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MrStuffins wrote: »

Gina Carano fired from The Mandalorian for comparing public criticism of her paranoid "political views" to the persecution the Jews went through in Nazi Germany.

On one hand, you shouldn't be able to fire someone just because they support the other team.

Just to play devil's advocate here. People call Trump and the geebags that follow him Nazi's all the time. We also have phrases like Grammar Nazis. She's an anti-masker comparing people wearing masks to the Nazis. If it had been the other way around, there would be no outcry.

I don't think this has anything to do with her opinions. She was fired because of the sheer amount of controversy around her affecting the Disney brand and the bottom line. She could probably be a full on Nazi and Disney wouldn't care if it didn't cause any controversy. Look at the shít Disney pulled with John Boyega on the Star Wars posters in China while tweeting about racial equality.

For the record, I actually don't have a problem with anti-maskers in general. If you don't like wearing them, don't think they work, fair enough. But if you're required to wear them in a shop or bus or whatever, then just wear them. Same way a shop might require you to wear shoes or a t-shirt or remove a motorbike helmet. The ones that go nuts and get aggresive/violent over it are a shower of bastárds though. The Qanon crowd are on a whole other level and from what little I've seen she seems to have gone pretty far down that rabbit hole.

Chairman Meow wrote: »

She fell ass backwards into an acting gig on the biggest streaming show on the planet despite being a pretty terrible actress. I literally said this to my wife when season 2 of The Mandalorian came out, that she has basically won the lottery landing this role and if she isn't careful she's going to get fired.

She was due to get her own spin off show as well. She won the lotto with The Mandalorian. The spin off show would have been the Euromillions. It probably would have been a big enough show so the money she would have made from that probably would have set her up for life and probably led to other roles. Apparently she was warned before to dial it down. Crazy to throw all that away. I can her struggling to get acting work now.

MrStuffins wrote: »

Exactly. Just like Armie Hammer recently being given the boot for his text messages saying he wants to eat human flesh or whatever......... PR is what decides whether you work in Hollywood or not.

And if you're going around saying you want to eat people like Armie Hammer, or spreading lies saying that others like Hilary Clinton, Anderson Cooper and anyone else who you don't agree with are literally drinking the blood of babies, like Gina Carano has with Qanon, then don't be surprised if Disney don't want you in their TV show.

Thought you were talking about Sam Rockwell here. For some reason I thought his character's name in Iron Man was Armie Hammer, not Justin Hammer. Had to google who he was. Jesus, some weird, crazy shít there.

Fromvert wrote: »

Gina Carano's family have casino money. Her keeping the Disney gig or not will have no real effect on her monetarily. Companies can make you tow the line when you need them, she doesn't.

She's likely been told numerous times, she'll be gone and lose her spin off if she keeps posting comparing herself to holocaust victims and previous posts about Jewish people controlling the world (a few months back I'm pretty sure she posted a Qanon themed meme that depicted Jewish people in this light but can't find it now). Apparently it was Jon Favreau constantly going to bat for her job was why she kept the gig this long. She kept posting because who knows, may be she believes it, maybe she doesn't, maybe she wants to get in on the politics grift instead of acting, who knows.

Conservative, wealthy family, a following and good looking woman = countless landing zones for her. She's not going to disappear, she'll be on every grifters podcast and show over the next few months and then who knows what she does from there.

I think she probably does believe it. As mad as it sounds. Sure, Jon Voight put out a video after the election results saying the election was stolen. Then there are all the famous celebs who are anti-vaxers. It's mad shít altogether but somehow people get caught up in it. No idea how some of this stuff catches on.