Chaka Kahnneman

Last book read: Dawn of the Fecal Trumpet Blast: An Odyssey of Struggle and Triumph By Dana Snow-Brian

@wil_da_beast630 Yea, like, I have no problem using the euphemism "at-risk youth" if we're clear that means "at risk of being locked up for a good long time".

Actually punish criminals?

@RichardHanania If the cost of living is such that that's an adequate amount and you like the work you do then no, you haven't failed at life. It depends on what your goals are.

Graham Platner says he and his wife make $60K a year combined. Isn't this an indication you've failed at life? Why would this be something you brag about?

@LAGooner14 @CathyYoung63 @WallStreetApes I don't know who you are and you don't know who I am. Don't include me in some group, i.e. "so many of you". I believe students should be taught comprehensive, nuanced, accurate history. That is all. I suspect the reason for the simplification is just laziness.

We have literally been lied to about everything Matt Walsh “The Rosa Parks story you were taught in school was fake too. This was not just some woman on her way home from work. Civil rights leaders thought Parks would make a sympathetic face for their lawsuit and then told her, a longtime NAACP volunteer, to create a situation where she'd be arrested. This gets sold to the public as totally organic when actually it's playacting to create ideal conditions for a court case or scandal. The iconic photo of Parks on the bus was staged months after the incident as part of a press campaign. (The photo is shown in the clip) The white man, sitting behind her in the bus photo was a journalist, which you probably didn't know.” Let’s fact check this. It’s 100% true What Actually Happened on December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks was a longtime NAACP volunteer and secretary of the Montgomery chapter. She had been deeply involved in civil rights activism for years (including work on cases like the Recy Taylor rape and voter registration efforts). She was not just a random tired seamstress on her way home from work who spontaneously refused to move. Local civil rights leaders had been looking for a strong test case to challenge bus segregation. They even had people cast for the role before Rosa Parks. Earlier attempts include 15 year old Claudette Colvin were passed over because leaders felt Rosa Parks, a mature, respected, married woman with a spotless reputation, would be a more sympathetic plaintiff in court and to the public The Iconic Photo was 100% staged The famous photo was taken on December 21, 1956, this is over a year after her arrest and on the first day the buses were integrated after the Supreme Court ruling It was deliberately staged by journalists, Look Magazine and UPI, for a press campaign to dramatize the victory The white man sitting behind her is Nicholas Chriss, a UPI reporter, not a random angry passenger or segregationist

@LawMacaw @CathyYoung63 @WallStreetApes I never said it was "graver"! But history should be taught correctly. You don't think so?

@ribbitthehog @CathyYoung63 @WallStreetApes Right, that is the graver sin. That it is taught incorrectly in public schools and has been for a while. It's like talking about the horrors of slavery without mentioning the black dude that owned slaves and that the native Americans had black slaves as well.

@CathyYoung63 @WallStreetApes Many people know this, yes, bit is also true that the simplified version does get taught in many of not most K12 schools. An indictment of public education, a whole different topic.

@WallStreetApes Every educated person knew that, you dope. Does this change the fact that buses were segregated by race?

@Brandon78675317 @Hania16836 Sure. But in general, it's a really hard job and they work their butts off. Anyone can *get* a job waiting tables, but only some can do it really well. Haha, ask me how I know.

@ribbitthehog @Hania16836 For sure if you’re living an upscale life wheel yhat will be recurring. But people and business need to be realistic and gauge it case-by-case, not establishing these ludicrous expectations. Also, paying commensurate wages would help.

@Brandon78675317 @Hania16836 If service is crappy, I don't think you even owe them 10% because they're ruined a good meal. But if they enhance? Ain't nothing wrong with tacking on 25. It's part of the experience!

@ribbitthehog @Hania16836 (2/2) But let’s say just a chain steakhouse, not a fancy one? Idk, it would just depend. That’s why I hate the “percentage” rules. They don’t make sense

@Brandon78675317 @Hania16836 I mean...if you do that, you won't be welcome back the second time. And if you really like a restaurant (I only return to the really good ones) then you want to cultivate a good relationship with them. To me, it's worth it.

@ribbitthehog @Hania16836 I’d pay the expected price for the food. But the service, if on par with that of a diner or chain restaurant, will elicit the same tipping. I tipped some $30 when I splurged and went to teppanyaki with my GF. The chef and waiters were great, providing a show and convo (1/2)

@Brandon78675317 @Hania16836 That's the way to do it. I don't fault you for not going to expensive places if you don't think the food's worth it. It often isn't. But if you go, pay the expected price, don't try to go cheap on it, that's all I'm saying.

@ribbitthehog @Hania16836 I am a cheap fuck. That’s why I don’t tho to places like that. I eat at local diners and tip $5 on my $15 dinners and my $8 breakfasts. Tell me what that percentage works out to??

@Brandon78675317 @Hania16836 Then you're a cheap fuck and your life will be the poorer for it.

@ribbitthehog @Hania16836 If a server can demonstrably provide above and beyond service, then I may consider it. Carving steaks, mixing salads, pouring wine, that’s the kinda stuff that would earn a tip higher than a casual restaurant, not the price of the food. Otherwise, base is like $10-$15-

@user29848473 @Hania16836 Service is friendlier in the US too.

@ribbitthehog @Hania16836 it’s BS considering every other country in the world you do not have to tip

@user29848473 @Hania16836 And they get higher wages, it's a balance.

@JosephAPWilson1 @MarcoFoster_ By today's standards it WAS shockingly humane but we live in a different world now in many ways. Entitlement programs were better funded so we actually had a lot more latitude with spending than we do now.

@ribbitthehog @MarcoFoster_ OK -- I have looked at your timeline and see you have some subtle takes I respect. I am definitely not going to split hairs with you on this point. I will say that Reagan had some pretty good speechwriters. His real skills as an actor were how he made neoliberalism SEEM humane.

Harrison Ford: “Humanity is a part of nature, not above it. We need cultural change. We need to extend social justice. We need to respect and elevate the indigenous people that are being marginalized, and in many cases, killed in cold blood. The world you’re stepping into, the world my generation left you, is a real mess”

@JosephAPWilson1 @MarcoFoster_ If you changed the POV to right-wing but kept the primitivity of the argument, it would read like "Capitalism is great and we are rich and strong. The world needs strength and we kick ass! Lock them up and throw away the key! USA!!"

@ribbitthehog @MarcoFoster_ Nobody is asking you to clap like a seal, but you are doing the opposite, griping and grousing about it in multiple tweets about a sound bite from an elderly actor. Forgive me for wondering why.

@JosephAPWilson1 @MarcoFoster_ And also I only intended one tweet. All my other tweets have been responses to attacks on the original post.

@Lwm_625 @GiancarloSopo Yes and no. There's plenty of adaptation of oral formulae and there's plenty of tomfoolery with the gods. But there isn't this jaded hipper-than-thou cynicism about heroism and amusedly speculating "what if his wife just moved on, lol".

@ribbitthehog @GiancarloSopo His whole point is that this is literally what Homer did with Greek mythology

Maybe Nolan's Odyssey will be great. Maybe it'll be a disaster. Either way, I trust these two more than the performative outrage of a thousand grifters. A political movement that outsources cultural taste to the latter deserves to lose the culture.

@porkybucek @jpodhoretz @EsotericCD Porky porky dorky dorky, stabbed yourself in the eye with your forky forky.

@ribbitthehog @jpodhoretz @EsotericCD Do it faggot

this fight is bananas anyway. who knows what shade of skin the Greeks and Trojans had. We don't even know if Troy even really existed