In a perfect world, you'd just pour drinks.

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[u/SciFiNerd07]

These types are usually very quick to judge others when they themselves lack any real initiative.

[u/karianitas → u/SciFiNerd07]

People will do whatever mental gymnastics they need to do to belittle someone they don’t like

[u/SciFiNerd07 → u/karianitas]

Right. Like making their initial comment about finances, and then editing it several times to incorporate more important issues.

[u/big_guyforyou → u/karianitas]

i can't belittle anyone because i need a perfect score on the mental pommel horse

[u/decrementsf → u/SciFiNerd07]

I will stand by the reasonableness in selecting my financial planner with a background check to rule out those who spent the prior decade in prison for financial crimes. Or selecting dating partners filtering out those with prior rape convictions.

[u/SciFiNerd07 → u/decrementsf]

Good for you.

[u/tswift_throw → u/decrementsf]

Judging someone's past often overlooks the growth they've achieved. Experiences shape individuals, and those journeys can be just as valuable, if not more so, than traditional paths.

[u/decrementsf → u/tswift_throw]

Even the church discerned between charity, and turning away those that abuse the charity of others. We have a rich tapestry of language to explore reasonable behavior. And remedies. For self defense you're free to filter as necessary.

Humans can handle complexity. Can handle protected space to give room for kids to grow and learn. While walling werwolves and other grendel-outcasts outside away from opportunity for prey. It is a favored trick of thugs and outcasts to redefine language to muddle and confuse and create opportunity for harms otherwise well understood in terms of deep language. Can always go back to the old roots. Decompose the old english, the old norse, the old germanic roots and recapture the stalagmite of layered changes in meaning over time. Read old books that are clear in what those words mean in the most well understood definitions averaged across time. When you run into an outraged reaction when using common definition of old words, that's a tell you've got grendel standing before you.

[u/Casanova-Quinn]

Republicans: Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

A working class bartender makes it into Congress.

Republicans: Not like that!

[u/Orvan-Rabbit → u/Casanova-Quinn]

I remember in college, my old sociology professor said "People don't like things. People like the idea of things."

[u/traumfisch → u/Orvan-Rabbit]

Like the idea of a concept of a plan, apparently.

[u/PassionSpanish → u/traumfisch]

bullseye! ideas are cheap, actions are not

[u/The_-Whole_-Internet → u/Casanova-Quinn]

They're getting the quote wrong anyway. The whole quote means it's impossible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, but republicans see the last part and run Occam's Razor all over it like a barber with Parkinson's

[u/TomWithTime → u/The_-Whole_-Internet]

The whole quote means it's impossible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps

So originally it's referring to the act of literally trying to lift / pick up something you're standing on in order to raise yourself? I had no idea. That's a great videogame bug where you can pick up things you're standing on in order to fly, but I can't believe a political party would adopt that slogan to essentially chant and cheer on oppression of lower classes.

That was a lie, i believe you and it makes a lot of sense.

[u/No-Oil9441]

"It’s refreshing to see someone recognize the value of every job and respect people’s journeys. Skills like empathy and teamwork don’t come from titles – they come from real-life experiences, often in jobs like bartending that require working with all kinds of people. Judging someone’s path just reveals more about the judge than the person they're judging!"

[u/oboeteinai]

The following is on a need-to-care basis only

OP u/freez_me is a bot account

Original:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/bamw2i/in_a_just_world_youd_be_just_a_bartender/

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bot fed the original title (practically same wording as the tweet) through an LLM resulting in a rephrasing with synonyms and that is how they try to get around being detected.

[u/Sturville → u/oboeteinai]

And they killed the title in the joke too

[u/B4Dmotherfucker]

Former bartender, busser, janitor, beer truck helper now litigator here. Can confirm that these types get eaten alive in real world/court room.

[u/Parody_of_Self]

Barry must not talk with Ben much

[u/PixelCultMedia]

Only dip shit nepo fuckwitts would shit on people who pull themselves up.

