I should not have just sat here and wasted 35 minutes reading news stories and looking at memes on Lemmy while I pick and choose the ones I decide to bestow with the wisdom, or lack thereof, of my words. But this one? This one speaks to my soul. Like the slow chitter chatter of cold katydids on a cool fall night in the middle of September in the Southern part of the USA. Chit-chit cha-chit chit-cha-ah-ah.

Yay, Disney hate is finally mainstream! I’m basically inline with popular opinion by virtue of maintaining my firmly held beliefs I developed decades ago and held even when it was inconvenient and unpopular!!! It’s my time to shine for the short period of time this transient fad plays out!

Kidding and current events aside, Disney media has given me the creeps since I was a kid. The popular cartoon movies just felt like propaganda. I’m not saying everything Disney hits that note, but so, so much of it does.

Then I started meeting Disney adults and, while I understand that Disney has no control over how these people act and choose to represent them, all I can say is OH MY GOD. Crazy cat lady, bizarre couple who live in Christmas themed home decor and wardrobe year round, homeless person who’s still got money for meth and thinks he’s Jesus vibes all wrapped up into one with sprinkles on top.

Then they took over local news stations and started presenting “Disney” as news – entire segments dedicated to Disney intellectual properties disguised as “breaking news” kind of bullshit.

And finally they wrapped their slimy tendrils around the neck of super heroes and Star Wars and squeezed until blood poured out every pore while the corpse dried out and rotted.

So, thank you, I’ve had enough, and at least now maybe a few more people will see what kind of monster they’ve been supporting all along and decide to sever the ties.

You can tell the right believes she’s actually a woman because they’re blaming her for the actions of a man.

On the one hand, YES YES YES.

On the other hand, it’s so much more than that. SO many people were painting this as trans motivated violence BEFORE there was even a credible suspect in custody. Literally even before they found out he was dead, there were large numbers of people online saying this was due pro-trans terrorism.

I do not believe any of the rest of those points will mean a thing to the average MAGA conservative, based on my experience. In the most literal sense possible, most absolutely do not understand the difference between a trans person and drag queens. They honestly and fully believe that trans people are perverts patrolling public bathrooms to rape women and children. Trans-men practically do not exist, nor do intersex, nor any other atypical physical, genetic, gender, or sex presentation.

I’m not too proud to admit that I’ve been traumatized by a Disney adult. So, while I haven’t truly been boycotting Disney, knowing the type of people who support them in general, I wanted no part in that. And then they had the audacity to besmirch Star Wars AND super heroes? FUCK THEM.

But in all seriousness, I was a kid when I realized that Disney stuff gives me really creepy vibes, and I haven’t quite shaken that since. I “cut the cord” years ago, so my network TV exposure is basically the channels I receive over the air, and ABC is one of a limited number of selections that I can receive out here in rural America. It’s super creepy and irksome that all the news reporters have to have that cheery, overly saccharine disposition to the point where they’re practically jovial as they deliver the news that dozens of children were killed in record breaking floods. And then after the next commercial break, they’re talking about the latest Disney movie or TV show like that kind of shit is actual news? No thank you.

So, I suppose the wall of text I’ve just written serves no purpose other than to recognize that Disney, like all companies in the USA, is basically just another automaton to weaponize by the federal government because the people that run them have no spine and honestly seem to believe that they’ll be spared if they make Empire happy. Good luck with that.

You have to be “my non-binary lesbian niece tells me I am being hateful when I remind gay people that they are sinners and real marriage is between a man and a woman but I don’t hate anyone it’s just what I believe and I feel like the government should force everyone to live by my personal flavor of Christianity’s moral standards even though I really don’t even do that myself” down the panic hole to believe this stuff, at a minimum, based on my experience.

No specific drug. Caffeine, alcohol, even deep erotic breaths of oxygen will do.

My wake-up call probably should have been when a member of my own family insisted that Christians are the most prosecuted people in the USA (this was circa 2024).

Although it wasn’t all that long ago, at the time, I just chalked it up to being another of that person’s regrettable opinions. After all, it’s patently ridiculous to believe that it’s illegal to say Merry Christmas, that kids are being expelled from public schools for praying (but only Christian prayer, Muslims are still allowed to pray), and other non-sense like that. But, sadly, it’s more and more evident that vast swaths of the nation actually do not care that these beliefs are false, it’s real to them, so that makes it easy to view themselves as being persecuted.

Gay people, in general? No. But, gay people as in more than one gay person? Yes. Absolutely. Why else do you think we go around telling each other things like “Slay, Queen”?

Fall temperatures are great, and a huge relief from the punishment we call summer in my part of the world. But personally, I’m just not a big fan of Fall overall. The shortening days are depressing. Everybody raves about the leaves changing color, but I find it sad, a bunch of living material literally just dropping dead, turning brown, and rotting away. And don’t get me started on mold/fungal allergies this time of year. Then before you know it, it’s the start of the holidays. Supposed to be a wonderful time of celebrations and gatherings, but seems like most people just get stressed out (with greater frequency and severity each passing year).

See, why you gotta lie. They don’t want to kill you. They want you to live a good long exploitable life full of profits for them.

“MANAGEMENT” material.

Why not just be born to rich parents? That way, you can inherit all their rental homes and massive retirement nest egg when they die, and then you can decide at 33 if you want to work or not.

To be honest, I was there in the 90’s and sometimes I barely remember them myself. Also, gotta ask for A CITATION. For one, there are numerous species that make up the group of birds we call “seagulls”, do they all live exactly the same amount of time? Plus, is that 30 years thing like median, mode, average, max, or what? I mean, by some measure humans have a 120+ year life span. But most of us will be lucky to survive a bit more than half that.

And yet you still play video games, curious.

DUNKLE means black like my soul and the typeface in my LaTeX presentation.

I used to hate, hate, hate that fake bullshit online where someone posts a photo of a random serial killer or other person who’s done unimaginably evil things and then like 3/4ths of the comments are like “souless eyes” or some comment about how you can tell they were evil because of their eyes and then I see someone like the dude in this image and suddenly I completely get it.

It’s been decades since I’ve seen the exotic orange cheese powder, but last time I recall, it wasn’t water soluble?

I’ll buy that for a dollar.

In some ways, figures like Darwin and Attenborough are my heroes, so it’s nice to see that these men are human and share similar distastes for fucked up shit as me.

Also, being in America and realizing the invasive little shits everyone generically refers to as “bees” are invasive species that precipitate the decline of native species changes people.