Disney deleted a Thread post because people kept posting anti-fascist quotes from its movies in the replies.

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[–] 154 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

The article links a screenrecording of the thread, but it's a Zuck product so to save you a click:

https://ani.social/pictrs/image/5784eb24-5a52-4f75-91bf-3f9fce9de072.mp4

And a catbox for redundancy: https://files.catbox.moe/a0ug4z.mp4

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  • [–] 131 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    Ironic for a company that recently made Andor.

    You might have already heard its praise, but I wanted to add that it’s not just a political thriller, it’s about fascism. More specifically, it’s about the dilemma of doing nothing and pretending everything is fine or doing something even if it means using the tools of your enemy.

    Senator Mothma’s speech at the end was creepily relevant, you just need to replace palpatine for another name.

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  • [–] 41 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Isn't all of Star Wars about fascism?

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    The rest is pretty cartoonish Bad Guys Bad, Good Guys Good.

    Andor was way more nouanced.

    Further Andor showed the machinery of Fascism from the inside and had various different kinds of people with different levels of commitement and reasons for participating in it.

    You could really feel the machinery of Fascism slowly closing its maw on people who were just pro-Obbey-The-Rules rather than pro-Fascism and either coopted them or crushed them. Meanwhile in the rest of Star Wars the Empire was pretty much just is Big Powerful Evil For The Sake Of Evil Guys + Mindless obedient human puppets.

    For the Empire side Andor showed people under Fascism, the rest Star Wars just shows the symbology of Fascism (down to the detail that all the members of the Empire are human, never other species) but not the human side of it or the machinery influencing and even forcing them to behave as they do.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Meanwhile in the rest of Star Wars the Empire was pretty much just is Big Powerful Evil For The Sake Of Evil Guys + Mindless obedient human puppets.

    If you think Star Wars does it bad - which I'm not entirely disagreeing with you on - dear god never watch Rebel Moon

    Single worst piece of scifi I've ever seen in my life, and I've seen so much scifi. I watched all of Dark Matter for some reason, and Rebel Moon is so much worse. Why did they give the Big Evil Fascist a Fascist Shillelagh? I don't fuckin know man it's the worst movie ever.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    To add to what Aceticon said, Andor also shows the random evil of fascism, where people who just want to live their life and have no motivation to rebel are easily sucked into the insanity and given no chance to live their lives under the radar.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Watching Succession (which is based on the lives of media families like the Murdochs, the Redstones, the Maxwells, and the Sulzbergers) made me realize how little they care about the message their entertainment wing gives.

    They will play both sides if it pays off. They don't care.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I agree. That show was a very good insight into rich people and their mentality.

    Even though it was hard to watch at times, it was worth the watch cause of the insight.

    They truly live in their own bubble that ensures only like minded people stay there

    Tap for spoilerIn fact the whole point of the show was how ruthless Logan was and that his children were stuck between a rock and a hard place. They could never leave that life cause they are so used to the luxury, although Connor gave a decent try.

    They could also never be as ruthless since they had a decent amount of humanity left.

    So even with all their money and luxury, they ended up feeling very unfulfilled and like a failure.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Andor was a pacification tool meant to supplicate the weak liberals who refuse to actually, I don't know, DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE CURRENT REAL LIFE SITUATION. You too can resist, by watching Andor from your couch! Thinking is just as good as doing!

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Ok now apply the same kind of criticism to the anti-liberal memes you're consuming on the internet. Who do those benefit? Who benefits from dividing people?

    Where does this stuff originate from? Some millionaire trust fund baby influencers on youtube or twitch? Why is this Hasan guy on the front page of a website owned by Jeff Bezos?

    Keep on repeating the bullshit that Jeff Bezos wants you to about liberals being the real enemy. You're soooo much smarter than everyone else LOL. You're really "fighting the power" when you consume the content the billionaires want you to consume.

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  • [–] 281 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

    LoL.

    Conservatives support the god damned storm troopers too.

    Edit: ICE even aims like them too.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    why is she wearing mickey mouse ears

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  • [–] 78 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Is anyone surprised that a corporation doesn’t t share the same values as the creatives it hires?