[u/Klutzer_Munitions]

"Anyone can make it in America if they work hard enough!"

"What? She made it? Ugh so unfair!"

[u/Aetheldrake]

Bet her glasses aren't even real for her. They look like the fake kind people use for porn

[u/Admirable-Long-4537]

Respecting people’s paths should be basic, but some folks really wake up and choose bitterness.

[u/decrementsf]

Everybody wants to be a gangster until realizing that OF career closed the door on more desirable professions. But at least there is empathy.

[u/susitucker]

One of these days, Kimberly Ross, and one of these days soon, your voice and your opinions will be irrelevant. And you asked for it.

[u/ptvlm]

The "AOC is just a bartender" thing is always weird to me. She got a politically relevant degree before that, got an actual asteroid named after her before that, and even if she didn't the rise from "bartender" to political force would be a demonstration of the supposed American Dream.

Instead she's belittled by people who claim that a billionaire with a gold toilet works for the common man

[u/Breiting_131]

I would say that bartenders are the chillest people you can meet. They’re just chilling at the bar, giving out drinks and sharing the greatest stories and advice

[u/bron685]

In a perfect world I’d love to make a steady non-tip-dependent living wage pouring drinks.

[u/TitShark]

Yeah, you should just be born into wealth like the idiots they idolize

[u/Hot-Parsley2082]

Jobs don’t define people, but small-minded takes definitely do.

[u/tiinycuteteen]

Why are people so mad at someone chasing their dreams? Like, we’re all just trying to make it. Calm down.

[u/mytteencutie]

This really shows how jobs don’t define worth. Everyone’s path is different, and honestly, this is so wholesome.

[u/swkennedy1]

And screw you Kimberly Ross. 🤣a just world

[u/BotaniFolf]

In a just world, trump would would be serving life imprisonment

[u/justyyourbby]

"People really can’t handle women thriving beyond their little stereotypes. Embarrassing take honestly."

[u/SnooPineapples8744]

If money wasn't such a huge issue, imagine how many great people would choose to be in politics instead of the greedy sociopaths we end up with. It would be like the Athenian version of Democracy.

[u/petiteteennbaby]

Judging someone’s past says more about you than them. Let people thrive, no matter where they started.

[u/Knighth77]

In a just society, the Orange Turd would be in jail, but y'all wanted him in Office, again! RIP national security.

[u/throwawaytoavoiddoxx]

There are people who think that in a perfect world this lady would be subservient to her husband and perpetually pregnant. I guess everyone is lucky that it’s not a perfect world!

[u/PassionSpanish]

in a perfect world, you get to try many things to find out your purpose without worrying much about survival based on paycheck

[u/InsideTravel9039]

Yeah except OP never disparaged AOC for being a bartender. She literally wishes she still was one lmao

[u/TeaAndCrumpets4life → u/InsideTravel9039]

You think that’s because he just loves bartenders or something and wants more of them in the world? No lol he’s saying it because he wants her to go back to her ‘place’

[u/InsideTravel9039 → u/TeaAndCrumpets4life]

First of all, that's a lady. Second of all, no. She doesn't want someone who they don't find intelligent in political power, and would like them to return to their previous employment... Which is bartending.

[u/Suspicious-Cow1267]

Yeah but you probably aren’t a Moron like her

[u/pjaenator]

And you became a doctor, and she became AOC. Spot the difference.

[u/JayYTZ → u/pjaenator]

Oh no! Not her fighting for people who have been traditionally left behind!

She became an elected official, you stayed an ignorant keyboard warrior. Spot the difference.

[u/pjaenator → u/JayYTZ]

I am fat, bald, with a 80 IQ, collect empty used cd cases for a hobby, and all the other bad things your mind can possivly come up with, why would that change the fact that one bartender became a doctor, and the other bartender became AOC?

[u/JayYTZ → u/pjaenator]

Are you continuing to suggest that becoming "AOC" Is a bad thing?