With the name “RageAgainstTheRich”, one would think you’d be more into class solidarity. 🙄

Do you mean by asking for a universal minimum wage instead of making each company’s workers fight for a living wage at each company individually?

Because yes. Obviously.

Love how they just say “reddit.com” when it’s from r/shittymoviedetails. Perfect place to pull answers from without fact-checking.

In the meantime though, protesting the current system by not tipping directly harms the person who is doing work you could have easily done at home yourself.

I agree that we should have livable wages as the minimum wage, but your anger is misplaced. I’m mad at the government, and have solidarity with my fellow working-class citizens. If I can’t afford to tip somewhere, I can’t afford to be a patron there, and THAT directly impacts the company instead of the workers.

Because by patronizing the business and not tipping, you agree that the company paying an unfair wage is fine with you.

That’s worse.

The company should, but they don’t.

Again, if you are concerned about money, you can get cheap coffee at home. If you want someone to make it for you, you should understand the actual cost in US capitalistic society.

Until the company pays a living wage, buying coffee without tipping is agreeing that the business paying less than a living wage is acceptable.

If you don’t want to tip, don’t go there.

I know this isn’t the point of the comic, but the barista isn’t just handing you a cup of coffee. They’re brewing it and making specialty drinks too.

The not-tipping argument really only works if you’re ordering a black coffee, but if you’re getting black coffee from Starbucks, you’re already paying way more than you should, so just tip.

Coffee makers are hella cheap if black coffee is all you want.

We’re past “preventing” the Christo-fascist takeover. We’re in damage control now.

VOTE.

Control.

“You have to take off your shoes at the airport and then let a random person take pictures of you naked before getting on a flight because we need to prove that you’re not a terrorist. Remember what happened the last time we didn’t do that? You can either submit to us, or we can have another terrorist attack.”

It also marks a time in history when people started going back to church in order to find some semblance of an explanation, and the churches like the increased attendance. They’ve got to keep us scared that the “terrorists” are around every corner, and they have the only solution.

Potentially. If you know an attack is coming and use a blanket or pillow, yes.

It’s only legal to sleep in public without any bedding and without a cache of personal objects nearby, because that “implies the intent to establish a temporary residence”.

They’ve got those rose-colored glasses on thinking the American dream still exists.

Wait, let me check the math…

6+6=12 and 7 is one more than 6, so 6+7=13

Cool. Checks out.

100% and they’re trying to work on the definition of ‘Doctor’ too.

Modern-Day Jesus:

So the beggar at the red light began shouting, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

“Be quiet!” the people in the vehicle behind yelled at him.

But he only shouted louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

When Jesus heard him, he rolled down his window and ordered that the man come near. Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?”

“Lord,” he said, “My only want is for enough coin to eat for today!”

And Jesus said, “If I were to give you coin, surely you would instead use it instead for drugs and alcohol. I shall not grant you this desire. Instead I shall speak unto the land that all shall know of your wicked ways and none will grant you coin again.”

Instantly the man cried out, “If you were not to grant me this, Lord, please allow me to pass on from this world onto hell, for truly I am already living there.”

And Jesus said, “I do not know the ways of my Father, but surely I know this: Your fate would not have fallen upon you had you followed Jesus, praising God. You have made this bed, and now it is time for you to lay in it.”

And the light changed to green, and Jesus sped away. In the din, the beggar could not explain that he was born a disciple and had praised God since taking his first breath. And the people in the vehicle behind who saw it drove past and said, “Get a job”, and praised God this fate would surely never befall them.

I’m furious. I just read through as much as I could and asked GPT for a summary so I didn’t miss anything. It’s just about as bad as I thought.

The court is literally arguing that they’re not criminalizing homelessness, they’re just criminalizing ‘sleeping in public’ but makes no attempt to justify that with the fact that there literally aren’t places to go. When Sotomayor tries to argue that cities should be responsible for providing adequate housing, they just hem and haw at ‘What even IS adequate? We may never know. Plus, if we give them BEDS, they’ll probably want something to keep them WARM too! That’s just too much!’

It’s abhorrent and inhumane.

AFAIK, states are not allowed to prohibit same-sex marriages. Individual cities/towns can refuse to perform a marriage, but they still must recognize a marriage that was performed elsewhere.

It’s just allowing the bigots to inconvenience queer people for no reason. It doesn’t really prevent marriages (yet).

The initial lawsuit was in a town with ~600 fewer available beds than residents. These people literally did not have anywhere else to go, and our highest court just said ‘tough shit’.

Holy fuck, y’all.

I was wondering when they would start to figure out that maybe it’s a bad idea for the government to get between people and their doctors.

If they’re anything like my mother, they automatically assume anyone speaking in any language other than English within earshot of her is shit-talking her, specifically. The thought that someone might be saying something mean-spirited about her is just too much for her tiny brain to handle. If you think she’s a bitch, she needs to know. It reeks of desperation and the need to be liked by all people at all times while also doing nothing to bridge that gap yourself.