Kanye West, rapper and fucking douchebag extraordinaire recently tweeted the above picture of the objects he had to place in an airport security bin. He accompanied the tweet with this statement: “Set off the metal detectors with the Swag.”

The tweeting of this picture is a little strange, seeing as Kanye isn’t typically associated with subtlety. If he wants to say something, he’ll storm an awards show stage, steal your microphone and then say it in as blunt a way as humanly possible. So, this makes us wonder why, if he wanted to tell us all that he believes he is better than the rest of us because he owns jewelry that looks like he stole off a 60-year-old Guido’s dresser, he would tell us this in such a roundabout way?

Surely, the sentence “I’m better than you b/c I just put a bunch of gold things in a box” is less than 140 characters? It is, in fact. It’s only 66 characters. But saying something like that, something as blunt as that, would transform our collective perception of him from that of an average celebrity douchebag to that of a man that truly does not give a shit about the fact that the country — hell, the world — is only now starting to climb its way out of a terrible recession, and there are plenty of people out there still struggle to find a job to make enough money so they can feed their families.

With only a single picture and 8 words worth of tweeting, Kanye said 1,000 words, and every one of them was F*ck You. Normally, this kind of F*ck You attitude is reserved for “The Establishment” or “The Man” that is always “Holding you down,” but not in this case, and not in this day and age. No; now the F*ck You attitudes are reserved for you, the average person, because you don’t have as high a financial standing as someone else. Therefore, you are of lower social and economic caste, and should be treated as such.

When Kanye sends out a Twitpic of his golden paraphernalia accompanied by a nonchalant message, he’s doing it because he really, truly wants you to know that his life is infinitely better than yours due to the fact that he can afford a bunch of superfluous shit that branches out beyond the basic needs of a modern, first world-inhabiting person; like a house, a car, food, etc.

So, Kanye, from all of us closer to the bottom of the Canadian and American economic ladder than the top, go fuck yourself.