Support the show and get a bonus episode every week at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult This week we review Believe, a film about business owner Matthew Peyton who is assaulted and left for dead when he can’t afford to single-handedly finance the town’s annual Christmas pageant. He solves his and the town’s economic woes when he realizes he can replace his union staff with unpaid homeless people in exchange for sheltering them from the winter storm. This is not hyperbole.
Okay, so the city council member, the mayor, and a police officer meet Matthew and CJ back at the factory.
Matthew still hasn't broken the news to CJ that the pageant is cancelled, and the city council member has gotten word of the fact that Matthew is housing these people at his factory, and he's absolutely giddy at the idea of
further punishing this small business owner because he's like you're not zoned for this and the mayor says you can't just go around and gather people when it's cold and put them in a big room it's literally the line verbatim yeah which is a wild statement and Matthew says why not And it's very like NPC angry meme.
Like the mayor is like, you just can't take control of your own small business and use it how you see fit.
And the small business owner says, why?
And then the NPC gets angry, you know?
Yeah.
And then the city council member is like, we have laws.
You're not allowed to help people.
This far left government decided that you as a small business owner are not allowed to help people.
He says, the only way you can keep these people here around the clock is by putting them back to work.
You have 12 hours to comply or the city will be more than happy to see you in jail Yeah, and you see a little light bulb go over his head in that scene and he's just like hmm Not even yet.
Not even yet.
Sorry to sorry to know you but it's it's like it takes like another 20 minutes and CJ literally saying I want to work work for you dumbass exactly for him to be like i guess wow i never thought of but yeah the the city council member like the way he says it does seem to be like he's feeding this hint uh to matthew for sure
but i just i love the idea that they're gonna throw this business owner in jail for allowing homeless people to stay in his factory instead of what they definitely would do which would be to arrest every one of those people for trespassing and then when like cj is doing a uh slow motion interpretive dance and happens to brush one of the cops then he gets tried as an adult for assault on a police officer Exactly.
So he gives the speech to the people and how he has to kick them out because the city is too communist and they won't let homeless people stay indoors during winter.
Again, this, sorry, I just want to go back to the fact that it's not zoned for people to live there.
This is an insane plot point.
It's crazy because it's like, small business owners everywhere would be letting homeless people sleep in their businesses if we didn't have all this government regulation.
Yeah, exactly.
We gotta keep a lid on it.
We're stifling the charity of small business owners by putting the onerous regulations on them.
Otherwise, this homelessness crisis would solve itself.
Like the only thing that's stopping just like the continuous accumulation of capital and worker exploitation is red tape.
Not a lot of people know that.
It's just a fever dream of right-wing propaganda that I love.
If only we would unshackle capitalism from big government regulation, then homeless people would be free to sleep inside Walmarts.
Yeah, so CJ says, what if we worked for you, then could we stay?
And then he says, what the heck?
And everyone cheers at the idea of being literal slaves.
Yep.
All these homeless people applaud give give uh three cheers hip hip hooray at the idea of working so they have a place to sleep.
Which like leads to this beautiful like uh slave scab montage because we forget the reason why there's no workers there is because they're on strike.
So he's gonna like have these like homeless people come in as like slave scabs and it's insane.
Yes.
It's insane.
It's like the seventh seal was just cracked open uh and there's you know a horn from the heavens indicating doom and then everyone just starts cheering.
They're like actually this is an incredible innovation in the marketplace of ideas.
This is what we've been waiting for yeah.
I love this.
Hey, what the heck?
You know, let's try it out.
Let's try the grand experiment of indentured servitude.
Like, I love this.
Like you're saying, oh, I just disrupted the market by reinventing slavery.
