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>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.

The prospects of allowing Trump to become President once again is no white pill, considering there will be a nefarious motivation by those pulling the strings to try and get a lot of us to die in a war.

On the other hand, it will be fun to see the leftist meltdown once again.

My boomer dad serves as a good measuring stick for what the conservatives of his generation have for a worldview. And for the most part, it is frustrating to get him to see things from a perspective that is not the controlled opposition "right wing" sources of news he gets.

But it made me realize that things can get better when the older generations are no longer in charge (mainly due to them finally dying). Can, but not guaranteed, as we still have to get through the hard times that are coming