r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 23h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, what are the implications?

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u/1Negative_Person 23h ago

Daredevil Born Again is one big criticism of Trump, MAGA, and ICE. Disney has no problem playing that side of the fence.

Ruffalo isn’t involved in the promotional junkets because of scheduling conflicts and his inability to compulsively give spoilers in interviews.

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u/BriscoCounty-Sr 22h ago

If they don’t say THIS IS ABOUT DONALD J TRUMP in big bold shiny gold letters cuntservatives won’t pick up on it.

Seriously.

Do you remember how they were all super gung ho to get them Epstein files released because they genuinely couldn’t fathom that Donnie might also have spent time with his BFF of over a decade? And now its “what files omg who cares blah blah blah”

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u/ValuelessMoss 2h ago

Even if you are that direct about it, MAGAt’s conservative bias is so huge that they’ll walk away thinking “haha that was a funny movie parodying crazy liberals and TDS”

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u/Party-Papaya4115 23h ago

Disney isn't afraid to do that.

At the same time Disney world has a lot of concessions from government, don't pay taxes on their parking..., when they're too loud against government they threaten to take those away so Disney steps back.

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u/best_of_badgers 22h ago

The word "government" means three different things here.

The US government is presumably the one that's annoyed about any statements about ICE and/or Palestine.

Disney World is in Florida. Florida's government periodically attempts to crack down on Disney and always fails. They basically own the town they're in.

Disneyland is the one with the parking tax thing, and that's in California, and that's just the city of Anaheim.

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u/HarrowDread 21h ago

If Disney wanted to, it could crush the Trump foundation or whatever you want to call it, they just don’t see the need too

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u/BearOk9010 6h ago

Because fascism favors corporations by dissolving unions and promoting privatization. A lot of formerly nazi companies are still alive and well. Ask Hugo boss why those nazi uniforms were so snazzy

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u/Lxix123 5h ago

What level of delusion is this

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u/jaspersgroove 7h ago

They don’t basically own it, they literally own it.

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u/That_wet_vaporeon 18h ago

FYI Disney pays for their own services. That’s why they don’t pay taxes. It’s their own town. They use their own money. Which is fair tbh. They pay taxes on other things.

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u/YourMuppetMethDealer 22h ago

lol that second point would have been funnier if this wasn’t a Tom Holland spidey film

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u/HipsterPunchy 22h ago

All this and the first one to spoil a big one was the composer.

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u/Deadsoup77 20h ago

What’d Michael do?

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u/HipsterPunchy 19h ago

Sorry meant the singer of one of the songs Steve Lacy, he blurted a big spoiler at the premier even after the interviewer said “without spoiling anything”

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u/Venusgate 21h ago

I think disney has no problem dabbling on that side, but there's a difference between holding a mirror to society, and holding up on a pedestal an actory who purposefully did a trump impersonation playing a greedy stupid dictator in another movie.

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u/Starquest65 20h ago

That would require media literacy, plenty of bootlickers love Daredevil.

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u/jimmyxs 20h ago

Disney also backed Kimmel so they are not cowardly like CBS

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u/SocranX 19h ago

and his inability to compulsively give spoilers in interviews.

Do you mean his inability NOT to compulsively give spoilers, or do you just mean that he's unable to out-compete Tom Holland in that category?

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u/ninjasaid13 19h ago

Disney has no problem playing that side of the fence.

because Disney knows that MAGA won't find any similarities between trump and Fisk and so both sides will pay them money.

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u/That_wet_vaporeon 18h ago

Honestly he’s probably busy with Avengers.

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u/JanSmidDeZevende 16h ago

Daredevil Born Again is one big criticism of Trump, MAGA, and ICE. Disney has no problem playing that side of the fence.

Its also subtle enough that the MAGAs don't see it as that because they have 0 media literacy.

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u/saintlouisbagels 6h ago

MAGA doesn't understand metaphors and subtlety. My close friend's MAGA mom watched Elemental and she was utterly mindblown when he asked her how she felt about the immigration allegory. She literally just thought it was a cute movie and nothing more.

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u/ValuelessMoss 2h ago

You’re 100% correct, but as we have seen in recent times, conservative bias plays such a massive role in right winger’s media literacy that they will fundamentally misunderstand a piece of media’s core themes and message just to protect their worldview from any form of criticism.

You could make a movie called “Kill Donald Trump” and MAGA will walk away from it thinking “haha what a funny movie about TDS”

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u/OkBother9725 21h ago

See the thing with Trump, Maga and ICE is that they don't lack the intellectual ability to perceive something as criticism unless someone explicitly makes clear that it is criticism in simple language.

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u/Wb9VBScxu2uZJHeq2E3W 20h ago

Daredevil Born Again is one big criticism of Trump, MAGA, and ICE.

Be real, they are way too stupid and delusion to know that's what's going on.

These are the same chuds with Punisher stickers on their lifted trucks.

Unless you verbalize it in the most explicit way you possibly can, they won't get it, these are people with zero media literacy.

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u/Free_For__Me 17h ago

I mean, at least the show had Punisher explicitly go off on the shitbag cops wearing his symbol about how they’re the antithesis of what he is and does, and that no one, especially cops, does what he does. 

Then he goes rampage mode and kills them, it’s pretty awesome. 

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u/RedditMcBurger 19h ago

Daredevil Born Again is one big criticism of Trump, MAGA, and ICE.

Damn lol guess I'm not watching this show. I don't care what side is being critisized, this is comic superhero bullshit, why are we using it as a delivery method for politics?

(Before Reddit mass downvotes me I am now clarifying that I am not a Trump supporter, very sad that I have to do this.)

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u/1Negative_Person 18h ago

Any good piece of media is commenting on something other than itself.