stan blog but not for what you think

the fact that disney has actual residential communities is insane to me imagine making out your rent check to micheal fucking mouse

imagine getting EVICTED by micheal fucking mouse

I’m pretty sure they’re just a whisker shy of having a full Company Town.

It's worse than that- P sure Mickey is short for Mortimer.

Also, they DID build a full on Company Town, that was full of death and murder.

they built it from the ground up and still exists. The town of Celebration, Florida

Several Disney business units still occupy the town's office buildings. Walt Disney World operates two utility companies, Smart City Telecom and Reedy Creek Energy Services, that provide services to the town. The town itself is connected to the Walt Disney World resorts via one of its primary streets, World Drive.

Disney CEO Michael Eisner was super into it, encouraging the executives at Disney Development Company to "make history" and develop a town worthy of the Disney brand and legacy in accordance with Walt Disney's vision of an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (which is what EPCOT stands for btw)

Despite many real attempts to promote diversity, they just couldn't manage it; in 2000, a census showed the racial makeup of the community was 88% white, compared to the surrounding county's 59% white population.

In 2016, it was reported that Celebration Town Center condo owners "are battling leaky roofs, balconies that have become separated from the sides of buildings and mold spreading in their walls. Their properties have become so dilapidated, they say, they're having trouble selling them."

There's a civil suit to force the Town Center Foundation, a controlling entity under sole direction of Lexin Capital, to actually pay for the millions of dollars in repairs that have been knowingly procrastinated for over a decade; iirc, the residents have already paid all the necessary money into a fund for these repairs, but none have been done.

OH! death and murder, right -- there were several drownings from a poorly designed turn in a road next to a small body of water that became nicknamed Death Pond, and then there was the dude who lived there that murdered his whole family in Celebration in 2019.

anyway, yeah, they totally have a whole ass Owned and Operated By Disney Company Town already

yes i was talking about celebration. no i did not realize just how bad it is holy shit

Questions I think to myself a lot when confronted with certain kinds of Online Posting:

I'm sorry, but I'm just too fucking old to pretend that the presidential ticket of "Person who performed some of the first gay marriages in her state while it was still federally illegal" and "governor who created a trans refuge state while other states were making it illegal to transition" is somehow 'jUsT aS bAd foR QuEer pEopLe' as the ticket promising to reverse marriage equality and make trans healthcare next to impossible.

That is such a monumentally stupid opinion that I'm going to have a hard time believing that you're actually that stupid, and I'll probably just assume you're malicious.

Especially sick of hearing this from really young people. Like, sorry girl, the reason you could get HRT at 16 in this state is because one party is significantly better than the other.

For the record: Some of them (some of the LOUDEST of them) are actively and deliberately malicious. They're Russian psyops and Iranian propaganda shills and right-wing trolls who understand that anything that depresses the youth vote and minority vote makes it more likely for Trump to win. Are some of the comments "useful idiots"? Sure, but at this point anyone you see loudly trumpeting that "both sides are the same", especially if they claim to be queer (and/or some combination of other minorities) should be assumed to be a liar and a bad actor.

You cannot find an issue that Trump is not significantly worse on than Harris. Gaza? Harris wants peace talks, Trump wants to nuke Palestine. Climate? Harris wants to move toward carbon neutrality, Trump wants to remove all restrictions ever. Trans people? Harris is imperfectly supportive, Trump wants them all forcibly detransitioned, jailed and/or dead.

The choice is absolutely obvious, and if you don't vote for Harris you get Trump. And that's why there's so much effort to convince you not to vote.

No, Google Docs, there is a distinct difference between "cussing" and "cursing."

Calling google ‘googie’ is such a power move imo

Tis indeed! Thank you for this addition. Here are some photo examples of the Googie style.

IT HAS A PROPER NAME?!

It’s not just that grown adults knocking on 30 and above only read books written for middle schoolers it’s they also want everyone else to clap and cheer for them like why is it so essential for them that I am happy about that

Y'know what's so weird to me? self-proclaimed leftists not voting because of some sense of "praxis" or whatever.

Like y'all are just going to sit by and let your country get materially worse for the people living in it while you wait for your revolution?

Doesn't sound very radical to me.

Because... not voting just doesn't exactly take any power away from the relevant political structures.

A vote not cast is not a vote for anarchist communal living, or socio-political reform.

It's just a vote not cast.

Great input, thanks!

[ID: screenshot of tags: #not voting is literally a way to support fascism #im being fully serious #we have a fascist party in power in italy specifically because so many people didnt go to vote. end ID]

"Biden is funding a literal genocide!"

Yeah - and so will Trump. Like, if you don't vote for Biden, Trump will win, and he will continue to send aid to Israel - in fact, he will likely send MORE aid to Israel. That's the reality of the world we live in.

And, to be honest, any US president will support Israel. Because the USA is Israel's ally. That's how foreign policy works.

So who do you prefer?

Biden, who has helped lgbtq rights, reproductive rights, infrastructure, the environment, lowered medication costs, supported unions, and done MANY good, progressive things,

Or Trump, who we already know is awful. Who we already know will destroy any human rights Biden managed to gain. Who will not help the environment. Who will not help trans people, or immigrants, or women.

Because those are your two choices. And if you think they're the same, you are dangerous to all marginalized people.

There has never been a point in any of our lifetimes where the US wasn't contributing to some atrocity or war crime or SOMETHING somewhere in the world. There just hasn't been.

The president isn't a king, and can't unilaterally impose his will on the country. There is not - and will never be - a candidate who can just wave their hand and only make the Good and Morally Pure Things you want to happen happen. That is not the system we have.

But things can get better, and things can get so much worse.

There is no scenario where refusing to vote and letting Trump win causes FEWER marginalized people to die.

#congratulations you discovered the Military Industrial Complex I guess?#It's bad! And it is so much more complicated than One Dude who's the president and it can not be dismantled by refusing to vote#I recognize a lot of people on this site are too young to remember the Bush Years but I assure you they did not make things BETTER#in the Middle East or result in fewer bombs being dropped there#frankly if you're eligible to vote in the 2024 election and you don't? I don't want to know you#because you are actively endangering me#You're endangering any of the people who suffered under Trump#and the sheer gall and privilege it takes for a person#to go 'Well I'm going to be up here on the moral high ground instead of participating in my civic responsibilities'#Do you think there will be FEWER marginalized people dying under Trump?#You're endangering disabled people and queer people and people of color#You're endangering the trans people who've been the focus of so much Republican Culture War horseshit#You're endangering sick and disabled people because the Republicans have said they want to dismantle Social Security#You're endangering anyone who can get pregnant because Republicans want to ban abortion#And you're endangering everyone who suffers as a result of climate change which is you know. Everyone but especially poorer people

Pay attention.

Stop your incessant whining about how impossible it all is and there's no point trying.

Get to work.

Let them cook

being called “baby”.......amazing