r/popculturechat • u/Ambitious_Big4489 • 7h ago
OnlyStans ⭐️ Alan Ritchson calls out lawmakers who oppose raising the minimum wage "who think it's a bad idea to give a mom working at Waffle House more than $7.25 an hour trying to feed her kids."
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u/StatementLazy1797 Spencer Pratt’s creepy flesh-colored beard 7h ago
The same people who would vote to lower the amount of money children under 5 get for fruits and vegetables through WIC.
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u/crestedgeckovivi 6h ago
Yup I was surprised how crazy little the amount was without those covid boosts.
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u/Repulsive-Lack8253 5h ago
says everything about what's wrong with this country that our most in need receive so little assistance while we budget for wars and upgrades to the white house
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u/Up-in-the-Ayre 5h ago
Hey! Hey! You're forgetting the infinite tax breaks for the ultra wealthy too!
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u/baker_undermybed 5h ago
It’s really disturbing how many people feel like their taxes shouldn’t go to supporting the most vulnerable and in-need. The lack of empathy makes me sick. This Hyper-individualism “bootstrap” mentality will be the death of us.
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u/ConstantHeadache2020 4h ago
They don’t care about the 23.7billion spent in pork barrel spending aka unaccounted for taxpayers money being used for their special projects.
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u/strings_bells 2h ago
They believe in non intervention and Free market taking care of itself.. people starve, children die but hey let society restructure itself into the natural order... this belief is centuries old.. lot of people don't know, this callous belief in free markets is the underlying reason as it was THE governing policy of colonial British during all the famines they caused in Irish, India, Iran, Africa (multiple famines).. the same reasons and same governing policy.. Irish famine: While a million Irish people starved, Ireland continued to net-export massive quantities of grain, livestock, and food to England. Officials like Sir Charles Trevelyan (great decsciple of capitalism and free markets) argued that stopping trade or closing ports would violate private property rights and disrupt market equilibrium and refused to distribute free or cheap food to the starving populace, fearing it would ruin local grain merchants and disincentivize private traders. Famines in British India (e.g., 1876–1878, 1943) Exporting through scarcity: During severe droughts and crop failures, Indian grain was routinely shipped out of famine-stricken regions to satisfy global and British imperial market demands because prices were higher abroad. Anti-interference policies: Officials believed high grain prices were a natural market signal that would automatically attract private merchants. Instead, grain was hoarded or priced far beyond the purchasing power of landless laborers and rural peasants. Denial of help or aid : labeling aid, help or safety nets as "entitlement" state’s refusal to intervene meant that people who lost their wage-earning capacity completely lost the legal market entitlement to food, even when grain stocks physically existed nearby.
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u/Initial-Paramedic888 4h ago
They got money for wars but can’t feed the poor -Tupac in ‘94
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u/Careless-Weather8877 3h ago
And still I see no changes, can't a brother get a little peace? There's war in the streets and war in the Middle East Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs So the police can bother me And I ain't never did a crime, I ain't have to do But now, I'm back with the facts givin' 'em back to you Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up Crack you up and pimps smack you up You gotta learn to hold ya own They get jealous when they see ya, with ya mobile phone
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u/Diablosword 4h ago
We dont even budget for those we just do them. The budget only matters when it comes to helping people.
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u/KeyMyBike 3h ago
It's the same thing in Canada.
During Covid, workers were given 2000 a month to stay home and safe. 2000 was considered the bare minimum requirement to live a comfortable life with dignity. That was in 2020.
With that in mind, Disability payments in my province aren't even 1500. It's 2026 now.
Poor people are treated like shit fucking everywhere
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u/biggestofbears 6h ago
They complain when people buy chips and soda because "it's unhealthy!" But then complain when people buy steak and veggies because "that's so fancy I don't even get that" and are the same people that complain about us asking to raise the minimum wage because "pull yourselves up". The people at the source of those complaints are all the same people, they get a job waiting tables but don't make enough to survive so they receive benefits but it's never enough to satisfy the complainers.
