:honk-enraged: Debaaaaaate meeeeee
*also lmao the poster who was just summarily labeling people moral reprobates for the crime of listening to the wrong genre of podcasts is now offended by someone taking an "aggressive tone." Just the biggest karen energy
Calling thousands of completely normal people "vultures enjoying death" who "are not helping society" and who "should be ashamed of themselves" for consuming media you don't personally approve of is peak internet discourse but :honk-enraged: away I guess
capitalist exploitation and ecocide of the whole planet: :comfy:
someone somewhere is listening to a true crime podcast: :honk-enraged:
Andropausal boomer threatened to "kick my ass" because he "didn't like my tone" (I wasn't even serving or interacting with him, he just singled me out for some reason, probably out of some weird alpha male brainworms) and instead of kicking him out for threatening staff or standing up to him in any way, management apologized for me ruining his dining experience (even though it was never explained what I was even doing) and comped his meal.
I was just a scared teenager at the time, in hindsight I should've 1) told him to step outside, and 2) quit immediately afterwards
*Another one was getting jumped and chased by 4-5 guys because our employee entrance was in a back alley that always filled up with sketchy and dangerous people after the late night bar rush. Despite all the muggings and fights that happened back there, management did not give a shit about their laborers getting beaten up and was like, "Oh, if you feel threatened just have another staff member walk with you when you leave. Use the front entrance? Don't be silly, we can't let our valued customers see you people coming and going, they find the sight of you distasteful."
Civic religion cargo cult, they're dazzled by the power of the state over their lives (like, idk, speed limits and bans on raw milk) but also don't understand where it comes from or how it works so they're reduced to ritualistically mimicking its language and symbols in an attempt to wield the power for themselves.
It's a question of faith, not evidence, like any religion.