Because despite popular belief, the left has never been good at cancel culture. That’s always been a right-wing thing. And they are aware of that. So I’m sure they were shocked that the left could boycott in an effective way like the right has in the past.
Just look at the Charlie Kirk aftermath. How many people lost their jobs because they showed the wrong emotion and posted about it? I haven’t heard of a single person on the right fired for threatening retaliatory violence.
How many jokes did I hear about Nancy Pelosi’s husband?
That’s the thing that actively pisses me off the most. The right has been fucking monsters when it comes to their reactions to violence like that. Absolute, psychopathic, proudly hypocritical monsters, willing to joke about an elderly man being assaulted in his home because he happened to be the husband of a Democrat. And silence when asked about whether urging their sick followers to commit violence might be leading their sick followers to commit violence.
And the murders that took place in Minnesota a few months ago? Jokes and silence there, too.
But a late-night comedian says something that isn’t even disrespectful or in any way condones violence, just acknowledges the kind of person Kirk was… and they lose their fucking minds.
Always remember this, folks: It’s all performative. They don’t actually care. They know Kimmel didn’t say a goddamn thing that could be interpreted as support for violence. They know.
Time to tap the “Wilhoit’s Law” sign again:
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
The hypocrisy is central to the brand.
And it came from the highest level - Orange Jesus cracked some “jokes” about it. So did his son.
Kirk himself said “some patriot should go bail that guy out” or something similar.
I would so love to see some of them actually lose their fucking jobs for the death threats they made right after Kirk getting popped.
I live in a red state. I’m constantly surrounded by pro-slavery confederate flags, open threats of violence in the form of punisher and 2A bumper stickers, and then direct calls for violence against all of “the left”.
I’ve never considered calling their employers just to see which ones are okay with terroristic threats.
Live in a red town and also been seeing 3%’er and “shoot your local pedophile” window stickers a lot lately. The amount of murder fetishization over on that side of the aisle is sickening.
by “shoot your local pedophile” clearly they meant “make a pedophile the president”.
Well, he’s not local.
They mean to shoot with a bigass paparazzi style camera.
If you see the “shoot your local pedophile” sticker tell them suicide isn’t a good option and they should get therapy
Just look at the Charlie Kirk aftermath. How many people lost their jobs because they showed the wrong emotion and posted about it? I haven’t heard of a single person on the right fired for threatening retaliatory violence.
Though only tangentially related, the fact that this man still has a job tells you everything you need to know about these alleged “conservative values”. (like so many countless examples before)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/14/business/brian-kilmeade-fox-news-apology-homeless
Can’t deny this.
I come from a family of MAGAts and when they’re angry at something they make sure everyone knows it. They boycott aggressively, tell all their friends and family to do the same and they do not let up.
My friends and fiancee are really, really bad about these things in comparison. I’m sure our canceled subscriptions will be back in 3-4 months.
Gone nowhere have they? I can’t imagine why.
These are the times that try men’s souls. They are also the times that put the “Fuck You” in “Fuck You Money”.
Jimmy did nothing wrong but they want him to apologise AND donate to a hate group? Fuck that bullshit.
I’d be ok with him donating a paltry amount. Say… $86.47
Those assholes love their dog whistle numbers, maybe it’s time to show them how stupidly transparent it is.
They can’t bring him back because they don’t want to piss of Tump.
They can’t keep him off air and not lose paying customers.
There is no fixing this. They made their choice, now suffer the consequences.
They can’t bring him back because they don’t want to piss of Tump.
Everything else is inconsequential. This is the essence of the problem. We’re not supposed to be living in a country where anyone should be afraid to make fun of or piss off the president. He’s not a king and he’s not an emperor. He is a replaceable employee of the government.
Fun fact: the countries to the north end east of the USA have a king, the countries to the south and west used to have a king and an emperor (respectively).
You’ll notice that none of them are overrun with tyrants.
In fact, most of the English speaking world shares a king, and many, many countries have a royal family who have bumbled along happily for centuries.
We think it’s deeply weird when one world leader is doing his very best to piss off everyone except Russia, deliberately destabilising the environment, the global media, all the agreements that every other country is working together on, and his citizens are split between those who support him and those who keep saying ‘this reminds me of how much I hate kings. No offense to the foundational identities of all our neighbours except Russia, but I can’t imagine sinking so low as to tolerate a king’.
Like, dude, watch your own kids before you bitch about everyone else’s. How does someone train an entire nation so well that they express displeasure at the flagrant atrocities of their president and say ‘fuck other countries and their shitty systems’.
It’s honestly like living next to someone who keeps playing their music too loud and throwing rubbish into your garden and every now and again he stands on your garden yelling about how much he hates your begonias. It wouldn’t be so bad if it was a sensible criticism, or something political, but it’s so random you waste a surprising amount of energy being offended on behalf of your begonias before realising, every time, that neither of you probably specifically care about the begonias. It’s the shouting.
