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ABC got rid of Jimmy Kimmel and am just here shaking my head at cis white people (mastodon.social)
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ABC got rid of Jimmy Kimmel and am just here shaking my head at cis white people.dearly beloved, Disney owns ABC. it also co-owns the Harry Potter franchise. after all the transphobic #violence JK Rowling unleashed and championed in the past few years, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT. #TRANSPHOBIA is a point of intersectional violence for #eugenics #misogyny #classism #racism #colonialism it was never a question of if but when.Disney is the paragon of fascist USA media.

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[–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (17 children)
  1. yup, i stand corrected. Disney does not have a claim to the Harry Potter franchise. NBC/Universal/Warner Brothers 2. the point of transphobia still stands; because it’s related to…3. the fact that, as @haljor pointed out, they didn’t oppose the “Don’t Say Gay” law until it was politically expedient to claim they did bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-6Ron DeSantis’ beef with Disney wasn’t about “wokeness”… 🧵
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    @blogdiva if you wanna nail disney for transphobia i'd recommend starting here hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-nethe storyboard for the scene they cut leaked and it's… not only was it a spectacular work of short filmic art, it would have done so much, for the world, especially right now, for that to be put in front of kids. disney censored it because they think transes are dirty and have to be kept away from children and i don't know what disney thinks should happen to children who are already trans

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (15 children)

    De Santis’ beef was that Disney was a de facto company town, created with a law to specifically free it of any local government while creating a closed-circle taxation arrangement for public works:Reedy Creek Improvement Acten.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_De Santis got the legislature to change the law, not because he’s against company towns, but because he’s against the ones that won’t bow to his dictatorship. stupidly, it’s gonna cost Florida:Disney v. DeSantisen.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney🧵…

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (14 children)

    the thing is, why would anybody write into a law a company town run by a union-busting, McCarthy sympathizing rat king?i answered my own question, didn’t i?from the Mickey Mouse Extension Act:Copyright Term Extension Act - Wikipedia - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyrito it’s insatiable appetite for franchises & companies, Disney is beyond too big to fail. it’s too big to not be broken up. this image is absolute bananas: Chart: Everything That Disney Owns - cartoonbrew.com/disney/chart-e

    ![❝ Through the Fox purchase, Disney acquired important companies like Fox Family and Fox Animation, Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures, and Fox 2000 Pictures; Fox’s television creative units, Twentieth Century Fox Television, FX Productions, and Fox21; FX Networks; National Geographic Partners; Fox Networks Group International; Star India; and Fox’s interests in Hulu, Tata Sky, and Endemol Shine Group shows.

    These are the most recognizable companies Disney owns entirely or partially: ESPN (80% stake), Touchstone Pictures, Marvel, Lucasfilm, A&E (50% equity holding with Hearst Corporation), The History Channel (50% equity holding with Hearst Corporation), Lifetime (50% equity holding with Hearst Corporation), Pixar, Hollywood Records, and Vice Media (16% stake). Of course, this list also includes all of the obvious properties like the Disney-branded television channels, radio stations, stores, and parks.

    These are the some of the major brands and franchises Disney owns: Star Wars, The Muppets, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Disney Princesses, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pixar films, Winnie the Pooh, and Indiana Jones.…

    Disney now also owns shows and films such as The Simpsons, American Horror Story, American Idol, and Family Guy, as well as movies like Home Alone, Avatar, Deadpool, Die Hard, Night at the Museum, and Independence Day. It also owns classic Fox films like All About Eve, Cleopatra, MASH, Alien, and The Thin Red Line, among hundreds of others. ❞](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/223/340/825/910/361/original/8c6743a176b781df.jpg)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @blogdiva For people thinking they can jump from Hulu to to FuboTV, guess who is in contract to buy it from fascist Paramount... Disney "Fubo Sees Disney, Hulu + Live TV Deal Closing Earlier Than Anticipated"deadline.com/2025/07/fubo-disn

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (12 children)

    so am going to leave y’all with this thought: i rarely agree with Matt Stoller, but we do on one particular thing:The case for breaking up Disney boingboing.net/2019/11/07/marvnot only are they running their own company town, they are the textbook case of regulatory capture: liberal-speak massaging the fascist capture of government and legislation by corporations.Disney doesn’t just manufacture popular entertainment. by how it wields its power, it’s the champion of American corporatist fascism./🧵

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    @blogdiva simply put, the moment a corporation starts to weigh in on politics, and becomes a palpable influence, it has crossed the line from mere business, and becomes a de facto, ex oficio political entity, and government should break it apart, because a corporation owes allegiance only to the douchebags who control it.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (8 children)

    PS¹: here’s @mcc with the receipts on Disney’s #transphobia.mastodon.social/@mcc/115223417BTW since transgenderism is the new communism for the fascistocracy, did y’all know Walt Disney slandered some of his union organizing workers to McCarthy’s HUAC (aka House Un-American Activities Committee) in 1947? of course you did!❝ The Testimony of Walter E. Disney Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (24 October 1947) ❞encyclopedia.com/history/dicti

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    PS²Roy Disney was the brains behind the Walt Disney brand. the famous 1941 cartoonist strike happened because of his rabid hatred of labor unions:❝ Whistle while you strike: The great Disney walkout of 1941avclub.com/the-great-disney-sthis grand-daughter, Abigail Disney, has described him and her uncle Walt, in no uncertain terms, as fascists: nypost.com/2022/10/03/abigail-yet NOT as nazis: usatoday.com/story/news/nationthis is an incredibly important nuance to understand American corporatist fascism.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    PS³:and @paul reminds me that Disney’s #sports broadcasting monopoly would grow bigger if they bought #FuboTVdeadline.com/2025/07/fubo-disnthat’s why Senator Elizabeth “we could have had 8 years of her as #POTUS but fucking corporatist democrats rammed through a geriatric corporatist fascist bootlicking genocide enabling quisling” Warren has activated her antitrust lasers against Disney:warren.senate.gov/newsroom/prejust for the sports alone ―including the betting―, Disney needs to be imploded.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    PS⁴ and last thing about #Disney… for now:they make hand-over-fist money with #ESPN. you wanna boycott them? boycott ESPN ―including NBA.com and MLB.com, of which they also get a slice. y’all know how much i like my sports; but they know the last thing people will give up is their live #sports entertainment. wanna go hard? boycott ESPN along with Disney and #ABC.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    @blogdiva @mcc I get the analogy, but I don't think it's quite right.There were violent Communist revolutions, mass murders (e.g. the Holodomor and the Great Leap Forward), and you even had the Comintern literally promoting a global takeover by Communists. Last I checked, none of this was true of any trans communities or movements, anywhere in the world.Yes, the threat of Communism was weaponised by politicians around the world, baseless accusations were made, and civil liberties were violated.But in the case of Communism you could actually point to real world Communists doing mass-murdery evil, and groups dedicated to spreading this throughout the world.

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