The good (and bad) of many unions is that they will protect any union member, regardless of the individual’s behavior.  For one, it’s a misunderstanding that unions are protecting individuals - they’re  (supposed to) protect the contract, meaning any contract violations are contested, no matter why.  Some unions,…

This is the world building that explains it but Paul A. smacks of white savior because of the way the books treat him, the things he does, the plot armor he wears and so forth. I mean, realistically, he’s a forigen brat of a indulged upper class and should’ve died  along with everyone else but he a: gets cool psychic…

He’s part of the Fremen prophecy, as I recall. They have their own set and it differs from the core Bene Gesserit. The fact that the Gesserit seeded the original prophecies on Dune doesn’t alter the fact that the fremen made it their own.  

about religion and power, neither of which are technically primarily social justice issues

Because they didn’t do that.  This was a classic ‘disrupter industry’ and you didn’t need to compare yourself to the previous old shit.

I do not understand this weird obsession that’s developed over the past 10-15 years about keeping trailers and other stuff, and spoilers so secret. It’s not like people don’t like to see Romeo and Juliet, or Cats (the play, please), or read Dante’s Inferno or fuck, a Jack Reacher novel because we know the plot and how…

He’s a long term hard core alcoholic with money troubles.  It’s killed his career, is pickling his liver and is probably a good part of the reason he’s both suing himself into an early grave and abused his wife (was there ever any indication he abused his first wife, who no one mentions?) and by now, I’m sure his…

I have to say I feel a bit of ... evil gratification at the fact that the repubs are shooting themselves in their own fucking foot by killing off their own voters (for money) and preventing many of their own voters the ability to vote easily (via restricting mail in voting/etc) and really hope this Darwin exercise…

Legally speaking, no, she doesn’t own her story or her name in context of that story, that’s how it works. A documentarian doesn’t have to ask permission of the person they’re talking about to do so, and a fictionalized version of her story certainly isn’t something she has any control over. No one can, for example,…

There isn’t an inherit balance in the world, which is why people need to work to ensure things like fairness and justice do exist. No one and nothing is going to do that labor for us. Justice, fairness, equality and equity, compassion ... there’s no natural law that demands they exist and they’re not easy to create…

Frankly.  We can only hope.

Tends to be much lower in ‘conservative’ mindsets (regardless of political persuasion). Authoritarian aligned mindsets (again, regardless of the politics espoused by someone with authoritarian inclinations) pretty much cannot hold 2 POVs or truths at the same time, which is part of the reason irony is dead.

I think it’s as much about the fact he seems to want avoid doing anything about tRump and his administration’s fuck-ups as he possibly can.  I think he wants to just sweep it all under the rug in the false hope that if he does so he’ll somehow not alinate all the tRump cultists next election cycle.  Plus Biden seems…

I thought it was pretty obvious, in the first movie anyway, that Loki’s invasion of Earth was ... under at least some form of pressure, there were looks in there that suggested whatever deal he made to get those invasion forces had its downside. It doesn’t mean he isn’t a meglomanical guy whose killed people, probably…

Isn’t this just going to screw themselves?  It’s not coming from public coffers but the various campaign entities they set up to get themselves elected, yes?  If so, please, go ahead and bankrupt the GOP’s campaign efforts.

They’ll also quickly find out how expensive those services are - many smaller cities or independent municipalities end up contracting with the place they’ve left for fire/police, etc services.

The barrel was made from rotten wood.

Because they don’t want the community to receive support. That’s kind of the point of bigotry.

They’re just grifters, same as any other and using the way religion works (trust, power structures, authority figures who determine who is ‘good’, etc) to take money, abuse people and so on. Similar reasons why abusers become teachers, or coaches or other trusted positions of power.

The sex offender programs are terrible and ineffective but I’m pretty sure that’s not why he refused, he also refused to develop a postprison plan (or whatever it’s called). I suspect he’s still deep in his feelings about denial that this could ever happen and is refusing to do any planning or adjust his behavior to…