this has to be a troll post

This is pretty ridiculous but it definitely sucks that the reason tipping exists is basically universal culture awareness of certain jobs both sucking and being underpaid (or legally encouraged to be underpaid which is insane).
I sympathize with the idea that it's absurd that customers are guilted into subsidizing people's wages under cultural expectations. It's messed up that many employers who are extremely profitable or highly valued have their entire business model built on underpaying employees and having consumers pay them indirectly instead.
That said I always tip pretty highly because i really feel bad for people who are getting such utterly screwed by the system like this

i'm sure you’ve seen this

love it when Jack makes non-falsifiable states as an easy way of positioning pre-emptively so he cant be wrong. if they find him guilty they can go "look see i was right and and this was an inside job they were intimidated" and if they find him non-guilty they can be like "well it was only two people so of course they weren't listened to"

i’ve never seen a tweet from him get as much backlash as this one is getting lmao (in recent times)

ever since i made that one thread here about identarianism, ive been thinking about this "idpol" schism a lot, both in contemporary american liberalism and left politics across the whole spectrum and how we can become less polarized as a society, ive probably been thinking about it too much and have become quite neurotic about it, and it's probably the most effort ive spent trying to figure out an answer to a big question, it makes me kinda depressed because there really isn't a concrete way to solve it and it'll take a lot of different approaches and it'll take a very long time, if ever.

i feel like i stress myself too much about trying to solve this contradiction, but it's an issue i've seen all my life and it's only getting worse.

i've seen the different perspectives from super-woke liberals to absurd internet "class reductionists" who think once socialism happens, both interpersonal/institutional racism will cease to exist on all levels, and I want to come up with a synthesis that can answer this schism without being neither lenient or reactionary, and it's an interesting balance to try and find.

i would also like to say i only really want to find an answer towards the link of race and class, because they have a unique relationship in comparison to the others under capitalism.

things like patriarchy and sexism as an hierarchy have existed before capitalism and it will take more of a effort based on interpersonal relations, while in comparison, racism is an institution shaped under capital, and its interpersonal variant descends from that and the only reason the interpersonal variant has as much power as it does, is because of the institution itself.

i feel like the left, and by extension , due to influence, liberals are stuck in a contradiction where we (correctly) acknowledge the socially constructive properties of racial ideology but we also (incorrectly) project it as if its natural and has transcendent, primordial qualities much like the right-wing white supremacist "race-realists" say as well, just under the original and much more cynical and false context.

i'd say the majority of the "woke" left/liberals don't practice intersectional anti-racism by its own definition (from the perspective of groups like the Combahee River Collective), in which it was made to educate all groups about the class struggle and all the oppressions which link most people, whether black, white, brown, etc. the issue with how "woke" people use it is that they use it in a way where they'll stack up "social currency" with their marginalized statuses and use it to gatekeep from other individuals who may have it different, this also negates the fact that marginalized people (especially racialized people) have different experiences on an individual level, and lots of factors can play into how much they are affected by these constructs.

intersectionality is extremely important, but i feel we're going more towards more atomisation than anything, and "intersectional" is just used as a empty buzzword

there is also a failure to acknowledge the inconvenient fact that the racial gap is shrinking in modern times and that the class gap is widening.

for example, a rich, dark-skinned mexican-american has more in common with their rich, white peers than a poorer person belonging under their racial group.

the rich person still gets racially profiled by the cops because they are thought to be "lower-class" (as race denotes your skin color to be correlative to where you stand in the social hierarchy) but overall in the justice system itself, they will have more leverage, compared to their poor counterparts, so class can supersede race on that part, and you statistically be less affected by things that disproportionately affect the poor and marginalized, like COVID-19 rates seeing a rise, and health issues, etc.

a hot take i've kinda developed is that "whiteness"/"blackness"/"brownness" are a false dichotomy and there is no amount of "reclamation" that can be done to save them from their roots of alienation, this is admittedly something i don't say, just because i know how people tend to kneejerk react and might call me a racist or something like that, which is ludicrous. In order to abolish whiteness, you must abolish its creations of these sub-racial categories. The eternal root of race has always been the act of racism which refies it, that's why it has the effect it does on people, so people think its somewhat natural, when it isn't.

because of this false dichotomy, I feel like we have also confused the construct of "race" with culture and I think that's dangerous, culture isn't an outcome of race, it's an outcome of your surrounding material conditions and the community around you. I think it's mainly because America has had an obvious history of being implicitly/explicitly segregated into racial enclaves and ghettos for the most part, primarily being upper-class to lower-class in range and this is what creates culture in relative isolation.

The OP's account is awful, it's basically MAGA conservatives trying to co-opt leftist anti-Biden narratives for their own "populist" purpose, it's odd

I don't really get why conservatives try to use the crime bill against Biden because it also implicates conservatives as well, who were very much in favor of that.

"As a rational consumer" is funny af lmao u can see him trying to use his ideology to justify him being an a******

Still calling it staples center idgaf

Biden said u gonna lose ur n-word pass if u dont vote for me

disclosetv threads don’t disappoint

@SonicNirvana wow this does not happen often but this is an actually beyond enraging tweet from Cernovich, even worse than his usual brand of stupidity

House is currently holding a vote on whether a House member should be censured over reposting an Attack on Titan meme

They really showed this s*** on CNN

this is the greatest thing to ever grace the congressional floor

he’s always so dramatic too

they’re all going insane because the verdict is taking a long ass time.