Y'all see the latest Captain America movie? The one where the whole moral was "maybe we can still appeal to their better nature?"
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You still watching that crap?
Yargh, matey. I do be watching whatever the fuck I want.
that's great fartographer, way to go.
Check
Teaching with Disney edited by Julie C. Garlen and Jennifer A. Sandlin, 2016 (including but not limited to "Teaching Disney Critically in the Age of Perpetual Consumption")
and
The Mouse that Roared, Disney and the End of Innocence by Henry A. Giroux and Grace Pollock, 2010
but the Tl;DR is that their only definition of "heroes" is whatever might sell anything and aligned with the ideology of a "founder" that arguably didn't draw the mouse itself.
Grace Kelly said something similar years ago: “Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality.”. We have all known this for decades. The sleazy hollywood rapist was a thing long before Harvey was outed. They all knew, and yet they all kept their mouths shut.
This is why its always been so perplexing to me that so much of society looks to hollywood for its morality lessons.
Roger Meyers, Sr., the gentle genius behind Itchy & Scratchy loved and cared about almost all the peoples of the world
But Disney has also been tearing down the imaginary heroes with movies like Captain America Civil War and The Last Jedi.
Maybe that’s why all their stories suck, completely unfounded in reality
thinking of all the movies where good triumphs over evil
You're right. Evil usually wins IRL.
Why did you do it stan?
"The money, of couse."
I've been avoiding Disney (Florida including Disney), since Ron DeSantis tried to ban words "change" and "climate".
I won't change this until the climate is right.
Who are they supporting this time
Disney absolutely who the antagonist represented in the winter soldier
Someone post the astronaut meme
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Now look at who's running Nintendo (of America). Guy named Bowser. That will never not be funny. (Coincidentally, a guy who hacked one of their consoles and is now essentially a wage slave to them, forced to give up like half his paycheck to them, is also named Bowser.)
Disney and Nintendo are both widely loved companies that have done some very bad things for the world. Maybe the true villains. But, like anything and anyone else, it's shades of grey, neither of them are completely diabolically evil.
neither of them are completely diabolically evil
You sure? I don't see any redeeming qualities in Disney nor Nintendo.
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#corporatelife
I’m shocked. Walt Disney himself would be totally ashamed. I’m sure he would be. /s