Clinton bombed a pharmaceutical factory on the suspicion that it was being used to manufacture bioweapons

Ahh, yeah definitely a shitty thing to do. I don’t know if war crime is the best descriptor, more of a crime against humanity imo.

but one way he did this is bombing civilian targets.

This article is atrociously biased, to the point where it’s blatantly ahistorical. The attempt to “both sides” the war crimes committed by the Serbs and Bosniaks is just immoral. It would be the equivalent of equating war crimes committed by the Palestinians with the genocidal reaction of Israel.

To my knowledge there was no intentional targeting of civilians in Kosovo, there was a refugee column that was mistakenly bombed, which NATO took responsibility for .

I don’t really know much about this publisher, but I would be wary of any “leftist” publisher who back articles originally written for a libertarian rag.

The problem is that this is how fascism ferments, it’s not about planning, it’s about taking action. So what if it doesn’t pass through the courts? For trump and his supporters that’s just evidence that the courts are against him. That the courts are not equipped to deal with today’s problems. That we don’t need courts, we just need to give someone enough power to get the job done.

Eh, I mean it kinda does. They’re complaining about having to 91k dollars of tax for nearly 4 million dollars of equity. They could just get a tax free loan guaranteed by their equity and receive millions to live off for the rest of their lives, paying the loan back when they sell.

They just want to have their cake and eat it. They like the free equity, they just don’t want to pay the taxes associated with it.

You seem to be either confused or unable to stay on topic. My point was that servers are paid by the hour which you confirm by stating the exact rates. What is your point? That they don’t get paid a lot? I’m aware, it’s why I don’t go to these places.

So you agree with my original claim…? What the hell have you been bitching about then?

Is this supposed to somehow guilt me into wanting to tip?

No, my entire point was that if you don’t want to tip, don’t go to a place where the employees rely on tips to make a living. If you do go to a place where they rely on tips, you should tip even if you don’t like the concept.

If a server doesn’t make enough money, that’s between them and their employer like in literally (and I mean literally, not figuratively) every other industry.

Yeah, because systemic poverty is a problem solved by personal responsibility…

A lot of people would love to not work for tips, but never had the resources or education to get a better career.

Oh, it’s just the system, nothing we can do! We have to conform to the system because the owners don’t care!" is exactly what greedy restaurants owners are hoping you’ll say and you perpetuate this system by repeating it over and over.

Or…like I originally said, don’t support those restaurants. Better yet, support politician and unions that aim to protect workers. My whole point is that we shouldn’t make it the workers problem.

I’m not even going to read the rest of you strawman argument, you’ve already agreed with my original claim. The rest of what you’ve said is just cognitive dissonance. You have been simultaneously saying it’s not okay to frequent tip based restaurant, but have also been defending stiffing waiters. So it seems like you are just angry and confused, I don’t think talking about this with you anymore is going to be productive in any sense.

like Bill Clinton administration’s war crimes

Not defending liberalism, especially the Third Way perspective popularized by the Clinton’s. However, when you are talking about Clinton and war crimes are you talking about the war in Bosnia?

Imo intervening in an ethnic cleansing is just about the only decent reason to go to war in the first place. There were plenty of war crimes going around in Bosnia, but the vast majority of them were happening to the Bosniaks, whom the Clinton administration was aiding.

We can’t stand up to Trump, but we can stand up to this kid telling us to do our jobs.

There needs to be an age and income bracket limit for people in government service, these rich geriatric fucks are going to get us all killed.

If I’m not being tipped for waiting a table, I still get paid hourly wages, meaning I get money for that table or any other I wait during my work hours.

The hourly rate for most servers is less than minimum wage, which is already too low to make a living off of. Like I said, I don’t think you know how this works. You can legally pay a server $2.13 an hour in most states so long as what ever tips they make the rest of the day average to $7.25 an hour.

Do you think restaurant owners waste servers’ time by underpaying them?

I think they take advantage of their labour, just as people like yourself do.

You already agreed that tipping doesn’t end tipping culture, so your act doesn’t really make sense now.

Act? My claim is that if you don’t like tipping, don’t go to restaurants where servers rely on tips to make a living.

I don’t employ servers, so it is in no way my responsibility to pay their wages. I’m responsible for paying for the food and service that I receive. The owner is responsible to pay for the labour they receive. Rather simple in concept, really.

