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”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

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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 288 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

LoL.

Conservatives support the god damned storm troopers too.

Edit: ICE even aims like them too.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

why is she wearing mickey mouse ears

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Cause it's Disney

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She isn't, it's her hairpin/crown thing. She always has one on when representing her people in government.

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[–] robomuffin79@lemmy.world 201 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 12 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Hoimo@ani.social 162 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

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

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 48 points 1 week ago

Thank you, Threads is a garbage pit.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

My dudes I'm high and and am the slow reading what kind of backup is this

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[–] homes@piefed.world 155 points 1 week ago (9 children)
[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 71 points 1 week ago (3 children)

A monarchy where succession is decided by trial-by-combat though?

[–] David_Eight@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is it any worse than the American political system really?

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 30 points 1 week ago

That’s like saying AIDS is not as bad as Cancer.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Fair enough

I'd love to see the cheeto do a trial by combat, that would be outright funny

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[–] Splenetic@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 week ago

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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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago

cons had problems with the 13th and 15 doctor, because of the gender, and ncuti , also surrounding several episodes "Gender issues"

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 137 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Isn't all of Star Wars about fascism?

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] saimen@feddit.org 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Andor is much more about anti-fascism than other Star Wars pieces. But in a more adult and realistic way. That one has to get their hands dirty and give up some ideals.

On the other hand it shows good people meaning good things are still doing bad things simply because they are part of a fascist regime of which they might not even be aware of (because fascism is about manipulation and propaganda).

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[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 79 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is anyone surprised that a corporation doesn’t t share the same values as the creatives it hires?

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[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 68 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Disney constantly edits old TV shows. Episodes of the Simpsons are slowly being sanitized of "bad" things, for example.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 17 points 1 week ago

they probably have problems with family guy now, since most parodies of seth mcfarlane is criticizing disney.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

also waffling around with giving ORVILLE another season, since the show contradicts the GOP in everyway, and it gets conservative panties in a wad.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 67 points 1 week ago

"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.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 58 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

Meanwhile, I'm going through this list right now of Best Anti-Fascist Films of All Time

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

So their whole pre-2025 catalogue? Haha oh my.

Only in America is Hydra the good guys.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 43 points 1 week ago

Learn from the wisdom contained within our magical tales, child...

NO NOT LIKE THAT!!

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

He sits alone on a giant throne

Pretendin' he's the king

A little tyke who's rather like

A puppet on a string

And he throws an angry tantrum

If he cannot have his way

And then he calls for Mum

While he's suckin' his thumb

You see, he doesn't want to play

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[–] trevdog@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

is there a non paywalled link?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago
[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago

Collectivize all companies

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was in Spain last year, and I think it was Seville that a literal Storm Trooper army marched past me on the street. It was a parade, but I've been wondering if it was an anti fascism thing.

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