• shoulderoforion
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    bohemian rhapsody … any where the wind blows. now disney is allowed to get back to their antisemitic, racist, anti union, walt disney roots

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      Bohemian Rhapsody the movie is itself something being altered to make it more palatable. True gay love can only be experienced shortly before one buries their gay, and you could cut that movie so there’d be no discussion of Freddie’s sexuality at all.

      Kinda like how even the crumbs of gay Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts are little bits unrelated to the plot that can be sloughed off in any queer unfriendly place it needs to be released. Maybe companies can start teaming up with VidAngel, and we’ll get “Christian” releases of movies too.

  • katy ✨
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    92 months ago

    Well I did feel bad about pirating Agatha All Along but not anymore.

      • OBJECTION!
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        son

        Come on 😮‍💨

        She’s very obviously a woman, don’t call her “son.”

        Why tf am I getting downvoted? What’s wrong with people?

        • @[email protected]
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          32 months ago

          I mean I know a dude whose initials are KD[last initial]. He doesn’t like his feminine first name, so he started going by Katie. KD. He just can’t win.

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            Yes, but you can clearly see a woman in her profile pic, combined with a girl’s name, on a trans instance, and if any of that gives you pause enough to check her profile, you’ll find it says, “sapphic. hater of capital letters. bunny and cat mum.” Just because some random guy somewhere goes by KD does not make it ok to misgender someone who is very obviously a woman.

            Whoever downvoted this, come out and say it my face, coward. Fuck transphobes.

            • @[email protected]
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              62 months ago

              Anyone browsing on most mobile Lemmy apps does not see profile pics btw, so people might be downvoting because “she’s very obviously a woman” is in fact not at all obvious to mobile users.

              I did not downvote btw. Am using Eternity Lemmy client.

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                There’s still the username. And the proper response to that situation is, “Oh, oops, I didn’t realize, let me edit my comment, thanks for bringing it to my attention.”

                If I can figure out a way to view who downvoted, I will be tagging them to call them out and name and shame. I find it completely inexcusable. If they didn’t know they were in the wrong, they wouldn’t be afraid to show their faces and explain themselves.

                • @[email protected]
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                  I downvoted you. It’s because you don’t know how to discuss topics like an adult without arrogantly insulting people.

                  News flash: Despite what you seem to think- no one here is beneath you. You’re just a random person on the internet- just like everyone else.

                • @[email protected]
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                  102 months ago

                  I really want to down vote you because of your aggressiveness and off topic ranting but I’ll ask instead what about their username should tell me the user’s gender?

            • @[email protected]
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              62 months ago

              I can’t recall ever seeing a single profile pic on Lemmy. Even when clicking on a username, all I see are posts, no profile. I honestly didn’t even know there was a profile to edit. I’m primarily on Voyager.

              No downvotes from me; just adding my experience to the conversation.

            • @[email protected]
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              52 months ago

              lol… you really need to pick a better hill to die on than this- “who downvoted me?! My words need to be respected!” crap. I downvote you all the time when I see you trying to get under people’s skin- which is more frequent than when you’re not.

              You aggressively argue with people and refuse to accept that others see the word differently than you do. And both your modlog and your comment history proves this.

                • @[email protected]
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                  42 months ago

                  How?

                  Let’s see… I don’t throw temper tantrums when people downvote me. That’s one difference. I also don’t give a shit what people online think about me enough to whine that people disagreeing with me. And lastly, there’s little I find less important than what method someone uses to type shit on an Internet forum.

  • @[email protected]
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    32 months ago

    Does this Christian character get made fun of all the time for being out of touch with reality? Is this why Kathleen is out, too much jesus? lol, probably not.

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      12 months ago

      Christians rarely get made fun of media, evangelicals will throw a fit. To give an example supernatural show had to shoehorn “God” as the original creator to non Christian gods and religions, the writers were afraid of the snowflake christians

    • Nightwatch Admin
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      12 months ago

      Let’s hope so, it’d be a shame if they did this on their own initiative.

