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Malcolm Campbell's avatar

Sea World makes $1.7 billion annually. Disney World makes $22 billion annually. And it seems likely that a decent chunk of Sea World tickets are a "Well, while we're in town for Disney we might as well see tortured orcas, too" sort of thing. So, no. They're not in the same ballpark.

Also fuck Ron DeSantis for making me defend Disney.

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So, obviously DeSantos knows Florida will lose in court. Perhaps due to the fact that he and his cronies couldn't conceal the glee with which they bragged about doing this in retaliation for Disney's "free speech." As if corporations were actually people, you see.

DeSantos didn't think it all the way through. He thought about the short-term bump he could get from his cackling hyenas. If he thought at all about how Disney would respond, he only thought about it for a second and guessed that they'd knuckle under without much fuss.

He didn't stop to think that, of all right-wing corporations, Disney may be most dependent on Creative Class labor; which is disproportionately liberal and, dare I say, gay. He didn't consider that Disney may have more staff lawyers than the state of Florida; and better ones, at that. Nor did he consider that Disney has nearly 100 years of beloved characters and among the best name-recognition and brand value on the planet; as opposed to...um...Ron DeSantos and some sneering Florida white-bread thugs?

So now that he has thought about it, watch him grovel more and more cravenly as Disney refuses to let him out of the hole he dug.

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