70.5% of Starbucks baristas are women. Starbucks now requires them to perform additional emotion labor by writing a personal message on customers' cups. If not sufficiently nice, they are disciplined. They must perform friendliness but make it look spontaneous. https://qz.com/emotional-labor-starbucks-baristas-green-apron-service-051926
@amydiehl as someone who worked at Starbucks aeons ago…good fucking luck mandating that during the morning/lunch rush when everyone is cranking out drinks as fast as they can
@amydiehl @quixoticgeek I feel like these companies are run by men who do not understand genuine human interactions.
@michaelgemar @amydiehl @quixoticgeek
Yea that's how modern capitalism works, a bunch of autistic mf running the world, just see all the tech industry leaders
@RedKoba @michaelgemar @amydiehl @quixoticgeek
You could have picked white men, a much more accurate demographic, but chose neurodivergent people.
I'm not sure how deep your experience of Autistic people is, because in my experience they are often far more empathetic than normies, and I have a lot of experience in this area.
Case in point, more likely to be interested in animal welfare, less interested in racism and far right ideology.
@TwoClownsEating @michaelgemar @amydiehl @quixoticgeek
White men wouldn't be precise either. There are some women, negroes, arabs, indians, jews, etc. In that world, probably the only thing every one of them has in common is that all are pro-capitalism and have money as the highest value in life even over other peoples life
@RedKoba @michaelgemar @amydiehl @quixoticgeek
Negroes?
Fuck off sunshine. Truth Social is over there you daft cunt ➡️
Off you fuck.
@TwoClownsEating @michaelgemar @amydiehl @quixoticgeek Yea, in spanish we call them negros, you have any problem with my mother tongue, asshole?
@RedKoba @TwoClownsEating @michaelgemar @amydiehl you're not writing in Spanish tho. You're writing very offensive English.
@quixoticgeek @TwoClownsEating @michaelgemar @amydiehl As a fellow Spanish speaker: we do not claim this asshole.
While he's right that it's a normal word in Spanish for the color, anyone with a basic level of English literacy understands the implications it has outside of it and would refrain from its use unless it's _very_ justified.
Hell, even in Spanish it can have some racist connotations. Its use by this individual was very deliberate and has earned him a block.
@quixoticgeek @TwoClownsEating @michaelgemar @amydiehl Yea, news for you, ppl thinks on their mother tongue except when they learn the second or third lang when was kids
@RedKoba @TwoClownsEating @michaelgemar @amydiehl es tut mir lied. Ik spreek in meer taalen ook.
@RedKoba @TwoClownsEating @michaelgemar @amydiehl you do realise that when in a hole, it's not possible to dig your way out of the hole right. You're just going further, offending more people. Stop digging. Maybe even apologise.
@RedKoba @michaelgemar @amydiehl @quixoticgeek well that's pretty goddamned offensive. Not to mention patently false.
@ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl @quixoticgeek
My intention was not to be offensive to people with autism; that would be self-offensive. The people I'm talking about identify themselves as autistic. And, of course, my intention wasn't to be precise; there is a difference between using correct terms and terms everyone understands.
I hate to be on that side, but I don't believe in all that woke stuff. I don't care about words or definitions but about material reality.
@RedKoba @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl @quixoticgeek You sound like a fascist, not a fellow autistic person
@monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl @quixoticgeek
I'm communist, materialist and monist, very far from fascism
@RedKoba @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl @quixoticgeek Having a young and sexy (?) Joseph Stalin as your profile picture tells us all we need to know about you, I think.
@tml @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl @quixoticgeek
Yea I'm very transparent about it
@RedKoba @tml @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl open about using an image of a man responsible for the deaths of over 3 million people? Have you fully thought out the implications here ?
@quixoticgeek @tml @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl
Now you are using fascist and CIA propaganda, the executions ordered by staling are about 800k most of them fascist/nazis and bourgeois
@RedKoba @tml @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl I was actually using numbers from Wikipedia...
@quixoticgeek @tml @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl
I love Wikipedia, but that calculation includes things like dekulakisation, which was a man-made starvation caused by landlords preferring to let people starve to death rather than lose their wealth.
