Even after working in the service industry for years, I still don’t understand why this is considered “unfair.” Tips are considered part of your wages, everyone’s wages are taxed.

I had a cashier at a coffee shop shame me for not tipping on an iced coffee. As in - she said (as she walked by me outside) that she took my photo because I didn’t tip.

I think that’s true but also believe servers who post shit like this should be fired

I don’t believe “Confederate” is going to be the Alt-right love fest people are speculating it will be. If it can be done right with The Man in The High Castle and The Handmaiden, I’m sure it can done well here. TMITHC and The handmaiden doesn’t glorify Nazis or misogynistic alternate worlds. If anything, they do the…

It is stalemate, so they’re not going with “The South Won.”

I just checked and Palestinian elections have been suspended since 2014, when they were supposed to happen. How is THAT self-determination by any means?

There was this great NPR article I read around 2012 that was just interviews with the people of Israel and Palestine and so many disagreed with the leaders and admitted to feeling helpless since for now the majority wants th conflict to go on.

It’s amazing to me that you adopt this absolutist tone about an incredibly complex situation and expect to be taken seriously. Pro-Palestine, Pro-Israel - there are moral, ethical and admirable people on both sides of this debate (and many who don’t take a simple side). Anyone who doesn’t acknowledge that the…

Yep. I read a detailed account of the breakdown of the Kerry peace talks and my god. The poor diplomats. Both sides’ head diplomats were being threatened and called traitors by their own people just for trying for peace. Because right now, what both sides seem to want is for the conflict to continue, sadly. It was…

I know. But they don’t mean it. Discourse discourse discourse.

Okay, vote for a terrorist organization whose purpose is destroying Israel.

That line about how Zionists treat it as a zero sum game while Palestinians don’t just about made me roll my eyes in its ignorance of the reasons for why most every peace plan has failed in the past. For all sorts of reasons, many even justified, both sides have things they don’t want to compromise on that make this…

Antizionists- the opposition to the modern State of Israel. For a lot of them, this means the dissolution of the country.

There is no second-class status though. Not inherently. If the actual execution of laws is racist, then we continue to fight. You really think conditions in Israel are similar to Jim Crow? I definitely disagree, but then again I don’t know how often you go to Israel/your level of knowledge. Maybe it’s more than mine.

Well put. This is one of the most complicated conflicts in history and yet many seem to want to make it Good Guys v Bad Guys. It’s not. It’s a total clusterfuck, is what it is.

the Left is all about seeing the nuance in issues

Did Jezebel seek out a viewpoint from the other side, or are the editors simply comfortable with the context-free claim that Israel and Zionism are simply a modern nationalist movement? Nothing about the utter failure of the Enlightenment in Europe to successfully integrate Jews as Jews without demanding they abandon…

Can you please not call us Zio-bots?

We need to stop with heaping this ridiculous criticism of Emily Shire. In the same piece you criticize, she mentions her desire for a Two State Solution. If you wanna say that some (hell, maybe many) Zionists are too extreme and uncompromising, sure. But Emily Shire is not one of them. Her piece is a direct reaction…

Silver takes the blame because he’s the mascot of the super-scientific secret-sauce predictions crowd, but him and the Upshot guys and the Princeton Election Consortium nerds and everyone else who convinced us the Democrats had this one in the bag all have to look in their mirrors every night for the rest of their…