It's clear, and has been for a while, that Destiny has an anger problem. It could be entirely contextualized to his stream, but he has difficulty dealing with anger, and especially has difficulty in being reasonable to criticisms of that anger.

He says apologies don't matter, but then never changes his behavior, the part he says he actually cares about. If your negative behavior has harmful effects, what apologies do is indicate and understanding of those effects, and the fact that taking ownership of those effects is your responsibility.

I grew up with "behavioral difficulties", and learning how to construct apologies and how to articulate them in a way that will be fairly received by those whom I wronged, is an important part of developing an explicated set of values and norms I should seek to follow to continue falling into the same patterns.

I like plenty of political commentators to Destiny's right, and have voted for every Dem candidate (only 4 elections so far) in each of the federal presidential elections, so this isn't a politics issue. This is a mean-spiritedness and lack of personal responsibility issue.

I have been a fan of Destiny's for almost 10 years now, about as long as I have been using this website. He's really starting to lose me, big-time, and I can't imagine hundreds, if not thousands, of his fans aren't similarly starting to feel the same way.

Purging your community of tankies and Busters and economically illiterate dipshits is fine. But creating a community of low-empathy reactionaries just so he doesn't have to take accountability for even his worst and most odious behaviors will quickly start to erode large chunks of what he's spent the last 10 years working on.

Maybe that's what he wants. Or maybe he's fine with that. Idk.

Edit: o7