203
top 34 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 113 points 1 week ago

He's right but the restaurant is not the time or place for it.

[-] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 90 points 1 week ago

Good reminder that even when you have a point make sure you are aiming in the right direction.

[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 79 points 1 week ago

Trotsky as an "I don't tip and have an entire ideological justification prepared in advance" is chefs kiss delicious.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 49 points 1 week ago

Where Trotsky's food was intentionally not

[-] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 77 points 1 week ago

He also asked the cashier to scan the candy bars individually to prevent electronic interference.

[-] ItalianMessiah@hexbear.net 66 points 1 week ago

That's infetterance to you

[-] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago

FUCK I typed it correctly but my stupid phone autocorrected. walter-shock

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

Bruh, my old phone used to let me type the words I want, but my new phone (ALSO of the exact same brand and type, but a far newer model) will change correctly typed words into different words that it must've assumed I meant; i hate it so much (also it'll pick and choose when to capitalize a lone 'i').

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 69 points 1 week ago

Trotsky should have just been left on his armored train going around a loop in Siberia like it's snowpiercer

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 73 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Incidentally, a snowpiercer is what killed him.

[-] Biggay@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago
[-] GreenTeaRedFlag@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

We may not have gotten a snowpiercer, but an ice piercer isn't too far off.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

Snowtrotter

[-] Zoift@hexbear.net 63 points 1 week ago

God, he was such an asshole.

[-] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 59 points 1 week ago

you're not wrong leon, you're just an asshole

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 61 points 1 week ago

In another incident, the restaurant staff conspired to serve him undercooked food that left him bedridden for several days with a severe case of diarrhea, giving rise to the name "the trots" as a popular euphemism for said malady [citation needed].

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 59 points 1 week ago

this is anticommunist. a communist tips well enough that the staff will conspire with you to fuck the owners

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

Did Trotsky have a thing for the owners?

[-] newacctidk@hexbear.net 56 points 1 week ago

Love that he made this a microcosm of his entire belief system, rejecting material reality to grandstand in a way that just so happens to align with whatever benefits him personally.

[-] ManFreakBeast@hexbear.net 55 points 1 week ago

This makes me more anti-Trot than anything else.

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

God no wonder he got the pika-pickaxe

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 44 points 1 week ago

This is one of those things you read and you just kinda roll your eyes and go "yep, that seems like something he would do."

[-] CantaloupeAss@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago

Trotsky, in many ways, had it coming

[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago

I'm not gonna do any work to figure out if this is real. I think it's funny and I want it to be real.

[-] Des@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago

as someone who worked for tips for 5 years, fuck that stiff

[-] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Alternate timeline: He successfully installs a Trotskyist government in the United States, solely on account of the tipping issue

[-] borschtisgarbo@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 week ago

Why would he try to persuade other customers? No wonder they splashed him with soup. Evil fucker

[-] Tychoxii@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

They hated Trotski because he told them the truth.

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Why do I have to be Mr. Pink?

[-] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

Trotsky: Why can't we pick our own revolutionary names?

Lenin: No way, no way. Tried it once, it doesn't work. You get four guys all fighting over who's gonna be Man of Steel.

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

The Marxist thing to do is to tip based on the labor-time, rather than the menu price of the food.

this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
203 points (99.0% liked)

chapotraphouse

13558 readers
694 users here now

Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.

No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer

Gossip posts go in c/gossip. Don't post low-hanging fruit here after it gets removed from c/gossip

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS