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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#253176: Aug 26th 2018 at 3:30:11 PM

How? People are allowed to buy stock in anything.

That's like saying Apple needs to go into full PR mode and take away Trump's iPhone.

Oh really when?
Mario1995 The Dishonorable from Atlanta Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
The Dishonorable
#253177: Aug 26th 2018 at 3:39:10 PM

When you're a giant media company with nowhere near the political polarization as brands like Comcast/NBC or AT&T/WarnerMedia in damage control for doing something controversial that angers a good chunk of the political spectrum, you really don't want info like this flying around if you're trying to convince the public you don't pander to the alt-right.

Question is, does Disney know that Miller owns a stake in them? The fact that this just popped into our radar suggests they didn't.

Edited by Mario1995 on Aug 26th 2018 at 6:40:32 AM

"The devil's got all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns. Fuck that." - Liam Gallagher
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#253178: Aug 26th 2018 at 3:42:09 PM

Disney has no control over who buys their publicly traded stock. Hell he probably had it bought for him through an investment plan he doesn't directly control.

That's just sorta not how stock works.

Oh really when?
MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#253179: Aug 26th 2018 at 3:43:54 PM

The last time Trump was told to stay away from a Republican politician's funeral (Barbara Bush, right?), he still found a way to shit all over it without being there.

Edited by MarqFJA on Aug 26th 2018 at 1:46:04 PM

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Mario1995 The Dishonorable from Atlanta Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
The Dishonorable
#253180: Aug 26th 2018 at 3:48:43 PM

He's gonna be tweeting about it watching Fox News coverage, isn't he?

"The devil's got all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns. Fuck that." - Liam Gallagher
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#253181: Aug 26th 2018 at 4:02:45 PM

This is going to be another shitshow.

Inter arma enim silent leges
Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#253182: Aug 26th 2018 at 4:56:25 PM

I still can't get over how a Jewish man thinks being a white nationalist is a good idea...

It's quite simple, if they support Israel as an ethnostate then they have common reason to align with American supporters of their own ethnostate. After-all both groups are in the far-right and despise brown Muslims, thus an alliance between Israeli Zionists and American White Nationalists is far less bizarre then it may seem.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#253183: Aug 26th 2018 at 5:00:37 PM

[delete]

Edited by CharlesPhipps on Aug 26th 2018 at 5:11:36 AM

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#253184: Aug 26th 2018 at 5:03:22 PM

Nothing to see here.

Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Aug 26th 2018 at 8:17:26 AM

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#253185: Aug 26th 2018 at 5:06:57 PM

That's still a banned topic, by the way.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history
Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#253186: Aug 26th 2018 at 5:08:36 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't that just mean that threads can't be made about it? As I understand it we can still mention GG we just need to tread carefully.

(I could've sworn mods have said this before)

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#253187: Aug 26th 2018 at 5:11:29 PM

No, the topic is completely taboo.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history
CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#253188: Aug 26th 2018 at 5:11:59 PM

I shall delete and forget.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#253189: Aug 26th 2018 at 5:17:26 PM

[up][up]<shrugs> Ok then, I'll keep that in mind.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#253190: Aug 26th 2018 at 5:55:34 PM

That's like saying Apple needs to go into full PR mode and take away Trump's iPhone.

That would be a good idea if it were possible...

CookingCat Since: Jul, 2018
#253191: Aug 26th 2018 at 6:21:35 PM

Apparently CNN are blaming video games for the Florida shooting, saying gamers can't tell the difference between games and real life...

PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#253192: Aug 26th 2018 at 6:26:21 PM

Naturally. I want to say I expected better from them, but...

i'm tired, my friend
RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#253193: Aug 26th 2018 at 6:26:42 PM

Different city, same bullshit. This guy clearly had issues with overreaction, but if games weren't involved it would just be the next boogeyman down the list.

It's been fun.
Steven (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#253194: Aug 26th 2018 at 6:45:16 PM

Funny that video games are being blamed yet again, even though the game being played at the event was Madden.

Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.
Reflextion from a post-sanity world (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
TroperOnAStickV2 Call me Stick from Redneck country Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Call me Stick
#253196: Aug 26th 2018 at 7:01:03 PM

[up][up]Pretty much the people who have it out for videogames, or really whatever form of media they want to target, aren't going to be concerned with trivial details like that. M84's sig sums it up.

Edited by TroperOnAStickV2 on Aug 26th 2018 at 10:34:38 AM

Hopefully I'll feel confident to change my avatar off this scumbag soon. Apologies to any scumbags I insulted.
CookingCat Since: Jul, 2018
#253197: Aug 26th 2018 at 7:04:03 PM

[up] It's even worse when you have Liberal news networks going after them too, not just Conservative ones. Apparently the shooter was from Baltimore, Maryland: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-jacksonvile-shooting-baltimore-20180826-story.html

Edited by CookingCat on Aug 26th 2018 at 7:04:02 AM

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#253198: Aug 26th 2018 at 7:06:56 PM

CNN is not a liberal news network.

Also, do you have a link to the CNN coverage claiming that videogames caused violence?

Edited by M84 on Aug 26th 2018 at 10:08:01 PM

Disgusted, but not surprised
CookingCat Since: Jul, 2018
#253199: Aug 26th 2018 at 7:08:35 PM

[up] The Alt-Right certainly think it is.

Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#253200: Aug 26th 2018 at 7:08:55 PM

[up]To be fair, the Alt-Right is insane.

CNN is reasonably called a moderate news network.

Edited by Protagonist506 on Aug 26th 2018 at 7:08:39 AM

Leviticus 19:34

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