• Person fired for taking medical advice from stupid billionaire psycho takes legal advice from stupid billionaire psycho

    When asked for comment, the twice-fooled actress stated, “I’m being discriminated against. Everything that comes out of my mouth is caca-doodie and I think that’s pretty special.”

    After 7 minutes of her lawyer begging her to stop chanting “Gina good and Disney bad, this rhyme makes you angry,” they finally provided us with the following statement:

    While my client has no chance of proving anything other than their own ignorance, she has very rich friends and I’m very good at delaying and collecting checks.

    The lawyer then fell over and revealed themselves to be 37 weasels in a trenchcoat that all ran off to suck eggs. Ms. Carano tried to follow suit, but instead slipped in a puddle of her own drool that had been accumulating while she struggled to breathe and blink at the same time throughout the interview.

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    Gina Carano’s lawsuit, filed on Tuesday, seeks a court order forcing Disney and Lucasfilm to weave her “Mandalorian” character back into the show and recast her for the role.

    lol - They love ‘free’ speech so much, they want to force you to speak!

    • Lol, didn’t the fucking SCOTUS wedding cake case also clearly make this illegal? As per that case it’s unconstitutional because you can’t compel someone to make art, that’s compelling speech and against the 1st amendment. So you can’t force the writers to include a character in their art either.

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    So she was fired for discrimination, and is now suing on the basis of being discriminated against? Did I get that right? The concept of irony just goes right over these people’s heads, doesn’t it?

  • I mean, good luck getting past entertainment industry contracts.

    But also… please, please, PLEASE make it so that political opinions and conspiracy theories can’t be used to fire people. I double dare the CEO of a social media network, an electric car company and an aerospace company create a labor market where you can sue for discrimination for that reason.

    I mean, I only want to see it if I can reset the timeline back to this point, but still, I REALLY want to see it.

    • It won’t turn out how you want it to. They’ll find a way to make their opinions protected and not yours, if not immediately then in the long run. That’s the number one rule of the game: the proles always lose.

      • Ah, great, we should just let them run with it and never try, then.

        I swear, defeatism gets me so bad. It may just be the most conservative power at work, along with “all politicians are the same”.

        Incidentally, anybody thinking about a class action over Sony removing lifetime access to Funimation movie downloads? Because it’s the second time in a year they risk it on that one and I deeeeefinitely want to see that tested in court.

        • Ah, great, we should just let them run with it and never try, then.

          You misunderstand me. My point isn’t that we should give up entirely, it’s simply that we stop trying to “beat them at their own game” (and force them to play ours instead).

          • I’m not sure what you think “our” game is.

            I mean, in my game there is a functioning rule of law where separation of powers is real and universal access to the justice system is enforced regardless of income level. In that game when you set a rule that rule is applied across the board. And yeah, if the system is not playing that game you’re supposed to make it play it.

            Is that the game? Because it’s a good game.

  • This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Elon Musk poked the Walt Disney Company anew on Tuesday by agreeing to fund a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed by the “Mandalorian” actress Gina Carano.

    Disney dropped Ms. Carano, a former mixed-martial artist, from “The Mandalorian” in 2021 after she espoused baseless conspiracy theories and right-wing positions, some of which were seen as homophobic and antisemitic, in a series of social media posts.

    Lucasfilm, the Disney division that makes “The Mandalorian,” said in a statement at the time that Ms. Carano’s “social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”

    More recently, Mr. Musk has cheered on Nelson Peltz, an activist investor who, with the disgruntled former chairman of Marvel Entertainment, is waging a proxy battle to gain two seats on the Disney board.

    X’s head of business operations, Joe Benarroch, said in a statement that Mr. Musk’s company was “proud to provide financial support for Gina Carano’s lawsuit, empowering her to seek vindication of her free speech rights on X and the ability to work without bullying, harassment or discrimination.”

    Ms. Carano’s lawsuit stated: “A short time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, defendants made it clear that only one orthodoxy in thought, speech or action was acceptable in their empire, and that those who dared to question or failed to fully comply would not be tolerated.


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