Lorne vs Schumacher
May 7, 2017 23:53:38 GMT -5
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Post by darkfalz on May 7, 2017 23:53:38 GMT -5
In many ways these two share similar backgrounds, in other ways they are very different.
Let us count the ways:
Both of them are established con-men. Schumacher a career petty criminal, while Lorne's scams have usually had some pretence of legitimacy, meaning he hasn't attracted law enforcement.
Both men claim their innocence, take no responsibility for what they did and blame NBC and PJ for their predicaments, get hung up on ultimately insignificant details while failing to provide anything that would actually exonerate them.
Both men vastly overestimate their own intelligence, although I would give Schumacher the edge by up to 10 IQ points, has some "street smarts" but still well below the caucasian average of 100. Most petty criminals hover about this range. Lorne calls people who disagree with him dumbasses, Schumacher morons. Both are incapable of supplementing their name-calling with an actual counter argument.
Both substance abusers. One is a drunk and chain smoker, the other a pothead.
Both mistakenly believe they are irresistible alpha-males. In Schumacher's case there are some women who'd be impressed by his cocky bad boy wigger act, unlike Lorne's future country superstar act, and he's better looking than Lorne (mainly because he's younger and still has hair). That being said these are the lowest quality women you can imagine, school dropouts from single parent households with major daddy issues.
Differences:
Lorne was excited to have a child - one he would groom into lifelong subservient slave. Schumacher, I believe, was just acting in the moment. He was more interested in "getting some" than the girl's age, although I suspect he had a preference for younger girls due to his size. This is the only redeeming factor for Schumacher if you can it that, although I can 100% see a 45 year old Schumacher still acting like a punk and hitting on 20 year old women.
Schumacher has some degree of self awareness, craftier and more shameless in his excuse making, opposed to Lorne's outright impulsive denial. Schumacher is a guy who doesn't care who he hurts or what laws he breaks, especially if he is not caught, whereas Lorne is a guy who "never even menta doit" - in his mind, after the fact. He crumbles when confronted with what he did by authority, Schumacher is defiant.
Whatever his protests about his innocence, Schumacher is proud of his TCAP appearance. Lorne has only deep shame from it (not to be confused with the ego boost on finding out he was "worshiped" by the CoC). If you've seen Menace II Society, one of the main characters shows off a video tape of him killing a convenience store owner. Although not this level of felon, this is Schumacher. He has reinvented his account of what happened so that he could tell his tale of being on TV proudly to anyone who would listen without embarrassment.
I don't think Schumacher is going to follow in Lorne's footsteps with sleazy, harassing phone calls to members of the community. He's not needy or clingy, his whole life is one big I don't give a fuck. I suspect he'll be back in prison before long, but probably not for very long. He's a petty thug, not a serious criminal. Lorne posed a very real chance of violating his parole but I suspect someone has had a word to him to cease what he was doing, and Lorne is much more afraid of prison than someone with Schumacher's rap sheet is. In some ways this is nothing to do with Lorne, but his 7 years inside. He was unlucky enough to fall foul of a much harsher county's laws as well as crossing state lines. Try to imagine a guy like Paul Clemente doing 7 years and ask yourself if you feel okay with that.
It's interesting to get the predator's side of it if they are willing to talk. I don't blame anyone for trying to do it. Lots of people, myself included, have valid criticisms of PJ and NBC but it doesn't really change what those guys tried to do. Go back and read Schumacher's chat log, look at his rap sheet (multiple assaults, victimisation of people) and tell me he's still a "cool", "likable" guy because he seemed laid back while high on a video stream.
Let us count the ways:
Both of them are established con-men. Schumacher a career petty criminal, while Lorne's scams have usually had some pretence of legitimacy, meaning he hasn't attracted law enforcement.
Both men claim their innocence, take no responsibility for what they did and blame NBC and PJ for their predicaments, get hung up on ultimately insignificant details while failing to provide anything that would actually exonerate them.
Both men vastly overestimate their own intelligence, although I would give Schumacher the edge by up to 10 IQ points, has some "street smarts" but still well below the caucasian average of 100. Most petty criminals hover about this range. Lorne calls people who disagree with him dumbasses, Schumacher morons. Both are incapable of supplementing their name-calling with an actual counter argument.
Both substance abusers. One is a drunk and chain smoker, the other a pothead.
Both mistakenly believe they are irresistible alpha-males. In Schumacher's case there are some women who'd be impressed by his cocky bad boy wigger act, unlike Lorne's future country superstar act, and he's better looking than Lorne (mainly because he's younger and still has hair). That being said these are the lowest quality women you can imagine, school dropouts from single parent households with major daddy issues.
Differences:
Lorne was excited to have a child - one he would groom into lifelong subservient slave. Schumacher, I believe, was just acting in the moment. He was more interested in "getting some" than the girl's age, although I suspect he had a preference for younger girls due to his size. This is the only redeeming factor for Schumacher if you can it that, although I can 100% see a 45 year old Schumacher still acting like a punk and hitting on 20 year old women.
Schumacher has some degree of self awareness, craftier and more shameless in his excuse making, opposed to Lorne's outright impulsive denial. Schumacher is a guy who doesn't care who he hurts or what laws he breaks, especially if he is not caught, whereas Lorne is a guy who "never even menta doit" - in his mind, after the fact. He crumbles when confronted with what he did by authority, Schumacher is defiant.
Whatever his protests about his innocence, Schumacher is proud of his TCAP appearance. Lorne has only deep shame from it (not to be confused with the ego boost on finding out he was "worshiped" by the CoC). If you've seen Menace II Society, one of the main characters shows off a video tape of him killing a convenience store owner. Although not this level of felon, this is Schumacher. He has reinvented his account of what happened so that he could tell his tale of being on TV proudly to anyone who would listen without embarrassment.
I don't think Schumacher is going to follow in Lorne's footsteps with sleazy, harassing phone calls to members of the community. He's not needy or clingy, his whole life is one big I don't give a fuck. I suspect he'll be back in prison before long, but probably not for very long. He's a petty thug, not a serious criminal. Lorne posed a very real chance of violating his parole but I suspect someone has had a word to him to cease what he was doing, and Lorne is much more afraid of prison than someone with Schumacher's rap sheet is. In some ways this is nothing to do with Lorne, but his 7 years inside. He was unlucky enough to fall foul of a much harsher county's laws as well as crossing state lines. Try to imagine a guy like Paul Clemente doing 7 years and ask yourself if you feel okay with that.
It's interesting to get the predator's side of it if they are willing to talk. I don't blame anyone for trying to do it. Lots of people, myself included, have valid criticisms of PJ and NBC but it doesn't really change what those guys tried to do. Go back and read Schumacher's chat log, look at his rap sheet (multiple assaults, victimisation of people) and tell me he's still a "cool", "likable" guy because he seemed laid back while high on a video stream.
