And of course we get the libertarian fiction the rich write for themselves. About how their stolen wealth is just because they worked harder, were stronger, were smarter than everyone else. Which no. If 2017 has taught us anything it's that the rich are evil ignormauses.
Holy fuck, he's a goddamn incel. For those who don't know what that is, man are you both lucky and unlucky, cause wow. So incels are a group of MRAs who loathe themselves and blame women for their self-loathing, believing that it is all due to women not putting out for them.
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And this movement is pretty damn vile. Elliot Rodgers came from that movement and the infamous hate movement that ruined gaming started with a long harassment campaign of Zoe Quinn for making a depression game because in their minds, women and enbies can't be depressed.
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And so here we get Kaneshiro making the same whines. That he's "ugly, poor, and weak" and that he couldn't possibly win in an honest life where he didn't cheat and threaten and make prisons of nonconsent.
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And it's complete garbage. Like, I get self-loathing. I have crippling depression and a number of identities that get me liquid hate shoved in my face 24/7. I GET self-loathing and struggling with it. But that's not something someone is owed to fix for you by sacrifice.
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Kaneshiro is not an ugly soul because he's a bit portly. He's an ugly soul because he routinely threatens to death anyone he can and exploits the unfairness of the status quo for his own enrichment so he can play bouncy castle with an idea of wealth. An idea sold by playboy.
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That you'll be the big man with wealth. That you will have women crawling over you. That your insecurities and fears will abandon you. That you will be able to buy happiness to paper over an empty soul. But it doesn't. See how many billionaires are bitter awful envious people.
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Hurting others, destroying lives all to hold on to a position whose only happiness comes in the exploitation and harm of others for entertainment. See how miserable Trump is for all his stolen wealth. Look how unhappy Notch is. Wealth will not fix a shitty persona.
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And it's why there should be an upper-band to wealth, because there's an upper-band to when wealth can at all actually affect happiness. The rest is hoarding, hoping there is a pile big enough to make up for being the sort of awful people who can steal or inherit wealth.
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And it's part of what is so insufferable about incels. They are so wrapped up in their self-pity and their hate that they cannot even notice how awful their personhood has become. How toxic it is to the intimacy they claim to want. Kaneshiro could have had love and friends.
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If he was willing to set aside his ego and his need to cling to a fantasy about his privilege, he could have had real connections that enriched him, whether platonic, romantic, or sexual. But it would require him to be a better person that he was. And so he didn't.
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And that sticks out. No one sticks with Kaneshiro that he doesn't employ or threaten or bribe or all of the above. He lacks any platonic connections and he clearly craves that. Like he's not aplatonic, aromantic, asexual. He's clearly allo on all counts. And he fucked it up.
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And in his ending speech, we get a central conflict of Phantom Thieves. Someone who uses the ability to enter hearts as a tool to enrich and empower themselves. And the Commie Queers who use it to right wrongs and bring justice to the marginalized.
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And there's a lot that connects to current day. There are those who fight for another day, for life to be a little less shitty for those being shit on the worst. And there are those who'd gladly kick in those people's teeth for an extra buck they won't be able to use.
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And it's beyond time to tear every one of those fuckers to the ground and make them taste consequences.
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Nice, Kaneshiro's briefcase is a living embodiment of how he performed toxic masculinity out of a desperate attempt to seem tough. Love it.
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Makoto is talking about how hot a girl shoji player is. Yeah, she's canon non-straight. Yusuke: So there's a famous shogi player at my sch- Makoto: She's so beautiful and she's a lone genius and ohmigodyouguys! Baby queers are adorable.
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Kawakami worked herself to the point of collapse! I'm having overworking teacher feels about this.
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Ok, I'm ready to stab these people. Not only have they been blackmailing a poor teacher for something that was way more their fault than hers, but their response to her overworking herself to the point of hospitalization is "where's our dough?"
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And they are 100% not poor, both are wearing rich fashions, so it's not like they are in an economically desperate position. They're just money-grubbing assholes who overworked their own son to death and now are trying to bully another person to death for their greed.
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Ha! Yes! We got the option to intervene and call these fuckers out. And the plot thickens. Apparently they adopted Takase entirely to use for labor for their enrichment and now have the audacity to do the same to the teacher who tried to help him.
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For an idea of what kind of people they are, they unironically used the line "she still doesn't know her place". Yeah. They are Trumpian levels of fuckwad here.
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Oh wow. I can't even. So they "blame her" for "destroying their son" and now instead of clinging to broad threats, they're laying out their "charge". And it's... she tried to get him to study instead of working making money for them. That's her "great crime" in their eyes.
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Folks, I have met parents like this. Who only see their kids in terms of their utility to their comfort and status. I loathe them in real life and I'm itching to bring them down in virtual space.
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Yes, solution to the not enough lockpicks problem! Thank you game mechanic. This almost makes up for the bullshit anti-grinding Chariot skill I got finishing up Ryuji's bullshit (as if I needed any more reason to dislike the guy).
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Sae is worried the Commie Queers are a bad influence on her sister. Sae, I'm afraid commie queers are the best kind of bad influence on everyone!
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Oh my, just found out Makoto intentionally posted the calling card for Kaneshiro somewhere public because she knew the corrupt police would try to take credit for it. I think we may have awoken her "fuck the police" side.
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So why do I love Makoto and Ann so much? Because they'll just call out the powerful to their face like it's no big deal. The principal has been low-key threatening her for weeks and she just strolls in going "Sup, the Commie Queers are just, this is a witch hunt, so it's over."
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Like, what up, you're going to have to stop talking circularly and actually make the cover up threat you want instead of counting on me to clean up your messes. The amount of guts that takes? To just do that to someone with such immense power over you like that? It's inspiring.
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Oh man, he even tries to threaten her by blocking her future and she's like, yeah? I'll just get in on my own merits, cuz I'm super hardworking and you don't actually own a universal blacklist to every college in the country. Like fuck, it's such a masterful fuck you.
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And now she's deconstructing the broken nature of the system for millennials. Going, okay, if I meet your high standards for entrance exams, is that actually going to lead to real success in the workplace? I have such a soft-spot for folks who overanalyze the systems that bind.
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And Sae's in full worthless mode, going "what, but success is success, die on the throne of your devalued humanity in the face of this broken capitalist machine". And now Sae is whining that the Commie Queers cost her a promotion.
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