He wasn't a jew
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Silverstein#Early_life
Thomas Silverstein was born in Long Beach, California, to Virginia Conway. Conway had divorced her first husband in 1952 while pregnant with Silverstein and married Thomas Conway, who Silverstein claimed was his biological father. Four years later, Virginia divorced Conway and married Sid Silverstein, who legally adopted her son.
Silverstein was timid, awkward, shy, and frequently bullied as a child in the middle-class neighborhood where the family lived, in part because his peers mistakenly believed he was Jewish. Virginia Silverstein demanded that her son fight back, telling the boy that if he ever came home again crying because he had been beaten up by a bully, she would be waiting to give him another beating. Silverstein states, "That's how my mom was. She stood her mud. If someone came at you with a bat, you got your bat and you both went at it." At age fourteen, Silverstein was sentenced to a California Youth Authority reformatory where, he said, his attitudes about violence were reinforced. "Anyone not willing to fight was abused."
In 1971, at age nineteen, Silverstein was sent to San Quentin Prison in California for armed robbery. Four years later, he was paroled, but he was arrested soon after along with his father, Thomas Conway, and his cousin, Gerald Hoff, for three armed robberies. Their take was less than $11,000. In 1977, Silverstein was sentenced to fifteen years for armed robbery, to be served at United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas.[2][5]
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His life was a fucking drama on day1
And it didn't get better
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That being said, I know from experience that it's much better to be alone, it's very hard to get along with any1 for that long (years, decade(s)), and you can't afford things to go south, that's the last thing you need. And it will, it's only a matter of time, in 99% of the cases.
One way to put it is that you disagree with yourself on very rare occasions, to say the least
What else?
Ah yeah! Very important; You can be very happy as an inmate or an homeless, at one condition: You can quit anytime you want. As long as you know that, it's all fun, you aren't a prisoner of anything
Morale, with a "e", is very important, it's the most important
Interesting, I read it myself after saying that and he was actually abused by his Jewish stepfather. That's probably why he became so violent.
I totally agree, isolation can be tough, I've been there
His mother was like stalin mother on top of that
Same pattern
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#Quotes_about_Joseph_Stalin
Why did you beat me so hard?" to his mother in her later years. Her response was "That's why you turned out so well". Source: Edvard Radzinsky, p. 32
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Stalin was, Mr. Montefiore, writes, “that rare combination: both ‘intellectual’ and killer.” The roots of violence ran deep in his family life and in Gori, his hometown, where street brawling was the principal sport. Soso, as Stalin, born Josef Djugashvili, was called, suffered savage beatings from both his alcoholic father and his doting mother, who alternated smothering affection with harsh corporal punishment. When Stalin, later in life, asked his mother why she had beaten him so much, she replied, “It didn’t do you any harm.” A brilliant but rebellious student at the religious schools he attended, and a published poet of great promise, Soso took up radical politics while still in his teens, his approach already shaped by the tactics of the seminary’s administration — “surveillance, spying, invasion of inner life, violation of feelings,” as he later described them.
Yeah, guy had problems and was made an example due to the irrational fear of the "dangerous white man".
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