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I don't know a lot about him – I've pretty much just seen his Facebook. He got married in 1996. From 1998 to 2000, he studied "respiratory therapy" at "CA Health Services," an institution of which I could find no record with a brief search on Google. He has a son, presumably around 17 or 18 years old.
He made his Facebook in 2011, but never posted for a couple years. He liked a lot of pages though – Disney and Dr. Pepper and Nintendo and Star Trek (Enterprise, Next Generation, and Deep Space Nine), Fox News, Damn You Autocorrect, Animal Crossing Community, and 65 other pages liked in that year. He didn't post anything until 2013, kicking things off after two years with a picture of a slug he saw with a caption "Who knows what this thing is???"
About half of his posts are about his son. Many are pictures, others are simple diary-like updates such as "Got Adam today. Gonna swim in the pool and have an awesome day together!!!" He has never posted about his wife.
He likes politics. He likes Paula Deen, as well as a page created in 2013 titled "We support Paula Deen." He once shared a picture with an arrow to his profile picture and text that read "This person supports Stand Your Ground laws... if you try to harm me or my family, I will fight back."
In 2015 he read an op-ed written by Bobby Jindal about how Donald Trump is an impossible candidate for President. He commented on the article as follows:
"Jindal's first name is Piyush. He needs to go away. Go Trump."
 
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Well if it can help you figure out this mysterious man who's politics to put a tremendous amount of weight on the names of people, "Got Adam today" suggests that he and his wife are no longer together and they have joint custody.
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On September 16 2015 09:54 Djzapz wrote:
Well if it can help you figure out this mysterious man who's politics to put a tremendous amount of weight on the names of people, "Got Adam today" suggests that he and his wife are no longer together and they have joint custody.
Indeed. Reading into it deeper, I wouldn't be surprised if they split around the time he started posting on Facebook. He had it for two years before, but never posted until 2013. That's probably relatively common when someone gets divorced and starts to feel lonely.
A few more details about him:
He's gone through a few profile pictures. With every one, an older woman, possibly his mother, posts complimenting his appearance. She is particularly impressed by his eyes, which apparently are a family trait. Bizarrely, she also reassured him at one point that she never shares his photos, out of respect for his privacy.
He used to live in Tennessee, but now lives in Louisiana. Why he studied respiratory therapy in CA, I may never know. I also may never know what a 2-year education in respiratory therapy teaches, or for what jobs one would be qualified after such an education.
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I don't get it... chronicle of a random person's facebook habits? I feel like I'm stupid and must be missing something.
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I think he's a fascinating case study. I found him through his comment on the CNN post. I think the comment is pretty is obviously racist - but what's weird is it doesn't occur to him to hide that. In fact he thinks it will convince other people.
I mean it's not surprising that someone who likes a page called "we support Paula Deen" would like Trump. But he's also just a regular guy who likes Disney and Animal Crossing and posting pictures of his son on Facebook.
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On September 16 2015 14:19 ChristianS wrote:
I think he's a fascinating case study. I found him through his comment on the CNN post. I think the comment is pretty is obviously racist - but what's weird is it doesn't occur to him to hide that. In fact he thinks it will convince other people.
I mean it's not surprising that someone who likes a page called "we support Paula Deen" would like Trump. But he's also just a regular guy who likes Disney and Animal Crossing and posting pictures of his son on Facebook.
In my experience, that is true of most racists, sexists, or other -ists and -phobes. Usually they are pretty nice and ordinary people aside from their narrow target of indoctrinated hatred. In a way, I appreciate the honesty and simplicity of that type of open hatred. Much worse is the person with "tolerance" and "acceptance" ever on their lips, who in the rare case that they confess their real feelings, reveal themselves to be full of genuine hate and misanthropy. Nicer to have a viper out in the open instead of hiding in the grass.
