{"id":46543,"date":"2019-03-15T20:34:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T00:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46543"},"modified":"2020-08-10T20:35:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T00:35:04","slug":"does-batista-get-his-job-back-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46543","title":{"rendered":"Does Batista get his job back too?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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About as surprising as celebrities that pay to get their children into college: Disney reinstates fired and disgraced director James Gunn<\/a> for Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I think the only real question marks that come remotely close to being something of surprises, was when this was going to occur.\u00a0 Considering the firing, which if you need a refresher, revolved around the fact that James Gunn was smart enough to tweet jokes about pedophilia, rape and other inappropriate subject matter on Twitter like a decade ago, which naturally stays on the internet for eternity, was unearthed, and therefore Disney shitcanned him; even though he received a tremendous amount of support from the entire Guardians cast, namely Dave Bautista who threatened to walk away<\/a> from the series as if he thought anyone thought he was completely indispensable.<\/span><\/p>\n

Naturally, the firing was as stupid as American politics, because really, who hasn\u2019t said stupid shit, much less stupid shit on the internet at some point in time?\u00a0 It\u2019s just the fact that James Gunn was in an elevated position societally that made him a target for the trolls that actually spend time looking for inflammatory things once said to bring to surface because that\u2019s the kind of world we live in now which totally sucks.\u00a0 But Disney being the gozillion dollar company it is, seemed to think they can\u2019t afford to have someone who made a careless innocuously insensitive series of tweets when he was young and stupid, felt that they had to do it anyway.\u00a0 Did everyone also conveniently forget that Walt hated Jews?<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, I understand why Didney did it, but it doesn\u2019t change the fact that I thought it was stupid.\u00a0 Naturally though, stupider is the obvious news that Didney brought Gunn back, which kind of also sends mixed, but also negative messages out to the inquiring public: namely the fact that by bringing Gunn back kind of says that Didney condones insensitive jokes about pedophilia, rape, the Holocaust and 9\/11.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I get that people saying stupid shit is a weak rationale for firing, but there was actually something to be respectable about Didney\u2019s firm stance on actually pulling the trigger on firing Gunn in the first place.\u00a0 And that I think it\u2019s kind of poor form for them renege on it, because there\u2019s money to be made in the Guardians franchise, because it\u2019s kind of making them look greedy and tolerant of insensitive jokes, because they\u2019re greedy.<\/span><\/p>\n

It also sends the message that stupid shit can be forgivable; but only if there\u2019s profit at risk.\u00a0 Gunn will probably have to publicly take some sensitivity training and craft some more messages of inclusion in his notes app that he\u2019ll post to Twitter to denounce tasteless jokes.\u00a0\u00a0 But it\u2019s why the rich get away with everything, while anyone else who\u2019s ever been in a similar situation, but isn\u2019t a celebrity, doesn\u2019t get away with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

To answer my own question, I think it goes without saying that Batista gets his job back with Didney.\u00a0 If they\u2019re willing to overlook bad jokes about pedophilia and rape, they\u2019re definitely going to turn the other cheek for a guy simply trying to stick up for someone he considered a friend.\u00a0 And the reality is that neither Didney or Batista probably actually made any sort of official divorce from one another, and all while Batista was denouncing Didney for 86\u2019ing Gunn, he probably wasn\u2019t turning away royalty checks.\u00a0 It\u2019s probably also why he\u2019s back in the WWE, because it sure as shit ain\u2019t for Wrestlemania season, but probably to stay fresh in the minds of people, for when Avengers: Endgame<\/em> needs that boost from the wrestling fanbase.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frankly, firing Gunn in the first place was stupid, but bringing him back not even a year later is also poor form.\u00a0 But when profit is on the line, all is forgivable, regardless of the negative messages that are implied in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About as surprising as celebrities that pay to get their children into college: Disney reinstates fired and disgraced director James Gunn for Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 I think the only real question marks that come remotely close to being something of surprises, was when this was going to occur.\u00a0 Considering the firing, which … Continue reading Does Batista get his job back too?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,140,191,90,41,156,55],"class_list":["post-46543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-comics","tag-greed","tag-hypocrisy","tag-movies","tag-social-media","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46545,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46543\/revisions\/46545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}