IANAL (obviously)… (IAONAL?)

• Every headline I’ve read about this says Musk is funding it.
• Every article I’ve read says X is funding it, to make good on Elon’s promise that the company would fund legal battles for those discriminated against for their behavior on the platform
• Neither X nor Musk are defendants
• The complaint does however feature Pedro Pascal meming on the 45 IQ crowd
• The complaint also features an example of Pedro Pascal in 2020 posting a meme of Bert and Ernie (and Ducky) from Sesame Street holding up a “Black Trans Lives Matter” protest sign, a LGBTQ+ flag, and a “Defund the Police” sign respectively. The complaint alleges that Pedro Pascal was not disciplined by Disney for this, which it seems to allude is evidence of sexual discrimination. There was no mention of fair use law, though Disney likely wouldn’t need to worry about that had they taken issue with his post. The allegation stands that Pascal was not disciplined for using Defendant’s intellectual property to promote personal ideology
• The complaint, at least from what I can surmise, does not indicate what started the debacle on X, but tries to paint it as if users just started attacking Gina Carano. The earliest relevant artifact I could find was her uncaptioned August 2, 2020 post of a monochrome photo of a crowd giving right-hand-forward/Nazi salutes, with a red circle highlighting one man in the crowd who is not saluting. Gina would later add context: “Heartbreaking and powerful story of a man who changed his ways for the woman he loved… love changes the world, one person at a time.❤️” How you get “Nazi sympathizer” or “bootlicker” from that is beyond me.
• The outrage against Gina allegedly intensified when X users harassed her to “say ACAB” and “use pronouns” (to identify herself, on her profile). These users posed this as a civil obligation and implied that the public would vilify her for not conforming, to which she did not yield. Gina eventually updated her profile to jokingly show “boop/bop/beep”, to which she was excessively derided for (likely by bots/trolls)

“Elon Musk Is Funding […] through X” would communicate the immediate truth. Very few media agencies thought to do so. They also do not expose any of the details I highlighted in my bullet points. Nor do they link to the publicly available complaint PDF, at least that I’ve seen.

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Richest man in America and this is what he spends money on.

facing the consequences of your actions isn’t a state of victimhood

I collect irony and Elon funding a labor dispute is a rare treat.

Echoes of Peter Theil’s strategy to destroy Gawker.

Lol remember when Elon threatened a bunch of companies after leaving and tried to shame Apple especially?

Then apple told him to come to the Apple campus, and suddenly Elon stfu?

Anyways, I’m taking bets at how much Elon will get fucked by Disney.

these folks are still confused that they have protection under “free speech” arguments anywhere except if being penalized by the government for it. there are no constitutional “free speech” arguments to be made against private companies, who are under no obligation to allow whatever speech they deem hurtful or potentially hurtful to their business.

So she was fired for discrimination, and is now suing on the basis of being discriminated against? Did I get that right? The concept of irony just goes right over these people’s heads, doesn’t it?

Being a damned fool isn’t a protected class.

Gina Carano’s lawsuit, filed on Tuesday, seeks a court order forcing Disney and Lucasfilm to weave her “Mandalorian” character back into the show and recast her for the role.

lol - They love ‘free’ speech so much, they want to force you to speak!

Does she realise studio contracts give them the right to replace the actors whenever and for pretty much whatever they want? If the actor isn’t working they’re not gonna keep em around.

If Elon Musk is looking for more money pits to throw cash into, baseless law suits against Disney is certainly the way to go.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Elon Musk poked the Walt Disney Company anew on Tuesday by agreeing to fund a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed by the “Mandalorian” actress Gina Carano.

Disney dropped Ms. Carano, a former mixed-martial artist, from “The Mandalorian” in 2021 after she espoused baseless conspiracy theories and right-wing positions, some of which were seen as homophobic and antisemitic, in a series of social media posts.

Lucasfilm, the Disney division that makes “The Mandalorian,” said in a statement at the time that Ms. Carano’s “social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”

More recently, Mr. Musk has cheered on Nelson Peltz, an activist investor who, with the disgruntled former chairman of Marvel Entertainment, is waging a proxy battle to gain two seats on the Disney board.

X’s head of business operations, Joe Benarroch, said in a statement that Mr. Musk’s company was “proud to provide financial support for Gina Carano’s lawsuit, empowering her to seek vindication of her free speech rights on X and the ability to work without bullying, harassment or discrimination.”

Ms. Carano’s lawsuit stated: “A short time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, defendants made it clear that only one orthodoxy in thought, speech or action was acceptable in their empire, and that those who dared to question or failed to fully comply would not be tolerated.

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post his address. we can do this.

Person fired for taking medical advice from stupid billionaire psycho takes legal advice from stupid billionaire psycho

When asked for comment, the twice-fooled actress stated, “I’m being discriminated against. Everything that comes out of my mouth is caca-doodie and I think that’s pretty special.”

After 7 minutes of her lawyer begging her to stop chanting “Gina good and Disney bad, this rhyme makes you angry,” they finally provided us with the following statement:

While my client has no chance of proving anything other than their own ignorance, she has very rich friends and I’m very good at delaying and collecting checks.

The lawyer then fell over and revealed themselves to be 37 weasels in a trenchcoat that all ran off to suck eggs. Ms. Carano tried to follow suit, but instead slipped in a puddle of her own drool that had been accumulating while she struggled to breathe and blink at the same time throughout the interview.