Lol, it’s also very simple to see that the system we currently utilize is inadequate and is geared towards maximizing profits to the owner, and that is not the fault of the server who is just trying to make a living.

It’s fine if you’re OK with picking up someone’s employer’s tab, I won’t. Just don’t confuse who’s exploiting who just because you so desperately want to shift the blame away from the restaurant owner.

I don’t tip because I’m fine with “picking up the owners tab”. I tip because I know that the only person who loses in the situation is the worker. The owner doesn’t care if you tip or don’t tip, he gets his money either way. I’m not shifting the blame from the owner, they are of course exploiting the worker. However, so are you if someone is working in the expectation of compensation and then receives none. I’m guessing you don’t tell the waiter you don’t believe in tipping before the service…?

the system surely sucks but apart from shaming customers into shelling out for what you systematically withhold, there’s just nothing that could be done :(" Does your family own a restaurant or something?

Or …you could go to the many restaurants that don’t rely on tips to pay their workers. That is the only way to actually fight tipping culture, by rewarding your patronage to an owner who utilizes a labour system you believer in.

An no, my family doesn’t own a restaurant. I used to work as a chef while I worked my way through school, and I know how feast or famine things can be for people working up front. I’ve known people who couldn’t make rent because they had a bad day. I have basic empathy for my fellow workers.

“I haven’t frequented tipped restaurants in 20 years”

You said you haven’t participated in tipping culture for 20 years, based on your other shitty opinions, I figured that could mean you just haven’t tipped for 20 years. Also, I don’t really think someone who defends stiffing wait staff so vehemently online would really have a problem with taking advantage of their labour in real life and lying about it on the web.

To be honest you just seem like a person incapable of empathy, like some sort of libertarian sleezball. Anyways, have fun being a miserable ass.

Oh, wow. Suddenly they’re not being paid at all only because one person doesn’t tip? How does that work?

Lol, I’m guessing you’ve never worked in a restaurant before? If you are taking one of their tables and they are having to serve you, and you don’t tip…they don’t get money for that table and whatever time you used it for. If you hadn’t taken up the table, they may have gotten a customer who wasn’t an asshole.

Not tipping wastes nobody’s time

It wastes the servers time, but you don’t seem to think that matters.

which I turned around on you, though.

How, by being wrong?

I don’t exploit anybody’s labour by not tipping since I’m not getting paid to eat out. You understand that.

Tipping is wrong because it turns over the responsibility of labour expense to the customer. You, the customer are denying that labour expense and leaving the labourer unpaid for their labour. Meaning you are participating and taking advantage of their labour.

Why didn’t I think of that and not do it for the last 20 years?

Lol, you are still participating in the tip culture if you give your business to places that rely on tipping, but don’t tip. The owner still gets paid and doesn’t give a shit if the server does or not.

And if you are saying you don’t go to places that accept tips, then why are you even fucking talking to me? My whole point was that people who don’t like tipping culture shouldn’t go to places that accept tips.

the same server still doesn’t get tipped.

They may have more time or availability for someone who does tip, plus they aren’t wasting their labour on someone.

You’re not ending tipping culture by tipping, either. Just saying.

Yeah, but I never claimed I was attempting to end tipping culture by wasting people’s time and effort.

Again, why not just support businesses that don’t rely on tipping to pay their staff?

the context was “America kidnapped civilians” and someone said “I think what the Americans are doing is a good thing”, then yes, that would paint a bad picture.

I think you are framing the argument in an incomplete perspective. I don’t think the context is just that houthis are kidnapping people, moreso that they are standing up to what he believes is western powers projecting power and supplying weapons and resources to a nation commiting genocide. The kidnappings did not occur in a vacuum, and is secondary to their actual objective.

Do you not think what they did was terrorism?

I think terrorism is a word people utilize to stop people from intellectually engaging in a complex problem. I personally don’t think it’s terrorism, as you described… it’s kidnapping. Which isn’t great, but states do terrible things all the time. ICE is currently engaging in kidnapping people off the streets without due process, would you also consider that terrorism?

My whole point is that labeling something as terrorism is mostly used to disuade people from applying nuance to a topic, and it seems that’s really your only argument.

