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    • astraeus@programming.dev
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      I know this isn’t a proper excuse for any of his behavior, but he did have serious neurological issues that affected his mental state. This is exactly why he retired, he got abusive with his crowd and realized the next day he needed to stop performing due to the lack of control and awareness he had.

      Does he deserve compassion? That’s really up to personal preference. I recognize his alcoholism and resulting health issues, up to his death, as a tragic loss.

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        I’d be willing to chalk a slurred “I’ll fucking kill your whole family I swear to god.” to his being an alcoholic, but I can’t set aside his actually killing people by holding a show and saying “fuck that covid shit” in the middle of a plague.

        Nazism is also a line that should never be crossed with any justification.

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      That Sturgis motorcycle event is infamous for being a super-spreading event of COVID. However that Nazi salute thing was completely new to me, didn’t know about that. Belongs somewhat to the same category with Phil Anselmo’s similarly infamous Nazi salute at Dimebash 2016, even though Harwell didn’t shout “White power”.

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      Mentally ill people don’t deserve any kind of sympathy if they show behavior based on their illness I agree on that.

      Dude was basically gone at that point and literally died three years later from a drug that destroyed his brain. I think it’s appropriate to cut him some slack.