Hey, Disney shareholders! Wanna know what’ll get us to start watching Marvel movies or Star Wars or Pixar again? I’ll bet you do! And it’ll be easy.
Just demand the resignations of any person who decided to bow to fascism. Give them all the boot. Show them the door. Then bring in folks who actually give a shit about whether or not this country remains viable as a place to do business beyond this fucking quarter. Oh, and while you’re at it, get some diversity, equity, and inclusion going on.
Who are you worried about losing by doing that? Right-wing conservatives? They already hate you, and watch Veggie Tales instead! Stop trying to cater to people who think your whole business model - depicting strong princesses for kids - is evil incarnate because they’re not barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.
Ball’s in your court, Disney!
Speak for yourself, I haven’t paid for anything Disney for years because of the way they’ve been abusing copyrights for decades.
Fair point. Add it to the list!
I’d also want them to start writing those movies well before I start watching them again. That might be more of a challenge.
VeggieTales is giving them too much credit - there’s good moral lessons in there! (And the creator said all the botanically-fruit male veggies are canonically trans??)
I started boycotting Disney when they bought Fox and became way too close to a monopoly for me to be comfortable with them. I’ll continue to boycott them until their financial situation becomes so dire that they have to start selling off their major IPs instead of buying more.
Lol what? There’s no profit/loss calculation between any number of consumers vs a fascist admin more than willing to chop you up and eat your corporate lunch. Their revenue could get cut in half and bending the knee is still the right business choice.
Their business model is selling media, they don’t give a shit if they need to write out every minority princess protagonist for a white Jesus. So yeah, kill the scape goat, get some brownie points and wait for the media shit storm to blow over by next month.
I’m happy to watch it but I wont pay for it
I will lose all respect for Kimmel and refuse to watch him if he accepts their proposal to make an apology and donation. Nothing he said warrants that. Plus unless he switches to constantly kissing Trump & MEGA asses, they will be trying to shut him down again in the near future. Unless Trump is gone, all US media will soon be propaganda only. Maybe he can get picked up in the UK or EU or Canada instead.
Wasn’t TELLING him to donate a considerable amount extortion? No one merely suggested he make a contribution. Hmm. I think Kimmel’s lawyers won’t let him accept their proposal.
As OP said, I doubt Kimmel viewers would let him accept it either.
It’s lose on all fronts if he does.
I read somewhere (unconfirmed but I’m hopeful) that Kimmel is suing Disney for $1 BILLION over this.
Anything that causes the Walt Disney Company to lose money is a good thing.
You can ask for however much you want in a lawsuit. It’s fiction.
Yeah but he can probably get a lot. His entire brand has been destroyed by the government, this is some China-level shit. Bet he could get 300M easily.
Maaaybe? It’s all hypothetical as we don’t even know what he would sue for.
In the US. Other countries have better civil laws.
How? I’m saying you can ask for eleventy-billion dollars but that doesn’t mean you’ll get anything close to that or you might get more.
The one consideration he should have is making sure his writers and crew have jobs. Jimmy himself will be fine, but that’s not true of all of them.
Which is why it’s important that the WGA has put out a statement of support.
If anyone is about to reply “it doesn’t matter unless they’re willing to strike”, please go read up on how unions operate first. A strike is your big gun, and you don’t bring it out on a whim.
I’m struggling to think of a situation that’s more deserving of a strike than what is happening right now.
Maybe he can get picked up in the UK or EU or Canada instead.
Don’t look to us to solve your self-inflicted problems for you.
We’re already too busy protecting ourselves from the chaos of the USA’s implosion.
Trump’s the outward facing person.
Fact check: the original vid this is from was about insomnia, not fascism
But Hitchcock was a huge anti-fascist and made anti fascist films https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-04-26-ca-50581-story.html
We all know that he would be fine with this message, its one of the few times that I don’t mind twisting the words of a dead man.
In the current environment it’s wise to clearly note where artistic license has been taken
Why? I could see if it was something that was misrepresenting the person, but its a known meme and a stance Hitchcock shared.
Disney wants Kimmel to tone down his rhetoric, as well as provide an apology to Charlie Kirk’s family and donate to his right-wing organization, Turning Point USA
Ahahaha, fuck Disney!
Apparently they had a reconciliation meeting with Kimmel this week, asked him to do all this, and Jimmy’s counteroffer was to give the same fuck-off speech he had planned to give anyway. This is how it should be done.
Seriously, people just need to have a backbone.
Kimmel already has “fuck you” money and has proven he can write well enough to sit in any writers room in Hollywood. He can ride off into the sunset and fund some production company and do just fine and say whatever he wants.
