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Most people who achieve great things or stand out far from their peers are not nice people. It is almost a prerequisite. Musk, Gates, Jobs and pretty much every really successful artist are all monumental assholes.

If you can't seperate the person from the art or achievement you can't really enjoy a lot of things.

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nah, this is just lame apologia that normalises being a shitty person

Going through life spending energy on hating others sounds like a misearable time to me. But if you enjoy it have fun.

where did you get the impression that i spend time hating people? I'm saying that you shouldn't normalise being a shitty person "because you have to be shitty to be great". There's tons of amazing artists that are generally known as being all around great people

(I'm not even referring to fat mike here, I have no idea if he's a good person or not)

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