#class commentary

But considering the time when Viktor was a child (probably mostly pre Cassandra's vent system when the grey was terrible) and what just living in his neighborhood did to him (causing his illness)…

I just keep imagining a tiny Viktor trying to take Jayce to his home to play and they just... can't even get close. Because at that point Viktor is used to breathing in poison and Jayce's body recognizes it for what it is. (kinda like the Chembaron's meeting scene)

The wait is (finally) over! My review of Bong Joon-Ho's materpiece, "Parasite" is now live!

Content Warning: Parasite contains depictions of severe class disparity, violence, grooming, and extreme manipulation. Viewer discretion is advised. Spoilers for Parasite ahead! In January of 2020, the English-centered film industry was put on blast for not giving foreign language films their proper flowers. Director Bong Joon-Ho, already celebrated by Hollywood and audiences alike for previous…

I just don't understand the outrage being directed to those who have expressed some degree of satisfaction from the news of that United Health Care CEO getting shot. Why would his death be any more outrageous or any more unacceptable from the slow, often painful deaths endured by those at the stroke of his pen?

Frankly, the victim got off lighter than what some movies use for plotlines. It's not something I woulda done, probably not even how I'd do it (a couple of ideas, but they're assumptions that would require stuff anyone privy to the investigation might have already ruled out and i feel as if i contribute enough to the problem of online content as it is anyway), but the ruling class experiencing the same kind of terror they've been okay with allowing everybody else to endure is not something that really moves the needle for me. Frankly, I hope they never catch the shooter and the perp becomes a folk hero for the 21st century. Hell, murder ballads about the shooting are already popping up online. This shooting is reviving folk music. Nobody but family weeps for the low-born criminals dead in the gutter, why are the rest of us low-born expected to weep for an industry who has killed more than the drug cartels? Nah. They spent a lot of money on a lot of politicians to fuck us all over. As ye have sown, so shall ye reap. If a paycheck depends on abstracting people into a line item on a ledger and people end up dying because of it, then you really should consider another line of work.

"I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be–– all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!" "No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Do Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game.”

― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

[SPOILERS for Will Darling: The Sugared Game.]

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A gaggle of Woosterish trust fund babies accidentally burst into the climactic scene to gape in bewilderment at the bad guy who's cornered, desperate and brandishing a gun.

Pegasus being the obnoxious wealthy elitist who believes no one can touch him while Keith is likely from a lower/working class background obsessed with money and guns

Keith is very much an asshole, but Pegasus is a bigger asshole due to his access to obscene levels of wealth and has little-to-no limitations on how far he wants to exploit people when it suits him, all the while appearing to be a clean and upstanding figure to the public. Once again, this is due to how he can use his abundant pool of resources to manipulate people and their perception of him, while Keith basically has to scrape up whatever he can get his hands on to get closer to his goals, manners and decorum be damned

The scene in the anime where Pegasus flushes Keith down a trap hole is an accurate representation of just what people from Pegasus' background think of people from Keith's background--waste that can be disposed of at a whim once they're no longer useful or entertaining

Meanwhile, you have Rebecca, who serves as a sort of middle ground and the third American stereotype: A loud, aggressive personality who talks over everyone and doesn't listen to alternate interpretations because she believes she is justified in taking what "rightfully belongs" to her (which, oddly enough, was motivated by an off-hand comment where Rebecca told Yuugi and co that she met Bandit Keith at a tournament in the States and the latter told her that Arthur's Blue-Eyes was "stolen" by Sugoroku)

TLDR

Pegasus - elitist imperialist "champagne socialist" jerk

Bandit Keith - working class "rise and grind" jerk

Rebecca - working class imperialist "this is mine by birthright" jerk