AndiHutch

As I learned the other day, if it wasn't for undocumented immigrants paying taxes but not getting benefits, social security would be in a much worse financial situation.

Every working undocumented immigrant detained is one step closer to financial ruin for future grandpas and grandmas. When immigrants work jobs, they pay in, but since they are here illegally, they can't access the benefits from working. And it sure as heck ain't cheap to round them up and detain them either. It's too bad the media and politicians only pretend to care about the cost if the policy is something that actually helps people.

Hey now, don't be dissing rocks. We can trick rocks into thinking, the people on the other hand I'm not so sure.

if they think they can get away with it.

You missed this apparently.

Also stealing wages via tips is different than not paying the difference between tipped min wage and regular minimum wage when there isn't much business. Maybe there was some confusion on your part about what I was referring to there.

Both are forms of wage theft and both do happen, but I wasn't referring to stealing tips in my OC. Perhaps I could've worded my comment better to make that clearer.

Why the hostility and insults to ~~unskilled~~ essential workers? Those jobs are often worked at by young workers who don't necessarily know their rights. I agree it's bad business practice to do it but it absolutely happens.

Its not your employer’s job to babysit your paycheck.

LOL Yes, it literally is.

dolts like you ... If you arent reporting discrepancies, thats on you

Nice insult, very constructive. What would the capitalist business owners do without people like you putting down workers and defending their shitty business practices? Also ah yes it is the workers fault for that they are getting wages stolen from them not the owner's or manager's.

But how much heatsink? Pea sized is surely a bit small for a whole chicken. Maybe egg sized?

And lots of employers will refuse to pay more than the tipped rate on slow days stealing wages from the workers if they think they can get away with it.

Probably only because they include some 'benefits' like health insurance that are horribly overpriced and the worker never sees.

I don't think of it as an insult generally, but it reads like an insult in this context to me since you certainly weren't using it a clinical sense and it doesn't land as a joke imo; now you can say that's all on me if you want but communication has 2+ parties involved. Even if it wasn't meant as an insult, it is still ableist language in this context imo and I will call it out even if it makes people uncomfortable.

I really don't understand why people find it acceptable to make a joke where the punchline is accusing someone of having a mental illness.

To me there is very little difference between that and putting someone down.

Why is it funny to accuse someone with making a minor correction of having OCD?

Sorry, I didn't mean to strike a nerve. Also sorry to hear you and your spouse have some difficulties with mental and physical challenges in today's world. I hope you can find some understanding people to cooperate with.

Intent deducing should also go both ways, I did interpret your posts in a somewhat light-hearted manner in line with the comm vibe, but it also just doesn''t sit right with me using real disorders people have as an insult. I replied in it in the same format as you did but you seemed took offense when I did it even though you used the same format in your comment.

Anyway, I wish you good luck in your journey and thanks for reading.

As you hinted religion is a potential way to control a population into doing what you want as it is a way of controlling what is talked about (and how it is talked about) to manipulate people.

I think what has changed is that now the owners of the media and information landscape can use new technology and psychology to control the narrative better mostly to extract a bit more profit. It is more profitable to keep people scrolling or listening to ragebait on your platform or show than to do proper investigative journalism.

The problem is the vast majority of media sources are controlled by elites who skew their messaging to the perceived whims of their owners which happen to predominately be far right. The population is forced to follow their lead as they have no easy way of influencing public opinion at scale.