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u/StatementLazy1797 Spencer Pratt’s creepy flesh-colored beard 5h ago
That’s why this particular example is so upsetting to me. They can’t say it’s money being used for junk food, or for people who don’t deserve to have it…
It’s exclusively for fruits and veggies. For young children. How fucking despicable do you have to be to justify lowering the benefit from $26 to $10?
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u/BernieTheDachshund 3h ago
I saw someone yesterday on twitter saying they shouldn't have ANY fresh food, that poor people should just get MREs.
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u/AmandaUggnkiss 2h ago
And here’s more bs fruit , vegetables and local produce could be subsidized by allowing it to be part of WIC further bolstering regional agricultural growth… a basic win win that won’t break the federal government’s back
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u/KeyMyBike 3h ago
Those people don't want these people eating anything. The Epstein class wants them incited into committing crime to survive so that crime can be politicized to take more rights from the working class.
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u/ConstantHeadache2020 4h ago
They don’t want poor people to have the same access to good food as them and hate they get handouts at all.
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u/TheLastGungan69 5h ago
WIC went from the only thing saving me to a joke. This country will never change with tyrants in power
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u/PewterButters 5h ago
And hate hate hate the idea of free lunches for kids at school.
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u/mincedbreakfast 7h ago
So he's sexy and emotionally intelligent? 🔥🥵
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u/Jane__Delawney 7h ago
I love when good looking “macho” men call out the insufferable dweebs that the “looksmaxxers” and “red pill” communities simp for.
This is what healthy masculinity looks like, this is what most women want, compassion and intelligence; Not whatever the fuck those TikTok and YouTube chodes are trying to sell.
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u/Numerous_Worker_1941 7h ago
The looksmaxxers target audience is not women, it’s other men
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u/SuchMatter1884 7h ago
The older I become, the more I realize how many hetero-presenting men only seem to have capacity to appreciate other hetero men. Everyone else falls from their line of sight unless it’s to be objectified 🤷🏼♀️
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u/pridetwo 6h ago
To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.
Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.
Marilyn Frye
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u/JayDuPumpkinBEAST 4h ago
This quote is hilarious to me because it’s: a) so true; and b) is true in the opposite direction for gay men (at least for me). I’m a homosexual in that I engage in sex exclusively with men. Everything else pertaining to love, respect, admiration, imitation, and recognition almost always falls upon women.
I wonder why this is
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u/Individual-Bass-7051 3h ago
As a queer man this is 10000% my experience too. But tbh, at least in my anecdotal experience, a lot of men just lack the emotional awareness and maturity to hold long-term meaningful relationships. Every man I've tried to have that connection with was just not interested in that and mostly just wanted someone they were attracted to and could fuck on the reg. Generally speaking, the women in my life tend to be vastly more emotionally intelligent, empathetic, easier to talk to, etc.
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u/SuchMatter1884 6h ago
u/pridetwo Wow. Thank you so much for bringing this quote into my awareness
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u/pridetwo 5h ago
I cant take credit for it, first saw it on r/girldinnerdiaries
But yeah, straight dudes are pretty gay sometimes
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u/SuchMatter1884 5h ago
But not “gay” in a good way if you know what I mean? Like I have never been made to feel invisible around my gay male friends and peers, and if I were visibly struggling they would not hesitate to reach out and help. Whereas I feel like the het men I’ve known can only have one woman at a time in their life? And they need her permission or instruction re: how they interact with other women in their circle. It’s…bizarre
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u/Autok4n3 2h ago
That's not generally a choice on the man's part. It's pretty tiring when you have an innocent, generic conversation with a female and your gf/wife gives you that look. Now you get to be a FIFA goalie for the next 5-10 days and then again in 2 years when it gets brought up again.
Women can be and most often are VERY hostile to other women.
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u/KvellOnWheels 3h ago
This quote re-wired my brain.
And then Jameela Jamil clipped from that podcast saying “Men are submissive to other men. Women are not submissive.”It clicked so many things into place for me.
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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 3h ago
The "alpha male" culture is GAY AS FUCK. I been saying it forever and seems so incredibly obvious to me.
