All business owners have a moral responsibility to pay a living wage. If you can’t afford to pay that much, you can’t afford to be in business - and you’re also really, really bad at it.

Your paradigm is over, boomer. You fucked it up, and now you have to actually pay your employees a living wage. Get over it.

Sounds like someone threatened your power over other people and you’re pitching a little man-baby fit. How does it feel to realize you don’t matter even a little bit and you wasted your life abusing others?

It’s the summer Olympics, so it’s competitive douche-canoe paddling.

It’s really bizarre to see people take things they learned from advertising companies so seriously. If you want to bathe every single day and scrub every inch of your body, go for it! But let’s not pretend that’s “common sense” - it’s a need that was entirely created by advertisers to sell things to you. The consensus…

“Remake” is just marketing. It’s just a sequel that doesn’t want to acknowledge the original’s existence in the internal logic of the film. Actors sign on to sequels all the damn time, no matter how similar the movies are (aka Fast and the Furious).

I don’t believe that “who won the game” matters in the slightest. The culture that says it’s ALL that matters is exceedingly toxic and leads to, for example, allowing domestic abusers to continue to play in American football, and exploiting young black athletes for their labor in college sports in order to make…

Please explain to me why I should give two shits for the toxic thoughts of a “sports world” which cares more about entertainment and endorsement deals than the health of their competitors. Thanks.

You should really interrogate much more closely why you don’t like the idea that her decision was good/brave/strong. It was definitely a hell of a lot braver than acceding to the toxic demands of those who think athletes should sacrifice their health for our entertainment.

Nice strawman you built there, but literally no one mentioned legal liability. We’re calling it irresponsible and concerning, not legally actionable. In human society, we have a moral responsibility to one another - not just a legal one.

Perfectionist culture is white supremacist culture. The idea that someone must make no mistakes / never prioritize their health in order to be the “greatest” is a toxic belief we must eliminate.

You’re not at all troubled about what this says about you? That you literally need fake, made up trophies to experience any pleasure while engaged in personal entertainment?

It comes MUCH more across as players not understanding that rules exist to be broken. Great art transgresses - they made you feel something, therefore they succeeded. Expand your consciousness.

How does “not saying anything at all” constitute a message? How about instead, everyone just... gets the fuck over themselves. The more I hear from people opposed to this unobtainable achievement, the more I think they absolutely deserve to be screwed with.

They’re referencing the idea (possibly apocryphal) that if you get a rat addicted to a substance it gets from hitting a button, it’ll just press that button until it dies. In this case, setting up the juxtaposition of the rat corpse in front of the small door, and the player in front of the big door, mashing the…

Your personal experience with the UAW is not enough data to declare “unions don’t work.” In the US, unions are responsible for some of the most rapid gains in worker benefits and improved quality of life in US history.

Please point to the “winkingly playful” part of your original post. I don’t think that means what you think it means.

“Not sure how that rises to the level of a phobia”

“Police officer” isn’t even in the top ten most dangerous professions in America. It’s at least 6 times more dangerous to be a fisherman than to be a police officer, and fishermen manage not to murder people on a regular basis. So I don’t know about the whole “they’re so frightened they have to shoot first and ask…

The fact that a job is “challenging” is not an excuse to execute people, nor does it excuse the fact that cops constantly cover up misconduct, and retaliate against those who refuse to cover up misconduct. All cops are bastards because they behave worse than the Catholic church in terms of defending the violent…