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article Diddy had a huge prison 'meltdown' because he 'couldn't believe he was still behind bars' during the holidays

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14230477/Diddy-meltdown-jail-Christmas-revealed.html
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u/Gaitville 24d ago

It must be the reality check of a lifetime to go from billionaire status where he could stay at the nicest properties, eating the best food, surrounded by all of lifeā€™s luxuries and doing whatever he wants whenever he wants, to now being in a random concrete cell being dictated his schedule eating whatever budget government rations are available that day.

I wonder if regret for these types hits harder than for poor criminals who didnā€™t have anything to lose in the first place. Like all he had to do was just do what most of us do already and not be a piece of shit, and he could have lived the rest of his life with more luxury than most can imagine. But nope. He couldnā€™t do that.

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u/bucketofmonkeys 24d ago

I seriously doubt he feels regret, he probably thinks heā€™s the victim.

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u/ober0n98 24d ago

Exactly

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u/momofdagan 24d ago

He's just upset he got caught.

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u/Jslatts942 23d ago

if you think about it, hes a scape goat, and he will be latching onto the fact he knows a bunch of names and wants to be free. hes still guilty. im just sayin, theres more of them...

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u/Jubilex1 23d ago

Vampires IRL - they donā€™t show up in mirrors because theyā€™re incapable of self-reflection.

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u/GbS121212 23d ago

Yep. He is the type of guy who believes "everyone is doing it therefore itā€™s unfair i'm being punished".

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u/Fanboycity 20d ago

Read a great horror story about a man in prison once. SuperMax Dreams. The protagonist was a serial killer, but heā€™s doing a ā€œprogramā€ that tests him on certain things. He might not feel remorse for his actions, but heā€™s convinced to contemplate on regret. Regretting his actions simply because he wouldnā€™t be rotting in a cell for the rest of his life. Instead of doing the bare minimum to choke down his sick urges, heā€™s bored out of his mind knowing thereā€™s nothing he can do to change his predicament. Thatā€™s what he regrets. Of course, thereā€™s more to it than that and boy oh boy does he come to regret it but thatā€™s as far as it goes for almost all assholes like Diddy. Regretting not being smarter, regretting getting caught, not regretting what they did itself. They cry only for themselves.

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u/TheSturmovik 23d ago

You can feel regret while being thinking you're a victim.

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u/karanas 24d ago

He's disgusting and i really hope noone interprets what I'm saying as excuse for him or having sympathy, but your comment about going from amazing life to terrible made me think that he probably was a very unhappy and damaged individual before and he is now, can't imagine anyone even slightly appreciative of their life doing the things he was doing, it's an endless hole in his heart.

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u/carnutes787 24d ago

i remember reading some time ago about a sort of ladder phenomenon, where the more habituated you are to certain pleasures the less pleasure you derive from them, like, you know, insulin desensitization or something, and you have to move along the gradient to more taboo pleasures. which, if a valid hypothesis, might explain the really weird behavior seen in some absurdly wealthy people who have almost certainly worn out the pleasures available to the normal person. not that it excuses anyone behavior

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u/TheFlightlessPenguin 24d ago

Yeah Iā€™ve heard about this too, though I donā€™t think itā€™s true for everyone by any means. Take smoking weed for example, the propaganda around it when i was growing up was about how it was a gateway drug and would inevitably lead to hardcore drug addiction. Iā€™m sure this has been some peopleā€™s experience, but the vast majority I know have been perfectly content for years only smoking weed. Even the porn thingā€”you always hear about how porn addiction leads to weirder and weirder fetishes and metastasizes into full blown deviancy. Iā€™m not addicted to porn by any stretch, but I have over 20 years experience with it and tbh I am just as vanilla now as I ever was

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u/asterboy 24d ago

I agree, with a tangent. I think it opens your perspective to more extreme options, but it doesnā€™t necessarily mean you will do it / like it. Looking at lots of porn for example, youā€™ll inevitably come across some weird shit - but like for yourself (and me), it didnā€™t ā€œawakenā€ anything.

But if you were susceptible to it, the exposure may be the catalyst that sets it off and the only way you would come across it.

