The Moose Lord

Anime sells a power fantasy almost entirely intended for an audience of teen boys. The main characters are often self inserts of the audience, and are given a ton of women to choose from. The women are often manipulated for the desires of the male MC. The MC is also devoid of flaws and infallible despite doing things that we would consider evil or despicable.

It is enabling of a misogynistic mindset in young men, and at the very minimum, it is normalizing the behaviors shown. A anime fan literally told me that fan-service was just a thing, and that it wasn't weird. He felt so confident about how normal it was that he was willing to just bring it up casually as if it wasn't lowkey disgusting, and literally pulled up a picture of a women doing summersaults in super tight pants and shows it to me.

And what cemented this in my eyes was the idea of a "Anime Tourist," which is how the in-group, aka the people in the pipeline, refer to the out-group, the people who are outside of the pipeline and are able to recognize the problematic flaws of the media and it's political implications.

Like, a character in an anime can literally touch kids and people will just gloss over it, and if you say anything about it people say that you are the weird one for pointing it out. The people who watch and interact with the communities surrounding anime become socially ostracized as well. If they try to talk about their interests in a crowd of "normies" they would make everyone else uncomfortable. This means that the only people they can interact with is people who are also in the same in-group. And as everyone needs to know, social ostracization is one of the main tactics used by cults, religions, and extremist groups.

"once you're there, you can never leave" is a moto on fourchan for a reason.

Putting the citizens against each other is their plan. Those who voted for trump thought he would help them. They were so desperate that they ignored all the other shit and clung to the idea that he would help the working class.

So it's a great analogy of the Trolley Problem. A train is on a track and will kill 4 people, but you have a switch that will swap the train to the track with a single person. In this case, the average person is likely to say that they would murder the single person in order to save the 4 people, despite the fact that that would mean murdering one person. This is because 4 > 1, so logically, pulling the lever would save the most amount of lives, despite having to murder someone.

Now this parallels The CEO murder because Brian was going to be responsible for thousands of more deaths. When Luigi metaphorically pulled the switch, healthcare companies were forced to address the public unrest, and Luigi's act can be linked to healthcare companies making choices that led to more accessible healthcare, and thus, allowing more people to access life saving treatments. By killing one person, Luigi had made the world a better place through a morally wrong action.