Barbie And Baldur’s Gate 3 Prove That Go Woke, Go Broke Doesn’t Exist

[Hamish Howl]

LOL! So... Barbie is real to you?

The billion dollars it brought in despite the insistence of the right wing is quite real.

You guys lost. Again. Just like always.

 

[jmotivator]

Barbie 1 starred a trans woman. Doctor Barbie.

Margot Robbie is a trans woman?

Also, I still find it funny how self defeating the trans movement is. On the one hand trans women are supposed to be real women, on the other hand you have to verbally differentiate them form actual real women.

 

[Galactic Spin]

Also, I still find it funny how self defeating the trans movement is.

Why? Are you some sort of cartoon villain? It's just bizarre behavior. And you're so proud of it.

How are those anti trans laws doing in the courts, these days, anyway?

 

[jmotivator]

The billion dollars it brought in despite the insistence of the right wing is quite real.

You guys lost. Again. Just like always.

HAHAHAHAHA!! What is it you think I "lost" with Barbie?

 

[jmotivator]

Why? Are you some sort of cartoon villain? It's just bizarre behavior. And you're so proud of it.

How are those anti trans laws doing in the courts, these days, anyway?

How's it going with Trans women in women's sports?

If the "hero" in this cartoon teaches grade schoolers how to perform oral sex and tells kids to mutilate their genitals and take chemical castration medication then damn straight I'd be proud to be the villain!

 

[trouble13]

Nah it's cancel culture

Only to people who do not understand the meaning of the phrase.

 

[trouble13]

And Barbie brought in more than a billion.

Looks like the market disagrees with you.

It does not disagree with me. I have no opinion about the movie beyond thinking Margot Robbie was a clever choice to play Barbie.

I also have no objection to any content that is put into a movie that is marketed to a mature audience.

This movie isn't a hill I would choose to die on.

 

[Fiddytree]

You just described a successful con man.

That’s the essence of most of the television and radio political commentary field (print media to a lesser extent). At the core there is a true self to get you into the field, but the incentive structures are all about making “you” the brand, but you’re constantly chasing what your audience wants in order to remain viable (or, hopefully, a success).

 

[Galactic Spin]

How's it going with Trans women in women's sports?

Hey look, dodged my question. Naturally.

 

[Galactic Spin]

If the "hero" in this cartoon teaches grade schoolers how to perform oral sex and tells kids to mutilate their genitals and take chemical castration medication then damn straight I'd be proud to be the villain!

A fake boogeyman. Also not the reason for your nasty bigotry. Dishonest, bad faith posting all around, as usual.

 

[jmotivator]

Hey look, dodged my question. Naturally.

Hey look, you dodged my question, naturally.

I'll comment on the legal decisions when there is a SCOTUS ruling. Chasing around one-off state rulings does nothing, and I'm sure you are ready to declare rulings that you like as definitive and rulings you don't like as the product of politicized judges, so what really is the point?

Meanwhile, national sports organizations are finally waking up to the woke trans idiocy and making sweeping policy that pushes trans women out of women's sporting events, as it should be.

The idiocy was doomed from the start when it was decided that Transmen could decide whether they wanted to compete in women's or men's sport which collapsed the logical divide between women's and men's sports, threatening to make all competitive sports the domain of biological males.

"Fight the patriarchy by letting men steal women's awards!" was never a sane goal and yet the woke morons ran with it... right off a cliff.

 

[jmotivator]

A fake boogeyman. Also not the reason for your nasty bigotry. Dishonest, bad faith posting all around, as usual.

Nah, it's just reality. The woke morons thought that they could rewrite reality by going full 1984 on the English language and forgot that genetics doesn't give a shit how crazy you wanted to be with the language.

 

[ataraxia]

The Trumplican party and its sympathetic media are engaged in a long term, coordinated campaign of fearmongering (in the absence of an actionable social/political platform). As a result of that campaign conservative men are convinced everyone is out to feminize, emasculate, homosexualize, and liberalize them.

That's why women's soccer teams are threatening.
That's why a single beer can wrapped with a transgender's image demands a boycott.
That's why a movie about a child's toy sparks impassioned rants on youtube.
That's why their media figures are obsessed with masculinity (and the perceived loss of masculinity) and speculate on the regenerative effects of such things as tanning their scrotum.

And that's why they link every problem and inconvenience in their lives to a demonized other instead of looking within.

Don't forget BLM, CRT, Muslims, Mexicans, immigrants, etc, etc...

There is no end to the number of things that frightens them.

 

[Galactic Spin]

Hey look, you dodged my question, naturally.

Not at all. I will happily give your stupid question the response it deserves.

But first


How are those laws doing? Not so well.

So how are they self defeating? Last time I checked the scoreboard, the were making amazing progress. I mean, you can't blame trans people for the sniveling right wing bigots who search for a perceived failure to laugh at.

 

[Visbek]

I don't anything about the movie or the video game but promoting a woke agenda has cost Target, Disney, and A/B, each billions of revenue.

MSN

Disney's revenues are up. Net income dropped in 2020 not because Ron DeSantis was planning an idiotic feud with them 2 years in the future, but because of the pandemic; they've recovered every quarter since.

Target's revenues have been on a tear since the pandemic started. Net income soared in 2021 and 2022.

None of these companies have substantially changed their policies as a result of any transphobic right-wing backlashes.

Either you're confusing "market cap" with "revenue," or you're living in a fantasy world. Take your pick.

