Too late, Disney. We fucking saw what you did.
Kudos to Jimmy for not caving into the shitstains running Disney.
Oh, I’m sure they expected backlash, but they had a choice between the public’s wrath and trump’s wrath, and like good little cowardly capitulators, they chose pleasing trump over standing up for their (and all of our) first amendment rights.
I never cared that much about Kimmel, but I deeply cared about the government silencing him through company coercion.
I guess the C suite folks miscalculated people giving a shit about the First Amendment.
Same, I’m not a Kimmel fan but this crossed a line.
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Gaza Genocide Still Happening
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Epstein Files Still Not Released
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And the war in Ukraine rages on past the 24 hour promise Trump made, currently at 24300% overdue.
This is a demonstration of the fallacy of relative privation.
These are issues that are only connected by the fact that our administration is enabling them, but presently if we lose the 1st amendment we will lose everything because our very knowledge that those other two issues exist is because of our constitution.
There are many fronts to fight on, yes.
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Disney wants Kimmel to tone down his rhetoric, as well as provide an apology to Charlie Kirk’s family and donate to his right-wing organization, Turning Point USA
Ahahaha, fuck Disney!
Apparently they had a reconciliation meeting with Kimmel this week, asked him to do all this, and Jimmy’s counteroffer was to give the same fuck-off speech he had planned to give anyway. This is how it should be done.
Jimmy was hired to tell jokes and that’s what he did. It’s donny who started the insults. Jimmy did nothing but react to donny’s craziness like decent people do.
People seem to forget that the “Cancel” wave of the '10s mostly gave birth to a bunch of big ticket comedy specials titled “Can’t Shut Me Up” and “The Snowflake Melting Tour”.
Kimmel’s only going to get louder for all of this.
Seriously, people just need to have a backbone.
Kimmel already has “fuck you” money and has proven he can write well enough to sit in any writers room in Hollywood. He can ride off into the sunset and fund some production company and do just fine and say whatever he wants.
And tens of millions of us will pay to see his content even if we aren’t huge fans of Kimmel … because we are huge fans of pluralistic liberal democracy
Honestly at this point I’m just a fan of anyone who isn’t a yellow bellied coward to this administration
The only way to fix this is through Trump. Enjoy your match against Trump, Disney. We will be entertained.
What pisses me off is how Disney chooses their battles. In Florida they are totally against Deathsantis and his anti-lgbt rhetoric. While Vs trump they bend the knee.
All impacts were discussed. Disney did expect this.
Or it was a knee-jerk response from the top that no one was willing to stick their neck out to check.
Those guys throwing on a million in the pot at the beginning of the term, swore fealty. He might not even have consider the outcome before he demanded it. And the board shrugged.
don’t believe a word of this
Thank you, I am so goddamn sick of these pandering headlines that are published simultaneously as the opposite spin which is algorithmically sent to right-wing viewers.
We have to start figuring this shit out as a society or we’re sunk. For every headline that makes you feel a thing, there is a counterpart headline being circulated on the other side that makes them feel the same thing. Nothing can be trusted, everything is being made up to increase views and engagement and division.
Outcome predictions probably came from a room filled with bean counters at the behest of a soulless wraith in a suit saying that profits would be maximized because 51% of subscribers would continue buying Disney+. But now they’re realizing that the blatant 1A violation profits were slightly below the 50% margin so they’re all shitting their pants trying to fix the fuckup that came about because people aren’t robots and MAGA cultists are less of their demographic than they’d anticipated.
A company that size makes predictions in terms of years and decades, this is barely going to be a margin-note in their long term plans.
I am shocked how much people underestimate huge organizations.
If you want this to actually surprise them, we need to do something that will actually surprise them, like not get bored with the entire story in 4 months time.
spoiler: everyone is going to get bored within weeks.
A company that size makes predictions in terms of years and decades
But shareholders always want money NOW.
A company that size makes predictions in terms of years and decades
The company at large might, but I wouldn’t underestimate the stupidity of smaller divisions having problems if a single decision saw immediate financial backlash. I don’t think you’re wrong, but I also think companies often do stupid shit.
Voiceover: It took less than a week.
I think they barely cared, and still don’t care. It barely constitutes a footnote.
“A larger amount of subscribers will ‘churn’ this month and we have reason to believe most will be back to watch the next season of Andor.”
I thought Andor had been wrapped up.
Damnit, was looking forward to torrenting season 3.
It’s already out, but they retitled it. It’s called “Rogue One”. Torrent to your heart’s delight.
seen it and already torrented it nearly a decade ago.
Yep. They knew exactly what was going to happen and calculated that this is the best option.
Seriously? Fucking how did they not expect this? These companies were already facing a festering hatred for the past several years, how on earth could they claim to be surprised? Come on, these executives are idiots, but they aren’t stupid.
They did expect this, and this is clickbait for the left.
Sheer fucking hubris. They aren’t aware that their consumer base is human beings.
So they’re gonna uncancel Kimmel, right? Or are they gonna fire even more of their own talent that has been speaking out against their fealty to fascists?
Didn’t they try to but he refused to accept their terms by not apologizing? (I don’t watch Kimmel but he earned my respect for that.)
Same, I don’t dislike Kimmel but just never really watched him. Still cancelled Disney+ even though I have a kid that will be very angry not having Bluey on demand.
It’s us against them for at least the next ~3.5 years (hopefully not longer),
You can still have bluey on demand, it’s just served off of jellyfin or plex instead
Physical media still works without resorting to piracy, and setting up a home media server is pretty straightforward.
Well personally I’d go the piracy route and get Stremio + Torrentio + Real-Debrid. That way the kid will stay happy and you’ll sleep easy knowing that you’re not giving Disney a single cent.
Kid can just move on to something else. There’s plenty of content out there even without sailing the high seas
bluey is probably one of if not the best childrens TV ever written though, and it’s not just about teaching kids lessons, it also teaches us parents a lot. i know plenty of parents who will watch bluey even by themselves.
but its not a disney show and available other networks as well.
It’s worse they also demanded a donation to tpusa.
If Kimmel were to donate to tpusa. he’d be helping sites like this which are created by turningpointusa and managed by it: https://www.professorwatchlist.org/ https://www.schoolboardwatchlist.org/
turning point usa created and manages these sites.
the teachers targeted by these sites face death threats everyday, women face threats of rape and torture for teaching progressive values in american schools.
scroll to the bottom and you’ll see its created by turning point usa,
The aim of the sites(there are more) is to terrorize professors who refuse to teach far right ideology or who oppose it. This is borderline domestic terrorism.
turning point usa is a hate group.
They want Kimmel to knowingly endorse and financially support a hate group that fuels domestic terrorism and hatred.
Its one thing to talk shit about people and say that you personally hate them, its another to create a harassment campaign listing their PII, the place where they work and more to potentially cause a Paul Pelosi situation to happen and get them fired for speaking the obvious.
charlie is no saint, he crossed a line here.
Remember the end of the lion king when scar gets eaten by his army of hyenas?
Be the change you wish to see in the world
They can’t bring him back because they don’t want to piss of Tump.
They can’t keep him off air and not lose paying customers.
There is no fixing this. They made their choice, now suffer the consequences.
They can’t bring him back because they don’t want to piss of Tump.
Everything else is inconsequential. This is the essence of the problem. We’re not supposed to be living in a country where anyone should be afraid to make fun of or piss off the president. He’s not a king and he’s not an emperor. He is a replaceable employee of the government.
They didn’t expect people cancelling? Oh boy then Disney has much bigger problems than this.
