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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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
I mean I think you mean billionaires.
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Honestly and to be blunt I actually do think it applies to all of us in the First World living on more than like $10,000 a year, that Peter Singer may be an asshole in many ways but there is no moral justification for living like even a poor American when the Third World exists
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Everyone is selfish, and pretty damn selfish too, and we don't know how to deal with that fact - we won't openly say things like "My video games are more important than some thousands of children dying for lack of vitamins whom I don't even know" - so we're always lying
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
This is honestly what I can't stand about the Omelas discourse, like what Le Guin said is obviously and completely true of every single person who read her story and they don't ADMIT it "I reject the premise of this story and would free the kid and burn down Omelas"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Bitch no you wouldn't Poor are you are, are you currently going blind due to B vitamin deficiency? Would you be pissed off if I cleaned out the $1,200 from your bank account to buy vitamins for Somalian kids Then you wouldn't burn down Omelas
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