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I learned something recently about how "Social Studies" came to be a thing. Apparently, the government was trying to make up for all the damage that was being done with the destruction of the family. So thanks to one problem created by our government, we now have a mind numbing and pointless class called "Social Studies."

I would have much preferred we just had real subjects like history instead. Even in Kindergarten and 1st grade I realized that Social Studies sucked, but now I know why.

So what's next with Trump getting felony convictions? This does not play well into the theory of the powers that be letting Trump back into the White House, unless I am missing something. Because I don't see how going with another 4 years of Biden is going to be a great idea with how things are shaking up in the world.

Perhaps those who are in charge are stupid enough to think they can succeed in spite of the bad conditions (such as low recruitment numbers for the military).

Perhaps you cannot always find the cheaper alternative with all things nor does it always work out for the better. But chances are that you might be spending more money than you need to on factors that are actually not important.

With this in mind, consider what other things you can do to lower your expenses by seeking less expensive alternatives. Is your money being well spent by paying for all the added costs that have little to do with the end product itself?

While eating out is far from frugal, it makes little sense to pay extra for someone from Uber Eats or whatever other service when eating takeout is already expensive enough. Better yet, figure out if you can make the food yourself. Much cheaper.

Giving another shout-out to ALDI. If you have one in your area, you should totally take advantage of the signficantly lower food prices. Who cares about things like name brands and customer service? At the prices they have, I care little that I have to bag my own groceries and return the cart myself to get the quarter back.

With food being a large expense, it helps to find ways to get it as cheap as possible.

Looks like someone made a call to Nikki. Yet another stop pulled to get Trump back in office so that can try to get more young white men to die for Israel.

>90% top marginal tax rate for the rich

Except none of the rich actually paid that and always got out of it with loopholes built into the system. And most billionaires are not making a standard income like others, making a high income tax for them meaningless anyways.

I will not argue that tipping is a great and perfect system. Though I have noticed many left wingers being against the system for the same reason they hate free markets: meritocracy. They know full well that they will not make it on their merits, so they want a system that automatically rewards them.

"But what about bad tippers?" Well, I am quite willing to bet these same people would disapprove refusing service to those sorts of people when "discrimination" starts taking place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5GLbZmGBls

I know you do not care that anyone steals your ideas, @Tfmonkey, though I am not sure if this is something anyone else copied your homework on this topic (lack of police reports filed by women who claimed to be raped).

I will give Pearl or her handlers some credit of being better at stealing ideas than Andrew Tate, who does not seem to know what ideas are worth stealing (e.g. would you rather have sex with Megan Fox with a dick or Hulk Hogan with a vagina).

We see far too much tone policing and worrying about feelings rather than being able to talk about objective and practical solutions. This would not be necessary in the first place if a sizeable chunck of our voters were not overly emotional l, low information voters. This is mostly applicable to women, but there are men like this too.

And we see the results of caring about tone and feelings. Things are going down the drain.

Do you really have someone "on your side" if the support you have is fragile at best and full of way too many caveats that are nearly impossible to keep and are often counterproductive to your long term goals and principles?

When you are bending over backwards to win over people who may not even be convinced to support your goals, that is a waste of time, money, and resources that frankly should not be necessary in the first place. But our "sacred democracy" forces this to happen.

The whole effort of trying to win the votes of women just exposes a major problem with democracy in general. Too many women fall into the category of overly emotional and low information voters, and the attempt to appeal and sway their opinions is just a counterproductive effort since even when you manage to succeed, you usually have compromised way too much of any principles you might have had for a group that will just vote the other way the moment they get the slightest emotional reaction.