This man is seriously unwell. This wasn't just normal politics - This was deep conspiracy theory nonsense. The fact that he thought others would appreciate the message is further proof that he is in the midst of a serious crisis. He has completely lost touch with reality.<p>Unfortunately, being a wealthy ex-CEO and ex-pat living in another country, away from his former social circles, has likely removed all social support and peer group balance against his decline. When you're that wealthy, you can afford to surround yourself with people who won't challenge your ideas or suggest that maybe you're not well. The yes-men don't want to risk being ostracized by saying the wrong thing, so they go along with it.<p>I hope someone can talk him into getting the help he needs. That doesn't excuse what he said, obviously, but I doubt this issue will resolve on its own.
Having just read it, this sounds like a mental health issue to me. It's well outside the bounds of opinion, even a ridiculous or hateful opinion.<p>I worry that people are running to mock this guy because they want to portray these views as the kind of things their opponents actually think, while in reality there is clearly something wrong with him and he may need some compassion. This is not a fringe opinion, there is some problem that's causing him to behave like this.
I came into this thinking that he made a joke about Jews and money.<p>Nope. So much worse. And he doubled down too.<p>Definitely read the article to the end.<p>Anyone ever work with or meet this fellow? As he has fallen for such a large pile of nonsense that I wonder how he operates day to day?
Ah... Yet More Proof(tm) that "intelligence" is multi-dimentional. And that you can be very bright indeed in some dimensions (evidence - he was a tech executive), yet far dimmer than a box of rocks (has any box of rocks ever committed career suicide via anti-semitic rant?) in others.<p>A Modest Proposal: Mr. Bateman needs a 72-hour involuntary admission to a good psychiatric hospital. His recent behavior might be caused by a fast-growing brain tumor, or congenital malformation of the cerebrum, or abuse of high-risk recreational drugs, or be the first clear symptom of a late-manifesting major psychiatric disorder. It's for his own good, really.
No conspiracy, but I think we are seeing the results when the professional class gets to rule. And I think its turning out bad.<p>Imagine if you were forced to follow the advice of you Doctor, Lawyer, and your Teacher every hour of the day. They all might mean well for you. But its turning out that its gets pretty bureaucratic and despotic very fast.<p>But on the other hand, if a super villain wanted to rid the world of people, an anti vaccine might be one way to do it.
An arguably much worse CEO that's still in power<p><a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/aerospace-co-electroimpact-agrees-to-pay-485000-after-ag-finds-shocking-discrimination-against-muslims/" rel="nofollow">https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/aer...</a>
Does being rich make people go crazy? And think that nothing can happen to them? I wouldn't even type this kind of thing into a private Google Doc, let alone send a mass email.
I hate to point this out but at least in the USA a high percentage of CVOID deaths are among unfortunately republican voters.<p>I think we could better face things if we loved ourselves more as when we do that our desire to attack others goes down and our desire to make things goes up. Just something that I picked up in getting my ADHD under control.
I liked the Bill Burr take on this 'vaccine is to wipe us out' conspiracy.<p>The better logic is this invisible hand would not want to wipe out the vaccine takers as they are the 'sheeple' who are controlled. These powers would want to remove the trouble makers, the people that dont do what they are told. So a more likely conspiracy is the secret plan would be to release a second virus to kill the non-vaxed once the sheeple are vaxed.<p>Obviously this is a joke but it's a good spin to present to people that believe in the conspiracy of vaccination.<p><a href="https://youtu.be/znI046F4FKg" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/znI046F4FKg</a>
This is not a mental health issue. It's a result of misinformation and conspiracy theories being spread most likely on social media and people believing them. So many people just blindly trusting information being spread without properly fact checking or checking their sources. This is what's going on. It starts with bias towards a specific group, then they start searching for any evidence that can support their bias.
When a privileged white male has this bias towards Jews it's not a mental health issue, it's antisemitism which is a form of racism. Call it what it is.
Original discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29803073" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29803073</a>
Well he did say God said it. We're generally not allowed to question what God says.<p>To be honest, "God" has been saying all sorts of anti-semitic things for almost two thousand years. It's funny how the standards of sanity shift and sway over time. And we're talking Utah here.<p>Logically it doesn't make much sense, since Israel is one of the most vaxxed places. You'd think God had better control over scope, if the vaccine is the conspiracy by the Jews. You wouldn't see God turn the vaccine on them.