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I don't know that his racism is terribly narrow. In this case it's against an Indian man, but I doubt that he's been indoctrinated to hate Indians specifically. It's just, apparently, obvious to him that someone having an apparently foreign first name would be a reason they shouldn't be president. Obvious enough that he would cite someone's first name as evidence that a presidential candidate would not be fit to lead.
It's also a little deeper than just hating non-white people and supporting Trump because of his racist comments. I'd guess in his mind, caring about politics gives his life meaning. I wonder if he blames Obama on some level for his marriage, or thinks that "Make America Great Again" means that his life will become a little less mediocre with Trump in charge.
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Supporter of Trump?
Oh shit
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Welcome to the 21st century.
An age where if you are less intelligent than the avarage, the whole world may find out your stupid things
An age where if you forget to set some privacy settings, you can be viewed, observed,watched and even talked about by dozens of random strangers...
It's a good age indeed.. 
Watch Mr Robot aswell 
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oh we are analysing some random's facebook?
For a moment I was expecting a proper guy blog
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On September 16 2015 16:23 ChristianS wrote:
It's also a little deeper than just hating non-white people and supporting Trump because of his racist comments. I'd guess in his mind, caring about politics gives his life meaning. I wonder if he blames Obama on some level for his marriage, or thinks that "Make America Great Again" means that his life will become a little less mediocre with Trump in charge.
That seems to be presuming quite a lot about someone's life and motivations, based on nothing more than their one comment on CNN and their facebook, don't you think? You've gone on to assume that his life is meaningless if not for politics, declared his life mediocre, and guessed he probably blames his divorce on Obama (why?) It's as though you're acting out some kind of grudge on a complete stranger. I could understand if you got into a nasty argument with him, but since you haven't, what drives you to stalk this guy and passive aggressively shit on him? If his life really is shit, then he is punished by having to live it... making a "fascinating case study" out of his facebook is pretty mean in my opinion.
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@Glowsphere:
I didn't say his life is meaningless, and to be fair, I think most people feel like their life is a bit mediocre sometimes. I have no grudge against this man, and much of this is conjecture for sure. But since people tend to do a lot of guessing about why Trump has so many supporters, it's at least to guess based on one case study than to guess based on nothing at all.
The point isn't to be mean to him, and i don't think I especially have been. Like I said, he's a regular guy who loves his son. I don't even know for certain that he is divorced. But part of the point is, racism doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's part of someone's character, and serves some purpose for them. Why does an otherwise normal guy decide to dedicate himself to a political cause based on what can maybe only be interpreted as racist reasoning? To a lot of us Trump represents an arrogant asshole with kinda racist rhetoric, but what does he represent to a guy like this?
@JieXian: Sorry to disappoint!
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Why people support Trump and how racists are formed are interesting questions, and perhaps should be asked by themselves. There may even be Trump supporters and racists on this forum, who can explain in their own words what their beliefs are. Meanwhile we have three short sentences from this mystery guy, who for all we know may have meant them jokingly or ironically. If he is as you portray him to be, his reason for supporting Trump is probably not much different from how most Americans choose candidates. Candidates are presented to us like products at a supermarket or sports teams. The rules of advertising and group loyalty are more likely to tip the scale than one person's idiosyncrasies.
Personally I can see Trump's appeal even though I don't want him to be president. He is an entertainer and a clown, which is quite appropriate for the joke of our electoral system. His candor and honesty make him likable despite the stupid shit coming out of his mouth. When faced with either a calculating liar or a buffoon, I feel more inclined to trust the latter.
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37099 Posts
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On September 17 2015 05:52 Seeker wrote:
Are you the guy?
What a twist that would be! Are you M. Night Shyamalan?
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That blog is fucking scary.
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As someone who has seen some unbelievably stupid comments on tl and reddit over the years I think you cannot read very much into internet posts. People will put stuff on the internet on impulse without careful thought or consideration. Just cuz this guy put out a random comment does not say very much about him imo.
