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[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 121 points 10 months ago

Being a damned fool isn't a protected class.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 57 points 10 months ago

Yeah, this is basically an attempt to turn "I'm the one creating a hostile work environment by promoting hate" into a protected class.

[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Have you heard about Donald trump? Last I checked, he’s still not in jail and he’s a fucking bag of sand.

[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 11 points 10 months ago

Except if you're rich.

[-] Omnificer@lemmy.world 63 points 10 months ago

If Elon Musk is looking for more money pits to throw cash into, baseless law suits against Disney is certainly the way to go.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 20 points 10 months ago

Yeah, he basically managed to find one of the few entities that's sitting on a pile of money bigger than his.

[-] antidote101@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago

Richest man in America and this is what he spends money on.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 25 points 10 months ago
[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah. Isn't Thiel notorious for SLAPP suits?

[-] downpunxx@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

sure, but in the case of gawker, it wasn't a slapp, and they won, and gawker was ruined, their entire staff laid off, and sold off for pennies

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

How can she SLAPP‽‽

[-] bl4ckblooc@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

And The New Yorker still sucks his dick at the end of the article.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

facing the consequences of your actions isn’t a state of victimhood

[-] criitz@reddthat.com 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Gina Carano’s lawsuit, filed on Tuesday, seeks a court order forcing Disney and Lucasfilm to weave her “Mandalorian” character back into the show and recast her for the role.

lol - They love 'free' speech so much, they want to force you to speak!

[-] Archer@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

This is called “specific performance” when a court orders you to do a specific thing. It is really rarely done because a court strongly prefers to award monetary damages - forcing people to do a specific thing can start to infringe on their rights

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

/1. EXT DAY

CARA DUNE'S ship lands awkwardly crushing a SIGN that reads, "CAUTION MINE FIELD"

DUNE Hey Mando—

A LAND MINE detonates, killing her instantly. The camera pulls back to reveal a fake cardboard cutout of THE MANDALORIAN

The camera zooms out and up from the explosion into the atmosphere Cut to

/2. EXT DAY [IN SPACE]

A meteor zips past our point of view and smashes into the planet, destroying it completely.

INTRO CREDIT ROLL

[-] cobra89@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Lol, didn't the fucking SCOTUS wedding cake case also clearly make this illegal? As per that case it's unconstitutional because you can't compel someone to make art, that's compelling speech and against the 1st amendment. So you can't force the writers to include a character in their art either.

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 32 points 10 months ago

So she was fired for discrimination, and is now suing on the basis of being discriminated against? Did I get that right? The concept of irony just goes right over these people's heads, doesn't it?

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 31 points 10 months ago

"Preventing oppression is the real oppression" is a standard part of US right-wing dialog right now.

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

Ugh is that an actual quote from one of these nutjobs? It really embodies just how backwards they are.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 10 months ago

No, but it's easy to find examples which are specific to a particular form of oppression.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Person fired for taking medical advice from stupid billionaire psycho takes legal advice from stupid billionaire psycho

When asked for comment, the twice-fooled actress stated, "I'm being discriminated against. Everything that comes out of my mouth is caca-doodie and I think that's pretty special."

After 7 minutes of her lawyer begging her to stop chanting "Gina good and Disney bad, this rhyme makes you angry," they finally provided us with the following statement:

While my client has no chance of proving anything other than their own ignorance, she has very rich friends and I'm very good at delaying and collecting checks.

The lawyer then fell over and revealed themselves to be 37 weasels in a trenchcoat that all ran off to suck eggs. Ms. Carano tried to follow suit, but instead slipped in a puddle of her own drool that had been accumulating while she struggled to breathe and blink at the same time throughout the interview.

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

I collect irony and Elon funding a labor dispute is a rare treat.

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Funding a conspiracy theorist isn't so unexpected

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

Does she realise studio contracts give them the right to replace the actors whenever and for pretty much whatever they want? If the actor isn't working they're not gonna keep em around.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Shhh, don't tell Elon and Gina this. I want to see Elon lose money and then eventually bail on her like the coward he is.

[-] abbenm@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

Echoes of Peter Theil's strategy to destroy Gawker.

