You're confusing this with hollywood

They do too! They are currently transitioning the power of Muslims into the power of slave labour and mass graves!

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He is a heroin chonker to be sure

@funkmasterrex hunchback is still one of the great masterpieces. And yes, quasimodo is pretty awesome all things considered haha

Not that it's particularly important either way, but it's not really an example of Stockholm syndrome imo. Still a bit of an odd relationship, but..

"Symptoms of Stockholm syndrome
1. The victim develops positive feelings toward the person holding them captive or abusing them."
-She doesn't develop positive feelings towards him until the abuse stops
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"2. The victim develops negative feelings toward police, authority figures, or anyone who might be trying to help them get away from their captor. They may even refuse to cooperate against their captor."
-definitely doesn't qualify. Belle actively attempts to escape and defy her captor, and even
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"3. The victim begins to perceive their captor’s humanity and believe they have the same goals and values."
-Belle and Beast do begin to relate to one another, but Belle hardly had the same goals as him, or believed him to have the same goals as her

Belle at no point loves Beast until he stops treating her as a prisoner. Nor does she defend his actions of keeping her prisoner.
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They entered into an agreement that resulted in her imprisonment, but she did not believe it to be benevolence of any kind, nor did she mistake Beast for being kind or trustworthy until after. She was so repulsed by his behavior that, with her good heart and all, she was willing to jeopardize her father's freedom and her own word to escape from abuse
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Beast also largely stops thinking of her as a prisoner. He doesn't work to manipulate her into loving him or anything like that. He actively comes to see that what she's saying and doing has value, and, when it comes down to it, he is willing to let her go, even to his own detriment

I think I just got called an asshole by proxy

Quasimodo was a better example of Stockholm syndrome, where he was kidnapped and completely believed himself to be dependent on Frollo, who has kept him completely isolated
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Even after and during the abuse, Quasimodo largely believes that what happens to him is his fault, that he should have listened to Frollo because Frollo loves him and only does what he does to protect him
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Rapunzel as well, with mother Gothel

The whole Stockholm thing not applying has been kind of done to death for this movie, but the first key scene I think a lot of people forget:
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Belle escaped.
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Yes, she almost died when she was attacked by wolves (and he ended up saving her), but she then had the option of leaving him in the snow and continuing her escape. She also could have just dumped him on the castle steps. But instead she took him inside and made sure he was okay.
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She had absolutely ZERO affection for Beast at this point. She didn't like him, and she certainly didn't love him. And she continued to show defiance throughout the scene
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It's not until after this scene when Beast starts expressing kindness, and they find a mutual respect for each other

One guy who ended up being a good person does not a fetish make

I just find it ironic when people desperately accuse other people of the crime they themselves commited. "Like, I have horrible thoughts about people, clearly it must be your fault because you're on this side of the political spectrum."
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Though, for the record, I've never mistook you for an asshole, so you may need to try harder or I may need different standards lol

They'll go out and die to protect people who may go on to try and destroy the very freedom the soldier gave its life for.
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And after everything they'll go through, the thanks they'll receive is often to be forgotten, maybe given a token acknowledgement a couple times a year.
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But yeah, telling people who you want to rub genitals with is definitely more braver in the West than being a soldier. Also stunning.

They'll see people they spent a weeks working with be blown up, or lose limbs, or bleed out in their arms.
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They'll be given shitty food and crappy weaponry, end up with PTSD and tinnitus almost as a guarantee with sign-up. They'll miss the births of their children and the deaths of family members.
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They have to watch presidents and leaders put their lives and their programs in jeopardy to play politics and social correctness.
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They may have to decide who to leave to die on the battlefield - could be between a commanding officer or literally the soldier's best friend.
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They'll be required to kill people they don't want to kill, and ridiculed endlessly for it regardless of whether it was necessary

People get murdered in the West for literally every reason. Gay people are not special. They also march down the streets in the West, wearing strap-ons and bondage and neon-rainbow clothing, announcing to the entire world they exist, for an entire month
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It is also not common as far as I know for gay people to be tortured to death in the West (no more so than, say, women, at any rate). A soldier captured by the cartels or the Taliban, however?
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There are programs in schools to help the lbtq in the West. Soldiers will spend years isolated from their families, in foreign countries, surrounded by the enemy, being belittled at every turn over stupid military politics
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Ffs Iccarus, this made my brain go "gives a whole new meaning to 'baby, you're a firework'" and I was trying to not be a terrible person today

Lol it's fine dash, I just found the comment chain escalation amusing