- Joined
- Oct 8, 2015
You absolutely nailed it right here. Both subreddits are filled with former addicts who were forced to hit rock bottom the hard way and see Josh at rock bottom with free housing in a pretty nice apartment and getting thousands in donations a month and are infuriated by it. "Why does that stinky fucking PEDOPHILE get bailed out when he's in trouble when I had to sleep in my car when I was a drunk! that's not fair!".I think there's two things driving their hate; the first being pure envy -- that they didn't have the privileged that Cobra has keeping him off the street and full of his substances of choice. They didn't have a Clint figure to bail them out or a monthly government check and suffered for it. I can sort of understand this. Some people get dealt a shit hand in life and even a single lapse of judgment fucks them up for years. Cobes has had many, many lapses of judgement and has hardly suffered any consequences and this makes them angry.
Oh my god man the "Josh was giving out mead to kids at the Christmas party!" was one of the more insane things they have tried to claim. The source was a random guy on the main sub claiming to be a family member.The second and less-understandable thing driving their hate is projecting their own behavior onto Cobra. Like I said, a lot of these redditors have freely admitted to doing awful things in the throes of their addiction. I think the way their mind works is "I did X while addicted, therefore EVERYONE does X while addicted." This is why you get so many alogs talking about how Josh is "definitely" buying pills from W&A, doing meth with Warlord, giving his mead to kids at the family Christmas party or the funniest accusation: driving drunk. They dredge up all the shittiest things they did before getting sober and just assume that Cobra is doing the same.