deleted by creator
Apparently they paid a design firm an excessive amount of money to end up with this dumpster fire.
deleted by creator
One word: Pocahontas. Or rather: Their “adaptation” (in the loosest possible terms) the story of the real indigenous child (yes child) that was forcibly taken as a bride and raped (yes that’s what actually happened) by a white settler. 🤢🤮
How they still have the balls to sell that movie is beyond me.
deleted by creator
Moana: portraying Māui, a revered Hawaiian (and Polynesian in general) cultural and religious figure as the comic relief.
Mulan: portraying the Dragon, a revered Chinese (and East Asian in general) cultural and religious figure as the comic relief.
Yeah, those are cute, lovable characters and totally not racist and culturally offensive, right? Imagine the outcry by the West if a Indigenous Hawaiian, or especially Chinese film portrayed Jesus in the same way.
deleted by creator
I genuinely believe that the only thing that saved the Lion King from being just as racist if not more, is that there were no humans for them to make “jokes” about. And there were only a few humans in the Jungle Book, so same boat. Also they didn’t try to “”“adapt”“” a real folktale or other cultural thing from over there.
I mean, they still used mostly white voice actors for a story set in Africa and India respectively. Animal characters or not, don’t ya think there’s a problem with that?
Also, this: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=DLQrkNIbF64
deleted by creator
The most shameless branding I’ve seen was a couple years ago when they had Star Wars lettuce.
Like, just a regular package of iceberg lettuce with a Star Wars graphic on it?
You just know there’s some rotten kid whining to his mom that he won’t eat the tacos unless it has star wars lettuce in it.
Lol what?
I mean, at least imprint Darth Vader on the leaves themselves. /s
I saw them in the store and was like wtf. It got made fun of on mainstream Reddit even. I guess capitalism can go too far sometimes.
Well I didn’t think i needed any more confirmation that the CIA wrote star wars, but here it is.
Reminds me of how Apple’s iShit goes for like double the material cost of everything that’s in them.
For anyone who wants to see computer hardware that is more priced after the material cost and cost of production, rather than “market value” or whateverdafuq: https://www.pine64.org/
Also, speaking of Pine64, another user pointed out that it’s most likely that they’re just comprised of one or a number of Chinese manufacturers that operate under that name in the West. Which if true, I think it’s kind of sad, because you know they’re only doing that because Westerners, including the open source community, basically distrusts all Chinese contributions, you know, even though their stuff is open source and you can just check for anything suspicious, which is one of the major pillars of open source.
If true, I didn’t know that and it’s sad indeed. I actually own some Pine64 hardware because I think their cause is great and I’m a free/libre software enthusiast myself. They shipped it to me from a factory in Hong Kong.
Now that you mentioned it, in the beginning of the year I remember they were telling people that they’re unable to produce or ship anything because the chinese government issued a lockdown and they even posted an image of a letter they got in the mail (which was in chinese but they translated it) telling them to stay inside until further notice. Also every year around chinese new years they halt production.
EDIT: Also, also when I ordered I had to send the money to China.
Also I hate how Apple fans go “well Apple gives you software for free that Windows charges you for!” (Namely their office apps Pages, Numbers and Keynote. Also GarageBand and iMovie which supposedly a surprising number of people care about.)
Yeah no. Those aren’t free. They’re apart of the cost of the device because buying the device is the only way to get them. Also, libre (aka truly “Free”) software has answers to all of them, and I’d seriously argue that the well-known libre alternatives are just as if not more functional, only less shiny and glamorous.
Pocahontas is most notable example of Disney’s filthy racism and erasure of crimes by angloids but even now with Moana and Raya I’ve heard it just homogenise entire cultures into one shitty take to profit off.
Just get a used ThinkPad from PRC
CaPiTaLiSm bReEd$ iNoVaTiOn
