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oday is going to be great because you're better looking and smarter than you were yesterday, and that's all going to work for you. Well, I had a conversation yesterday with a young woke person. How do you think that went? Do you think that if you put a young woke person and me in the same conversation that it'll be fun? Well, it was. It started out with a conversation about sexism and all the sex…
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So yeah, I could produce presumably thousands. Actually I could probably produce a thousand witnesses with one tweet to back up my version of events.
So I wondered what would happen if somebody that woke heard something so counter to their worldview. And the result was the change of the topic. The change of the topic. Because I don't think you can convince anybody of anything anymore, but you can change the topic. So that's what happened.
So I know you want me to talk about Disney. Like I don't know why. I can't care less about this story. Maybe because I don't care about Disney or something. I don't know. No, I get the importance of it and how it is related to trends and all that. But you know, as Disney's going woke and they're removing their gender greetings — so they won't say welcome boys and girls, it'll be welcome carbon-based units or something. I don't know exactly what they're replacing it with, but it doesn't sound quite as friendly.
And of course they're opposing the, I guess the manipulatively named "Don't Say Gay" bill, which really isn't about that at all. And so they're going woke. So here's my only comment from a business perspective. Since Disney has to s
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atisfy their shareholders, presumably they should do what's good for the share price, within reason of course, not doing anything illegal. But what is the argument that they will make more money by doing this? You could easily make an argument that they'll make less money because you're going to get fewer guests of the conservative types going to Disney. So why would Disney, a corporate entity wh…
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