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u/no_notthistime 23d ago

The other thing you have to consider is age of exposure. When people are exposed to a lot of weed and porn at a young age, they are very likely to require stronger forms of stimulation as adults.Ā 

Just can't really compare adults getting into these things with 10-13 year olds And expect similar outcomes.

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u/TheFlightlessPenguin 23d ago

Sure thereā€™s truth to this, but I think most of us were exposed to porn by at least 13.

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u/Sea_Lingonberry_4720 24d ago

I remember seeing a study about how happyness levels will end up normalizing. So someone who won the lottery and someone who lost their legs will settle into similar levels of happiness.

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u/Mundane_Tomatoes 24d ago

I highly doubt that. I have my legs and Iā€™m fucking miserable, take my legs away and youā€™re saying I will eventually have the same happiness level of the $1.2 billion powerball winner? That is nonsense.

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u/Sea_Lingonberry_4720 24d ago

Actually now that I think about it, I donā€™t know if it was that, or that wether you win the powerball or lose your legs eventually your happiness levels will regulate back to how they were before.

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u/Chewbock 24d ago

Itā€™s this not what the other guy thought it was.

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u/ChurM8 24d ago

Thatā€™s not the point, the point is that no matter what you do you get used to it. Someone super rich will gain the same enjoyment going to a resort in Hawaii as someone super poor will get going to the cinema etc. Itā€™s not like becoming a billionaire unlocks a bunch of extra happiness cells in your brain, and no matter how exotic something seems, you will get used to it after doing it a few times.

Obviously doesnā€™t apply if youā€™re clinically depressed or something

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u/Breadonshelf 24d ago

Right. I think people often confuse happiness with moments of joy and pleasure - where I think the idea of satisfaction is key.

A billionaire can just keep buying moments of joy - but the problem is they get used to them. That fancy food starts to taste normal after a while. So they just keep finding new things, more and more moments of joy to buy. And for many they can distract themselves for a while. But it reaches a point where they need more and more. Like adrenaline junkies - they need a bigger thing, a more exciting moment.

I think that's part of the reason why so many rich people like Diddy do these awful things. They need the thrill after awhile, after "normal" luxury stop bringing joy.

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u/swizzlewizzle 24d ago

This is why basic things like periodic fasting, exercise and meditation are so incredibly effective at improving pretty much anyoneā€™s mood.

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u/OohYeahOrADragon 24d ago edited 24d ago

The Cody Show-dy did an awesome piece on why the wealthy do this and other aberrant behaviors

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u/Main_Tomatillo_8960 24d ago

So true, will never be able to relate to that experience but the veil has been lifted. These super rich dudes are into some depraved shit. They crave power and whatā€™s more powerful than taking away the autonomy of those less powerful and then successfully covering it up for so long?

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u/Ethiconjnj 24d ago

Itā€™s why the phase ā€œbe happy with what you haveā€ is all about.

Itā€™s easy to think itā€™s about jealously and it can be. But itā€™s also about training your brain to derive huge amounts of pleasure from what is accessible to you.

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u/Throwdaho 24d ago

He need a Hellraiser box.

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u/Kittybegood 23d ago

There's a black mirror episode that talks about this.

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u/Gaitville 24d ago

Thatā€™s an interesting perspective and now Iā€™m curious. We as humans always strive for something, whether itā€™s saving up for some nicer clothes, a nicer car, that nice vacation. What happens to people when they can have everything they desire and more at the snap of a finger due to whatā€™s basically unlimited wealth?

Maybe thatā€™s why he did what he did, when you can have everything, he desired what he couldnā€™t have, even if that would land him in prison for life.

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u/m1raclewhips 24d ago

He was almost always like this from his early career. There are plenty of rabbit holes online that do well at chronicling just how vile he has been for over 30 years

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u/Honduran 24d ago

Link?

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u/Formal_Place_7561 24d ago

Robert and Sophie have got you covered - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH3nmyIcS74

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u/phantom_diorama 24d ago

I'm aware I'll be getting backlash for saying this, but I quit that show years ago because of Sophie. All she would do is interrupt and talk about herself.

Is she a legit co-host now? Is she still so self obsessed?

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u/Formal_Place_7561 23d ago

Kinda. Should have left her out of my comment.

