• Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Yyyyyup. He’s kind of got it all. The outsized toxic masculinity, the focus on self improvement, a self centric sense of superiority, money and the power to commit cathartic violence. There are people who look at that toonish parody of a miserable violent financial bro and instead of seeing horror they see a life goal.

    Some people are held at bay from becoming a Bateman not by empathy but by potential curtailment of freedoms if they get caught.