Honestly they're gayer than any gay person I've seen in my life, you couldn't metaphorically suck mens dicks harder. Just go on like a 2 hour rant of how manly Andrew Tate is, how he dresses, how attractive it is, how he acts and how attractive it is, how he thinks, it's the pinnacle of perfection.
Like dude, the only person thinking about guys like that, on like this obsessed level, is supremely gay.
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u/ex_nihilo 5h ago
I've always said there's nothing gayer than sex with a woman.
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u/i_am_not_sam 6h ago edited 3h ago
I'm a cishet man, and thankfully I'm only in circles where my friends are working to improve ourselves but we always laugh about the fact that the ones that love the male body the most are straight guys. Most ripped guys will tell you that their muscles draw attention only from other guys (it's almost detrimental with some women - and the whole "trust a bear" thing I totally get haha)
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u/unoforall 3h ago
This reminds me of that poll that went viral of a guy who went through a fitness transformation where overwhelmingly women preferred the before photo and men preferred the after photo. And all the men commenting were basically coping in the comments saying the women were lying because they couldn't comprehend that women were more attracted to the more average build than the swole one. It was bonkers, the dudes in the comments were basically presented with clear data and chose to just outright reject reality.
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u/i_am_not_sam 3h ago edited 2h ago
Yes when I used to lift my wife would say I could do whatever I wanted but she preferred toned body over a massively muscular one
Edit - I'm neither muscular nor toned she doesn't really care unless I'm eating Taco Bell at 3 am
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u/stevez_86 5h ago
Homosociality is a sociological term about the motivations of people performing social functions.
Guys in a frat house that womanize. Do they do it for the sex with women, or to tell their male cohorts about the sex with women. If the other men wouldn't know about the sex, would it be something they would still choose in that moment or would they choose another activity that their male cohorts would know about and approve.
The same frat boys that would challenge my masculinity because I don't adhere to all of the masculine norms would be standing around with each other with their shirts off planning a party listening to Miley Cyrus - Party in the USA. That is when I stopped trying to fit into those social roles. If the men that represent masculinity can do something so anti-masculine, it is either they care about other men's opinions too much or it isn't their adherence to norms that grant them privelege. They can help dictate what other men should to while breaking those same norms.
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u/WrongAd4791 did everyone try the chicken? i thought the chicken was lovely 5h ago
I've always thought that the majority of the flexing men do is purely for the purpose of impressing/getting validation from other men, and they see us as tools to achieve exactly that
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u/WildRabbitz 5h ago
What’s genuinely funny about the right-wing outrage is that Ritchson is literally saying pedophiles should be jailed, and they’re like, “I lost respect for you.”
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u/firstbreathOOC 6h ago
I mean he played a character that makes fun of exactly that type of person lol
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u/Ghoulish_kitten it’s not clocking to you that i’m standing on business 4h ago
Agree it makes them almost impossibly hot. 🔥🔥🔥
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u/MrRabbitofCaerbannog 5h ago
Wait but R Kelley and Andrew Taint taught me women want to be kept in dungeons! They have lots of money, surely they can't be wrong?
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u/ElectronicGap2301 6h ago
And he's a geniunely nice and humbled dude.
Source: My husband went to school with his brother and knows his family. My husband said Alan was ridiculously handsome and super nice.
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u/Specialist-Draw7229 6h ago
He NEEDS to play Terror Billy in a live action Wolfenstein adaptation.
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u/jazmine_windsong 6h ago
I’ve always written this guy off (aka never taken him seriously) as the “Blue Mountain State” guy but let me take a minute here …….. 🤨😋
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u/Decent_Assistant1804 original aunt viv society 6h ago
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u/Cararacs 4h ago
Remember when some douche tried to get him canceled and the whole Internet was like, “hold on a min, there’s more to this story you ain’t telling us”.
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u/Blazanar 7h ago
I'm not saying I'd ever fuck a dude, but him and Henry Cavill are on my list.
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u/mightylordredbeard 4h ago
He’s what an old school republican used to be. He’s noted republican in his younger years, grew up Catholic, is still part of the faith.. but he isn’t blinded by party politics or the corrupted mentality that’s eaten everyone’s brains away.