Yeap, for a long time liberal and conservative politicians utilized putting POC in jail as a middle ground for policy. It’s basically the mortar of third way politics, popularized by the Clinton’s in the US. Their "super predators " policy was instrumental in breaking the gridlock in Congress in the 90s, and basically responsible for current Democrats willingness to capitulate to the GOP at the drop of a dime. Adopting Third way politics is basically opening an express lane to fascism.

There is a lot of propaganda about North Korea, mainly spread by hardliners in the South. I think a lot of older South Koreans have a bit of a chip on their shoulders from the days when the tables were turned.

Back when the Soviets were bankrolling the North and the South was led by a military dictatorship, the North was objectively a better place to live. A lot of older South Koreans like my parent’s generation were raised on propaganda from the government, and a lot of them have a hard time letting go of it.

Which is bad, because there no real reason to make the situation in the north any more dire than it truly is. Their population is isolated from their families in the South, have cycles of severe food insecurity, and are at risk of inhumane punishment from a dynastic family that treat the country like a toy.

“I think what the houthis are doing is a good thing” -Hasan

That’s pretty vague. If I said I support what America does, that doesn’t necessarily mean I support the worst actions the state has ever taken.

Hasan is a terrorist supporter as evident by the above direct quotes.

Again, just because a group ends up on a terrorist list doesn’t really mean much besides that they’re currently unaligned with US interest. The “terrorist” dogma has really lost its bite since the war on terror began.

Lol, I’m sure your reasoning is really going to make a difference to the person depending on tips to make rent. And I’m sure the owner is just going to feel terrible that his server didn’t get compensated.

Maybe you should just avoid giving your business to restaurants that exploit the tip based system? You aren’t ending tipping culture by not tipping, you’re just taking advantage of workers just as much as the owners.

Why don’t the homeless just simply befriend the children of oil tycoons and have them gift them a vineyard? Then they too could one day fail upwards to become the governor of California.

If Gavin wasn’t the friend of a billionaire he would be an illiterate moron who couldn’t hold down a job.

Not specific enough. Going by typical evil genie rules you’d be born in 47’, but be a poc in like Alabama or Oklahoma. Just in time to get drafted to fight in Vietnam and then have to fight for civil rights at home.

Eh… I wouldn’t recommend them for use during vigorous activity or on uneven ground. But they honestly aren’t that big of a deal for the majority of people. Around a cm of heel height is built into the vast majority of shoes. Most work boots and especially cowboy boots can have 3-4 cm of extra heel height without causing problems.

People with hyper mobile ankles or heels can be at higher risk of ankle injuries, but when people with higher mobile joints turn their ankles the sprains tend to be less severe. People with tight calves, heel spurs, hx of plantar fasciitis, or shortened Achilles can actually find high heeled shoes more comfortable than flats.

Everyone is different, just because you feel unsafe or uncomfortable in heels doesn’t mean everyone does.

The hilarious thing about all these fascist trying to claim that the new Pope is woke is that he’s more conservative than Francis.

Prevost opposes the ordination of women to the diaconate, arguing it “doesn’t necessarily solve a problem” and could create new issues.[106]

Prevost opposes euthanasia, abortion, and the death penalty.

Prevost opposed the inclusion of “gender ideology” in Peruvian school curricula, stating it promotes “genders that don’t exist”.[81][121] In 2012, he criticized popular culture’s sympathy for the “homosexual lifestyle” and same-sex families.[122] Prevost expressed reservations about “sympathy for beliefs and practices that contradict the gospel”

Just because he doesn’t hate brown people and doesn’t like trump they’re doing trans phrenology on him lol.

Lethal injections are performed by physicians.

No they are not. They’re usually performed by volunteers, most commonly EMTs or nurses. A lot of state protocols request that a physician be present to witness and call time of death, but even that’s rare.

The code of ethics in the AMA strictly prohibits physicians from participating in executions.

“A physician must not participate in a legally authorized execution,” the American Medical Association says in its Code of Medical Ethics. “When physicians participate in capital punishment, they are being utilized to intentionally inflict harm by using their medical knowledge and skills to forcibly cause death,” AMA media relations manager R.J. Mills told NPR. “Physicians who participate in capital punishment take an active role as agents of the state, not as advocates for the condemned, even if their intent is to minimize suffering.”