I'm just going to repeat what I said under that filter: if you're going to own being an asshole, you have to be ready for people not to give you the benefit of the doubt when you act like one. No one is going to trust you to be responsible or humane when "but I'm not a nice person" seems to come up when people don't like what you're saying. That's how it works. You're not being honest or helpful, you're giving yourself a mountain to climb before anyone actually cares about your side of things because you are, again, not a nice person.