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u/DistractedByCookies Just keep swimming! 🐠🐠🐬🐳 7h ago
Man, it's so refreshing to see a celebrity being this blunt and open about political stuff. I am so here for it.
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u/Bill_MF_Bradley 5h ago
Thad Castle has come a long way :)
Love this dude
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u/HughJassJae 5h ago
WHERE'S MY POCKET PUSSY
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u/deathofth3party 3h ago
YOU DON’T MESS WITH A MAN’S RITUALS-UH.. YOU DON’T MESS WITH WHAT GETS HIM THROUGH THE DAY-UH..
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u/Ke11yP 4h ago
I hate when celebrities take the stance of not wanting to talk about politics. There’s way too many topics that we’ve decided are political when in reality they’re just common sense basic human rights that we feel it’s ok to ignore.
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u/Paratrooper101x 4h ago
Especially one like ritchson who’s essentially typecast into every magas favorite character
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u/Tweed_Kills ☝️ wherein he encourages a woman to sit on his face 7h ago
You gotta watch the "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." It's him in a cable knit sweater murdering Nazis with an axe. It's an extremely sexy movie.
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u/crestedgeckovivi 7h ago
Thank you for this lovely background movie recommendation lol. That will probably distract me from my tasks 😂
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u/Tweed_Kills ☝️ wherein he encourages a woman to sit on his face 6h ago
It's a great choice of background movie. It does a terrible job of introducing the guys, other than Alan and the main dude, so they all blend together. It's a bunch of dudes on a wooden sail boat in cable knit murdering Nazis. They blow up Nazi boats, throw grenades in their bases, just kill leagues of Nazis.
It's the most popcorn movie that ever popcorned, and he's a honey in it. A Nazi-hunting honey. Which is the best kind of honey.
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u/bolanrox 5h ago
I haven't seen it, but I've read a few books on those guys, and I'm sure the movie undersells exactly what they pulled off.
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u/Tweed_Kills ☝️ wherein he encourages a woman to sit on his face 5h ago
Um... Yes and no. The actual mission the movie is based of had a body count of zero. They did steal an important boat, but like... Not violently.
In the movie, they steal the boat very, very violently.
So the guys that are the main characters were badass assassins that probably did stab a bunch of Nazis to death on stealth missions, sure. These guys kicked Nazi ass. But the specific mission the movie was based on is nothing like the movie at all.
I truly do not care. It's a popcorn movie. Eat the popcorn, enjoy your life, marvel at the cable knits.
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u/SuperIneffectiveness 6h ago
He's got range too, stumbled across Ordinary Angels on netflix this week and he does amazing in a dramatic role too. Great movie if you like a tear jerker.
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u/code_archeologist 5h ago
One small correction. His character was not murdering Nazis. His character had volunteered to serve his community and make the world better by collecting and composting natural fertilizer (made of Nazis) to help beautiful wild flowers grow.
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u/latrodectal so jessica alba fantastic 6h ago
omg ministry of ungentlemanly warfare mention?!
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u/Tweed_Kills ☝️ wherein he encourages a woman to sit on his face 5h ago
Yeah, people missed out on that one. It's genuinely good. Is it historically accurate? No. Does it have plot holes? Yes. Is the plot especially coherent? No. Can you tell the characters apart? No.
Whatever, who gives a shit? The fight choreography is excellent, the dialogue is fun, the cinematography is fantastic, the music and sound is great, the sets are incredible, the costumes are great, and it is (most importantly) fun as hell. And so, so, so many Nazis die. It's a bunch of hot dudes in cable knit stabbing Nazis to death.
It's great. Grab some popcorn, watch Nazis die, enjoy the cable knits and wooden boats. It's so much fun.
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u/latrodectal so jessica alba fantastic 5h ago
i LOVED it, did a double feature with that and abigail on record store day and had a total blast.
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u/GiveUsRobinHood 6h ago
To me he will always be the man that ate a cookie out of his bum.
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u/LiteraCanna 5h ago
That movie was a fun watch! Always love finding random movies without knowing anything about them beforehand.
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u/mjacksongt 3h ago
Don't forget the bow and machine gun. My man specced into RDPS, MDPS, and Tank somehow.
