And the US justice system again and again proving itself completely incapable of delivering anything even remotely resembling justice.

Trump didn’t write this. He wouldn’t know what “atrophied” means.

I’m not American, so I know nothing about Dairy Queen. But you worded your post as if you unearthed some original burger from the 1960s or so, like you are Stevemre1989.

Selv i sådant tilfælde bør folk stadig ikke bruge den til informationssøgning, for det er de slet ikke designede til og derfor temmeligt dårlige til.

like the still today infamous moment where Nero played whilst Rome burned.

That didn’t really happen though.

Nero has been pretty much redeemed in modern scholarship. The majority of the stories about him stems from slander written by avowed enemies of the Julio-Claudians (Tacitus and Suetonius in particular), later amplified by Christian writers who carried a special grudge against him. The archaeological evidence suggests he was a capable ruler, who carried out lots of large scale projects that were pretty beneficial overall, and he certainly didn’t set Rome on fire and fiddled while he watched it burn.

Yeah, Americans love to fantasise about their beloved 2nd amendment (regardless of political persuasion), but they have never ever used it for what they (falsely) claim it was intended for.

What is an uber pool? I am imagining some sort of German engineering wonder.

You are arguing from ignorance. The terms republic and democracy and so on have rather solid definitions in political science. Republic is not a very informative descriptor of the poltical system of a country, it just means that the role of head of state in’t heritable, ie. that it isn’t a monarchy. The actual political system of a republic can be basically anything except a monarchy.

A republic just means that a country doesn’t have a heritable head of state. All of those listed countries are in actual fact republics. It says next to nothing about the actual political system of a country besides the role of the head of state. Lots and lots of dictatorships are republics. Many democracies are republics as well, but as you can see it is the dictatorship/democracy part which describes the important part of those countries political systems, not republic.

Many Americans are confused about this, because they have been indoctrinated into thinking that republic is the main descriptor of their system. Mainly because it was an important descriptor back in the 18th century, when most countries were monarchies, but much less so in later times when most existing countries are republics.

There are lots of republics where the president does serve as a literal figurehead without any consequential powers, so a republic does not necessarily turn up with a Trump. In fact the US is rather unique in how it has combined republic with absolute monarchy in the office of the president, probably very much a sign of how antiquated the constitution is.

It definitely does not work in an environment where lazy aggressive apatheists will support a system they don’t like by claiming it can’t be changed.

If everyone stopped tipping tomorrow, the only people that would be hurting are the people who serve.

Who would then not want to work in those places that depends entirely of tipping. And then it hurts the owners of those places.

How are you unable to realise this? It is all connected.

Unfortunately as this very thread shows, a lot of Americans are mindbogglingly not in agreement about that. Which explains a lot about the current predicament of the country.

How long do you think that wait staff will stay in the restaurants where their wage consists of tipping which doesn’t exist?

What if everyone didn’t expect you to tip? You vehemently defending the tipping system is part of why EVERYONE expects you to tip.

That kind of aggressive apatheism is what makes the system continue.

It works both ways. If noone tips then noone will work at restaurants where their wage consists solely of tipping. That is also how capitalism works.

OP says they are from Eastern Europe. They have no reach there.

Yes, but not as much as they are now. That really says something.

Because he is part of the ruling class. US law doesn’t apply to them and never has.