The Jonsense that I find really intriguing, however, is " I don't know, okay? There are rules. I've learned you don't question the rules. " Okay, now, wait just a hairy, pervy minute.... Jon Sweet has been burdened for quite some time with the woefully misguided conviction that he is clever and observant. Whenever he thinks he's got something figured out, he won't shut up about it, no matter how ill-conceived, utterly unsubstantiated, or plainly absurd his claims are. Yak yak yak yak blah blah blah blah, the guy is an utter expert on everything about The System, the Liberals, and the Rules .... until you push him so far as to explain the reasoning behind actual, real-life events that happened to him, and why he folded as completely as he did to the forces against him. Then, all of a sudden, the Opposable Dr. Belch has "learned you don't question the rules," nor do you identify exactly who makes or enforces them, apparently.
See when he writes about "secret rules," based on what we now know about him (and what we earlier expected), I believe that means standard social mores. The "rules" are things like don't stand right behind someone smacking a mouthful of peanuts to get their attention, don't do Andrew Dice Clay bits at the top of your lungs outside of living areas, and don't sending harassing letters to people who don't want contact with you, while his lack of theory of mind resulting from his autism makes these "rules" "secret," or perhaps more accurately, "unknown" to him.
The most way to make all that make sense to him is to weave a conspiracy theory which, as you note, he's able to figure out in hindsight but never when it is actually acting against him (or before it does).
With Chris, it was all wrapped up in the "Green County/Game Place Conspiracy" with Sweet, it's "The System." And like Chris he exaggerates it because it's something he cannot understand, saying, college
Sweets said:
Is a world whose customs, methods, and dictums exist far outside the laws of God and man.
After all, on their very own site, Mr. Sweet wrote
the following: "In the law's eyes, I am guilty of copyright infringement, terroristic threatening (I didn't take being let go well and I said some regrettable things) and conspiracy to commit carnal knowledge of a minor (a separate incident that haunts me to this day)."
I would just like to say, as a bit of an aside, Sweet wrote this in the middle of a discussion about an FBI terrorism sting operation, with a controversy over whether or not it was entrapment. Now, of course Sweet thinks the guy should go to jail because
Sweet said:
We're talking about a young man who espoused anti-America sentiment, dropped out of school to hole up in his quarters and plot, and made dubious associations (or so he thought) with like-minded people.
But then, like clockwork, he starts up his next paragraph...
Now I was entrapped, pure and simple, based on my greed, myblindness to the rules, and the corrupt, twisted way the college system is designed.
and goes on to sperg about
The Hatchet. Another poster in the thread responds,
AJM poster said:
Doc... please stop trying to make this about you.
and
Doc... I sympathize with your plight, really. But you can't compare this to plagiarism. Or do you wish to compare the charge of intellectual property theft to a conspiracy to murder thousands?
Anyway, putting aside his racist and sexually perverted comments through the years, his recent dust-up with Treen about being happy Trayvon Martin is dead (because black kid), and the even more recent spilled milk over the Kiwis, how could AJM
stand this guy always trying to turn the topic, however unrelated, back to himself and his personal little problems with his school paper, "Ashleigh," or Dale, etc.? Wouldn't that grind your fucking gears down to nubs after you've seen it happen for the thousandth time?
I can imagine Mom Sweet pressuring Jonathan not to call the cops on his brother. That's not an unusual scenario.
Especially if the brother has (drug-related) priors.
I would not be surprised that after his university issues, Sweets had developed some sort of social anxiety which keeps him from calling the bank, showing up at court, or asking someone in a hospital where a phone is. Like others have said before, he seems like the type of person who talks a lot online but doesn't make eye contact with anyone IRL.
He says he has extreme social phobia, plus his raspy voice makes him self-conscious about talking.