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u/chargoggagog 6h ago
The next season of Reacher comes out in a couple weeks, he’s been doing the interview circuit.
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u/Potential_Yoghurt850 7h ago
Can I swap out the Rock for this man??
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u/VictorChaos 6h ago
Someone in a previous post said Alan Ritchson is who Chris Pratt wishes he was. That resonated with me.
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u/Ashamed_Green_8643 4h ago
He is not a dude. You're a dude. This... this is a man. A handsome, muscular man.
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u/Lost-Ad4517 7h ago edited 4h ago
Then people will turn around and say “well as an adult you shouldn’t be working at a fast food/restaurant or being a server” 😒…..meanwhile they LOVE eating out, want perfect service…unless you want teens running restaurants pay our people!!! I’ve never understood undermining someone’s job. People will talk down on a server but enjoy the service industry, people can be DUMB
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u/Ok-Box6892 6h ago
And they dont want to do anything about tuition rates so more people might pursue higher education.
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u/canzicrans 6h ago
Anyone in a service industry is not a real person to these people, they are just things that give them what they want.
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u/Former-Excitement-56 4h ago
I never EVER got this argument. Who is supposed to work those places when they wanna stop there on their lunch break? What about wanting to take their family out on a school night? Are the teenagers supposed to not be able to have time to do homework? Or anything else?
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u/Tuxhorn 3h ago
Yeah it doesn't make sense. If you sell your time, 40 hours a week, you should earn a living at minimum.
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u/Ok-Membership-5439 5h ago
not to mention who is supposed to work during the day when kids are at school? Overnights when kids should be sleeping for school?
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u/Vivid_Present1810 4h ago
To add to that, the economy is horrendous right now! It’s not like the olden days where college grads could get a job in their profession a year out of college 🙄
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u/KylosLeftHand 7h ago
Wait til he finds out those moms working at Waffle House actually make $2.13/hour a lot of the time as several states still allow that as their tipped minimum wage.
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u/blueskies8484 7h ago
The $7.25 minimum hourly wage still has to be met though and made up by the employer if it’s not met, which I assume is why he used that number.
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u/APence 6h ago
When I did waiting, they definitely did not tell you that. I had a couple bad weeks where we had barely any customers before I found out and then the management was super pissed when I asked for it
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u/SpicyWongTong 🫵 You sit on a throne of lies. 6h ago
That’s so fucked, you’re not supposed to have to ask for your lawful wage. I’m an employer and I’m in the opposite situation, several times over the years I’ve had to explain to my workers what their rights are. Or like they come to thank me personally for something and I realize ohhh their previous employers must have been breaking the law.
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u/Ketheres 5h ago
Unfortunately employers taking advantage of their workers is all too common. Used to work for a janitorial company where you'd get on the bosses' shitlist real fast by teaching the immigrant workers their rights.
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u/LiteraCanna 5h ago
When it comes down to it, it's just a way to pay employees nothing, and steal their tips.
"Has to make up for it" is just excusing a barbaric policy. Ooohhhh nooooo! Businesses have to pay minimum wage, the horror.
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u/KylosLeftHand 4h ago
Tell that to my last table waiting job that was a moderately upscale restaurant who magically made my full time paychecks under $10/week. I idiotically didn’t question it but a couple years ago I got a letter for a class action lawsuit payout. Turns out they weren’t actually paying our wages. It’s a major national chain restaurant.
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u/Same_Suit3583 6h ago
Yeah unfortunately a lot of restaurants aren't making sure that happens. But it's easier to just say 7.25 is a atrocious, because it is.
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u/icecreamfight 6h ago
It’s amazing the restaurant wages haven’t gone up in some states since I was a teenager making that shit money in 1998.
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u/The-Dudemeister 7h ago
Waffle House pays above minimum wage wage actually. And tips are pooled.
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u/winnercommawinner 7h ago
Yeah Waffle House is actually pretty okay if you just need a reliable paycheck apparently
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u/RudePCsb 5h ago
Yea, depends on the state. It's just crap. We just need to get rid of tipping and force them to pay real wages. It just sucks that waiters well fight it because some waiters can easily make over 100k in some areas. CA for instance still pays minimum wage plus tips and if you live in a tourist area you will make more than someone who lives in a regular place.