And tens of millions of us will pay to see his content even if we aren’t huge fans of Kimmel … because we are huge fans of pluralistic liberal democracy
Honestly at this point I’m just a fan of anyone who isn’t a yellow bellied coward to this administration
shhhh
Whatever it takes to get the pitchforks out.
People seem to forget that the “Cancel” wave of the '10s mostly gave birth to a bunch of big ticket comedy specials titled “Can’t Shut Me Up” and “The Snowflake Melting Tour”.
Kimmel’s only going to get louder for all of this.
Jimmy was hired to tell jokes and that’s what he did. It’s donny who started the insults. Jimmy did nothing but react to donny’s craziness like decent people do.
I never cared that much about Kimmel, but I deeply cared about the government silencing him through company coercion.
I guess the C suite folks miscalculated people giving a shit about the First Amendment.
Same, I’m not a Kimmel fan but this crossed a line.
I guess everybody knows this anyhow, but please make sure to remember:
If you just watched the above, however, and are now wondering why, as Kimmel’s jabs weren’t aimed at Kirk, but Trump, then you’ve hit on precisely why the backlash against Disney’s Jimmy Kimmel decision is growing – and why it’s not likely to stop any time soon.
Further:
Reportedly, Disney wants Kimmel to tone down his rhetoric, as well as provide an apology to Charlie Kirk’s family and donate to his right-wing organization, Turning Point USA, suggestions that have only served to increase the backlash.
(…)
The feeling is that CEO Bob Iger and Disney Entertainment Co-Chairman Dana Walden caved too easily to MAGA pressure and manufactured outrage once again.
Reportedly, Disney wants Kimmel to tone down his rhetoric, as well as provide an apology to Charlie Kirk’s family and donate to his right-wing organization, Turning Point USA,
How about no.
don’t believe a word of this
I think they barely cared, and still don’t care. It barely constitutes a footnote.
“A larger amount of subscribers will ‘churn’ this month and we have reason to believe most will be back to watch the next season of Andor.”
I thought Andor had been wrapped up.
Damnit, was looking forward to torrenting season 3.
It’s already out, but they retitled it. It’s called “Rogue One”. Torrent to your heart’s delight.
seen it and already torrented it nearly a decade ago.
Stop watching it out of sequence. It’s going to get confusing.
The ending of Andor was so good that I haven’t been able to watch another show. It followed through and paid off on every single thread with brilliant performances from everyone involved. It will be a generation before we get something so we’ll made again.
Outcome predictions probably came from a room filled with bean counters at the behest of a soulless wraith in a suit saying that profits would be maximized because 51% of subscribers would continue buying Disney+. But now they’re realizing that the blatant 1A violation profits were slightly below the 50% margin so they’re all shitting their pants trying to fix the fuckup that came about because people aren’t robots and MAGA cultists are less of their demographic than they’d anticipated.
A company that size makes predictions in terms of years and decades, this is barely going to be a margin-note in their long term plans.
I am shocked how much people underestimate huge organizations.
If you want this to actually surprise them, we need to do something that will actually surprise them, like not get bored with the entire story in 4 months time.
spoiler: everyone is going to get bored within weeks.
A company that size makes predictions in terms of years and decades
The company at large might, but I wouldn’t underestimate the stupidity of smaller divisions having problems if a single decision saw immediate financial backlash. I don’t think you’re wrong, but I also think companies often do stupid shit.
A company that size makes predictions in terms of years and decades
But shareholders always want money NOW.
Voiceover: It took less than a week.
I mean, I’m pretty sure that Disney makes at least a little money outside the USA. I’m willing to bet that there are at least 2 other countries whose subscribers won’t all cancel their subscriptions because the American political shitshow has touched upon a person they’ve never heard of (source: I’m in an English speaking country where people have Disney+ and watch Disney films and as far as I know, virtually nobody has heard of this guy and virtually everybody has exhausted their supply of ‘wtf is the USA doing, surely they can’t get away with that’ for the year).
So unless you honestly think that the entire American user base is going to cancel - which seems wildly unlikely, given the political scene - AND that the number of Americans with subscriptions is at least equal to the number of subscribers outside the USA, then sorry bud, you aren’t going to defeat fascism by pausing your Disney+ subscription for a few months.
It’s a great start, and I personally think it’s healthy to ethically curate one’s free time where possible, but when October rolls around and Disney is still solvent, don’t throw up your hands and say you gave it your best shot but the fight is clearly hopeless. You guys have let your corporations run unchecked for decades, if you want them to suddenly find a moral compass you need to settle in for a long game.
Thank you, I am so goddamn sick of these pandering headlines that are published simultaneously as the opposite spin which is algorithmically sent to right-wing viewers.
