He's right but the restaurant is not the time or place for it.

Trotsky as an "I don't tip and have an entire ideological justification prepared in advance" is chefs kiss delicious.

He also asked the cashier to scan the candy bars individually to prevent electronic interference.

God, he was such an asshole.

In another incident, the restaurant staff conspired to serve him undercooked food that left him bedridden for several days with a severe case of diarrhea, giving rise to the name "the trots" as a popular euphemism for said malady [citation needed].

this is anticommunist. a communist tips well enough that the staff will conspire with you to fuck the owners

Love that he made this a microcosm of his entire belief system, rejecting material reality to grandstand in a way that just so happens to align with whatever benefits him personally.

This makes me more anti-Trot than anything else.

God no wonder he got the

This is one of those things you read and you just kinda roll your eyes and go "yep, that seems like something he would do."

Trotsky, in many ways, had it coming

I'm not gonna do any work to figure out if this is real. I think it's funny and I want it to be real.

as someone who worked for tips for 5 years, fuck that stiff

Alternate timeline: He successfully installs a Trotskyist government in the United States, solely on account of the tipping issue

They hated Trotski because he told them the truth.

Why would he try to persuade other customers? No wonder they splashed him with soup. Evil fucker

Why do I have to be Mr. Pink?

The Marxist thing to do is to tip based on the labor-time, rather than the menu price of the food.