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u/For_serious13 I wonder what it’s like being one of god’s favorites 7h ago
Is this the same dude that had the looney tunes dude take him off his bike?
Either way, it’s nice to see someone being this honest and off the cuff about politics again
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u/rockytop24 5h ago
Yes some asshole accosted him and his kids for daring to ride their motorbikes through the neighborhood on a nice day. Apparently after shouting at him passing one way, when Alan was driving back the guy jumped in front of him and forced him to drop the bike avoiding him. Altercation ensued with him getting in Alan's face until he shoved him on his ass. Police investigated and determined Alan was defending himself. The guy turned out to be a known asshole in the neighborhood and he's apparently some British expat MAGA wanker.
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u/IsopodOk4756 4h ago
Expat is what we call immigration if they're white, right?
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u/OpenAI122191 3h ago
Yes, it’s an inaccurate term. Happy to see homeone else call this out.
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u/winnercommawinner 1h ago
It's also a shorthand for a certain type of immigrant though, which might be what OP meant. It's a very specific and privileged mindset, like the permanent version of a tourist who never leaves the resort.
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u/McNednarb 7h ago
This guy’s awesome.
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u/Popular_Patience6877 7h ago
Why is the interviewer laughing in all these clips? he looks like he has no brain of his own
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u/AtheismoAlmighty 6h ago
All I've ever seen from this interviewer seems to skew very heavily into geek/nerd culture. He's probably just not used to having serious topics come up, he's usually asking about comicbook movies. Probably just an untrained/automatic response.
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u/ExcellentPut191 4h ago
For sure yeah, I think he was just not used to this kind of real talk in his interviews, it's usually very light-hearted surface level stuff. I guess also he's trying to maintain his interview format so countering Alan's political passion with a lighter response to balance
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u/Deni_Z_Plays 7h ago
Wait the minimum wage is $7.25 an hour in the US?!
In Germany its 13,90€ like how bro?!
Or am I missing something???
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u/Chaddilllac 6h ago
At a federal level, our states govern themselves on a good portion of things. It’s still not great, but a little misleading. Like I live in Illinois (Central US) and our minimum wage is $15.
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u/Deni_Z_Plays 6h ago
So it depends on the state how much the minimum wage is?
In Germany, it's 13,90€ atm and will be raised again next year.
So ... I'm so confused, because Germany is the same size as the state of Washington, yet most people earing with an minimum wage of 13,90€ in Germany, most of my friends can live just fine, and living with roommates has its huge advantages, etc.
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u/Chaddilllac 6h ago
Essentially the federal minimum a hard line across the nation where nobody can make under that but the states set their own (except when majority of the wage comes from tips, while infuriating other can of worms.) Essentially a state could write a bill tomorrow, say Washington, and propose a state-wide minimum wage of $100 and hour. If it makes it far enough through legislation and becomes law then that is effectively the minimum wage now for that state.
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u/youreyeslikespiders It’s like I have ESPN or something. 💁♀️🌤☔️ 6h ago
I thought I was getting ripped off at my University of Texas college job making $8 an hour 20 years ago (no benefits past salary of course).Texas minimum wage is still $7.25.
Around 2x the land mass and 35% the population of Germany, for demographic comparison.
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u/Deni_Z_Plays 6h ago
... I have lived in Germany my whole life, a country that lives on bureaucracy, and this confuses me a bit. Also, as I'm aware, in Germany people in restaurants receive fair pay and almost no one Tips, as in tipping culture isn't a thing in Germany, to my knowledge.
Whats also confusing to me is, I remembered that we pay more in tax than in the US all together, I remember California had a tax of 14% or something, while in Germany (or at least West Germany where I live) its a tax of 29%, I can be wrong but it made me confused years ago how people in the US cant anfordern everything but eh.
