”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
Is anyone surprised that a corporation doesn’t t share the same values as the creatives it hires?
Disney constantly edits old TV shows. Episodes of the Simpsons are slowly being sanitized of “bad” things, for example.
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.
they probably have problems with family guy now, since most parodies of seth mcfarlane is criticizing disney.
also waffling around with giving ORVILLE another season, since the show contradicts the GOP in everyway, and it gets conservative panties in a wad.
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.
Isn’t all of Star Wars about fascism?
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.
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
Thank you, Threads is a garbage pit.
My dudes I’m high and and am the slow reading what kind of backup is this
cons had problems with the 13th and 15 doctor, because of the gender, and ncuti , also surrounding several episodes “Gender issues”
A monarchy where succession is decided by trial-by-combat though?
remember rudy guiluini said there should be trial by combat.
Is it any worse than the American political system really?
That’s like saying AIDS is not as bad as Cancer.
Fair enough
I’d love to see the cheeto do a trial by combat, that would be outright funny
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
The king of Denmark is a former frogman (i.e. Danish Navy Seal). I would love to see that fight.
You’ll get your wish starting late Jan 2027
When Vance becomes eligible for 2 year plus 2 full terms
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.
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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Thats Peter Quill.
Ummm Peter Quill went fasch.
peter quill is a fictional character and i havent seen a guardians movie where he went fasch. is there a comic where that happened?
Think they’re referring to the actor Chris Pratt and comments he has made in the recent past.
Peter quill’s actor.
right, a character being portrayed by a dick. but that doesn’t necessarily make the character themselves a dick.
LoL.
Conservatives support the god damned storm troopers too.
Edit: ICE even aims like them too.
why is she wearing mickey mouse ears
Cause it’s Disney
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.
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.
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
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.
Collectivize all companies
“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.
Learn from the wisdom contained within our magical tales, child…
NO NOT LIKE THAT!!
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.
Meanwhile, I’m going through this list right now of Best Anti-Fascist Films of All Time
So their whole pre-2025 catalogue? Haha oh my.
Only in America is Hydra the good guys.
is there a non paywalled link?
Doesn’t load for me.
Because of the CAPTCHA? Are you, perchance, a robot?
Paywall.
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^ the state of the world right now
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)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.
Thanks for that.
You relied on ALie.
It’s linked in the article here
It is recorded as a video in the article (screen capture from scrolling Threads on a phone).
Can’t they just post screenshot, or just paste the text of the quotes? Like I really need to watch a video of this…
iPhone user, so no long screenshot capability except in Safari. Among other issues…
