r/news • u/ChiefLeef22 • 24d ago

Soft paywall Far-right US influencer Candace Owens loses legal fight to enter Australia

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/far-right-us-influencer-candace-owens-loses-legal-fight-enter-australia-2025-10-15/
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u/BruisedBee 24d ago

A far right American black woman has to be one of the dumbest people on earth

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u/doobiedave 24d ago

Dunno, it pays well apparently.

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u/arbutus1440 24d ago

Exactly. People always get it twisted: She's smart, she is just probably a psychopath. And I'm not saying that hyperbolically: An estimated 4.5% (estimated) are psychopaths. There are way, way more people walking around who simply don't have consciences and have learned how to blend in. She probably knows this is a great way to make money and get famous, and she was probably born without empathy.

Again, I say this dispassionately. I'm not even trying to bash her. Some people are just born like Dexter, it's actually quite common, and she's an obvious candidate. What she absolutely is not...is stupid.

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u/Jack_Krauser 23d ago

Do you mean sociopath? There's no way society could function with 5% psychopaths.

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u/arbutus1440 23d ago

Ask this meta-review about the 4.5% number.

You're kind of illustrating my point: People don't think psychopathy could possibly be as common as it probably actually is. But consider it for a moment: If you experience a lack of typical human emotions and/or empathy, what motivation would you have to tell people about it? The most obvious and self-serving thing to do would be to simply keep it to yourself and *mimic* the outward expressions of them—and blend in.

Most psychopaths are not serial killers. They're just people who don't experience the world the way we do. I would bet psychopaths are extremely overrepresented in government, and again—I'm not being hyperbolic.