      • Cosmic Cleric
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        12 months ago

        The Trump administration probably threatened to break up Disney.

        Let’s hope so, it’d be a shame if they did this on their own initiative.

        That might be true, but also corporations always chase after approval of the White House, regardless of who’s in there at the time. It’s good for business.

        This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

    • @[email protected]
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      Nah, they probably realized that parents are generally more conservative than most and more likely to be Christian than the general population. They’re following the money.

  • @[email protected]
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    112 months ago

    I feel like these corps did a calculation and figured out everyone has an excuse to not boycott companies like Disney except right wingers who have become exceptionally good at the boycott.

    In my experience those people will typically boycott brands as a group meanwhile my friends find every excuse in the book to support the major corps hurting them. Even aoc went to Florida during covid. And people wonder why they win.

    • @[email protected]
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      92 months ago

      Yup. Leftists Don’t have that insane person conviction. Dip shits need to learn to boycott

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        This leftist has boycotted everything Sony since they bricked my PC with their rootkit in the early 2000s (and I really go out of my way to make sure nothing Sony related comes in my house, not their music, movies, games, electronics, nor their camera lenses) I only slipped up once in the past 20 or so years, when I purchased a second hand Sony Walkman mp3 player. Thing broke within 3 months of use, it’s now a constant reminder that I really need to keep boycotting Sony.

        I’ve started boycotting Amazon (including but not limited to Kindle, Audible, Prime and Twitch) and Disney since this year.

        But I’m only one person.

        I have shown myself to be capable of long term boycotts and I don’t intend to let up. I’ve added Amazon’s websites to my Pihole’s blacklist.

        But I also don’t pirate their stuff. As far as I’m concerned their TV shows and movies and such don’t exist on this planet.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 months ago

          When They fucked me over on my PS3 linux install, I had a Sony TV, A Sony receiver, 2 Playstations and a ton of games.

          They’re all long gone now.

          Never again

      • @[email protected]
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        02 months ago

        Leftists are already trying to fuck megacorps over, why would they try and placate them?

      • @[email protected]
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        82 months ago

        They continue to throw money at JK Rowling at every opportunity and they’ll do the same for Disney.

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          42 months ago

          They continue to throw money at JK Rowling

          YMMV, but in my ‘woke’ crowd, nobody’s buying that merch anymore. The only people I know still doing harry potter themed crap all voted rightwing.

          The last thing I saw come through was the game. A few of the left-leaning gamers bought it but way less than baulders and starfield.

          • @[email protected]
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            42 months ago

            Hogwarts legacy was a major success. Almost a million players the first day of launch and that’s only on steam.

            Even now, that 2 years old game has more people playing it than Avowed which just launched relatively recently LMAO 🤣. Again, that’s only on steam.

            Iw we added PSN and Nintendo, it would totally crush it

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              It certainly didn’t launch to crickets. But I could have had millions more players s***** ass worldviews to herself

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              To be fair JK had nothing to do with that, that was all Avalanche Studios… and someone actually crunched the numbers and literally JK gets more in a single day of Universal Studios ticket sales than she did from lifetime sales of that game.

          • Queen HawlSera
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            This, in my circle the only Harry Potter merch I see people rocking is either at least a decade old or was bought at a convention at a booth selling fanmade merch.

    • Queen HawlSera
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      The worst part is Conservatives actually ARE NOT good at boycotts

      Just look at how badly the Bud Light boycott failed, and the reason why was because drinkers boycotted Bud Light and then started drinking… Other beers made by literally the same company.

      And of course there were the people who bought Jerseys just to turn around and burn them in order to protest the NFL.