 

[Roadvirus]

The companies will be fine. And you know it.

Target's recent earnings report says otherwise.

 

[Roadvirus]

you're a ****ing conservative. You have NO empathy. You like to put people out of work for YOUR politics. This doesnt hurt the company, it's HURTS people like you and me.

They have medications for outbursts like yours.

 

[madman]

They have medications for outbursts like yours.

They have places where you can go to talk about your feelings.

 

[madman]

Target's recent earnings report says otherwise.

Ahhh! another conservative that wants people to lose their jobs. We see you.

 

[Parrish]

Target's recent earnings report says otherwise.

I didn't realize that I live in Wokeville. Did a Target run yesterday and at 12:30 their parking lot was full and I had to park in an overflow lot on the next block. Inside the store there were just a few carts available. The 15 registers and self-checkout were all open and the lines were long. And when I went through the grocery section only 3 cases of Bud Light were on the shelf.

 

[jmotivator]

Not at all. I will happily give your stupid question the response it deserves.

But first


How are those laws doing? Not so well.

So how are they self defeating? Last time I checked the scoreboard, the were making amazing progress. I mean, you can't blame trans people for the sniveling right wing bigots who search for a perceived failure to laugh at.

The funny thing about those laws is they weren't needed a few years ago when common sense prevailed.

Now some of the laws are being overturned and you cheer... while losing the war you have waged against common sense.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/24/1165795462/transgender-track-and-field-athletes-cant-compete-in-womens-international-events

Most Americans oppose including trans athletes in sports, poll finds

Nearly 70% of U.S. adults say transgender athletes should be allowed to compete only on sports teams that correspond with the sexes they were assigned at birth, Gallup found.

www.nbcnews.com

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/19/sports/fina-transgender-women-elite-swimming.html

 

[trouble13]

MSN

Disney's revenues are up. Net income dropped in 2020 not because Ron DeSantis was planning an idiotic feud with them 2 years in the future, but because of the pandemic; they've recovered every quarter since.

Target's revenues have been on a tear since the pandemic started. Net income soared in 2021 and 2022.

None of these companies have substantially changed their policies as a result of any transphobic right-wing backlashes.

Either you're confusing "market cap" with "revenue," or you're living in a fantasy world. Take your pick.

Target set to post first quarterly revenue drop in six years as consumers cut spending

Target is expected to post its first quarterly drop in revenue in about six years when it reports results on Wednesday, as the big-box retailer reels from a shift in consumer spending away from discretionary goods to services.

www.reuters.com

Disney posts mixed results for quarter plagued by streaming woes, restructuring costs

Subscriber losses continued over the last three months, with the company reporting 146.1 million Disney+ subscribers, a 7.4% decline.

www.cnbc.com

Neither of them is doing great

 

[Visbek]

Target set to post first quarterly revenue drop in six years as consumers cut spending

Target is expected to post its first quarterly drop in revenue in about six years when it reports results on Wednesday, as the big-box retailer reels from a shift in consumer spending away from discretionary goods to services.

www.reuters.com

Disney posts mixed results for quarter plagued by streaming woes, restructuring costs

Subscriber losses continued over the last three months, with the company reporting 146.1 million Disney+ subscribers, a 7.4% decline.

www.cnbc.com

Neither of them is doing great

lol... Did you read your own links?

One revenue drop in 6 years is "Target not doing great?" Most of that was because inflation is finally starting to bite consumer spending, as well as people shifting their spending to travel. Pretty much all retailers are facing these issues, except those perceived as offering bargains.

Let's not forget that a significant part of the backlash to those companies isn't from the right, it's from the left, which saw them as fickle friends who didn't want to defend their rather thin pro-LGBT efforts.

As to Disney? Again, they rarely lose money; in this quarter, they only lost money because of one-time charges linked to losing certain streaming rights. They lost streaming customers not because of conservatives, driven by white grievance, screaming about "wokeness," but because they lost the rights to Indian cricket matches. Theme park revenue is up 13%.

What about the other "woke" companies targeted by the right over the years? A conservative ETF has a list of companies it refuses to invest in -- Apple, Bank of America, Nike, Walmart (?!?). Guess what? Those companies gained $832 billion on the stock markets since they were "blacklisted"... and the ACV ETF is underperforming the S&P 500. (It also has very high fees, which is why its AUM is relatively low.)

Blacklisted 'Woke' Companies Gain $832 Billion During Boycotts

Consumers who don't like a company's politics can boycott their products.

www.investors.com

Let's face it. Companies don't have DEI departments and vaguely pro-civil rights PR because the C Suite is full of Commie Pigs. It's because they know that in an increasingly diverse and LGBT-friendly America, it's good business.

 

[Galactic Spin]

The funny thing about those laws is they weren't needed a few years ago when common sense prevailed.

They aren't needed now. The only thing that changed is that a bunch of nasty little right wing bigots got their panties twisted by gross exaggeration from the paid liars who feed them their thoughts.

And this was done because they can't bully brown people or women anymore, since that loses elections (outside the South). So the right wing bigots have siezed on this target, for now.

 

[Roadvirus]

Ahhh! another conservative that wants people to lose their jobs. We see you.

That's all on Target's higher-ups for their stupid-ass ideas.

Target would not suffer financially and employees would not be getting pink slips if their moron bosses had shown some intelligence and opted out of peddling Trans dick-hiding clothes.