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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 12 points 58 minutes ago

Boycott, divest, sanction. Paramount about to get the Disney treatment.

[–] Grizzlyboy@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 minutes ago

Good thing I’d rather blacklist paramount!

[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

Oh man. Star Trek is the only tv show I watch. I guess it is time to sail the high seas.

[–] DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

Sounds like a good list to be on.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

Blacklists are the hallmarks of fascism.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 24 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Zionists owning Hollywood turns out to be reality.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 17 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Israel has set back the push against actual bigotry and antisemitism by a century by literally leaning into every right-wing conspiracist talking point and wild notion about jewish conspiracies.

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 minutes ago

They've squandered any good will a sane person could have for Israel.

The monstrous acts against Palestine haven't changed the way I view Jewish people as a whole, because I can separate religious beliefs from the actions of a nation state, but so,so many fucking idiots won't.

Israel can go fuck itself, but I really feel for all the sane Jewish people outside (and inside, though I don't think they're super numerous) Israel that are going to be targeted by actual fucking antisemitism by nut jobs.

[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

It’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility, since Hollywood loves to blacklist folks in general for opinions outside work. But to outright claim X, Y or Z won’t be working at Paramount seems a bit of a stretch.

There’s a lot of wiggle room in that article. It’s reporting on ‘sources told Variety’ that Paramount is making a list, but that they’re not sure who’s on it. But that they assume these people would be.

It’s all silly anyway. Even folks like Kevin Spacey eventually get back to working in Hollywood. Hollywood principles only go so far once the media attention dies down.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 217 points 16 hours ago (7 children)

Furthermore, Variety claims that Ellison’s goal is to turn Paramount into a MAGA-friendly environment, with content in the TV and movie divisions expected to be more “America-centric” and geared toward “the middle of the country.”

RIP any future Star Trek property.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

RIP any future Star Trek property.

I'm sure they will find new ways to try to reboot it, completely stripped of any social commentary or social thought experiments, devoid of all optimism and inspiration for what our species can become. Probably like, another retelling of a plucky crew getting into space battles with generic, non-stereotyped-but-kinda alien terrorists who don't have relatable reasons for being bad guys.

It won't have heady concepts and wild ideas about how civilizations can develop and what humans can become, but that's okay because it will have a roguish captain who likes to break the rules and a strict, by-the-book 1st officer that he has sexual tension with.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 38 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 35 minutes ago (1 children)

Scientists predict that by the year 2120, the entire solar system will be nothing but cop shows.

[–] AreaKode@lemmy.world 123 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

"OMG, when did Star Trek get so political?!"

Um... 1966.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 16 points 14 hours ago

So hilarious and so apt... I will absolutely laugh at the idea of, well what's effectively been a socialist utopia for the vast majority of contexts in it, and the show that broke the interracial kiss barrier. (on top of inter species/galaxy ones... but obviously far more shocking at the time that a white guy kissed a black woman, than a white guy sleeping with a bunch of green aliens.

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[–] CityPop@lemmy.today 31 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

America-centric?

Mother fucker it’s already America-centric, just look at the space Christian angels episodes of discovery to see how American it is.

Oh well, more Americans shooting themselves in the foot for foreign media to step in and replace them. Guess this is the century of China if America is giving up.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 36 minutes ago

Wasn't that supposed to be her mom?

[–] wiccan2@lemmy.world 29 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I reckon we could get 4 seasons into a Terran Empire based series before the MAGAs figure out they're being made fun of.

[–] pheonixdown@sh.itjust.works 46 points 15 hours ago

You could get away with a Starship Troopers Star Trek Terran Empire series literally forever, The Colbert Report ran 11 seasons and people still think it existed to balance out the liberal bias of The Daily Show.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 27 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Star Trek: Ferenginar will probably be on the list to be made and the pilot episode will be called Make Fereginar Great Again.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 21 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

MAGA would see the Ferengi aversion to war, xenophobia, and genocide as "too woke".

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 hours ago

They would like the idea of permanently unclothed women though. Those on the younger side especially.

[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 17 points 14 hours ago

The Ferengi actually know how to run a functioning economy.

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[–] ZeroPoke@fedia.io 15 points 16 hours ago

My first thought when reading that as well.

[–] muxika@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

There's already an Angel Studios. We don't need another one.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 130 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Seeing that list of stars, I didn't even need to open the article to see if Paramount was just conflating anti-genocide with anti-semitic.

They are, in case it wasn't immediately clear.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

They are, in case it wasn’t immediately clear.

Basically, my eyeballs just slide off the word "antisemitism" like it's fucking mental Teflon at this point.

Good fucking job Israel, we spent nearly a century committing our entire civilization to stamping out ideas like antisemitism and bigotry against ethnic groups, and you just dragged us back to the start.

[–] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 79 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Well, I just canceled my paramount+

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 37 points 15 hours ago

Same.

We're quickly spiraling into a Star Trek evil timeline origin.

[–] CheesyFingers@piefed.social 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

How do i boycott that from which i don't currently partake.

[–] stephen01king@piefed.zip 6 points 3 hours ago

By spreading the word about the boycott.

[–] MycelialMass@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

Pirate their stuff and leave bad reviews?

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 16 points 15 hours ago

After what they did to Halo, I canceled mine ages ago.

[–] THB@lemmy.world 72 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Sounds like we need a Paramount boycott

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

I'll start by continuing to not watch nor consume Paramount shit in any way.

[–] TeamAssimilation 26 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I want to, but I was already avoiding them!

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

I switch around a lot and was considering getting it for a month but then the Colbert thing happened and now this? Never again.

[–] MerrySkeptic@sh.itjust.works 33 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Soon to be rebranded as Paramaga, to cater to "the middle"

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

"Coming soon to Paramount+, a unique look at Hitler: A tyrant? Yes, but also an artist and dog lover, let us explore the middle side of history this fall!"

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 23 points 15 hours ago

MAGA and Jewish space lasers on the same side. I guess they are that stupid.

[–] thelivefive@startrek.website 15 points 14 hours ago

Oh that would be tough if you were an actor who thinks children deserve to live.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 17 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What are the odds that Mel Gibson isn't on that list

[–] weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

It's in the article. He's not on it.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 15 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Is that a bad thing? As in, there are some good actors on that list which won't be making MAGA-friendly films at Paramount.

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