VikingHippie

It doesn't cost any money to defend against a suit that no judge would accept.

To allow a suit based on the assumption that the FEC was wrong and Forbes must have known so is the kind of insanity that gets a judge removed from the bench in even the most conservative jurisdictions.

So no, there's absolutely no valid excuse for Forbes to use the word in this case.

Yes yes, I know. What I'm saying is that there's no way they're going to be sued based on going by the determination of the FEC that anyone is guilty, least of all a politician who's known to be a serial liar.

On the other hand, using "alleged" when she HAS been declared guilty by the government agency implies that they may have gotten it wrong and/or that their ruling isn't legally binding. Either would add fuel to her and the rest of the GOP's martyrdom narrative.

If anything, the FTC should begin to fine every instance of a media outlet using "alleged" when someone has legally been found guilty.

Maybe the only way to finally fix the system is to stop tipping

No. The livelihood of servers is not an acceptable sacrifice to help servers. Defeats the point completely and there's no guarantee that it'll work.

so servers will go elsewhere until pay comes up

Go where? It's not like they all live in areas that have even a single place that pays servers a living wage or can afford to mo.

serving is usually a “job” not a career.

To paraphrase Matthew Perry (RIP): could you BE anymore condescending towards people with a career in the service industry?

I claim that many minimum wage jobs are easier to switch among

And you'd be wrong. People work minimum wage because it was the least bad job available. Unless you're part of a union, employers have all the power and afford none to workers.

If a job requires special skills and knowledge, it deserves pay as such.

Every job does. There's no such thing as unskilled labor.

The fine means she's been found guilty, Forbes.

Your use of the word "alleged" is unnecessary, misleading and makes it sound like you're taking the word of notoriously unhinged liar Perjury Greene over that of the FEC.

"This episode of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me is brought to you by Capital One and FTX: what WAS in your wallet?"

Oh yeah? IS your violin the world's tiniest? Because mine's pretty damn tiny..

Just once, I want a PBS host to bellow with the volume of a Republican that just watched the newest Project Veritas fraud 😁

The cost of paying those people at the very least minimum wage is factored into the price of your purchase, except for the busser, who shares tips with the servers.

Because that's not the case with servers, you tip in order for the server to get paid for performing a service for you.

You’re an enabler, keeping an abusive system alive to benefit one small category at the expense of everyone else

No. I've been clear from the start that tipping is a thing we have to do temporarily so that servers don't starve or become homeless before we finally fix the system.

New York and Los Angeles which saw increased shoplifting rates

Increased ARREST rates for shoplifting. Both the NYPD and the LAPD as well as the LA County Sheriff are infamous for overpolicing, especially of poor people and minorities. Add at least one "tough on crime mayor" and arrests for poverty-related crimes go up regardless of whether crime does.

This means that Eric Adams appears to be addressing a real problem

"Appears to" being the operative words.

Pretty much between to the right of Reagan conservatives and outright fascists.

The Dem leadership hasn't been center-left since Carter at the latest and the GOP hasn't been a legitimate political party at all since 2015.

"Not just conservatives" he says and mentions fascist cop (but I repeat myself) Eric Adams as an example 🤦

Fun* fact: most of the Dem party top is conservative to the point of being to the right of Reagan

*and by "Fun" I mean tragic and infuriating

I thought that was gonna be a link to the Project Veritas fraud farm but yeah, fuck the NRF too!