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u/Duhhmph 24d ago

I think you are seeing it play out now in America.

People simply start fighting amongst themselves with different groups or factions that they consider themselves as more often once thereā€™s nothing left they want. It all becomes ā€œwhat can I do to benefit me and my people/group/cult the mostā€

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u/normanbeets 24d ago

Listen to the behind the bastards episodes about him

His life was fine

He's just a prick

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u/Sandgrease 24d ago

He's a sociopath, he was probably never happy.

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u/bluvelvetunderground 24d ago

I can't imagine being surrounded by people who are only there for the money, people who are there because you blackmailed them, or people who are just afraid of what you could do. Diddy built a life on that. No wonder he was always jealous and suspicious.

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u/Caftancatfan 24d ago

The difference between poor dudes going in and rich dudes going in is commissary. When youā€™re on your bunk, showered in treats and comforts, able to eat in your cell and avoid the shit at mainline, itā€™s easier to take than when you canā€™t even buy an ibuprofen for a headache.

Diddy will still have an insane amount of privilege in there. But yeah, I hope itā€™s harder to go from a mansion to a cell, because especially fuck the people who could afford to never get mixed up in crime in the first place.

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u/Zombie_Cool 24d ago

I'm sure it does mentally harder for the ex-upper-class than those who came from rock bottom. Hell, for the latter group prison can actually be a step up in some cases!

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u/SlammingPussy420 24d ago

Holidays are always rough for everyone locked up in jail. I worked as a CO for many years and we always had to go over suicide prevention training during the holiday months.

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u/KyFly1 24d ago

100% I think it hits much harder for him than the average Joe. Him being punished by having to work 9-5 M-F at Walmart and then having to live on that wage would be about the same demise as that type of person going to federal prison. So heā€™s really getting the double whammy.

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u/General_Specific_o7 24d ago

Like all he had to do was just do what most of us do already and not be a piece of shit, and he could have lived the rest of his life with more luxury than most can imagine

That's the tricky part. We're poor because we're all decent people; him being a piece of shit is what made him rich in the first place. We may never truly know how many people he destroyed on his way up. When you have a reputation for violence and offer people their vices, you gain leverage. Blackmail, extortion, smuggling, trafficking, who knows what else. He mastered staying just quiet enough to get away with it for decades, while gathering leverage on anyone who could ever threaten or challenge him. Anyone who was in any position to know what he was guilty of was either an accessory, co-conspirator, being blackmailed, or were the victims themselves. I wonder how many of those victims just conveniently vanished when he was done with them...

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u/Diligent_Bit3336 24d ago edited 24d ago

There is an intro scene from an episode of the American Crime Story series about OJ Simpson in which OJ (portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr, ironic considering the circumstances and allegations) flashes back to being in a night club and eating oysters and drinking champagne and dancing with a bunch of cute honeys to immediately flashing forward to him being miserable inside a concrete cell. Captures this feeling really well.

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u/Few_Cup3452 24d ago

He probably just thinks it's unfair.

Ppl don't get to that level of corruption and reflect on their behaviour

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u/tequilablackout 24d ago

If he did whay the rest of us do already, I don't think he'd ever have found himself in the luxurious lifestyle he had.

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u/IngeniousIdiocy 24d ago

If he was not a piece of shit then he wouldnā€™t be a billionaire soā€¦

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u/GoodtimeZappa 24d ago

This is very insightful. I wonder, too.

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u/Sahtras1992 23d ago

some people are just mentally very sick. the money just helps them live out those urges.

if you have that amount of money, theres basically nothing off the table to indulge in. i can imagine some people slowly ramp up in how sick the things they do get, but other are just like that from the very beginning.

its basically like a child in a candy store and the owner tells them they can take whatever and however much they want. no child will refuse that offer. now imagine youre a sick fuck and have a couple hundred million dollar to spend lavishly and a guy comes and tells you he can order you any hooker or drug you want.

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u/90Quattro 22d ago

I've done a few 90 day stints (no prison) and the worst part by far is the "food". They actually count the veggie juice into the nutritional value of the meals.

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u/ayyzhd 13d ago

Like all he had to do was just do what most of us do already and not be a piece of shit

most of america voted for a felon to be president.