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”Share a Disney quote that sums up how you’re feeling right now!”

That’s what Disney posted on Threads the other day, and people immediately replied with lines from Star Wars, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and even Mary Poppins. The throughline between all the quotes: they were pretty pointedly anti-fascist and clearly aimed at the current administration

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[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Disney constantly edits old TV shows. Episodes of the Simpsons are slowly being sanitized of "bad" things, for example.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 5 hours ago

they probably have problems with family guy now, since most parodies of seth mcfarlane is criticizing disney.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 75 points 11 hours ago (1 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.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 17 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't all of Star Wars about fascism?

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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.

[–] Hoimo@ani.social 122 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 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

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 31 points 12 hours ago

Thank you, Threads is a garbage pit.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

My dudes I'm high and and am the slow reading what kind of backup is this

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 9 hours ago

Collectivize all companies

[–] homes@piefed.world 107 points 15 hours ago (9 children)
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 5 hours ago

cons had problems with the 13th and 15 doctor, because of the gender, and ncuti , also surrounding several episodes "Gender issues"

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 50 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 5 hours ago

remember rudy guiluini said there should be trial by combat.

[–] David_Eight@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Is it any worse than the American political system really?

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 17 points 10 hours ago

That’s like saying AIDS is not as bad as Cancer.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Fair enough

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

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

There is a world, not this one, but somewhere, where the President of the United States is challenged to a trial by combat by the King of Denmark over ownership of Greenland

[–] bumblefumble@mander.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

The king of Denmark is a former frogman (i.e. Danish Navy Seal). I would love to see that fight.

[–] Scirocco@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

You'll get your wish starting late Jan 2027

When Vance becomes eligible for 2 year plus 2 full terms

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours 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.

[–] Splenetic@lemmy.nz 3 points 9 hours ago

You're not wrong but a monarchy isn't strictly speaking the same as facism so I guess it's technically plausible

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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 221 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

LoL.

Conservatives support the god damned storm troopers too.

Edit: ICE even aims like them too.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

why is she wearing mickey mouse ears

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Cause it's Disney

[–] robomuffin79@lemmy.world 150 points 16 hours ago (2 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.

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 hours ago (1 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.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 2 hours ago

The original comment reads more like: they could've used an abstract conflict without specifics allowing to identify it

I would add: maybe that was intentional, also maybe they thought that the US were on the side of good in that case

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 5 hours ago

right wing propaganda in shows and movies has always been seen favorably and useful for the govt, thats why they allow military to protrayed a certain way.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 50 points 16 hours 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.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 28 points 15 hours ago

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

NO NOT LIKE THAT!!

[–] kbal@fedia.io 43 points 16 hours 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.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 22 points 14 hours ago

Meanwhile, I'm going through this list right now of Best Anti-Fascist Films of All Time

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago

So their whole pre-2025 catalogue? Haha oh my.

Only in America is Hydra the good guys.

[–] trevdog@lemmy.world 23 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

is there a non paywalled link?

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