      Then again I broke my own rules and ate at a Chic-Fil-A for the first time in years, because I was depressed and the thing in my head that drops sadness hormones told me it’d shut up if I got waffle fries dipped in ranch, so… You kinda still have a point

      To be fair it was my first Chic-Fil-A meal in like 9 years, and on the Black Out Day I did shop yes, but I did so at a Locally Owned Chain that is owned by a Gay Guy who donates to Food Banks… Avoiding ALL gas stations despite having a quarter tank left…

      But still… we all need to practice self-awareness

  • Em Adespoton
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    12 months ago

    I wonder how China will react. Plus for them: no trans character. Minus for them: replaced with Christian insurgent.

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      If China just goes pro LGBT, it’ll be a clear sign that despite China being China, it might be time to move to China.

      That to me would be a predecessor of brain drain.

      Smart people are kinky af.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 months ago

        “If only the oppressive government in a foreign country would stop oppressing my minority it would be a safe indicator to move there on a large scale, surely they would welcome outsiders raised on a western mindset into their homogenous society”

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        No. Their religion was just a part of their character from the beginning. They didn’t have to “come out” as religious.

        The very notion that someone has to “come out” as Christian is an absurdity. Christians aren’t a persecuted group, although they would like you to think they were. They want so badly to be the victims, but they’re really the oppressor.

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    222 months ago

    a shift in conservative culture

    independent poll that shows 34% being against a trans character

    conservative terrorists are the greatest threat domestically

    I guess Nazis saying “I’ll fucking kill you and your kids you woke traitor” and then Americans being afraid to participate in democracy does qualify as a shift towards conservativism.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      212 months ago

      Yeah, “demonstrably” or “obnoxiously” would probably be much more accurate…

    • @[email protected]
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      I dont see how this is news there are millions of christians its not insane for one to show up in a disney movie, the trans argument is usually they are like .001% of the population but get more representation than the rest, I think its all stupid either way and the ppl making shit should be allowed to cast whatever fits their vision and not trends

  • @[email protected]
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    Well now I can say Disney is woke. They woke up to kiss the ring and bow down to a fucking shit lip.

  • @[email protected]
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    It’ll be interesting to see a character following the teachings of Jesus Christ, like

    • Luke 16:13 “You cannot serve both God and money.”
    • Mark 10:21 “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor”
    • Matthew 5:39 “If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.”
    • Matthew 5:44 “love your enemies”

    So there’s no chance the character will be a capitalist, troop-supporting, neo-Nazi. Right?

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      One of my personal favorites:

      • Luke 12:46-48:

      46 the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces, and assign him a place with the unbelievers. 47 And that slave who knew his master’s will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many lashes, 48 but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds worthy of [d]a flogging, will receive but few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.

      Jesus sure loved his slaves, huh? Gives you guidelines on how to beat them. Told people to “love your enemies,” but clearly people you own don’t deserve that courtesy. He hung out with prostitutes, but was never able to disavow the practice of owning other humans as property? Kind of unacceptable imo.

      The canonical Bible (the supposed ordained word of god) also include’s Paul’s further interpretation of Jesus’ teachings on slaves in…

      • Ephesians 6:5–8:

      5 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. 6 Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. 7 Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people, 8 because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good they do, whether they are slave or free.

      Oof.

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        Do you think that Christianity became the religion of imperialism out of coincidence?

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        Jesus sure loved his slaves, huh? Gives you guidelines on how to beat them.

        That passage you quoted is not giving guidelines on how to treat slaves, it is a parable using slaves as an example. Not saying the Bible is totally anti slavery, the second passage being pretty disgusting.

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          All he had to do was say, “don’t own people,” and yet…

          Not saying the Bible is totally anti slavery,

          The Bible is explicitly pro-slavery. It was literally used by slavers in the 19th century American South to justify and continue the practice of chattal slavery. They printed “slave Bibles” where all mentions of anything related to “freedom” were removed, and the focus was on teaching obedience and submission.

          What a thing for an “all-powerful” god to facilitate. Even if he were real and simply allowed his holy book to be used for such an evil purpose is enough for me to say “yeah, no thanks.”