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https://archive.ph/2022.04.20-170915/https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/florida-senate-passes-bill-to-eliminate-disneys-special-tax-district-11650473902
Best case Disney loses it's special status and decides to quit Florida. This in turn of course massively hits the Florida economy. Therefore they both get fucked.
Come on do it
Lmao my ex is a Disney Adult and moved to Orlando like a year ago partially to be closer to the theme parks and I would find it so personally funny if this somehow leads to Disney leaving Florida.
Also ngl I really like going to theme parks, Disney theming aside, and I’d love to go to a future Disney in a city that doesn’t suck as bad as Orlando.
I still don't get what it even is...is it someone who still loves the movies and occasionally goes to a costume party as a princess, or is a technical nerd about how the parks are built and maintained?
Or is it the sort of person who changed their name to Gaston and goes to the theme park every 3 days while singing Frozen songs constantly.
It’s people who go to the Disney parks as much as they can, collect all Disney consumer goods, etc. like a child. People who love it even as adults. People who move to orlando to be closer to the park so they can go all the time, for instance. And who’s house is filled with Disney junk. They have :brainworms:
This is really the only way America is getting another state. A massive corporation demanding statehood
What's a good east coast state that they could move to as an alternative? I can't see Disney New York happening...Georgia?
Disney doesn't really compete with Six Flags, in much the same way that the majors don't compete with the bush leagues.
Wait what the hell? Disney had complete sovereignty over Disneyland? Why am I just hearing about this
Yes, Walt Disney was really big on planned communities. EPCOT was supposed to be the city of tomorrow. There's a Disney town called Celebration and it's just what you think it is. Moreover Disney has jurisdiction over the land the Disneyworld sits on.
What can I say, people really liked Disney back when Walt was alive. The evil piece of shit Michael Eisner took over in the 80s and it went downhill fast after that.
The fact that Eisner was arguably less racist and antisemitic than Walt, but is still in contention for "more evil" says a lot about Disney over the years.
Basically every video mentions Eisner and his role in all sorts of crazy shit. The Walt ones aren't much better, with bangers such as a nazi helping design Disney Land's rocket ride and Walt's boys only club for union busters
why tell the story of Celebration when you can SING IT
Mischief Brew - Every Town Will Celebrate shoutout to limewirepro this was one of the first folk punk tracks i DLed back in 2005
Friend of mine said that he had to stop in Celebration to use a public restroom without buying anything, and the residents gave him the stink eye the whole time.
Disney World, not Disneyland, but yes. They get to write local laws, run their own emergency services, and do most of the other things local governments can do like build roads, power plants, etc.
Disneyland in California also has crazy influence on the government of Anaheim and receives water with a cushy deal as well as directing tax laws. But it does it in the liberal way, instead of Florida's corporate quasi-autonomy.
The fucking :cia: helped Walt with the land purchace for Disney World, real spooky shit
see how much loyalty that money buys when the hogs are a-squealing for a lynching
Do we have that teen smoking a pipe while two other teens fight as an emoji?
:fash-infighting: :stalin-smokin:
It's very possible this planted the thought in my head honestly, good shit
I don't think mine made it off my phone before today, I was gonna post it to tumblr but that trash website wasn't functioning well enough to upload it lmao
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Sicko to sicko communication
Disney just up and leaving would be painful, but probably not a disaster. De Santis and his people could well be making the calculus that Disney have enough sunk cost in WDW to just take this, and/or that there's plenty of other theme parks, tourist shit in general, and the boost from Chuds treating it like a mecca (similar to Texas' "growth explosion") that would make up for it over time.
Disney just up and leaving
I think it would cost way more to pack up and leave than they're losing if they have to start paying taxes. Plus they can almost certainly turn public sentiment against the Florida legislature by raising prices and claiming they have to do it because of the taxes.
Plus they can almost certainly turn public sentiment against the Florida legislature by raising prices and claiming they have to do it because of the taxes.
Ah the oldest trick in the book. I love when restaurants passively-aggressively post a sign or print out on their receipt that they had to add a surcharge because of some local tax.
Eh, I guess disney won’t raise too much fuss over it, although moving out of florida makes sense in general due to climate shit, so they can shop around for some tax breaks. :shrug-outta-hecks:
But where would they move to? Can't go too far north because then they'd have to have an off-season, can't move to Texas because it's run by the same weirdos, can't move to California because there's already a Disneyland there, can't really move to another Southern state because most of those states don't have the infrastructure needed for such a massive tourist destination. Not a lot of options
If you believe this is the only reason they’re doing it and not justification, sure. But “it” is grabbing a massive amount of $ for FL
It as in what? Florida attracting more reactionaries? Or disney not paying taxes?
capitalism good, taxes bad, except when capitalism does anything other than suck off the cumskins, then we'll happily use taxes as punishment
on an unrelated note, :fash-bash:
A fascinating development of the Trump Era is the unfathomably rapid movement of reactionaries from "the left wants to take away Disney movies and sportsball" to "sportsball and Disney movies are Communism so in order to save Americs they must be taken away"
They were teaching critical race theory in the lines for Space Mountain. Serves them right.
Can I get a churro while I learn about the 13th Amendment and what it isn’t?
as distinct from critical cycle theory at the TRON lightcycle ride next to it
Disney Exec: "The safest thing to do is keep funding these politicians and issue completely toothless objections to them. That way the libs and the conservatives both get what they want."
Florida: "Fuck you pay me."
Absolutely hilarious seeing Disney out of all thing learning that centrism is for losers
Yup. They only tepidly came out agains the bill when a bunch of creators and investors started complaining.
Yes, they basically had everybody who endorsed the bill on their payroll. Donated to every single politician who signed it. When that became public, they tried to mititgate the PR damage by doing an enlightenend centrism: They stated that they'd keep donating to the same GOP ghouls, but would make up for it by offering more diversity in their movies. Which caused a complete meltdown among chuds.
Disney being targeted for cultural war shit kind of dampens the mood a bit. This is just typical fash shit not sure I can feel sicko about it.
