Sounds like we need a Paramount boycott
I want to, but I was already avoiding them!
I switch around a lot and was considering getting it for a month but then the Colbert thing happened and now this? Never again.
I’ll start by continuing to not watch nor consume Paramount shit in any way.
Well, I just canceled my paramount+
Same.
We’re quickly spiraling into a Star Trek evil timeline origin.
We’re actually right on schedule for the Prime timeline. Things got really, really bad before humanity finally got their shit together. Of course, we won’t be doing that.
In my parallel timeline, David Ellison doesn’t run Paramount. Harlan Ellison does.
Star Trek would have been very different under Harlan Ellison.
So we went to the commissary and shoved in around the Writers’ Table.
What I did not know was that the Writers’ Table was right behind the Producers’ Banquette. That was my first big mistake. As it turned out, it was also my last big mistake.
Oh, what fun, sitting there with intellectual companions, cutting up touches and laughing at the drolleries! Born again: the Algonquin round table. Wit beyond compare. And, naturally, as the youngest member of the group, striving to make my mark as worthy of their camaraderie, their respect, I suggested a droll, witty lunchtime conceit . . .
Two things you must know. First, I do a terrific Mickey Mouse imitation. Absolutely phonographically perfect. If the publishers of this book had the money, they ought to bind in a record, one of those little plastic jobbies, so you could hear my spectacular Mickey imitation. When I tell this anecdote in person, it really enhances a lot. But just pretend you can hear it, okay?
The second thing you need to know is that the Producers’ Banquette had filled up with Roy Disney and the other heads of the studio, behind me; a fact of which I was unaware; a fact no one bothered to impart.
At the top of my voice I suggested, “Hey, listen, what a kick! Why don’t we do a porn Disney flick?”
Everyone smiled. “It’ll be terrific,” I said. Loudly. “I mean, everyone knows, for instance, that Tinker Bell does it . . . what they don’t know is how she Does It.” They all looked at me expectantly. “She flies up the head of the penis and flaps her wings like crazy,” I said, proud as hell of myself at this bit of fantasy. Everyone chuckled.
I went on, oblivious to the sudden hush all around me in the commissary. “I’ll be Mickey, and I’ll be the director; John, you do a good Donald, so you can be the male porn lead, sort of a duck-style Harry Reems; Mary, you can be Minnie, the female lead; and Albert, you can be Goofy . . . and Goofy, of course, is the producer.”
Their smiles were frozen; the way the smiles of bit players get frozen when they see the monster creeping up behind the hero in a horror flick.
“Hey, gang!” I squeaked in my terrifically accurate Mickey voice. “Everybody ready to shoot the ultimate Disney flick? The film that rips the lid off the goody two-shoes hypocrisy that lies sweltering beneath the surface of G-rated true-life adventures? Okay, you guys, let’s get that hand-held Arriflex right down there between Minnie’s legs! I wanna see closeups of quivering labia!”
A silence as deep as that at the bottom of the Cayman Trench.
I went on, oblivious, carried along by my enthusiasm. In Donald’s quack I said, “Goddam sonofabitch! Pluto, get outta there, you’re steaming up the lens!”
As Goofy, in the dumbest voice possible, I said, “Yuck, yuck, yuck . . . hey, fellahs, I’m a highly-paid, extremely-inept producer person . . . c’n I play, too?”
As Mickey: “Fuck off, Goofy, fuck off! Get those Seven Dwarfs in here . . . I don’t care ff they don’t wanna gang-bang a mouse, tell 'em they’re under contract . . . and fer chrissakes, Minnie, will you take off those damned shoes?!”
The meal came. Everyone addressed their plates like inmates of the Gulag Archipelago. When lunch was over, everyone vanished very quickly. I was confused, but felt good. What a nice little shtick I’d invented. Wished they’d joined in. Oh well.
Went back to my office. Noticed first that my name had been whited-out in the parking slot. Upstairs, the secretary and her paperback were gone. On my desk: twelve sharpened #2 Dixon Ticonderoga pencils and a pink slip.
I had been fired after working for the Disney empire for a total of four hours, including lunch.
The lessons here cannot be avoided.
Big business is humorless.
And . . .
At Disney, nobody fucks with The Mouse.
Harlan also wanted the episode “City on the Edge of Forever” to be WAY darker but that was not the kind of universe Gene was making. Harlan was a difficult guy to work with.
… dear god.
Now that would be a hell of a timeline.
I’ll never understand one more people aren’t on the high seas. It’s the best.
We need some people paying for it so the stuff we like keeps getting made.
