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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Well, yeah, this is like saying Santa Claus isn’t real lol

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

TBH their "heroes" are pretty fascist too. Princes, princesses, etc. It's a total shitshow in terms of class.

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[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Check

Teaching with Disney edited by Julie C. Garlen and Jennifer A. Sandlin, 2016 (including but not limited to "Teaching Disney Critically in the Age of Perpetual Consumption")

and

The Mouse that Roared, Disney and the End of Innocence by Henry A. Giroux and Grace Pollock, 2010

but the Tl;DR is that their only definition of "heroes" is whatever might sell anything and aligned with the ideology of a "founder" that arguably didn't draw the mouse itself.

Grace Kelly said something similar years ago: “Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality.”. We have all known this for decades. The sleazy hollywood rapist was a thing long before Harvey was outed. They all knew, and yet they all kept their mouths shut.

This is why its always been so perplexing to me that so much of society looks to hollywood for its morality lessons.

[–] ronigami@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe that’s why all their stories suck, completely unfounded in reality

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago

thinking of all the movies where good triumphs over evil

You're right. Evil usually wins IRL.

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Disney absolutely who the antagonist represented in the winter soldier

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Y'all see the latest Captain America movie? The one where the whole moral was "maybe we can still appeal to their better nature?"

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[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

But Disney has also been tearing down the imaginary heroes with movies like Captain America Civil War and The Last Jedi.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 14 points 3 days ago

Roger Meyers, Sr., the gentle genius behind Itchy & Scratchy loved and cared about almost all the peoples of the world

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago

Why did you do it stan?

"The money, of couse."

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've been avoiding Disney (Florida including Disney), since Ron DeSantis tried to ban words "change" and "climate".

I won't change this until the climate is right.

[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Someone post the astronaut meme

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you can't have heros without villains

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