I just read a story on Yahoo about how a McDonald's employee choked and punched a customer who complained about his fries.
Apparently, this boorish 'Murrican thought that he could just insult people (particularly people of color) who earn minimum wage. The article explains that the rude, bougie customer admitted that even though "he was abrasive to the staff, he didn’t expect the incident to evolve into a violent one."
The man was rude and insulted people and wouldn't leave, so an angry employee choked and punched him. Better yet, he didn't lose his job and is trying to sue the customer.
In my America, rude ass customers who try to dress down minimum wage employees get boots up their asses and then sued or sent to the gulags.
Thank you McDonald's employee, whoever you are. You are my hero.
And to the douchebag who thought he can just shit on people, fuck you.
David Koch was actually amazing. Citation - Nancy Fraser The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born (2019)
The way I see it, American capitalists have been broadly united under the banner of "progressive neoliberalism", a centrist politics of the Democratic Party (and a shrinking part of the GOP) which combines the economic wet dreams of Goldman Sachs pedophiles with a commitment to recognition; leaving the old reactionary ways behind in favour of more female CEOs and bla bla bla. This gave a certain energy and legitimacy to oligarchic politics and it was good for business. Why rock the boat?
> Skewed as it was, this politics of recognition worked to seduce major currents of progressive social movements into the new hegemonic bloc. Certainly not all feminists, antiracists, multiculturalists, and so forth were won over to the progressive-neoliberal cause, but those who were, knowingly or otherwise, constituted the largest, most visible segment of their respective movements, while those who resisted it were confined to the margins. The progressives in the progressive-neoliberal bloc were, to be sure, its junior partners, far less powerful than their allies in Wall Street, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley. Yet they contributed something essential to this dangerous liaison: charisma, a “new spirit of capitalism.” Exuding an aura of emancipation, this new “spirit” charged neoliberal economic activity with a frisson of excitement. Now associated with the forward-thinking and the liberatory, the cosmopolitan and the morally advanced, the dismal suddenly became thrilling. Thanks in large part to this ethos, policies that fostered a vast upward redistribution of wealth and income acquired the patina of legitimacy.
For a minority of blood sucking capitalists, however, this was not enough. They wanted more! They wanted reactionary neoliberalism. The Kochs are more emblematic of this group than anyone else. They worked for decades developing an alternative political project, where they would cast off the nice progressive face of neoliberalism and create a masks-off aristocracy. They worked tirelessly for years to build institutions and delegitimize progressive neoliberalism in the eyes of the petty bourgeoisie and the working class. Thus they were perfectly placed to deliver the coup de grace in the wake of the 2008 economic collapse. Progressive neoliberalism was able to skate by for a while on the exceptional charisma of a popular president, but who se
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On one hand, it could mean to be proud about what you are doing, even if you're just in the working class without aspirations to ascend. On the other hand, it could be a cynical impression of what the system tells the broken people to keep them running.
What are your thoughts on this?
