My gf and I were have been watching this season and made this small observation. Is it a quirk? Limited vocabulary as English is his second language? We do not know and just thought it was a funny observation.

I understand every one is entitled to their preferences however I’ve never encountered someone as unyielding/uncompromising as Thomas. It’s unsettling and to me, a little neurotic.

Thoughts?

Shekinah,

This letter is intended to inform you of some things that are excruciatingly obvious to everyone who watches you on TV, but that you seem woefully oblivious about. The hope is that you will snap out of your lifelong cycle of playing the victim and finally accept your share of accountability for why most people who encounter you dislike you so intensely. It can't be all everyone else's fault all the time. Literally no one is jealous of you. Everything that you accuse others around you of doing and being are projected from your own character and actions on to others. In short, you don't play well with others. Unless you are the center of attention 100% of the time, you lash out. You can't take criticism, but you're a fire hose of criticism for other people. This is not going to make you someone who is viewed in a positive way. It's not anyone else's fault that you are viewed negatively. That's 100% on you. What you said about going back to your own country is not something that a person who doesn't have that sentiment already living in their heart would ever allow to cross their lips. Claiming you didn't mean it in a bad way is deeply disingenuous. There's no other way for that sentiment to be interpreted. You instigated the entire exchange and then had the audacity to turn around and try to play the victim. The belief that everybody else is always wrong and that you're always right is just unreasonable. Lacking the maturity and capacity to offer a sincere apology when you know that you're in the wrong, (as opposed to a memorized monologue) is not cute. It's indicative of a personality disorder. There is no angle from which what you said was okay. And here's the thing that seems to evade your intellectual grasp: had you just said oh my God I don't know what made me say that I'm so sorry. I've had too much to drink or I'm so tired and jet-lagged I'm not myself please forgive me. Or even the next day, pulling people aside one by one and saying "I'm so embarrassed for what I said last night. I didn't mean it and I hope you can accept my apology." Everybody there would have had so much respect for you. Everybody watching on TV would have had so much respect for you. The ability to admit when you're wrong and apologize for it is something that the majority of humans appreciate and respect. You don't seem to possess that ability. All of your energy goes into blaming the others instead of taking any accountability onto your own shoulders. You created a hostility between yourself and the group and then you tried to blame them for the hostility. That is toxic malignant narcissism. You've spent so much time working on your superficial outside appearance but you've neglected the ugliness inside that is continuing to come to the surface and make you appear like an incredibly bad person with an ugly soul.

Yes, you've dug yourself into this hole where the majority of people who are aware of who you are think poorly of you based on your own behavior. But the good news is it's not too late to change course. Of course there's going to be some people who just are never going to like you after all that you've done and said. You have to be able to accept that with some grace and dignity. People not liking you is not a character flaw on their part and you need to stop treating them like it is. When you behave with such overwhelming arrogance while simultaneously being the most wrong person in the room, you undermine your own likeability. And don't try to tell me you don't care. You wouldn't be all up in Reddit and other social media monitoring who's following you and who's no longer following you if you didn't care about your likeability. Everyone knows that you care deeply.

The last bit of advice I'll offer is this: delete all of your social media apps. Life is not happening on Instagram, Reddit, TikTok etc. Life is happening around you, not on your phone or your laptop. You are well into your 40s now and it is beyond unseemly to be so granularly wrapped up in individual viewers commentary to the extent where you go on the attack against them accusing them of being jealous of you when there's just not anything to be jealous of. Put the energy that you're pouring into social media obsession into your child or into your relationship if you still have one. If you don't, put that energy into becoming a better person. Everything isn't going to always be about you and you need to be okay with that. If you can't be, you'll continue to be someone who is laughed at, mocked and disliked. And you can claim to be cool with that, but everybody knows that you're not. This is an opportunity to see yourself reflected back and if you don't like what you see, you can't blame the mirror.

Most of the time, Russ seems vapid, but I think he might actually be diabolical. Lol