Maybe there were some slaveowners who really were mired in Orwellian doublethink and constantly lying to themselves and emotionally tortured because of the dissonance between their self-image as benevolent fathers to their enslaved "families" and the cruel reality
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
But come the fuck on According to their own recorded sentiments from when they were in private, and based on their own daily actions, and based on the testimonies of enslaved people themselves, this is just garbage They happily oppressed people because they liked doing it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
It's like actually taking it seriously that a modern day business is a "family" and that the manager of a store really thinks of his employees as "family" and they just have misguided ways of showing it No that's just a lie they say when they have to
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
If there is a lie that oppressors consistently tell themselves as opposed to an external audience it's the opposite, it's that the oppressed are worthless trash who deserve what they have coming to them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
You know how capitalists really feel about workers, you've heard them saying it a bunch of times, whenever they're freely venting in any space that's not a press conference "Bunch of dumb useless lazy shitheads who are lucky to even have a job, if they starve it's on them"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Also, in the specific context of Castlevania the show, Dracula is unique in that his extreme power allowed him to be mostly removed from the brutality, which is why Lisa was able to turn him and why he then went even harder than the regular asshole vampires
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
It still reads as both fundamentally shallow and basically vapid to me, in a way I find genuinely irritating. There few things I loathe in this world more than edgelord misanthropes who want to act like everyone is just as shitty and hollow as they are.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
Maybe not everyone, but it's a natural result of having power, or at least being placed in a position where you have to exert power in oppressive ways to live Which, you know, is the actual reason for evil, not just people being born with evil genes or deciding to be evil
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
It's like literal TV shows and books about the lives of millionaires Acknowledging that, yes, they're human beings, and yes, they're doing their best by their own standards to be decent people as they see it And probably you or I in their place wouldn't give up the money either
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
But they are, nonetheless, fundamentally bad people who are harming the world by being millionaires At the very least it's a *contradiction*, a *hypocrisy*, how clearly the values people profess to hold rapidly change when their position in society changes
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I always saw VtM as a literalization of that theme You know - all of them know - that what you do every night just to survive is fundamentally wrong, and that the right thing to do, if you really cared, is to go outside and watch the sun rise
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
But you won't, and you know you won't So your unlife is a constant and unending lie (the Humanity meter is basically a meter of how much you're currently in denial, because you're not human) And that's what you have to deal with every night
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Maybe all of America is a vampire sucking the world's blood and we're all of us vampires who can be and will be burned alive by the mob when they rise up And that's a very uncomfortable thought, for those of us who aren't Dracula himself and just shitty vampires getting by
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