I think he’s just an asshole. Being a raging asshole is not a mental illness.
Shame we can’t reclassify it as such and open some asylums to store those people. A world cleared of raging assholes would be a much nicer place for the other WAG 99%.
Just repurpose Mar-A-Lago. A lot of them are already there.
Things haven’t gone well for Johnny. He had been hoping to have the deep-fake charges dropped, the only ones he pled not guilty to. They weren’t; a recent motion by the prosecution that he hoped was going to do this was only to update the table of contents and update the times and dates to be correct. His closing argument is a textbook example of how not to show contrition to the court for your actions, it’s at 4:06 in the video. The judge visibly reacted to it, giving a side eye. Not the reaction you want to be going for from a judge determining your fate.
The prosecution asked for 3 years in prison with labor, a fine of 150,000 won (the maximum allowed), and registration as a sex offender. That, or something slightly below it, is likely to be his sentence.
150k won is around $100 so the least of his problems.
According to the video: Since he will be a registered sex offender in South Korea, he will also have to register as one in the US when he returns since he was given due process. Prison with labor means that you work harvesting produce or working in a factory. This can ordinarily be with civilians but since he is a registered SA, he can’t be around civilians and can only work in jobs with his fellow prisinors.
Jesus Christ, this is the sort of thing where AI is a good thing. Ask your AI to generate a photo of you in front of the fucking store with Mt. Fuji behind you. Make you a little prettier than you really are. Don’t bother the locals trying to run a business.
AI: c’mon, we knew sooner or later we’d start seeing at least some organic humans as inferior in all the ways that count.
I can only assume Somali has never offered a sincere apology in his entire life. “I wouldn’t have done what I did had I known what the consequences might be,” is not an apology. And he continues to avoid responsibility with his complaints that the law is unfair and other people aren’t being punished. I don’t know if this kid is capable of learning any lessons.
Ah, the classic, “I’m sorry that I got caught” apology. Right up there with “I’m sorry that you were offended by what I said” (as opposed to “I’m sorry that I offended you”).
Or the even more unlikely “I’m sorry I made offensive remarks”.
Before he was arrested he made some video where he said, basically, “go ahead and arrest me. i don’t care”. Clearly that was a lie and I suspect this is the first time in his life he has come up against something he can’t weasel out of. It’s a hard life lesson and he doesn’t have the ability to learn from it.
You know that his Korean attorney must have told him what was the best approach, but he knew better.
The American lawyer in Korea following the case has provided an update including Somali’s unappology where he says that Korea isn’t a first world country after all.
The lawyer reports that Somali is saying that if he is conviced, he won’t register as a sex offender, an act that can add a year to the sentence.
Sumptin’ ain’t right wit dat boy’s head.
Yeah, most people understand with a couple of years of prison coming up that you STFU, but he looks incapable of doing that.
We’ve all seen or heard of vids of SovCits (or other manifestations of oppositional defiant personality disorder) mouthing off to cops or judges and parlaying a burned out tail light into assaulting an officer or parlaying a traffic court hearing into “30 days for contempt of court; Next case!”.
He’s just keeping in character. His non-apology in his closing statement was actually an improvement. He’s been physically assaulted numerous times on live stream after pushing people too far.
Johnny sexually harassed a female police officer while live streaming. In Israel.
Am I correct in assuming this person keeps doing this stuff because he makes money at it? That his persona represents some sort of wish fulfillment for a segment of the population?
I just can’t.
He was making money at it.
At this point it seems pretty obvious (to me) that however much that is motivation and I’m sure it is, mental illness is probably the biggest driver. That or truly colossal stupidity that is so bad it is shading into the mentally impaired. If he were JUST motivated by money, he’d have kept his head down at least slightly so he could try and get out to then milk his notoriety once he was safely elsewhere. This has gone beyond that.
No professional me, so I’m not going to offer an internet diagnosis. But that boy ain’t right.
I presume that he’ll make money again after he does his time.
Goodgling him, unverified sources claim he has a net worth of $400k, which may or may not be close.
However, he has to have made far more money doing this than a minimum wage job, and he’s not smart / funny / entertaining enough to make money any other way.
So after his two to three years of labor in a Korean prison, I bet he’ll be back to his same routine in the US as well as other countries that aren’t as likely to jail him.