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Re:The Contractual Impossibility of Unwinding Disney’s Reedy... by tablespoon on Friday April 29, 2022 @11:55AM (#31206796)
> All of Disney's troubles are coming from retaliation to their direct political donations.

> and this is why you donate anonymously.

If Disney had to donate anonymously, I bet it wouldn't donate at all. It's a corporation, and whatever donations it makes are most likely PR expenditures (either internally or externally directed).

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Re:The Contractual Impossibility of Unwinding Disney’s Reedy... by ethbr0 on Friday April 29, 2022 @12:06PM (#31206978)
The point is: it wouldn't be anonymous to the politicians it's supporting, however it's on the books.

Most corporations don't actually care about politics, beyond (1) What's good for my business? & (2) What's good PR?

The interesting thing about Disney is that in this case they were caught between a contradictory (1) & (2). Which, to the parent's point, a more adept PR department / anonymous donations wouldn't have allowed to happen in the first place.

DeSantis' realpolitik is pretty skillful. In this case: if Disney was quiet, he avoided the headache of fighting them; if Disney loudly opposed, he got news and political base support out of fighting them. Win/win.

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Re:The Contractual Impossibility of Unwinding Disney’s Reedy... by KarlKemp on Friday April 29, 2022 @12:19PM (#31207168)
Disney's public statement is worth far more than any donation. It's an American icon, a local behemoth, and a cultural institution.
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Re:The Contractual Impossibility of Unwinding Disney’s Reedy... by ethbr0 on Friday April 29, 2022 @10:08PM (#31212725)
It's a soulless corporation, and ascribing its motives to anything other than a currently-calculated maximizing of self-preservation and growth is delusion.
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