Look, to my knowledge Tim has never expressed political opinions publicly, with the possible exception of his feelings for Israel. For someone to "out" him as having a certain political slant based on contribution information that, although must be publicly accessible under FEC law, is generally not meant by the contributors to be publicized; well I consider that to be inappropriate. I'm less disturbed about the Joss information since he publicly campaigned for Kerry, but still it bothers me that his contribution information was just thrown out there.
The purpose of publicizing election contributions is to try to reduce fraud and monkey-business, not to "out" people's political opinions. Besides, the more prevalent the list is used for the latter purpose, the less often people will donate to campaigns they believe in. I'd hate to see that happen.
ETA: This post is now moot but I hate deleting posts...
Have we ever seen anybody in power treat Companions with respect?
The sheriff and deputy (or whatever) in
The Train Job.
I've outted Tim as being conservative, I think. I guess that's out of line come to think of it.
Have we ever seen anybody in power treat Companions with respect?
The Mayor that town in "The Train Job" seemed impressed.
xpost with tommy!
Hmm.
Okay, good guys treat Inara with respect. Bad guys treat her rudely.
Ergo, Mal is not a good guy.
Works for me.
Ok, I'm not sure that this is what the disputed post was getting at, but:
The fact that the two people most responsible for the creative direction of the show are not actually in agreement politically hopefully is a downer to arguments that there's some sort of over-arching political theme that can map neatly on to one of those so-handy already-defined categories or platforms.
Jack, I was talking shit about you in Bureau, which, you know, I could have said here. But it's there, in case you want to answer it, ignore it, drop it, deal with it here, not care, whatev.
Sorry that I posted the inappropriate contribution info. My attempt to distinguish between libertarian and classical conservatism was I guess more a reply to the Mal=libertarian thread at Wedonesque, and Tim's latest interview about The moon is a harsh mistress. I'm not as smart as Tim or Joss, do I didn't mean it to be accusatory or rude.
I didn't mean it to be accusatory or rude
That's appreciated, Jack.
Well, by me, anyway.
Me, too. You can edit it out of your post, if you feel that's warranted.