We have to start figuring this shit out as a society or we’re sunk. For every headline that makes you feel a thing, there is a counterpart headline being circulated on the other side that makes them feel the same thing. Nothing can be trusted, everything is being made up to increase views and engagement and division.
Yep. They knew exactly what was going to happen and calculated that this is the best option.
So they’re gonna uncancel Kimmel, right? Or are they gonna fire even more of their own talent that has been speaking out against their fealty to fascists?
Didn’t they try to but he refused to accept their terms by not apologizing? (I don’t watch Kimmel but he earned my respect for that.)
Same, I don’t dislike Kimmel but just never really watched him. Still cancelled Disney+ even though I have a kid that will be very angry not having Bluey on demand.
It’s us against them for at least the next ~3.5 years (hopefully not longer),
Well personally I’d go the piracy route and get Stremio + Torrentio + Real-Debrid. That way the kid will stay happy and you’ll sleep easy knowing that you’re not giving Disney a single cent.
Kid can just move on to something else. There’s plenty of content out there even without sailing the high seas
bluey is probably one of if not the best childrens TV ever written though, and it’s not just about teaching kids lessons, it also teaches us parents a lot. i know plenty of parents who will watch bluey even by themselves.
but its not a disney show and available other networks as well.
You can still have bluey on demand, it’s just served off of jellyfin or plex instead
Physical media still works without resorting to piracy, and setting up a home media server is pretty straightforward.
Just check to see if Disney gets a cut of the physical media sales first. If it does, buy it used.
It’s worse they also demanded a donation to tpusa.
If Kimmel were to donate to tpusa. he’d be helping sites like this which are created by turningpointusa and managed by it: https://www.professorwatchlist.org/ https://www.schoolboardwatchlist.org/
turning point usa created and manages these sites.
the teachers targeted by these sites face death threats everyday, women face threats of rape and torture for teaching progressive values in american schools.
scroll to the bottom and you’ll see its created by turning point usa,
The aim of the sites(there are more) is to terrorize professors who refuse to teach far right ideology or who oppose it. This is borderline domestic terrorism.
turning point usa is a hate group.
They want Kimmel to knowingly endorse and financially support a hate group that fuels domestic terrorism and hatred.
Its one thing to talk shit about people and say that you personally hate them, its another to create a harassment campaign listing their PII, the place where they work and more to potentially cause a Paul Pelosi situation to happen and get them fired for speaking the obvious.
charlie is no saint, he crossed a line here.
I want the executives to come out now and say “look this was an honest mistake, we’re terribly sorry we let it appear that we continue to support and bend the knee to a dictator.”
Then watch as all the people who cancelled Disney+ and Hulu not give a flying fuck.
The freedom of speech, is arguably the most important right we have. Without it? We have no rights. The second amendment becomes useless. The third becomes useless. There becomes no point in having the fourth. The fifth becomes unusable. The sixth becomes needless effort. The seventh is pointless, as then double jeopardy can just be said it ISNT double jeopardy because the government says so and your arguments against it are illegal speech. 8 and 9 pretty much mean you can’t voice opinions that would affect those two. And 10 can no longer be argued against the executive.
Trump and ABC, in my mind, crossed a line that they were foolish to cross before they had concrete power. They have too much power now, but they do not have nearly enough to squash the entire country in opposition.
According to the article it looks like executives are pissed at the CEO and pointing out that the previous CEO’s short tenure was partly due to caving to Florida’s homophobic laws
They need to bring back Michael Eisner.
You do realize he’s even more conservative then the two fuck ups that we’re talking about here.
He would voluntarily get rid of Jimmy Kimmel and anything else that smelled of anti-Trump.You realize that Eisner commented on this days ago and that his comment shows the exact opposite of your accusation, right?
But he’s Jewish!
The second amendment
becomesremains useless.Well its currently the leading cause of child deaths in america because less kids are being killed by cars than they used to.
So less than useless.
I meant as far as the original purpose goes, certainly it has caused a lot more suffering than prevented tyranny in any way.
Just a reminder: Freedom of speech is more important than a TV show.
and if you really want those TV shows you can get them for free! Somewhere, on the sea ARRRRR
Very much so. It’s critical we sustain this pressure until the fascists cave. Don’t give them an inch.
Edit: 25.4 mm for our allies abroad. Thanks friends :-)
Oh, I’m sure they expected backlash, but they had a choice between the public’s wrath and trump’s wrath, and like good little cowardly capitulators, they chose pleasing trump over standing up for their (and all of our) first amendment rights.
What they still don’t realize is they chose pleasing Trump FOR NOW. He will never be truly satisfied and will ask for more and more until he’s finally dead. Nothing has ever been enough for him. And these dumbasses are playing right into it.
Remember the end of the lion king when scar gets eaten by his army of hyenas?
Be the change you wish to see in the world
