I’m no socialist, but this is the problem I have with modern capitalism. At some point, we switched from a capitalism for all system — I pay you, the worker, enough so that not only can you afford to live in a good place, but you can spend money on goods and boost us all — to a predatory one, where the top people…

This was a good piece that didn’t even address an extremely troubling and recent knock-on effect of these industry practices: massive layoffs at The Denver Post, the last remaining statewide paper in CO. There’s little chance Alden Global Capital intended to cripple local media, but they probably wouldn’t protest too…

This is a topic that is near and dear to my heart, as I work for an institution that provides PE shops with the debt to acquire their companies.

PE companies are evil in every way. Even the small deals do terrible things. I’ve seen profitable small businesses closed by “market pressures.”

The PE guys will then blame “overseas competition” for the jobs stolen by their financial fecklessness, and “family breakdown” for the fact that unemployed people use drugs at a much higher rate. From Brian Alexander’s Glass House, about the debt-fueled takeover and devastation of glass maker Anchor Hocking and its…

I work for a company that does business with others that are often PE owned. We HATE giving these companies money that doesn’t have explicit strings on it because we know that the PE firm is going to suck that money out instead of putting it toward actual business uses.

It’s also just occurred to me that Ruby has a lot of parallels with Faith Lehane going on. she’s a young lady with power who’s jealous about our protagonist being given the limelight over her. She also has that bad attitude going on and a relationship with a parental figure that parallels the one the protagonists had…

By God, you’re right. I flicked through and there are some quite prominently placed books on personality disorders. Some terrific setup there, and yet practically no-one saw it coming.

Not only that, if you look at his reading material 7 minutes into that episode, no fewer than 8 books dealing with mental health and brain trauma are visible in that stack of books on his desk. He’s been trying to self-diagnose ever since they got out of the Framework.

Hot damn, it was good to see Adrian Pasdar again. Also, it was nice of the SHIELD writers’ room to give him some of the best lines.

And their appendages are neither tentacles nor legs: they are arms.

I thought about something like that, but the season will go on past the release of Infinity War by a few episodes - I know the show has been decreasing its timed tie-ins since Civil War, but it’d be a pretty big event to skirt around.

I feel like this season will end with them stopping the Confederacy and preventing the world from cracking, then the stinger will be them looking up in the sky and seeing Thanos’ ship(s?) arriving.

I thought that was weird too. She was so quick to dismiss that possibility but I’m hoping she comes around soon and that will be how they stop the world from quaking apart.

“It looks like Hydra took a page from the spy training in Kingsman, but missed the part where you’re not actually supposed to kill your dog.”

Also, nothing like a forced breeding program to remind you that Whitehall was originally a Nazi.

Hale is life-long inner circle Hydra and a General in the USAF. She has seen literal Gods both attacking and defending New York City. She has seen Ward return from the dead possessed by another kind of God, and personally been instantaneously teleported across the universe to meet with aliens who wield enormous power…

Is no-one here presuming the big-ass spaceship coming for Earth is something to do with Thanos and Infinity War, and THAT’S what the Confederacy is offering protection against? Seems pretty obvious an assumption to me.

Poor Talbot! :(

SO THIS FUCKING SHOW