ITT: People who don’t know what fast food is. If you are seated, wait staff takes your order, and you wait 15+ minutes for your food to be prepared, it’s not fast food, even if you’re ordering a hamburger and fries.

Probably A&W. I’m shocked to see so many people saying Wendy’s. Their meat is tasteless, imo.

I’ll never cheer for an act of murder. But I am not broken up about this one.

Genuine answer? He should be tried. Murder is still murder. But I wouldn’t go out of my way to catch the guy, given the chance.

Far greater acts of evil and murder happen every single day, but I’m supposed to be bother by this one because the guy who died played by the rules of our broken-ass system? Or am I supposed to still be so blinded by the myth of capitalism, that wealth inherently represents virtue, that I should believe this CEOs life is worth more than the suffering occurring in every other part of the world? Should I choose to believe that the people he neglected to help - in hischoosing to chase the Almighty Dollar - are worth less than his life, because someone pulled the trigger rather than just watching people suffer while holding back the means to help? What kind of fucked up trolley problem is this?

I’ll never cheer for an act of murder. But I am not broken up about this one.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

We’ve been sacrificing underpaid workers, labourers and academics alike, to the stock market for years with such small returns. A single CEO is sacrificed and the line skyrockets.

We’ve been targeting the wrong people.

This is a terrifying precedent, though. If it becomes demonstratable that a sitting president can ignore the vote and veto the election, then every president from then until the end of time can argue against the “damage” the next president will cause. This was Hitler claiming “emergency powers,” and you will immediately have a dictatorship, not a democracy.

I’m not saying another Trump presidency is “fine” by any regard, but I don’t believe in being a fascist to prevent fascism.

The most blatant act of “rules for thee, but not for me.” My brother in Christ, you wrote the act.

What if I told you that, when I help others, I don’t do so expecting them to return the favor in the future? It’d be great if they did, I am sure some of them will, and many of them have, but that was never what it was about.

That makes a lot more sense. Appreciated.

His threat was directed at countries in the so-called BRIC alliance

What is meant by this? “so-called” is a qualifier we like to use to infer that something is using a name that doesn’t actually define it well. Is this not actually an “alliance,” or is this just unapologetic journalist bias trying to use negative language to speak about this group?

Genuine question. I can’t think of a third option, but if there is one, please, chime in.

Critize all you want, but the majority of Americans willing to go out and vote believe both that Trump is going to improve their buying power AND levy massive tariffs on imported goods. When common sense isn’t so common, it’s time to start stating the obvious loudly.

I’m surprised to see the act of putting conscious thought into maintaining positive relationships with others defined as “[playing] theatrics.” There are far more theatrics and drama involved in making a point to talk shit and burn bridges in the guise of honesty than there are in simply turning the other cheek and moving on.

Even if you are correct, telling your would-be boss in an interview that your coworkers were petty and childish is an enormous red flag. Speak to the kind of behaviour that happened, not what you think about it, if you genuinely want to be honest. “I felt overworked as a result of my coworkers failing to meet the expectations put on them by management” is not the same as “my coworkers were lazy.” One is a mixture of perspective and reasonably verifiable outcomes, while the other is a subjective value judgement. Spouting opinions and calling it “honesty” is not honest.

There’s a gap between “willing to be brutally honest when it’s necessary” and “brutally honest in a whim because everyone should feel the same about things as I do.” These types that love to tout just how “brutally honest” they are, tend to lean into the latter.

Most of us can be “brutally honest,” when it’s useful to do so. But often, it’s just a red flag for someone who not only fails to recognize their own bias’, but actively justifies those bias’ as objectively true.

It shouldn’t be hard to value positive relationships, even with less than stellar people, over smug self-satisfaction.

Please go back to the start of this conversation. I did not say we should be learning to understand nazis. Fuck nazis. But your average person who stayed at home is not a racist, secret neo-nazi. A large portion of voters who chose Trump over Kamala are also not voting to hurt others. By and large, voters are uneducated by design, and feeding into that design by calling them all nazi’s is deepening the problem.

I feel for you, because I also know how you get to feelings like yours, but this attitude is one of many problems, and I am approaching it exactly the way I am suggesting we need to: with understanding and discussion. I’m not blaming you. I get it. And that’s exactly my point.

Smug self-satisfaction it is, I see. Good luck.

This is a gross misunderstanding of why it worked for the Republicans. But okay.

I’m not suggesting more compromise and more moderate politics. I am suggesting we stop building strawmen.

The attitude that led to Trumps victory is born of the very belief that the ship sailed long ago. It turns out that when you paint your common man as a villain, their ego is all too happy to oblige. Or just burn out and stay home, calling it someone else’s problem.

I’m not sure why you are so eager to blame your common man when you yourself are quick to point out that billionaires are the problem.

They’ll choose not to vote again.

Is the goal change or smug self-satisfaction?

Right, and that is awful, but it’s ignorant and self-defeating of us to make enemies and play the blame game instead of seeking conversations and understanding.

If you tell people this is their fault and make them into the enemy, they will gladly act as the enemy. And they’ll blame everyone but themselves, a fact Trump has been far too happy to exploit.

Conversation. Understanding. Not creating enemies out of moderates.

Trump won because he appeals to people that we choose to neglect as simply ignorant, uneducated, stupid, etc. We have to accept that these people get a say, and show them that their decisions with Trump were not in their best interest, instead of continuing to insult them while their ego leads them to shoot themselves in the foot to spite us.

technocratic fascist dystopia

Technocratic is such a high hope. I like to think of it as capitalcratic fascism, or just capital-fascist. Rule by power of wealth.