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Try hiking the entire Appalachian Trail

I'm sorry but it will forever be stamped into my brain

During the six days of absence, one of the excuses offered by Sanford's spokesperson was that Sanford was hiking the Appalachian Trail. As a result, "hiking the Appalachian Trail" or "hiking the Appalachians" became a euphemism for a sexual scandal in American English

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It used to be socially unacceptable to be a jackass.

It used to be socially unacceptable to be a jackass while poor. You were always supposed to defer to your betters. The Kennedys got to be assholes. The Vanderbilts got to be assholes. The Pullmans got to be assholes. Their employees and staff were expected to be utterly docile and subservient.

But a century of rising middle class prosperity combined with a Randian self-centerism transformed generations of people into CEO wanna-bes. American libertarian ideology and the myth of the Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire has utterly obliterated class consciousness in the minds of the American working class. Millions upon millions of people have it embedded in their heads that they should be treated like aristocracy.

We have lost the plot, by and large.

We've bought into the propaganda of American Exceptionalism. Every American gets indoctrinated into the theory that they're above average, that they're Gifted And Talented, that they're destined to become The President. There is no universal understanding of the human condition, just people who deserve to be under you and people who climbed above you unfairly.

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Love it. Anyone designing public transit in any capacity has to use it to the exclusion of all else for half a year, and they must travel the longest distance within the system at least twice a week.

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Look, another deeply troubling toxic relationship with retail.

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That's honestly even more annoying.

I like seeing google reviews where someone is making a huge fuss about their poor restaurant experience, and then the manager responds like "You did not raise any issues during your visit, including when asked by staff. If you had told us of any problem we would have done our best to make it right"

Like how much of a clown does that customer then loo. Couldn't raise the problem in person, but quite happy to go kick off about it online where they feel anonymous.

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Totally wouldn't work. We Americans believe in a brotherhood/sisterhood of suffering. I

As someone who's been in the compulsory military service, this is exactly what would happen. The "old cans" in there haze and expect the newbies to suffer like they did.

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And there would always be outs for the rich so they wouldn't have to.

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Sorry, I mean the "collective we." Of course individuals do build compassion, but look at the state of America and tell me that the collective we is different than I stated.

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Shouldn’t av upcharged me chip, simple as

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I used to have a line in my dating app profile about not contacting me if you're rude to service workers. You can guess what jobs I've worked in the past.

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Did the first half of the trail in '22 and I can concur. I had to stop to make money, but it was so much fun and I miss it every day. I'll be back out there again soon

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Honestly, most people aren't that bad. But the ones who are are tend to be REALLY bad and they're the ones who are remembered.

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Bezos wants Amazon work to be some kind of national service.

Interesting to see that echoed here.

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Bezos wants Amazon work to be some kind of national service.

Interesting to see that echoed here.

A false dilemma, also referred to as false dichotomy or false binary,
is an informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are available.

Nothing about Bezos or Amazon is being "echoed" here. You just chose to make up a false dichotomy.
The topic is: Empathy

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Being the loudest and screaming the most has always been a successful tactic.

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I wonder what would happen if someone else threw a similar tantrum with the topic "people who throw tantrums (like that other guy) shouldn't get what they want".

I mean, I know what would happen, you'd get permanently trespassed and the other guy would get a comped meal, but you know, it'd be funny for five minutes.

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That sounds shitty. I'm sorry your experience in the military was that way, but I wouldn't paint the whole with a big brush like that. There are good people and bad people both in and out of the military.

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Eh, it depends on the job. It's not retail, but waiters are always taken aback when my wife and I are understanding about any delays or them being out of something. You can always see them bracing for the abuse when they tell us the issue.

We've both worked in retail and food service, so we get it.

When I worked retail, we would get shitty customers all the time, but one of my super powers was being able to diffuse the situation without having to get management involved.

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I've been waiting for someone to go off on a service employee in front of me so I can kinda do that, although I plan on saying something similar to, "who the fuck do you think you are? That's a human being, and they have no control over [issue]."

I can get away with it because I'm a large, imposing dude with a deep booming voice. As long as my wife isn't with me, because she gets mad at me for getting involved.

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You can always see them bracing for the abuse when they tell us the issue.

What morons don't even operate on the "you don't fuck with people handling your food" basic rule, let alone just have basic common decency.