How do i boycott that from which i don’t currently partake.
Pirate their stuff and leave bad reviews?
By spreading the word about the boycott.
After what they did to Halo, I canceled mine ages ago.
Soon to be rebranded as Paramaga, to cater to “the middle”
“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!”
The Paramaga
Oh, lol/fuck, imagine if that is the name that will stick to the ICE&co. troops in the future (a bit like “Nazi” has later become to be the default term, wiki/Nazism#Etymology).
It’s better than ‘sockfaces’ (like Brownshirts … or black/blue/gold/silver/red/green/greyshirts) tho they sure do love their sock-faced anonymity in their “public service”.
says the channel that literally had a Jewish coded Spock GOBBLE FUCKING BACON
Here is the twist, they don’t have the actually anti-semitist people there because definition of this word completely warped thanks to Netanyahu and zionist lobbies. Bask in the glory of your stupidity.
And Mel Gibson is not on the list. That fact alone shows that this list has nothing to do with antisemitism.
And by “antisemitic”, they are still going by the hilariously outdated notion that maybe last held sway in the 90s, and that means “not sufficiently subservient to just whatever the fuck Israel wants to do”?
Um, it’s holds quite a lot of sway all the way to 2025, sadly. It’s not outdated because things are getting worse. In the 90s nobody would have agreed with that definition. Yasser Arafat was an extremely popular dude in the 90s. He won the Nobel peace prize because of how popular his work was in the 90s. But he would have been considered hands down antisemetic by today’s modern BS definition.
Not everything that is bad is from the past. Some of these things are recent developments. The strangle hold of Israel on US politics is an increasing problem more than it is an outdated past problem.
Also support for Lebanon was very popular in the 90s. Just watch a Kids in The Hall sketch. The 90s doesn’t deserve to be maligned with the assumption that all views from then must be worse than the views we have now. You clearly never lived in the 90s.
Heh. I most definitely did live in the 90s. I’m talking about how until being able to talk directly to one another at scale, the old notion of “antisemitic” mostly held sway over us and it was a fantastic way to silence a lot of/most of dissent about Israel. Back when a handful of broadcast networks, cable networks, and newspapers were able to gatekeep nearly all discussions about Israel.
These days, that definition is openly mocked, even on corporate news, no less. Just witness the exchange between Stephen Miller’s wife and Cenk Uygur. Stephen Miller’s wife tried that nonsense and Cenk was able to rebuke her w/o having his mic cut off.
Not all aspects of being able to do an end-run around gatekeepers is necessarily a good thing, of course. So yeah, not everything from the 90s vs now is good or bad, it very much depends.
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.
I wonder what they think of all the UFC fighters about to be under their umbrella. Particularly guys like Bryce Mitchel, an ACTUAL antisemitic person.
Why are they trying to control media?
To try to control opinions
Oh that would be tough if you were an actor who thinks children deserve to live.
What are the odds that Mel Gibson isn’t on that list
It’s in the article. He’s not on it.
Actively rebranding Antisemitism to be the good thing?
Netanyahu has already done that by so diluting the word “antisemitic” that it means “criticizing anything Israel does, including genocide.” Being called antisemitic by his gang is a badge of honor. By ruining the word he has made it far harder for people to raise the alarm about actual antisemitism.
Russia did this in the USA starting before Trump’s first election. They had/have giant “troll farms” of people with dozens of social media and reddit accounts who are paid by the state to just insert themselves into every social conversation. They poisoned every well by ruining words broadly - they are the ones who started the whole “if the left keeps calling everyone a nazi the word will lose meaning” trope, at the same time as they started pretending to be leftists calling everything that moved a nazi. That word is now meaningless thanks to them.
It’s in the KGB playbook for destabilizing nations, to sabotage the discourse and have agents take the most extreme, toxic sides of every issue on both sides, so that social discourse on actual politics becomes so corrupted and untrustworthy that average people just tune out and default to trusting state media and no longer wanting to get involved with social issues or politics broadly.
Sound familiar?
edit: I find it really telling that no matter how many times and in different places I talk about this, there’s always some segment of people who downvote or attack this, despite being proven true by the NSA, with extensive records of foreign interference in our culture and society.
MAGA and Jewish space lasers on the same side. I guess they are that stupid.
Didn’t these people just say that genocide is bad? So antigenocide is antisemitic, therefore genocide is Semitic. Or is all of this semantics?
Been that way since the beginning and most people where defending it. Somebody talks bad about Israel they where blackballed in Hollywood well another goes on a rant about exterminating the Palestine’s and nothing. Glad people are finally waking up to it.
