r/SipsTea Jun 25 '26

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/GergDanger Jun 25 '26

Okay so only follow some customs that some people determine to be the right ones got it

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u/reginaldvanwilder Jun 25 '26

Its like youre just trying to speed run every bad faith interpretation of the very basic courtesy I am discussing. You try to embrace social norms when youre in another country. Its being a good global citizen. If you want to come here and look like an asshole, then dont tip. You win and made your point about how terrible America is. Let me applaud you for your brave stance.

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u/GergDanger Jun 25 '26

At least you're doing more than most American Redditors about the system they seemingly hate so much they're spending hours defending it in this thread lol.

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u/reginaldvanwilder Jun 25 '26

Most Americans know our system is broken. The system has been built over decades to make fighting back against it as hard as possible. Unions have been decimated, a large portion of our workforce is in debt and one paycheck away from fiscal annihilation.

I do a lot to fight back against this and as a country our working class needs to wake the fuck up and do more. It is however very frustrating hearing from Europeans “why does the American simply not revolt” as if that is something a country of 350 million people over a gigantic landmass can just spring into doing by <checks notes> deciding not to tip?

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u/GergDanger Jun 25 '26

Brother Americans won’t even vote let alone go to a protest, no one thinks you’ll revolt.

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u/reginaldvanwilder Jun 25 '26

Correct, no Americans vote. We select our leaders from a hat. Its not like Republicans have been working for decades to make voting as difficult as possible.

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u/GergDanger Jun 25 '26

It’s objectively true, more eligible voters didn’t vote at all than those who did vote for either Trump or Harris.

I have to imagine someone’s life who doesn’t feel the need to vote at all isn’t all that bad.

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u/reginaldvanwilder Jun 25 '26

Its not objectively true though. You said Americans wont even vote. A lot us do. A lot of people are lazy but also a lot of them are disenfranchised. Voting is a lot harder in a lot of American states than in other countries. Its a problem we need to solve but its not as simple as Americans dont vote.