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  • [–] 40 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Really? I know they dropped S03E01 because they didn't like Michael Jackson. The last time I checked, Disney+ still had a scene where Dr. Hibbert explained the "evil gene" that's shared by both Walt Disney and Hitler.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    also waffling around with giving ORVILLE another season, since the show contradicts the GOP in everyway, and it gets conservative panties in a wad.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    and it gets conservative panties in a wad.

    No need to single out Lindsey Graham, I'm sure it upsets all the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" snowflakes.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I watched the Orville and thought it was awesome, I was about to recommend it to my parents then I remembered ... That it totally goes against supply side Jesus.

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  • [–] 56 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Somebody, somewhere, is updating their list of all the old pre-fascism movies and TV shows that will need to be erased from the culture.

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  • [–] 197 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Disney are also really shitty at removing any context in their movies. An interesting scene at the beginning of the movie Encanto a flashback references an unknown conflict in Colombia resulting in the death of the grandmother’s husband. What conflict Disney? Who were the bad guys Disney? Further research by an interested viewer will reveal that it was a civil war involving a right wing of rebels backed by the US, rose up against a leftist government.

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Encanto isn’t about the conflict, though.

    It would seriously break the flow of the story if they took time to explain the geopolitics of the area.

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  • [–] 42 points 9 months ago

    Learn from the wisdom contained within our magical tales, child...

    NO NOT LIKE THAT!!

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  • [–] 68 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    A monarchy where succession is decided by trial-by-combat though?

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Is it any worse than the American political system really?

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Fair enough

    I'd love to see the cheeto do a trial by combat, that would be outright funny

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago*

    Look if there was a way I could sovcit my way to a golden fringe slap fight I'd take it all the way to the top of the conspiracy (lose a slap fight against the president? That's a hell of a story). Something tells me it's more complicated.

    I know this dude who lost a slap fight against a toad. He was lynched for treason and running round with other dudes wives and daughters. Imagine how far I could go if I lost a slap fight against a president.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    peter quill is a fictional character and i havent seen a guardians movie where he went fasch. is there a comic where that happened?

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    [–] 35 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    He sits alone on a giant throne

    Pretendin' he's the king

    A little tyke who's rather like

    A puppet on a string

    And he throws an angry tantrum

    If he cannot have his way

    And then he calls for Mum

    While he's suckin' his thumb

    You see, he doesn't want to play

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  • [–] 65 points 9 months ago

    "The poison. The poison for Kuzco. The poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco. Kuzco's poison. That poison?"

    Just replace Kuzco with any number of evil people fucking shit up rn.

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  • [–] 29 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    is there a non paywalled link?

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    I was in Spain last year, and I think it was Seville that a literal Storm Trooper army marched past me on the street. It was a parade, but I've been wondering if it was an anti fascism thing.

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    Collectivize all companies

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  • [+] -6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 children)

    But don’t worry, someone recorded it for posterity.

    Link?

    (Was it in the article? I failed to find...)

    [With the help of an LLM] Here's a few worthy quotes:

    [Edit: Thanks Susaga for pointing out the LLM lied. Hah. LLMs. Can't trust 'em. Good lines, pity they're not true quotes.]

    "To be my own master. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world." — Genie, Aladdin (1992)

    "You think you’re so clever, but you’re just a cowardly, backstabbing, murderous lizard!" — Simba, The Lion King (1994)

    "A true hero isn’t measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart." — Zeus, Hercules (1997)

    "I won’t be a pawn in someone else’s game!" — Pinocchio, Pinocchio (1940)

    "You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." — Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh (1966–1977)

    "I’d rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing freedom." — John Smith, Pocahontas (1995)

    "You can’t own a human being!" — Dr. David Q. Dawson, The Aristocats (1970)

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  • [–] 61 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    The LLM lied. Those aren't quotes from Lion King, Pinocchio, Pocahontas, Aristocats, or Winnie the Pooh. (Christopher Robin did say that, but not in that specific movie. And it's not particularly antifa either)

    Also, Dr Dawson isn't from the Aristocats. He's from Great Mouse Detective, and didn't say the line there either.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Thank you for more excellent evidence that these racist piles of linear algebra are CONSTANTLY MAKING SHIT UP! Just don’t fucking use em. Pretty easy

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago

    Amusing that that got a big boost of upvotes initially, and since being corrected, the downvotes have boosted past the upvotes.

    ... Too many preferring the lies, and disliking the correction? XD

    How dare that be corrected! XD

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    [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Disney are cowards

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