Why would I move your discussion

All the more reason to have your discussion somewhere else, in a place that isn’t dedicated to shitposts.

Yeah I read what you wrote. I responded to it. I’ll put it here again just in case you missed it.

If you don’t want to talk about specifics, what are you even here for?

We’re talking about actions we can take against our political leaders/political system, are we not? Is that somehow not political?

IDK man, I’m just trying to steer you in a productive direction, because asking a bunch of leading questions in the comment section ain’t it. If you don’t want to talk about specifics, what are you even here for?

Sounds like a great opportunity to make a post in one of the many political communities on Lemmy then, to create some real discussion. Rather than stringing us along in the comment section here.

It sounds like you have ideas. It would be way more productive for you to just share them outright, rather than this weird browbeating you’re doing.

One of the main points of the original movie is that nearly everyone in the town is an asshole because they think Belle is weird. Gaston also thinks Belle is weird. The only difference is he also wants to bang her, and pursues her relentlessly even though Belle makes it very clear she wants nothing to do with him. Gaston is a creep.

If Gaston wanted to confront a noble, he’d do so using his military/political ties. If he wanted to send a bunch of peasants to their deaths, he’d whip up a mob.

An asylum then was probably worse than death. Forward thinking my ass, if Gaston was a good person he would have at bare minimum heard Maurice out and tried to help him.

He liked Belle, when the rest of the town said she was weird for reading.

He thinks she’s weird for reading too, he just thinks she’s pretty enough to make up for that “oddity”

He’s clearly respected throughout the region.

He’s feared because he’s the strongest and has money

The beast (after being cursed for being a dick to strangers in need) did kidnap an old man and then did a prisoner swap for a girl he intended to groom into a sexual partner

Gaston wants to make Belle quit all her reading and tinkering and inventing and turn her into a breeding sow

When the kidnapped man returns to the village and everyone refuses to believe him, Gaston does and leads the charge to rescue his daughter.

He pretends to believe Belle’s dad initially to manufacturer good will, then tries to murder him in the woods in an effort to get rid of the last roadblock keeping him from Belle. Failing that, he uses his “influence” with the town to have Belle’s dad committed to an insane asylum (without any semblance of a trial) when he comes back and accuses Gaston of murder. He doesn’t believe that a beast had kidnapped Belle until he sees the magic mirror.

The fact that Belle was successfully love bombed and groomed doesn’t make Gaston wrong for coming to rescue her from this rich noble that was kidnapping people.

Gaston incited a riot, an honest-to-goodness grab-your-pitchfork-and-torches mob, to retrieve what he viewed as his property. Yes, the beast is a spoiled, bratty, sexual grooming noble, but Gaston is also a massive piece of shit dude.

I don’t have a yard. Now who’s making assumptions, hmmm?

Without the crucifixion and resurrection, Jesus is just another guy, and Christmas would just be called Winter Solstice or Yule Festival

His business breaks down in a matter of a couple of weeks and there’s never enough to become a problem.

Your yard and shoes smell like dog shit, you’re simply nose blind to it. Please clean up after your dog shits.

We’re talking about two different things then. I’m talking about how things should be.

So your argument is that if everyone has access to basic necessities, society would collapse? What in the slipperiest of slopes are you talking about?

If your “society” is dependent on people voluntarily going into wage slavery, maybe it should collapse.

Yes, why the fuck not? Social safety nets and access to basic human necessities like food, shelter, and healthcare should not be gated by some arbitrary number of “working hours”.

I think you’re confusing flatpaks with snaps

I don’t know how leisurely that leisure time is gonna be, considering he’s only got a hundred bucks to play with, coupled with the stress and anxiety of being one car repair or injury away from financial ruin.

You’re absolutely right that the social safety net needs improvements, but that net should be there for everyone, not just those that work some arbitrary number of hours.

Big “just pull yourself up by your bootstraps” energy with this comment.

It’s insane that you think people have to hit a minimum bar of “productivity” to justify living above a barely-scraping-by level, and that you set that bar at over half a person’s waking hours.

Mkay but why shouldn’t someone be able to live a dignified life working 25 hours a week? Why does it have to be 40?

The $30 is for mobile service, the $50 is for home Internet service.

It’s sad that the whole “meathead = dumb asshole” stereotype has taken hold, because in my experience, most of the meatheads I’ve encountered have been sweethearts