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I think everyone battles with underestimating other’s intelligence and overestimating their own (Dunning-Kruger). Knowing what you don’t know, is as important as, knowing what you do know. The best leaders have the ability to put ego aside and choose the best qualified people for positions. You should want dissenting viewpoints to strengthen your own position, be malleable enough to change your position when it is shown to be flawed. That is what true leadership looks like. It’s having ethics and morality, but showing humility and human decency when incorrect, instead of trying to blame everyone else.

Neither forum is all that interesting to visit anymore. Political shit show or general moto shit show , take your pick . Both have become repetitive . The best forums are old school and bike builds

These are the dangers of connecting our identity to someone else, we're forced to defend them to no end as a matter of defending ourselves. It's a common predatorial tactic. The fact is that Trump is not the blue man dr manhattan and there's no 4d chess. He's just a bitter old guy in diapers that can't stay awake and can't run a casino without going bankrupt. Not to nullify the sentiment of those that fell for his scam, it's just that he's not the one to help those folks realize their wishes. On the plus side, conservatism will be...

Everything in Trump’s life is transactional. Business partnerships, marriages, the presidency. However, unlike a failed business venture, Trump cannot simply file the Iranian conflict for bankruptcy. He assumed Iranian leadership would quickly acquiesce, despite knowledgeable people advising him differently. Trump’s in deeper than he ever imagined, and it’s buried deep inside his melon.

Capacitor blew in my 3 phase converter. Felt like wiring a bomb but she's a runner again. Now I get to nerd out and set parameters on this damn edge bander, then wait as something else decides to shit the bed. Rinse and repeat.

Our small group of friends runs the gamut of, political beliefs, income levels, believers, non believers, dope smokers, bourbon sippers, etc... And none of that comes into play when we're together. The stuff that we poke each other with online, or our group text, in the real world around our campfires, never puts us at odds with each other. So many in here would fit right in with our bunch of goofballs. Unless you didn't keep the fire properly stoked... Edit: Point being, everyone goes home Sunday night, or Monday morning chilled. Right down to the bone.

I'm not the one making the fairness claim. And as of yet, neither are you. It was soggy and T-MAC. The reason I pointed out that the higher rates resulted in a smaller share of the burden was to counter the notion that taxes are less fair now than then, which you asserted with your charts on tax rates. I was pointing out that tax rates are not the important part of the equation. I'm not making any claims as to what anybody's tax rates or burden ought to be or what is fair. I have, in the fairly recent...

I've also done more than my share of commercial jobs. The catholic cathedral in Knoxville. Tons of radius work, dental mould, coffered ceilings, layers of trim. This was a once in a lifetime project.

I think you might be misreading my reasoning for the higher marginal tax rates. I’m not really targeting the top 20%, and increasing tax revenue from even the top 5% isn’t my primary objective. I’m talking about progressively higher marginal rates at VERY high incomes, primarily to change incentives, making it relatively more attractive to reinvest or otherwise deploy that next dollar productively than to take it as additional personal income. If that also raises some revenue, great, but that’s secondary to what I’m advocating. In fact, what I’m advocating should actually result in the top incomes in the country...