[-] downpunxx@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

well, no, gawker did themselves no favors by 1) posting a video of another person naked having sex , and then, 2) refusing to take it down when asked to "for journalistic integrity and definitely not salacious ad revenue"

this doesn't mirror that at all, in the slightest, except it being funded by someone wealthy

[-] abbenm@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This article depicts Elon Musk trawling for plaintiffs so he can fund lawsuits against Disney. Peter Thiel has publicly said in interviews he funded lawsuits aimed at Gawker as part of an intentional strategy. So that is in fact a perfectly legitimate comparison despite your protestations to the contrary.

You can find Gawker's behavior objectionable, that's fine, but that doesn't have anything to do with anything insofar as it relates to my comparison, since that is not the element I was comparing.

Edit: Also, be sure to downvote and run away without engaging with what I said. Thanks!

Edit 2: Thanks for your compliance.

[-] MudMan@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

I mean, good luck getting past entertainment industry contracts.

But also... please, please, PLEASE make it so that political opinions and conspiracy theories can't be used to fire people. I double dare the CEO of a social media network, an electric car company and an aerospace company create a labor market where you can sue for discrimination for that reason.

I mean, I only want to see it if I can reset the timeline back to this point, but still, I REALLY want to see it.

[-] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

It won't turn out how you want it to. They'll find a way to make their opinions protected and not yours, if not immediately then in the long run. That's the number one rule of the game: the proles always lose.

[-] MudMan@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Ah, great, we should just let them run with it and never try, then.

I swear, defeatism gets me so bad. It may just be the most conservative power at work, along with "all politicians are the same".

Incidentally, anybody thinking about a class action over Sony removing lifetime access to Funimation movie downloads? Because it's the second time in a year they risk it on that one and I deeeeefinitely want to see that tested in court.

[-] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Ah, great, we should just let them run with it and never try, then.

You misunderstand me. My point isn't that we should give up entirely, it's simply that we stop trying to "beat them at their own game" (and force them to play ours instead).

[-] MudMan@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

I'm not sure what you think "our" game is.

I mean, in my game there is a functioning rule of law where separation of powers is real and universal access to the justice system is enforced regardless of income level. In that game when you set a rule that rule is applied across the board. And yeah, if the system is not playing that game you're supposed to make it play it.

Is that the game? Because it's a good game.

[-] downpunxx@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

these folks are still confused that they have protection under "free speech" arguments anywhere except if being penalized by the government for it. there are no constitutional "free speech" arguments to be made against private companies, who are under no obligation to allow whatever speech they deem hurtful or potentially hurtful to their business.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Lol remember when Elon threatened a bunch of companies after leaving and tried to shame Apple especially?

Then apple told him to come to the Apple campus, and suddenly Elon stfu?

Anyways, I'm taking bets at how much Elon will get fucked by Disney.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Elon Musk poked the Walt Disney Company anew on Tuesday by agreeing to fund a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed by the “Mandalorian” actress Gina Carano.

Disney dropped Ms. Carano, a former mixed-martial artist, from “The Mandalorian” in 2021 after she espoused baseless conspiracy theories and right-wing positions, some of which were seen as homophobic and antisemitic, in a series of social media posts.

Lucasfilm, the Disney division that makes “The Mandalorian,” said in a statement at the time that Ms. Carano’s “social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”

More recently, Mr. Musk has cheered on Nelson Peltz, an activist investor who, with the disgruntled former chairman of Marvel Entertainment, is waging a proxy battle to gain two seats on the Disney board.

X’s head of business operations, Joe Benarroch, said in a statement that Mr. Musk’s company was “proud to provide financial support for Gina Carano’s lawsuit, empowering her to seek vindication of her free speech rights on X and the ability to work without bullying, harassment or discrimination.”

Ms. Carano’s lawsuit stated: “A short time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, defendants made it clear that only one orthodoxy in thought, speech or action was acceptable in their empire, and that those who dared to question or failed to fully comply would not be tolerated.


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[-] survivalmachine@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

I thought you were only protected from discrimination if it was because of a protected status, like race, religion, sex, etc. Dumbfuck is not a protected class.

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