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Fan made trailers - Do you like watching them or consider them clickbait ?
  • There's some YouTube channel that adds "Official trailer" to their thumbnails and they mean "their official fan made trailer" and it's annoying and misleading. YouTube has a "don't suggest" option on channels but they need a block.

    Fan made trailers need like a [Parody] tag or something, imo

  • Will Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's new 'department' actually be able to do anything?
  • Elons two main businesses only exist because of government handouts. 7500 electric vehicle tax credit over 100,000s of cars is well into the billions. With how close Tesla came to insolvency, the ability to reach more customers surely saved Tesla.

    And spaceX (and more money for starlink) he has got billions more directly and is slated to receive even more even though SpaceX has missed deadlines over and over and the goal of propping up SpaceX was so we could have a cheaper option than Russia to getting people to the ISS is now not even on the table.

    What's the over/under twitter gets government subsidies with some paper thin argument like "it's the public square of the Internet, so it's basically a park, and since we get 10x the yearly visitors than the grand canyon, we deserve 10x it's budget to help maintain our "free speech" park"

  • I thought Asmongold would be somewhat KIND OF normal after his break, but...
  • He used to talk a lot more about progressive ideas like being pro abortion, pro UBI and other government safety nets, and a bit libertarian of live and let live.

    But if you ever watch him with Hasan, he will be convinced or fence sit on his previous statements. I honestly think because the majority of his audience is right leaning, he let himself parasocially be manipulated into echoing Trump all the time.

    I don't think he has real opinions, I think whoever he talked to last is how he forms his world view.

  • He's not really gonna get rid of the ACA right?
  • You only need simple majority to pass most bills. You need 60 votes to bypass any filibuster attempts (this is called cloture).

    There's also standing that "budget neutral bills over 10 years" need less red tape before being voted on.

    I think they have what they need to repeal ACA, but not enough to shut down filibustering

  • Anon doesn't tip
  • "If you don't tip don't go out"? Telling people who want to see the tipping culture removed to not go out means that either way, the waiter doesn't get tipped. Europe has restaurants, so clearly tipping or not tipping doesn't dictate the existence of restaurants.

    If a waiter works an entire shift and receives no tip, they are entitled to actual minimum wage instead of the reduced minimum wage. So there shouldn't be any moral misgiving to not tipping, it's just social pressure.

  • Become ungovernable
  • That is fighting with the employer. Tipping is what the employers want. That's why my idea of "disobeying" was that this is when the movement to end US tipping culture makes sense. Europe has restaurants and they don't have a tipping culture.

    I don't get why if I don't tip that I'm the one starving the employee, and not the employer.

  • Become ungovernable
  • If wait staff stop getting tips, eventually they will strike or quit and the restaurants will have to change their model. My solidarity exists that if they strike then I won't shop there until they agree to a compromise. I don't see how the existence of the US's unique tipping culture is our responsibility.

  • Become ungovernable
  • They aren't a political pawn. This is what we want. This is what we voted for. It's not my responsibility to pay their wages. If they don't like their compensation, they can strike or look elsewhere for employment. Clearly trying to push for better compensation through law isn't going to work.

  • To all american "leftists" who didn't vote for Kamala, FUCK YOU!
  • Well, just picking Kamala was probably a better choice than having a contested open primary for 3 weeks leading up to the convention. People couldn't even vote on that primary, it would just be a vibe check the superdelegates decided on.

    Primaries are already a bit undemocratic. The DNC and RNC get to pick and filter who is even in the primary. A random person with a following can't just sign up with their state government to be placed on the Dem primary, the DNC can prevent random person even if they have a following if they don't want them.

    The democracy happens on election day.

  • Become ungovernable
  • I'm still feeling bitter and a fast food place last night asked me to tip, so it got me thinking that maybe this is the time to push out tipping culture. If the country wants the party of "fuck you, I got mine", then fight your own battles for your wage.

    Legally, if they don't make minimum wage through tips then the employer has to make up the difference (in practice this likely doesn't happen). Maybe it will make them care more about the minimum wage if it affects them.