• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    Scrooge McDuck had a lot of issues, but come on

    Just because someone refuses to wear pants doesn’t make them a pedophile. Live and let live.

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    This is also funny cuz “Goof” is a Canadian regional prison slang for “Child Molester.”

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    We’ll, he’s rich sure. But would he have paid even a red cent to visit an island resort?

    He was more of the “stay at home, swim in pile of gold” rich.

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      Jeffrey Epstein’s talent was to offer the things that powerful people wanted. Some of them wanted a secluded island where they could molest children. Others wanted book clubs with Nobel prize winners or famous writers.

      Epstein would have tried to figure out something that appealed to Scrooge’s sensibilities, like maybe an audience with a dumb charismatic TV personality who’s running for president and that owes him a favor or two.

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    Maybe that’s because I mostly read the Italian Disney comicbooks (they had the same style as this image) but I always thought Scrooge was aupposed to be a greedy, cruel prick who usually gets his commeupins at the end?

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    I tried rewatching these, to re-live some happy part of my childhood. Turns out Scrooge McDuck is actually a giant asshole.

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      In 2026, there would have been an episode where he partners with the techbros (which are related to the Beagle Bros some how) to get rich off of “selling intelligence”, Only to be stopped by his nephews uncovering a deep conspiracy to take over the world at the last minute(a partnership with Magika and Glomgold, perhaps) , and Scrooge pivoting to making a tidy profit from selling all the DRAM and renting data center space he’s suddenly come into possession of. It would have been a 2-episode season-ending cliffhanger.

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      When I was a kid, DuckTales was the show that made me notice the hollowness that pervades all Disney productions. Never understood why it was popular.

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    Only in America can super rich characters like Scrooge, Richie Rich, Batman be the protagonists we are supposed to cheer for

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          Or that he was in one of them, written as if he had anything useful to contribute rather than reflecting the truth of how his companies have people whose job it is to manage him when he shows up so that he doesn’t fuck things up with his orders. But yeah, Tony Stark himself is basically billionaire competence and morality propaganda. Entertaining propaganda but a lot of propaganda is these days.

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      Yeah, you don’t get to Scrooge McDuck levels of money by being friendly. He absolutely would’ve sold out Epstein then made his own island, because the money bin doesn’t fill itself.

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        Sure, until you realize that Goofrey has videos of Scrooge alone and undressing in front of multiple gosslings… There’s a reason Goofrey was able to life the life he had openly and without getting slapped around by the system.