meatcringe [he/him]

I probably spoke too strongly. All I mean to say is that there are no perfect people. It seems self-evident to me that our communist descendents will look back at us with pity and resentment but maybe that’s a bit of internal doomerism I need to self-crit about. The struggle sessions this site has had in the past have really put me off the idea that “communists” in general are good people or that we don’t have a lot of growing up to do.

Every person alive holds views that the truly decent would find abhorrent. It’s no excuse to give up on one another, or on ourselves. The point is to change the world, comrade. Misanthropy is self-destructive and destructive to our movement.

Any logical process that ends in misanthropy is a misfiring of neurons.

I can’t for the life of me figure out why you post nothing but these horrendous doomer takes or why nobody ever calls you out for it.

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My exact thoughts.

I find users here to be more pleasant on average than anywhere else I’ve been on the internet. That being said, we do have a small but obnoxiously loud population of misanthropes here as well.

Exactly. Ever since working shit restaurant jobs, I can’t not tip 20%+

I think some survivorship bias factors in. From what I hear, restaurants are enormously expensive to get off the ground and have a very high early failure rate as businesses but once they have survived for 3 or so years, management gets much easier and profit margins are able to grow.

Consequently, in my experience, successful restaurants are indeed run by local rich kulak assholes with McMansions and luxury cars who fuck off around the world for weeks at a time when they aren’t back at the store berating their workers.

I’ve met and worked with asshole servers too and a few servers are comfortable snobs and class traitors but most are not. We shouldn’t stereotype our fellow workers like this, comrade.

It’s been a thing for years here in

And another thing ‘sales tax’ why not list the actual price you’ll pay on the item?

As a yank, I suspect it’s partly what you’re saying and partly just another aspect of the USAmerican “taxation = theft” psyop/brainworm. Taxation is made intentionally confusing and inconvenient here in order to manufacture consent for the gutting of our paltry social services.

Employers should but most of them won’t until they are made to through labor and community action. In the meantime, using the services of a tip-dependent workplace and then not tipping only hurts those workers, not their employer.

Tip culture is bad because it drives down wages. We should seek to abolish tipping and raise wages directly but until it is abolished, folks should tip well when it is expected and otherwise avoid going places where they are expected to tip. Don’t be a

Seconded from another homeschooled kid.

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