There are definitely jerks everywhere. You're likely to notice them because they're apt to be disrespectful of your time, space, quietude, etc.
But the good people are certainly around too. You just might not notice them so easily because they do respect your right to exist independently of their intrusions.
Exactly. It's anecdotal but most people I have met in my American life are quietly good people. Their biggest problem is finding the courage to speak up when a loud jerk is doing their thing.
Check the full article (linked within the posted shorter article) and you'll find this...
"About an hour into the visit, a staff member approached someone on the security detail and "asked to encourage" the governor to leave, "as she had finished dining," according to the statement.
Since the restaurant has a 90-minute table limit, the security detail was approached a second time and asked to leave roughly 10 minutes before that time limit.
As they were leaving, the governor's staff said that a man allegedly yelled, “it’s time to go,” and then proceeded to make a crude hand gesture in the governor’s direction. The Croissanterie would say that man was a customer and not an employee."
Yeah, she just found out, that not only do people disagree with her views, she's also not special and not above the rules. Get gone, bye Felicia..
But, it wasn't the reason she was asked to leave. Odd, though, that she chose to claim she made the employees feel threatened, like that's something to boast about?
My point is her explanation is “people were uncomfortable” as if that’s not a valid reason to ask someone to leave.
It is.
It very much is.
Especially if your security goons are acting like assholes questioning/stopping people, etc. (not saying they were but usually details like that will want as much control as they can legally take.)
She’s a guinea worm. A creature with no notable purpose in the world except to complete its lifecycle at the pain and expense of others. Literally the only parasite even hardcore animal rights and environmental groups don’t fight to save. Nobody likes the fucking guinea worm.
She went to the place she wanted to go, with her guests and her security detail, and she got the food she wanted to eat. She had the chance to eat it.
Somehow even this write-up. which is not particularly sympathetic to her, is framing this as a kind of affront, a consequence, a humiliation. But she pretty much got what she came for, didn't she? She's facing no practical consequences at all. She lost a little face, maybe. This was a public declaration that people don't like her, don't like what priorities she's chosen to serve.
Maybe we wouldn't be in this pickle we're in, if this kind of getting-through-to-the-isolated-elites happened more often. If we didn't have isolated elites in the first place.
She reached the 90 minute table limit. She was encouraged to leave after an hour, after having finished her meal and her party was offered free beverages to go.
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warbosstodd@piefed.social · 178 pts · 176d
GOP: businesses have the right to refuse service!!!
Business: Hey fascist. Get out. You’re making people with moral compasses uncomfortable.
GOP: wait. No, not like that!
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 176d
I know there are some members of this community who are at least as surprised that anybody living in Arkansas has a moral compass
KingOfSleep@lemmy.ca · 75 pts · 176d
There are good people everywhere.
Deconceptualist@leminal.space · 10 pts · 176d
There are definitely jerks everywhere. You're likely to notice them because they're apt to be disrespectful of your time, space, quietude, etc.
But the good people are certainly around too. You just might not notice them so easily because they do respect your right to exist independently of their intrusions.
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 176d
Exactly. It's anecdotal but most people I have met in my American life are quietly good people. Their biggest problem is finding the courage to speak up when a loud jerk is doing their thing.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 176d
They don't even have a regular compass or they wouldn't be in Arkansas in the first place.
Beetschnapps@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 176d
“Businesses have a right to deny minority groups, but denying me is ‘cancel culture’.”
toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 176d
Asshole, the newest title 7 class
over_clox@lemmy.world · 95 pts · 176d
Check the full article (linked within the posted shorter article) and you'll find this...
"About an hour into the visit, a staff member approached someone on the security detail and "asked to encourage" the governor to leave, "as she had finished dining," according to the statement.
Since the restaurant has a 90-minute table limit, the security detail was approached a second time and asked to leave roughly 10 minutes before that time limit.