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On September 17 2015 05:22 Glowsphere wrote:
Why people support Trump and how racists are formed are interesting questions, and perhaps should be asked by themselves. There may even be Trump supporters and racists on this forum, who can explain in their own words what their beliefs are. Meanwhile we have three short sentences from this mystery guy, who for all we know may have meant them jokingly or ironically. If he is as you portray him to be, his reason for supporting Trump is probably not much different from how most Americans choose candidates. Candidates are presented to us like products at a supermarket or sports teams. The rules of advertising and group loyalty are more likely to tip the scale than one person's idiosyncrasies.
Personally I can see Trump's appeal even though I don't want him to be president. He is an entertainer and a clown, which is quite appropriate for the joke of our electoral system. His candor and honesty make him likable despite the stupid shit coming out of his mouth. When faced with either a calculating liar or a buffoon, I feel more inclined to trust the latter.
Oh, I missed your response. Well it's never possible to completely rule out trolling on the Internet, but he certainly seemed sincere enough, and his post wouldn't have much of a punchline if it was a joke.
Trump isn't like other politicians, and racial reasons for supporting a candidate are qualitatively different from other reasons. Hitler used a sense of racial identity (and, by extension, the exclusion of other races) to give people the sense that in supporting him they were working toward something bigger than themselves. In difficult economic times he gave them the sense that their many troubles weren't their fault; that other races had been destroying them from the inside; and that by creating a new, racially defined nation, and removing the outsiders which were destroying them, they could create a better tomorrow.
Now I'm not saying Donald Trump is a fascist. But when I hear him talk about how because of illegal immigration we don't have a country anymore, and we won't again until we deport every single illegal immigrant, I can't help but hear that as a dog whistle only racists are meant to hear. Worthwhile, then, to consider the types of people he is appealing to, and what type of appeal he has for them.
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On September 17 2015 05:52 Seeker wrote:
Are you the guy?
Hahahaha
Seriously it took me some time before I realized that he wasn't talking about himself
Anyway op what's the point of this baseless conjecture ?
You don't even get to test if you are correct or wrong
You're spending your time guessing and judging how bad a person is. I sincerely think you have more positive ways of spending your free time right?
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On September 17 2015 23:15 JieXian wrote:Hahahaha Seriously it took me some time before I realized that he wasn't talking about himself Anyway op what's the point of this baseless conjecture ? You don't even get to test if you are correct or wrong You're spending your time guessing and judging how bad a person is. I sincerely think you have more positive ways of spending your free time right?
What's this judgmental BS? Have you never wondered about anything? Have you never sat to think about something? I personally think it's an interesting thing.
I think it's strange that there are varying degrees of curiosity in people. There are those who'll sit at home all day, never wonder about anything, what you see is what you get. And then you have curious folks, those who observe, they know they may not get the answers but yet they ask questions. Sometimes it's serious, but I've heard a lot of "normal" people who said they had a point in their life where they'd sit in a mall and just observe people out of curiosity. How do they behave? Why do people do things. Sometimes people check their pockets, sometimes people PRETEND to check their pockets when they've been going the wrong way as to declare "oh I'm doing a 180 turn, not because I'm insane but because I forgot something". Others just check their pockets all the time because they're afraid of losing their stuff.
You'll never know what you're seeing. Also, you don't need to observe directly. I've creeped on a few facebook pages wondering "Wtf is that person all about". This girl I knew really hated Obama, but never posted anything about politics. Just bad things about Obama here and there. Could she talk about politics with some degree of coherence but only posted shallow stuff on facebook? Perhaps I'll never know. But it was weird. This other woman I'm friends with from my WoW days, she thanks God a few times a week for everything good that happens. What happens in her brain? I don't know. But I read her posts a lot. "Our Almighty God please help us Christian teachers who work so hard..." etc. She asks for help for other people, but always specifically Christians, as if others could systematically go fuck themselves. It seems crazy. It's fascinating.
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