@91_starman67619@samuelneedham i’m not gonna pretend i’m the most morally upstanding person ever but i also don’t rape people so tbh i’m pretty confident in saying im a better person than him
the cool thing about marquis de sade is he explicitly formulated bourgeois ideology (unity of the upper class to oppress the masses and do as many sex crimes as possible) before anyone else
@samuelneedham he was undoubtedly a Very Bad Man but there’s value in his work because of how open he is about it all, whereas nowadays the upper class only speak in riddles about their crimes, if they speak about it at all
@mr_dudeguy yeah in his real life he was an extreme political opportunist that would just take whatever side that benefited him in the short term, which tbh makes a lot sense given his writings
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blows my mind that The Caretaker got memed into oblivion & not one single person ever brought up V/VM, the project where he was essentially shitposting himself 20+ years ago. the youth truly dont know how to use the internet. he beat u to your joke long before you were even born
the cool thing about marquis de sade is he explicitly formulated bourgeois ideology (unity of the upper class to oppress the masses and do as many sex crimes as possible) before anyone else
also noteworthy is his depiction of the alliance between elite rapists and a certain type of lumpen deviant, which can be seen in a lot of trafficking and CSAM rings
and also how bourgeois class solidarity is constantly threatened as each person is only acting in their self interest, hence why betrayals proliferate throughout his work
@babakuntos i’ve spent the 20 hours since you said this wondering if hanging out one-on-one with sotos or gervais would have worse vibes and i still haven’t decided