As they were leaving, the governor's staff said that a man allegedly yelled, “it’s time to go,” and then proceeded to make a crude hand gesture in the governor’s direction. The Croissanterie would say that man was a customer and not an employee."
Yeah, she just found out, that not only do people disagree with her views, she's also not special and not above the rules. Get gone, bye Felicia..
evenglow@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 176d
Also not the first time she has been asked to leave a restaurant.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 176d
Oh shit, interesting. I'm in a different state, so she's not much on my radar, but would you have a link?
stephen@lazysoci.al · 29 pts · 176d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hen_restaurant_controversy
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 176d
She was denied her cheese plate, the poor dear!
https://www.wonkette.com/p/lets-liveblog-sarah-huckabee-sanders-bellyaching-about-her-free-cheese-plate-like-an-asshole
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 176d
lol god she sucks so much.
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 176d
What do they mean, they 'would say'? Absolute passive voice dog whistle bullshit
over_clox@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 176d
I think the context of 'would say' should be extrapolated as 'would go on to say' or 'later said'.
Either something like that, or bullshit, but I think the former.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 176d
That's... a valid reason to ask someone to leave.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 176d
But, it wasn't the reason she was asked to leave. Odd, though, that she chose to claim she made the employees feel threatened, like that's something to boast about?
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 176d
My point is her explanation is “people were uncomfortable” as if that’s not a valid reason to ask someone to leave.
It is.
It very much is.
Especially if your security goons are acting like assholes questioning/stopping people, etc. (not saying they were but usually details like that will want as much control as they can legally take.)
kurmudgeon@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 176d
As a former Arkansan, the moment she announced she was running for governor, I moved out of that state. Not even joking.
voidsignal@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 176d
good. now throw that cow off the planet
meco03211@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 176d
Please don't insult cows.
voidsignal@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 176d
you're right. I'm sorry, cows.
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 176d
She’s a guinea worm. A creature with no notable purpose in the world except to complete its lifecycle at the pain and expense of others. Literally the only parasite even hardcore animal rights and environmental groups don’t fight to save. Nobody likes the fucking guinea worm.
MrSelfDestruct25@fedinsfw.app · 5 pts · 176d
o.0
moistmotherboard@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 176d
sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 176d
Looking at her would put me off my dinner too.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 176d
She’s making me uncomfortable and I’m thousands of miles away
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 11 pts · 176d
She went to the place she wanted to go, with her guests and her security detail, and she got the food she wanted to eat. She had the chance to eat it.
Somehow even this write-up. which is not particularly sympathetic to her, is framing this as a kind of affront, a consequence, a humiliation. But she pretty much got what she came for, didn't she? She's facing no practical consequences at all. She lost a little face, maybe. This was a public declaration that people don't like her, don't like what priorities she's chosen to serve.
Maybe we wouldn't be in this pickle we're in, if this kind of getting-through-to-the-isolated-elites happened more often. If we didn't have isolated elites in the first place.
devolution@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 176d
Lemme guess. She was propositioning 5 year olds.
protist@retrofed.com · 7 pts · 176d
As Kinky Friedman once said:
Maeve@kbin.earth · 5 pts · 176d
She reached the 90 minute table limit. She was encouraged to leave after an hour, after having finished her meal and her party was offered free beverages to go.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 176d
It just occurred to me that the likely many hundreds of emails between Trump and Epstein haven't been released yet.
deacon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 176d
I’ll be honest, especially outside of their typical context, like the White House or haunted houses, ghouls would make me feel threatened too.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 176d
"I'm not sure if she is looking at me or the dessert."
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 176d
Oh, no!
Was she denied her cheese plate?
I remember how very butthurt all these assholes were the first failed term of this dumbass "president" when this happened:
https://www.wonkette.com/p/hero-restaurant-gives-sarah-huckabee-sanders-the-boot
Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 176d
So the authors did change "threatened" to "uncomfortable", but "asked to leave" to "thrown out."
Is this fair and balanced?
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 176d
Crackers at nighttime’ll do that to ya.
notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 176d