Wikipedia is good source but not bulletproof
@RedKoba @tml @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl it's all on Stalin's balance sheet. He killed millions. This is the popular consensus of historians. I would suggest it's time to find a better roll model. Maybe one who's not considered a genocidal dictator.
@RedKoba @quixoticgeek @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl Please continue digging your hole, this is exciting.
@tml @quixoticgeek @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl
No arguments Sir? Poor victim of propaganda
@RedKoba @tml @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl so how many deaths is it ok for a nations leader to be responsible for? Might I suggest the number should ideally be zero. Capital punishment is bad. Genocide is bad. It's 2026, I can't believe I'm having to say this.
@quixoticgeek @tml @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl
No one, but there is people that the world is a better place if they are dead, Staling do a lot of things wrong but send landlords and facist a forced work camps wasn't one of them
@RedKoba @tml @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl and who is it to say who lives and who dies ? Who gives who the right to have someone killed ?
@quixoticgeek @tml @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl
Who have the power is who decide and
Quoting Mao:
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"
The question is, which are tools they use to decide, is greed, personal interest or historical and material analysis
@RedKoba and Bascule said "knowledge is power". Bulwer-Lytton said "the pen is mightier than the sword."
Violence begets violence.
@quixoticgeek
power is power, try to use a pen when someone assault you (hope it never happens) I'm pretty sure you are not John Wick
At the end of the day the pen writes what the gun says
@RedKoba fortunately I live somewhere with descent gun control. So it's not something I have to worry about.
@RedKoba @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl you don't sound like it. You're being incredibly offensive. And wrong. Stop digging.
@quixoticgeek @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl
To be honest, I regret being offensive. I want to apologize, but I can't with all that emotional-woke/american (and european) ideology BS. It makes me want to go deeper. But this is enough; I'm attacking the wrong people. I'm sure everyone has good intentions, and sorry.
@RedKoba I think using ”autistic” as a general-purpose slur involving toxic behavior is way out of bounds. Please don't.
@RedKoba @amydiehl @quixoticgeek The problem isn’t autism — I know plenty of neurodivergent folks who are lovely.
The problem is psychopathy and narcissism.
@michaelgemar
@RedKoba @amydiehl @quixoticgeek
psychopathy is a deprecated term in psychiatry and narcissism could be used to refer to a personality disorder (although it isnt always) so you are still making a judgment on forms of neurodivergence albeit ones that are commonly considered "worse" on some level.
the problem is capitalism itself, which is a mode of production and a resulting social system. if every capitalist was perfectly mentally healthy and neurotypical it wouldnt change the fact that capital depends on the exploitation of labor to extract surplus value, and thus all capitalists are guilty of exploitation.
@redrozalia @michaelgemar @RedKoba @amydiehl totally agree. But we will not build a better world by throwing neurodivergent people under the bus in our quest to overthrow capitalism.
@quixoticgeek
@michaelgemar @RedKoba @amydiehl
indeed, the only way to build a better world for neurodivergent people is to overthrow capitalism, and part of that means having a correct analysis of how capitalism works and not just blaming it on capitalists being "stupid and evil" (which i think "autistic" is code for in this case, eugh)
@RedKoba @michaelgemar @amydiehl I'm pretty sure it's not the autistic ones who are the problem. It's the sociopathic ones we have problems with.
@quixoticgeek @michaelgemar @amydiehl
I was thinking about Altman or Musk, who are diagnosed autistics
Probably sociopaths too but there is no diagnosis yet
@RedKoba @quixoticgeek @michaelgemar @amydiehl Do not blame their behavior on autism. We are capable of having fucking morals.
Don't women already have enough to deal with without feeding narratives to male supremacist perceptions of being insincere, deceitful, and vapid people pleasers?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/opinion/andrew-tate-my-kids.html
Misogyny is an ecosystem.
Billionaires want compliant fake-friendly staff to manipulatively upsell.
Manosphere creeps want the same thing, inauthentic compliant people-pleasers.
The narratives of capitalism feed manosphere ideology & misogynists feed the economic systems of capitalism.
