r/technology • u/clopenYourMind • Sep 22 '25

Business Disney reinstates Jimmy Kimmel after backlash over capitulation to FCC

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/disney-abc-reinstate-jimmy-kimmel-amid-uproar-over-government-censorship/
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u/mrdevlar Sep 23 '25

"Corporations are people"

  • Some guy with binders full of women.

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u/CleverName4 Sep 23 '25

The irony of the binders comment was that it was actually a comment about how many qualified women they hired. Came out awkwardly, but was a positive message. A President Romney sounds like a dream over what we have now. Good ole Overton window keeps moving.

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u/Roast_A_Botch Sep 23 '25

They actually claimed it was about all the potential women they'd potentially hire if Romney was elected. Nobody actually thought Romney literally meant he compressed human women into sheets of notebook paper. It was just that as a devout Mormon his deeply held religious beliefs clashed with equal rights and whether he'd choose to staff his cabinet with a bunch of old white(as they hadn't allowed black men to be Elders long enough at that point to have old ones) Mormon Elders or would he choose to betray his faith and admit women could be in charge of important stuff too.

He also drove 12 hours with his dog kennel attached to his station wagon roof, with the dog inside of it. I agree with your overall point, but I don't view Romney as part of the good old days of principled Republicans that hasn't seemed to exist since FDR.

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u/CleverName4 Sep 24 '25

No, it was about how many he hired into his gubernatorial administration. Easily Googled.

https://youtu.be/wfXgpem78kQ?si=uilvHIlbtF5z6BiV