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PS⁴ and last thing about #Disney… for now:
they make hand-over-fist money with #ESPN. you wanna boycott the fascist mouse? boycott ESPN ―including NBA.com and MLB.com, of which they also get a slice.
y’all know how much i like my sports; but they know the last thing people will give up is their live #sports entertainment.
wanna go hard? boycott ESPN along with Disney and #ABC.
PS³:
and @paul reminds me that Disney’s #sports broadcasting monopoly would grow bigger if they bought #FuboTV
https://deadline.com/2025/07/fubo-disney-hulu-live-tv-merger-close-moved-up-1236472062/
that’s why Senator Elizabeth “we could have had 8 years of her as #POTUS but fucking corporatist democrats rammed through a geriatric corporatist fascist-bootlicking genocide-enabling quisling” Warren has activated her antitrust lasers against Disney:
just for the sports alone ―including the betting―, Disney needs to be imploded.
PS²
Roy Disney was the brains behind the Walt Disney brand. the famous 1941 cartoonists strike happened because of his rabid hatred of labor unions:
❝ Whistle while you strike: The great Disney walkout of 1941
https://www.avclub.com/the-great-disney-strike-of-1941-1850623261
his grand-daughter, Abigail Disney, has described him and her uncle Walt, in no uncertain terms, as fascists: https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/abigail-disney-calls-great-uncle-walt-disney-a-fascist/
yet NOT as nazis: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/13/disney-grandfather-spinning-in-grave-nazi-display/70319122007/
this is an incredibly important nuance to understand American corporatist fascism.
PS¹: here’s @mcc with the receipts on Disney’s #transphobia.
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115223417028506223
BTW
since transgenderism is the new communism for the fascistocracy, did y’all know Walt Disney slandered some of his union organizing workers to McCarthy’s HUAC (aka House Un-American Activities Committee) in 1947?
of course you did!
❝ The Testimony of Walter E. Disney Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (24 October 1947) ❞
so am going to leave y’all with this thought: rarely agree with Matt Stoller, but we do on one particular thing:
The case for breaking up Disney
https://boingboing.net/2019/11/07/marvel-lucas-pixar-fox.html
not only are they running their own company town, they are the textbook case of regulatory capture: liberal-speak massaging the fascist capture of government and legislation by corporations.
Disney doesn’t just manufacture popular entertainment. by how it wields its power, it’s the champion of American corporatist fascism./🧵
the thing is, why would anybody write into law a company town run by a union-busting, McCarthy sympathizing rat king?
i answered my own question, didn’t i?
from the Mickey Mouse Extension Act:
Copyright Term Extension Act - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
to it’s insatiable appetite for franchises & companies, Disney is beyond too big to fail. it’s too big to not be broken up.
this image is absolute bananas:
Chart: Everything That Disney Owns
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/chart-every-company-that-disney-owns-172130.html
🧵…
De Santis’ beef was that Disney w̶a̶s̶ is a de facto company town, created with a law to specifically free it of any local government while creating a closed-circle taxation arrangement for public works:
Reedy Creek Improvement Act
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Improvement_Act
De Santis got the legislature to change the law, not because he’s against company towns, but because he’s against the ones that won’t bow to his dictatorship. stupidly, it’s gonna cost Florida:
Disney v. DeSantis
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_v._DeSantis
🧵…
1. yup, i stand corrected. Disney does not have a claim to the Harry Potter franchise. NBC/Universal/Warner Brothers
2. the point of transphobia still stands; because it’s related to…
3. the fact that, as @haljor pointed out, they didn’t oppose the “Don’t Say Gay” law until it was politically expedient to claim they did
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60714063
which leads me to Ron DeSantis: his beef with Disney wasn’t about “wokeness”… 🧵
ABC got rid of Jimmy Kimmel and am just here shaking my head at cis white people.
dearly beloved,
Disney owns ABC. [i̶t̶ a̶l̶s̶o̶ c̶o̶-o̶w̶n̶s̶ t̶h̶e̶ H̶a̶r̶r̶y̶ P̶o̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ f̶r̶a̶n̶c̶h̶i̶s̶e̶.¹ a̶f̶t̶e̶r̶ a̶l̶l̶ t̶h̶e̶ t̶r̶a̶n̶s̶p̶h̶o̶b̶i̶c̶ #v̶i̶o̶l̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ J̶K̶ R̶o̶w̶l̶i̶n̶g̶ u̶n̶l̶e̶a̶s̶h̶e̶d̶ a̶n̶d̶ c̶h̶a̶m̶p̶i̶o̶n̶e̶d̶ i̶n̶ t̶h̶e̶ p̶a̶s̶t̶ f̶e̶w̶ y̶e̶a̶r̶s̶,
W̶H̶A̶T̶ D̶O̶ Y̶O̶U̶ E̶X̶P̶E̶C̶T̶.
#T̶R̶A̶N̶S̶P̶H̶O̶B̶I̶A̶ i̶s̶ a̶ p̶o̶i̶n̶t̶ o̶f̶ i̶n̶t̶e̶r̶s̶e̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶a̶l̶ v̶i̶o̶l̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ f̶o̶r̶ #e̶u̶g̶e̶n̶i̶c̶s̶ #m̶i̶s̶o̶g̶y̶n̶y̶ #c̶l̶a̶s̶s̶i̶s̶m̶ #r̶a̶c̶i̶s̶m̶ #c̶o̶l̶o̶n̶i̶a̶l̶i̶s̶m̶ ² ]
it was never a question of if but when.
Disney *is* the paragon of fascist USA media.³
➜ CORRECTIONS… 🧵