X to doubt. We've seen time and time again that Lou would wish horrible things on his worst enemy. It's one of the most annoying aspects of Lou in particular and SJW lolcows in general - how they constantly call their enemies fascists and Nazis, to equate them to the equivalent of pure evil, but exhibit exactly those traits to the people they other. Lou would wish all of what he's going through and more, not even on his worst enemy, but on some random on Twitter who says something he doesn't like.
And I believe Lou, like a number of the other cows, especially the troons, Lou would mean it. Their spite is not a passing thing, it is a well-honed point of anger and resentment they would love to have the power to inflict on others.
In general I agree with you, but the reason I think Lou is a bit of an exception is that I don't think his mind can conceive of
real suffering. I think he genuinely believes that being asked to move furniture, having to cook his own Spaghetti-O's or not having a long enough charging cable for one of his toys is genuine, horrible suffering. He has no frame of reference because he has no sense of empathy - the suffering of others simply doesn't register, only his own, so the only scale of suffering he can conceive of is that which he has personally experienced.
When Lou wishes the worst possible fate on others, it's like he is saying "may your tendies be cold
and may you not always have enough ketchup for them all" and genuinely think that is the worst curse he can inflict on them. Lou is so self-absorbed that only his own, direct experiences really count as valid emotional stimuli. And so far, the worst things he has ever endured are not having enough money for a new shiny
right now, being hit by a car 10 years ago, or not getting a birthday cake for his 38th birthday. The reason he acts as if these are the worst thing a human being can ever endure, are because as far as he is concerned, they genuinely are. He's never experienced worse, and, for Lou, if it didn't happen to him it didn't happen at all.
The reason Lou is deliberately trying to become more disabled is, as we know, so that he can grift from it. This is incredibly convincing evidence for the above, because he could only do that if he genuinely had no mental concept of just what being properly disabled is really like day-to-day. Lou is someone who is 100%, 24/7/365 devoted to his own comfort. He would never deliberately cause something to happen that would make his life worse, so the fact that he is doing so suggests that he has no idea what his life will be like five years from now.
Lou thinks that if he develops enough diabetic complications his life will be like it has been for the last five years, but with more money through disability payments and maybe more grifting. It won't. Actually disabled people (not Twitter troons with dozens of made-up self-diagnoses) would do anything,
anything, to have their bodies work again and to have some semblance of a normal life. No amount of government payments can ever make up for not being able to dress yourself, being in constant pain, having to get help to go to the fucking toilet or having to have substances pumped into or out of you via a fucking tube. Let alone going blind, which will not even be Lou's only, or maybe not even his biggest, problem. No amount of Chromebooks will re-grow amputated legs. There is no number of boneless chicken wings that will bring you back your privacy, your dignity, or your future. Considering how badly Lou has mistreated his mother, and considering that she is nearly as selfish as he is, it's unlikely that Denise will provide him with a good standard of the personal care he will need for the rest of his life, never mind that she already has to look after his stepfather and that she won't be around forever.
Lou's life is going to become a living fucking nightmare that he will never be able to wake up from. And as I watch him posture and scrap on Twitter, as I watch him wail with woe at problems that don't represent a fraction of one percent of the problems he will have, I can't feel enraged, or even amused at it. I can't even feel pre-emptive schadenfreude the way some people here have. He's going to hit that wall so hard that even my cold, Kiwi heart can't even manage to laugh at him. Despite what a gigantic jerk he is, watching a human being go through what he is going to go through ... I can't wish it on him. I can't celebrate it. It's too horrifying. Maybe it's too close to my experiences with friends and relatives who have had medical problems and what they go through, physically and psychologically. He's a human being, and he is going to suffer. He's going to suffer in a way that he cannot currently comprehend, not even close. He has no idea and nothing and no-one can prepare him for it. Even if the Chugga Chugga Choo Choo diabetes train slammed off the brakes right now, the bridge is out and it won't stop before it plunges inevitably into the ravine. But just like a real train crash, you may not approve of it, but you can't look away.
He was probably told he was at risk of DR and just ran with it for pitybux.
I disagree, I think this is real. Black "floaters" are very unusual. "Floaters", for those unaware there's a word for such things, are the little specks of dust that get on either the cornea or the retina that slowly move around your vision. Usually they're transparent and you only notice them when you look at a large, totally monochrome area of colour, like a clear blue sky. They're nothing to worry about except in two circumstances - if you see a shower of them (which could indicate a detached retina) or if they turn large and black - that's retino-neuropathy. There's no way Lou researched this, this is the real deal.
Whether this incident shocks him out of his complacency or not (and I'm with most here in thinking that it probably won't), doesn't matter. Even if he took action now, he's had untreated diabetes for a decade or more and the damage to his body is irreversible. He's doomed.
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