@avclub-94e005c18b383d12a8924d5d1367610d:disqus Actually, yeah, a big huge part of the political stance unions used to take, back in the day, was standing up and yelling about people not technically within their purview who were nonetheless acting as scabs to their members — the goal being to either get those would-be…

@avclub-94e005c18b383d12a8924d5d1367610d:disqus Actually, yeah, a big huge part of the political stance unions used to take, back in the day, was standing up and yelling about people not technically within their purview who were nonetheless acting as scabs to their members — the goal being to either get those would-be…

@OtherGuy:disqus  It's really telling that more than anything else the Right is threatened by the concept of "general" or "horizontal" strikes and will pull out all the stops to demonize and destroy them should they ever be threatened.
Not to come off all Marxist, but the very idea of any kind of solidarity or shared…

@OtherGuy:disqus  It's really telling that more than anything else the Right is threatened by the concept of "general" or "horizontal" strikes and will pull out all the stops to demonize and destroy them should they ever be threatened.
Not to come off all Marxist, but the very idea of any kind of solidarity or shared…

I honestly think — and I really hope I'm not being an asshole MRA by saying this — that artists like Amanda Palmer to a certain extent play up the "I'm a Real Woman" angle in their self-marketing because it serves as a pre-emptive shield against criticism.

I honestly think — and I really hope I'm not being an asshole MRA by saying this — that artists like Amanda Palmer to a certain extent play up the "I'm a Real Woman" angle in their self-marketing because it serves as a pre-emptive shield against criticism.

What's deeply disturbing is that there is a growing trend of people exploiting the hell out of other people by drawing on the "friend jamming with another friend" aesthetic and applying it wholesale in situations where it doesn't apply. A huge chunk of "Web 2.0" profits have been about tricking people into,…

What's deeply disturbing is that there is a growing trend of people exploiting the hell out of other people by drawing on the "friend jamming with another friend" aesthetic and applying it wholesale in situations where it doesn't apply. A huge chunk of "Web 2.0" profits have been about tricking people into,…

The thing is that Palmer legitimately isn't doing this *just* to scrimp on money, she's doing it because having local "semi-pro" talent onstage with her gives her shows that "unpolished", "participatory", "interactive" feeling that's such a part of her vaguely "punk"/"indie" aesthetic.

The thing is that Palmer legitimately isn't doing this *just* to scrimp on money, she's doing it because having local "semi-pro" talent onstage with her gives her shows that "unpolished", "participatory", "interactive" feeling that's such a part of her vaguely "punk"/"indie" aesthetic.

Exploiting people's desperation for some kind of emotional validation or exposure in a highly competitive field so that their giving away their labor for free puts downward pressure on the negotiating power of every single other contributor to the labor supply within their labor market has a harmful effect on that…

Exploiting people's desperation for some kind of emotional validation or exposure in a highly competitive field so that their giving away their labor for free puts downward pressure on the negotiating power of every single other contributor to the labor supply within their labor market has a harmful effect on that…

Edited for unnecessary vitriol. @Floyd D Barber, I no longer think you are a classic Internet libertarian, but I reserve the right to be on a hair trigger about classic Internet libertarian arguments that reliably crop up in arguments like this.

Edited for unnecessary vitriol. @Floyd D Barber, I no longer think you are a classic Internet libertarian, but I reserve the right to be on a hair trigger about classic Internet libertarian arguments that reliably crop up in arguments like this.

@avclub-e19801f9caf39bff8afc5e4548f2942d:disqus That's itself part of the problem — a wedding is a personal event where the beneficiaries of the event are the people participating in it.

@avclub-e19801f9caf39bff8afc5e4548f2942d:disqus That's itself part of the problem — a wedding is a personal event where the beneficiaries of the event are the people participating in it.

A Star Wars watching party that starts with the original trilogy and ends with the prequels is like having a pizza party where you start by eating the pizza and finish out the evening by forcing yourself to slowly eat the box it came in.

A Star Wars watching party that starts with the original trilogy and ends with the prequels is like having a pizza party where you start by eating the pizza and finish out the evening by forcing yourself to slowly eat the box it came in.

The weird gnome is the very ending to the arc that I'm citing — the Norwegian troll doll.

The weird gnome is the very ending to the arc that I'm citing — the Norwegian troll doll.