Personally, I grew up on a single parent home, where I saw my mom get destroyed by her office work. The lack of unions, no external help and general misoginy, made her get super depressed, and became an alcoholic. In my teenage years I was almost lured by the manosphere communities, but got helped by a group of close friends that were left leaning. Most of them were anarchist, so I started with that. Slowly but surely, I started to understand how sick this system is, and it made me furious, but I never found a way to show my ideas. No political party represented my ideas, and I fell deeper in the anarchist rabbit hole. Yes, I was a hardcore anarkiddie, but I bite me back. When I needed them the most, they turned their backs on me, and fell into deep depression. And in seeking psychological help, my counselor recommended me going back to my roots. So I went back to videogames, japanese culture and most importantly, read again after years The Communist Manifesto. I still don't know how to position myself in the left, but I know that I'm a Marxist, and that I want change. Stay safe, comrades.

  • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    I work hospitality at high-end properties, my old property got lots of heads of state, royalty, and the like. Those can be bad with some bizarre demands, but the worst are the mid-tier CEOs who are far more self-important than they have any right to be.

    The worst anecdote I can recall from my last property is when a guest, who was a Shiny Member and CEO of a tiny company, was already upset while he was checking out that he was not given champagne amenities and a free upgrade to a suite. We made the woeful mistake of allowing one of our front service staff to help him carry his luggage to his taxi, but the staff member was a foreigner. He was very upset by the fact that we didn't hire exclusively locally and refused to leave while he called the police.

    After arrival, the police that he called promptly escorted him off property and he is blacklisted as far as I am aware. I am still not sure what he expected the police to actually do.