Not The Onion

13789 readers

2083 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

kescusay@lemmy.world

547

Disney Introduces Christian Character After Ditching Transgender Story (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

214 comments fedilink hide all child comments

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39925777

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Never heard of EPCOT before, quickly scanned over the Wikipedia article:

what's the problem of that theme park?

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Before he died, the idea of EPCOT was to create his vision of an actual city, not just a park attraction. I read a quote from him about it that seems very much in the vein of Mussolini's idea of fascism as the fusion of corporate and state power,

“There will be no landowners and therefore no voting control. People will rent houses instead of buying them, and at modest rentals. There will be no retirees; everyone must be employed.”

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh yeah they actually did make that Disney Town, it was a dystopian nightmare and failed horribly.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

You love to see a business learn to fail faster.

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Aahh, see? Now that is more problematic than the article about a folkloric world theme park I read.

But it's also not exactly new, company towns were already a sad part of our reality. Luckily we got over it, but rich people of course always want to get back to it.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

We never got over it, they just use 401ks to control our futures now, and corporate owned housing is why rents are too high for us to do anything but work, eat, scroll, and sleep. If we stop to protest we’re in danger of homelessness.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

At this point there are only two rational viewpoints on the world situation.

The system is broken and needs to be fixed
The system is working as intended and must be destroyed

I aint exactly Robbie Rotten singing "We Are Number 1" if you catch my cold.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip -1 points 23 hours ago

That sounds like communism