# If you had to the power to stop Team Mickey from buying most of 21sc Century Fox would you? I would **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 7, 2021, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968 "2021-01-07T21:46:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968/22 "2021-01-08T03:12:20Z")
> [@Kadmos1](#): > > That is a reason I put some of the rants in spoilers. That is, so it is a bit less cluttered if even that I’m pretty sure that isn’t the purpose of spoilers. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968/23 "2021-01-08T03:16:35Z")
> [@Kadmos1](#): > > TL;DR: After reading this all of this wall of text, If you had to the power to stop Disney from buying most of 21sc Century Fox would you? I would. No, I wouldn’t. And, while I can see you are very passionate about this topic (and I seem to remember you posting about it here previously), there’s nothing you can change, and it seems to me like you may be a bit obsessed on the topic. You tweet about it at least 15x a day? You need a new hobby. ---
**Author:** ![Kadmos1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@Kadmos1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kadmos1)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968/24 "2021-01-08T03:18:12Z")
Those 15x a day helps me boost my tweet count. In the past 21 months, I have tweeted over 52,000 times. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968/25 "2021-01-08T03:19:32Z")
> [@Kadmos1](#): > > Those 15x a day helps me boost my tweet count. In the past 21 months, I have tweeted over 52,000 times So this is much less about what you believe, and much more about being popular? ---
**Author:** ![Kadmos1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@Kadmos1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kadmos1)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968/26 "2021-01-08T03:20:23Z")
It is both! I even regularly tweet or link to a tweet that says “-Fox selling back those Marvel rights to Disney? Sure. However, at least give Fox Lucasfilm. Then, at least Fox would have had at least 1 major media franchise (Star Wars) to mooch off of. Don’t end a storied movie empire like that! It’s sad!” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968/27 "2021-01-08T03:21:32Z")
That is the first word that comes to my mind too. ---
**Author:** ![Kadmos1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@Kadmos1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kadmos1)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968/28 "2021-01-08T03:23:04Z")
What are the first words that come to your mind! It is not much of a stretch to say that Disney would not exist without Gertie the Dinosaur, the non-vaudeville version of which was the first real hit Fox movie. So, Disney in a sense was buying out the company that helped inspired Disney. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968/29 "2021-01-08T03:24:52Z")
Neither time machines nor genies exist in real life, so what would you like to see happen? ---
**Author:** ![Kadmos1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@Kadmos1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kadmos1)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968/30 "2021-01-08T03:25:46Z")
I don’t know! Many threads in many forums have what-if scenarios and this is no different. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968/31 "2021-01-08T03:29:37Z")
Would the entertainment world be better off if Disney didn’t own Marvel and Lucasfilm (and ESPN, ABC, etc., etc.)? Maybe so. Tweeting about it 15+ times a day, and writing ranty posts like these, change none of that. This comes across as less of a “what-if scenario,” and more of a personal obsession. ---
**Author:** ![Kadmos1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@Kadmos1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kadmos1)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968/32 "2021-01-08T03:31:03Z")
Well, at least it isn’t breaking the rules. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968/33 "2021-01-08T03:35:15Z")
> [@Kadmos1](#): > > Well, at least it isn’t breaking the rules [Except possibly for spam](https://www.google.com/search?q=Uncle%20Walt%20and%20film%20producer%20William%20Fox%20would%20not%20approve%20of%20this%20merger.%E2%80%9D&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-m). ---
**Author:** ![Kadmos1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@Kadmos1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kadmos1)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968/34 "2021-01-08T04:01:11Z")
If you put the “Shame on” bit in 2 pairs of quotes, only 180 Google Search results appear on or at least under my settings. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968/35 "2021-01-08T04:03:58Z")
> [@Kadmos1](#): > > I have seen people say that [male or female character in the Fox catalog] is a Disney Princess, right? > a. -Nope. Some DP are not actual princesses (be it by birth or marriage). Having a royal rank that’s “like a princess” is not the same as a princess. Only a girl that is a princess by either way and that Disney animated should be a DP. I saw someone try to claim that since Disney now owns Fox it also owns the _Rocky Horror Picture Show_, therefore _Frank_ - _N_ - _Furter_ is now a Disney princess. ---
**Author:** ![Kadmos1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@Kadmos1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kadmos1)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968/36 "2021-01-08T04:05:00Z")
Oh, when I see those being that I oppose the merger, rather than do the “-Nope. Some…” tweet, I now usu. go for the Block feature on my main Twitter account! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968/37 "2021-01-08T12:50:32Z")
OK, I’ve added “to stop” to the title. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968/38 "2021-01-08T12:52:17Z")
And you block all of the beings that see that you oppose the merger? Since everyone sees that, does that mean you block everyone? Seriously, slow down and think about what you’re typing. Some of those words you’re leaving out seem to be pretty important. ---
**Author:** ![Kadmos1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@Kadmos1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kadmos1)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968/39 "2021-01-08T18:31:55Z")
I admit fault on #35. I should have said on #35 something like the following: “Oh, when I see those that say this character is now a Disney Princess, being that I oppose the merger, usu. go for the Block feature on my main Twitter account rather explain said character is not a Disney Princess.” Don’t believe me on that? That is your choice! @Chronos: Sometimes I block the people who say things like “This merger was a good thing”. However, it is more often than not that I block the ignorant people who say things like “Anastasia is finally a Disney Princess” or those that think that Disney bought Fox News. Occasionally I do my copy-paste tweets on why the merger was bad. I have gotten a lot of like for my individual copy-pasted tweets of shaming Rupert Murdoch. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968/40 "2021-01-08T19:06:11Z")
> [@Kadmos1](#): > > I admit fault on #35. I should have said on #35 something like the following: “Oh, when I see those that say this character is now a Disney Princess, being that I oppose the merger, usu. go for the Block feature on my main Twitter account rather explain said character is not a Disney Princess.” Don’t believe me on that? That is your choice! Are you under the impression that this shows you in a more favorable light? ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968/41 "2021-01-08T20:21:20Z")
Id rather mickey own it than Murdoch … and Hollywood agrees with me [https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/peter-bart-washington-wont-miss-donald-trump-nor-will-hollywood-miss-his-enabler-rupert-murdoch/ar-BB1cz2Yz?ocid=SK2DDHP](https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/peter-bart-washington-wont-miss-donald-trump-nor-will-hollywood-miss-his-enabler-rupert-murdoch/ar-BB1cz2Yz?ocid=SK2DDHP) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-the-power-to-stop-team-mickey-from-buying-most-of-21sc-century-fox-would-you-i-would/929968.md?page=3)