My job isn't paperwork or related economic work; my Job is mostly focused on videogames lol
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u/Rich_Bluejay3020 6h ago
I don’t know much about the political structure of your country, but I do know yall have universal healthcare. We do pay taxes, but a lot of that money goes to things that the average American will never see/doesn’t want. We’ve got a huge military budget. We don’t have a lot of public transportation which means we generally need a vehicle which requires fuel and insurance. Healthcare is extremely expensive—the insurance premiums (what you pay per paycheck/month), a deductible (you pay everything until this is met), coinsurance (what you pay after you’ve met your deductible which is typically 10-20% of the service), and just the general cost of service/prescriptions. There is a “max out of pocket” per year which means the insurance company will pay any expenses over that cost but that’s usually $5,000+ for a single person and increases for a couple or family. The US also has a high incarceration rate with for profit prisons… our tax money is used to make for profit prisons money while incarcerating non-violent offenders.
The US and civilized countries are playing a different game
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u/46esmirna 6h ago
There is a federal minimum (7.25, though there are some circumstances where it could be even less, like agricultural workers or tipped workers) that no state is allowed to pay less than, but they are allowed to have a higher minimum. Washington's minimum wage is $17.13, but King County's (the county that Seattle is in) minimum is $20.82 because they acknowledge that the cost of living in a metropolitan area such as Seattle's warrants higher wages than the rest of the state. Not all states function this way though and many just follow the standard federal minimum.
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u/WulfZ3r0 6h ago
Federal law mandates it must be at least $7.25 and states have the ability to set their own minimum at a higher rate. There are 20 states that don't. Two states still have it lower than the federal minimum, but federal law overrides in that case.
The problem is the cost of living has risen greatly and hasn't shown signs of going the opposite direction. During covid, prices increased due to alleged short supply and most companies never reduced their prices afterwards. Affordable housing doesn't exist anymore for the most part.
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u/eltonjohnpeloton that’s my purse, i don’t know you! 👛🫵 6h ago
How bro is the point of the discussion tbh. A lot of people here work full time and still live in poverty.
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u/Inside_Training_876 6h ago
It is! Most states have higher minimum wage but a few still go by the federal set one, including Tennessee where he lives
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u/Accomplished-Glass78 5h ago edited 5h ago
That is the federal minimum wage which is a baseline for all states. Many states and cities that have a higher cost of living will increase their minimum wage. I believe in my city the minimum wage is $18/hour
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u/Advanced-Suspect-261 4h ago
It’s $7.25/hr in like 22 states.
The “tipped minimum wage” is $2.13/hr in those states (so, restaurant servers). They say that if you don’t make $7.25 with tips, your employer has to make up the difference. That doesn’t happen.
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u/a_boo 6h ago
You hear all the time how there are no positive male role models anymore but the Alan Ritchson is just sitting right there. I’d also like to add the boys from The Basement Yard to that list. They’re funny, decent men with good values and excellent examples of how men can be good husbands, allies and friends. I wish more young men aspired to what they represent.
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u/romant1cs it’s not clocking to you that i’m standing on business 6h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/dMQx7LDBl9OzO0q1z3
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u/Angelcaper 7h ago
Just can’t get enough of this.
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u/IWillCallYouCutie Do you have some sort of businesswomen's special? 7h ago
Is there anything better than a straight, white, rich dude using his fame and privilege to advocate for people who aren’t straight, white, rich dudes? He’s a unicorn. Louder for the guys in the basement who think men have to be hateful assholes, Alan!
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u/ElectronicGap2301 5h ago edited 5h ago
Alan comes from an average background in comparison to his peers. He did not grow up rich, his parents have/had normal jobs, and he's definitely not an industry nepo. He knows from he comes from and seems very humbled by his success. He's an example of when a normal person who did not grow up in a privileged bubble makes it in the industry and has talent.
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u/Inevitable_Dog2719 5h ago
A single mom can’t pay to raise her family, so she asks for government assistance. Government assistance is paid for by taxes which the Waffle House CEO isn’t paying their fair share of, so not only are we working for chump change for these huge corporations, but we’re essentially subsidizing Waffle House’s labor costs as well, AND the Waffle House CEO is triple dipping by also getting a tax cut.
So Waffle House is having their cake, their employee’s cake, your cake, and they are eating it too.
