Well, there was the charter-party, which is seen as an early, imaginative social security, and the pirate life was pretty lax compared to the harsh discipline of the navy (it kinda mirrored native acephalous organisations, with no chief during “peace time” but one leader during “war time”), plus there was this ability…

But I thought that pirates were cool freedom loving people who never harmed innocents or drowned merchant ships crews or suspended villagers by their testicles to make them confess where they hid their savings ?

Shockingly enough, I have absolutely no idea who these “olsen twins” are and what they were supposedly famous for.

Looking forward to the (far far?) future where there’ll be enough “black” people voicing “white” people for “white” people voicing “black” people not to be an issue anymore. Just having people voicing people. Regardless of size, hair or skin color. This is so much still the middle-ages.

You care for what happened, how it happened, to whom it happened, what has been lived then, what has been lived since ? You don’t. You have no idea. You’re even completely baffled by Sam Geimer’s initials, you have no idea who she is, what she went through. You don’t give a damn about the whole history.

It should be for all those people who claim to know so much, understand so much and care so much about Polanski’s rape(s) and his victim(s).

I’d watch one by Jarmusch.

Yes, the information itself is interesting, because it’s always an interesting matter (how to deal with Tintin Au Congo, how to deal with Huckleberry Finn, how to deal with Spike blackfaced by an explosion, etc). But the tone seemed critical of what seems the best solution to me, and if so I’d have been curious about…

Not sure I fully get the intent of the article. Is it implied that it’s a bad thing and that there would have been better ways to deal with that sort of thing ?

Counting the title of the movie and Netflix as names, that’s 50 percent of the names!

So you’d call a “fucking sicko” the child in question if she posted here. Because I haven’t been saying anything different from her, no matter what you manage to grasp about it or not.

New season of The Expanse.

That means nothing or whooshes 184'000 km above your head.

“Giving a damn about the child” means taking Samantha Geimer’s perspective in account. I’ve worked in an NGO where, amongst other things, we helped victims of racist violence. There had been a very mediatized case of a young Afghan kid beaten up by Golden Dawn thugs. All the NGOs were on him, using him as a flag, as a…

What I’m saying is precisely that people like you cannot process more than one variable, just want their on/off toggle switched, and run with it. Whereas actual fairness would require the consideration of the many, many elements that you trim out (as “verbiage”, “murkiness”, or “headache”) in favor of twitter-friendly…

Excellent illustration of what I’m saying, though.

The complexities of Polanski’s case lie elsewhere. Disagreements on whether he “paid” enough or not for the S.G. rape, on whether the trial was fair, on how to deal with the fact that she really wishes him to be left alone with that story, and, what is way much important in my eyes : the veracity of the other accusatio…

There is nothing “obvious” one way or the other in this speciic case, but apart from that, I see your point. It’s distressing to the the AVClub rate so high a documentary that openly looks at only one side of a dirty, complex, emotional story, and it’s distressing to see the tweet-level crowd hurling itself at a…

Out of curiosity, what made you go from considering Moses’ testimony as a “proof” to the polar opposite ? That is, “definitely believing one side” on both cases ?

For a show that feels like Torchwood but good, it’s amusing to have a Harkness but bad.