Not paying for ESPN this year
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Disney sucks.
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I’m just paying for it to watch K-State get beat
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@approxinfinity said in Not paying for ESPN this year:
Disney sucks.
Did Mickey give ya the finger or something?
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@approxinfinity said in Not paying for ESPN this year:
Disney sucks.
Is this jimmy kimmel related? Or just general big money corporations suck?
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I was just being silly in my reply… of course it’s Kimmel related.
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I’m with ya @approxinfinity
I am growing weary of all this Trump-related censorship.
If you’re curious, Disney owns these assets:
ABC, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Hulu, ESPN, FOX, FUBO, and of course all the theme parks.
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This is very unlike me, but I just cancelled Disney owned ESPN+ and sent them a note about the freedoms of democracy.
I’ll share one sports-themed sentence in my note, then I’ll shut up:
Next thing you know Dick Vitale will be “pre-empted” for supporting any university during a broadcast that Trump has sued.
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@rockchalkjayhawk I’m probably ignorant, so please don’t feel like you have to tell me so. But, if Disney owns all the companies that you listed earlier (and probably more) does that mean you’re just not watching sports anymore? It’s like my son not using Amazon because he doesn’t like Jeff Bezos - it seems like a whole lot of cutting off your nose to spite your face. I don’t agree with paying $3.00 per gallon for gas, but I’m not going to walk or ride a bike to prove it.
I’m not belittling your choice, I just don’t understand the mindset.
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It is of course Kimmel related. I dont watch Kimmel. But i watched the clip that got him canceled, and pulling him from the air over this so drastically crosses a dangerous line.
I also dont want to pay for their shit and have been sick of ESPNs agenda for years. And theyve destroyed the Star Wars franchise.
In other news, if you guys want to watch Alien Earth but dont want to get the Disney Hulu package, you can watch it on Youtube TV. If you like the Alien franchise, it has been excellent.
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My dad boycotted the NFL for the Kapernick stuff. He didn’t watch football for that full season at least, maybe part of the next. It isn’t to say that my dad and I have a poor relationship, we just don’t have a lot of common interests. But one of them IS the Chiefs! 6 months of losing out on one of the few things we had that we could chat about and bond over, to me, was really dumb.
Just one perspective on the whole thing. I’ll be tuning in to all the KU games.
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Yeah im just going to boycott the a la carte stuff. Will still watch things on my cable package.
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@approxinfinity I,m not paying a dime more. Only thing I losing is my sports package. I don’t need that dam NBA CRAO the MLB Network , The RedZone ya da ya da ya da. - -I still get ESPN - -ESPN TWO --FS ONE- --those three right there are the one’s that carry most of KU’s Foott Ball & Basketball then you always have TBS---- and TNT now- -then I have the over the air Channels- - -Then I still have my ESPN PLUS without paying anymore. That combination pretty well takes care of KU Football - -Basketball = - – Volleyball------& Baseball for me. If it’s noy on any of those then— screw it I’ll just listen to it on the Jayhawk network
As far as my Pro portion goes , My Packers , I get them almost every week on Fox or ESPN - - -if not then I just go to my Packers site and listen to the game with the GB announcers- --The Yankees I can catch them some on ESPN or TBS every now and then if not then EHH I’ll be OK I’ll just check the box score the next day-- --ROCK CHALK
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@Kcmatt7 Fair and agree boycotting likely doesn’t make a dent in anything. But the FCC pressuring disney to pull kimmel as a 1A violation seems like a much bigger deal than players just kneeling during the national anthem to me, so not going to fault someone from wanting to do what they can to oppose it.
Also, boycotting disney/espn doesn’t mean you can’t follow the team. You can watch at bars or watch replays/highlights and can always sail the high seas and find a stream if you don’t mind a bit of lost quality/convenience.
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I think the whole thing just summarizes the politics in this country hypocrisy. I’ll start off by saying people confuse freedom of speech with freedom of consequences. I can go tell my boss he’s a f***ing idiot and not go to jail. But I likely would be fired. The Charlie Kirk thing has opened a lot of people’s eyes to the dangers of main stream media calling someone on the other side of the political spectrum Hitler and Nazis constantly. I laugh at the people that are so mad at Kimmel being introuble, why no outrage when any espn or abc employee shared right wing propaganda was fired immediately? MSNBC had a guy fired for celebrating his death on the air. It’s absolutely disgusting regardless of how you feel about Charlie Kirk. Whom was famous for debating people peacefully not violence. A lot of democrats have shown the their true colors and it seems to be a portrait of what they claim to hate.
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There are always going to be some people that can’t understand that, but I don’t see anyone confused here. Disney/ABC are allowed to fire Kimmel on their own. The issue here is that the FCC pressured them to pull Kimmel. Are you ok with that?
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@MR11 Yes if people are killed after being called nazi and compared to Hitler. Then celebrated live on air for it. I think that screams we may want to change something.
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Where did Kimmel celebrate his death? He was making fun of Trumps response to the whole thing.
You are making this about the MSNBC guy when I don’t think that is out of line and maybe I’m not online enough but I haven’t see anyone rational saying that either.
