around that time, everyone in Windows land who wanted to do graphics on the cheap were using Paint Shop Pro (the shareware version was quite capable as I recall, and I think the full version wasn't that expensive either) and you could get previous versions of CorelDraw suite dirt cheap (like, hunh, I just found my Corel 4 CDs in a drawer the other day).
Of course I'm sure Sweet will say that nobody told him about these alternative software packages! A newspaperman like him would never read consumer computer magazines and their frequent reviews of graphics software of the day.
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You know, I realize I may be treading over previously trod ground here, but I find something absolutely fascinating about Thumb's paranoia here, specifically in that it's manufactured paranoia.
Have you ever noticed that Sweet has to turn everything involving him into a battle or a conspiracy? There was a quote from a while ago where he had written google or youtube or someone, mentioning that they may have to buy him a new computer because it went on the fritz when he visited their site (too lazy to look it up now). The kid that tormented him so at the Beau's shop wasn't merely a rambunctious child, but a potential threat to his life. Of course, as ever, there's Jon's constant desire to put down others due to ethnicity, skin color, economic class, or political stances - remember, he even dislikes so-called RINOs.
Sweet seems to maintain a general sense of resentment towards society in general, whether he actually interacts with different demographics or not. There always has to be a fight, always has to be judgement, always has to be suspicion and acrimony and condemnation.
The thing of it is, even when it is explained to Sweet, in terms that even he cannot ignore, that what he describes as a college experience so hateful and destructive was simply a mundane, mostly innocuous series of events that he brought upon himself, he nonetheless has to insist there was some kind of conspiracy. Lazy as he is, he excels at moving the goal posts. For every reasonable, logical proposal, there's always going to be a "But why?" sure to follow.
"My theory, however, is-- as it was so perfect and felt like the work of someone who knew me pretty well--"
Right, someone who knew him pretty well - like a ROOMMATE, PERHAPS? See, that's the most reasonable place to take things, the most sensible place to go. But I think I know why Jon is perpetually trying to keep these silly conspiracy theories alive.
The simple truth of the matter is that Jon Sweet is a useless human being. He wrote a few weeks ago about how he took his mom to dinner at Taco Bell. Rubbish. He couldn't take his mom anywhere. She controls his money and he can't drive. It's fine to pretend to that sort of thing when you're ten years old, but not when you're nearly 40. Jon is as useless as he is powerless. There is nothing he can do in this life under his own power, unless he uses his imagination, and even then, he can't escape.
Look at his fantasies, filled with rage and violence and vengeance, with the occasional pervo fantasy for good measure. Jon never really sees himself as truly winning anything realistically. He has violent power fantasies because he knows that he's a powerless person. It's the same thing with the conspiracies. Which of the two is the more comforting belief?
1. I'm a lone voice of truth in a wilderness of falsehood, surrounded by decadent and selfish villains who would do anything to silence me and sway me from the path of spreading righteousness and light to a world that desperately needs it,
or
2. I'm a disruptive, ugly, anti-social freak who people yell at, haze, avoid, and expel from polite society because of my terribly immature behavior and baffling incompetence.
It's all part of Sweet's desperate need to blame other people for his problems, else he'd be in danger of having only himself to blame.
One of my absolute favorite Sweet quotes is from the first time he replied to this thread. Someone mentioned he lives with his mom and he responded to them "She lives with me." This became transparently untrue a couple more pages in.. what a liar.
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Sweet Bro said:
Where to start?
It's obvious that the fears some of us have about Sweet's predilections are based on far more than "a throwaway line in a piece of fiction". He's creating a rhetorical straw man. When his blowhard heroes like Limbaugh do this, it's deliberate - because they're trolls. Sweet, though, has such a defective thought process that he probably believes his own bluster.
Consider, for instance, his continued use of "barely-legal" to describe 15-year-old girls. He's done it in the past with Miley Cyrus, and he does it again in the post quoted by @Treenbeen above, describing 15-year-old girls like Ashlaay as "barely-legal Betties". They are not "barely-legal", they are underage - but Sweet's thought process seems to consistently reject the latter and insist on the former.
Here's something that can shed light on things. Sweet joined AJM in 2005, its first year of operation, in the knowledge that it was set up by a group of high-school friends. He knew he was chatting with high-schoolers - and he at the time was 29-30. This didn't stop him from broaching sexual topics. Would someone with AJM access just confirm for me the date of the post below?
http://usaspatriot.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=talk&thread=1025&page=55#309307
Incidentally, the overview of AJM Studios history provides some useful context in understanding the board culture over there.
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It raised a chuckle to see Sweet once again shoehorn Hillary Clinton into one of his rants. It's nice to see him obsessed with a more age-appropriate woman
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More like libel and slander lawls amiright?
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Wait did he say that shit to brag? Are Taco Bells in Arkansas like the ones in Demolition Man? I refuse to believe an adult said this seriously in any way.