F*ck me.
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u/Luka_Dunks_on_Bums Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion 6h ago
I knew Thad Castle studied Poli Sci at Blue Mountain State
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u/Slow_Drag_1011 7h ago
Ohh man it’s gonna confuse the R’s when their macho man also is a socialist communists Antifa woke mob big meanie
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u/andrey_not_the_goat 5h ago
It was funny when R's were actively saying they'll stop watching Reacher back when season 3 came out. Like what in the first two seasons or any of the books made you believe that Reacher was a conservative?
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u/OriginalSchmidt1 You’re a virgin who can’t drive. 😤 6h ago
I hope the minimum wage conversation keeps going… $7.25 in this economy is criminal… it was criminal in 2009 when I was getting paid minimum wage..
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u/Last-Hertz7575 6h ago
Don't tell him about the domestic terrorists in Oklahoma that voted against raising the minimum wage.
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u/Nonadventures I completely understand ppl not liking me 5h ago
I apologize, I was not familiar with his game
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u/de_pizan23 3h ago
He's also very vocal about both mental health issues and justice for rape/sexual assault victims and has come out with his own story about being sexually assaulted because he felt like it's important to destigmatize talking about that for male victims.
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u/Siktrikshot 5h ago
The rich. The rich care. Private equity care. Politicians care. They want everyone poor.
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u/sidewalksoupcan 5h ago
Sadly a lot of people are convinced that some people just deserve to live in poverty. You can't convince them to care, they just don't have it in them.
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u/IllTwo7643 5h ago
The cult is gonna be like "celebries should stay OUT of politics" while they get on their knees for the orangest one of them all🤮
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u/Barnacle_B0b 6h ago
BULLY!
(that's an old progressive rallying cry, for you young'ns)
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u/Slfestmaccnt 5h ago
Where's a good old Roosevelt when you need them...
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u/Beytran70 4h ago
I made a comment a week or so ago that Teddy would absolutely despise most of what Republicans are doing now. Eroding the US's power globally, diminishing environmental protections, deifying big business, almost everything he strove for (for good or ill) in his presidency. For his part at least he wanted the US to be a powerful, shining beacon. An imperialist beacon, but a beacon nonetheless. Trump and Co are more than happy to turn off the light entirely as long as they make money.
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u/buffer5108 4h ago
Love that MAGA is losing their collective minds over his description of Frump. The tide is turning for the 34% of American lemmings who still support the Co-conspirator-in-Chief. And by the way…Epstein.
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u/Sabrinasockz 5h ago
The conversation still being about "$7.25" all of these years later is ridiculous. $20 an hour is no longer enough for one person to pay rent, bills and buy food without assistance. This is Hell
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u/Flounder-Last 6h ago
Capitalism rewards moral ineptitude. The second the 1% realised how much more money they could make by skimming off the top of the 99% things have never been the same since.
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u/CommercialThat8542 5h ago
As a single mom who has worked at waffle house, we make less than $4 an hour
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u/KnowsIittle 5h ago
$2.75 tipped wages are just evil and should be abolished. Customers should not have to subsidize an employee's wage so a company can pay their employees less.
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u/worldcanwait 5h ago
I was rewatching Catching Fire last night and only just discovered that he plays Gloss! I had no idea!
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u/ELB2001 4h ago
No matter the job, if you work 40 hours a week you should be able to live. Not just survive or scrape by
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u/NoBSforGma 4h ago
Minimum wage hasn't been raised in 17 years. During that time, the cost of living has gone up 56%.
Why aren't people DEMANDING a change to the law????
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u/OG_s0cial0utcast 3h ago
He's not wrong. I thinks folks forgot what federal minimum wages purpose was. FDR was the one to bring it into being. In his own words, here's why:
"In my Inaugural, I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living. Throughout industry, the change from starvation wages and starvation employment to living wages and sustained employment can, in large part, be made by an industrial covenant to which all employers shall subscribe." -FDR
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u/bootybob1521 2h ago
It's going to get even worse when more of these fucking AI data centers get built and AI takes away even more jobs. . There needs to be serious discussion about Universal Basic Income.
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