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wait...so when their 8th graders ask "when are we ever gonna use this?" it's actually a legit question because algebra was illegal in san francisco?
wtf lmao

There are different levels of support for genocide is an argument. It's not one I would make, but who am I to tell you which hills are worth dying on.

What Biden says to the public doesn't mean s*** when what his government does behind closed doors is the exact opposite.

I'm surprised we're not using the state guard for this. But they're usually too old and under trained.

"ackshually it's extremely hard to tell sarcasm in text"

No it's not. Sarcasm and satire have been popular in writing for literal thousands of years. Only in the last 10 years did we need to start writing /s.

I think reddit in particular made it popular in large part because of the upvote/downvote system. Which usually runs on momentum and the first few downvotes or upvotes decide whether everyone else will upvote/downvote. And so people write /s to be safe because if some idiot misreads the comment then it could get downvoted to oblivion.

Dont forget that there is a Snopes article specifically about these tweets saying the claim being made in them is false.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-physics-degree/

No one else is dumb enough to want to put boots on the ground.

You gotta be his alt lol.

Critical voters? Like the ones that overwhelmingly desire a ceasefire and more pressure on Israel.

Given enough time, every dog stop walking on their hind legs, and walk on all fours. I guess this is that moment for you.

Israel cannot survive without global support. A boycott alone can cripple the nation, hence why it illegal to do so. All they have to do is stop the current support. Do not even need active interference

its also super inaccurate, idk why
every time ive had my credit pulled, credit karma showed me something like 30-50 pts lower than the lender
when i went and bought my car i had just taken out a new card at lowes and was worried i had fallen out of excellent rating
when the dealer ran my credit it had me over 800 but credit karma showed 745 lol

The thing is, you have an occupier and an apartheid state.

It would be like calling an uprising of Black Americans during the Jim Crow era an engagement of two sides... when in really you have an absolutely uneven power dynamic. Or probably a better example would be our own Native American genocides in the United States.

I guess a literal genocide of the entire Palestinian people and a bulldozing of their land and the very memory of their existence - is a fair response to the Hamas attacks of October 7 following decades of institutionalized apartheid...

Can anyone still defend Israel?

How long is it gonna take for anyone to do something? Whole world is actively watching a genocide and the only people with the balls to act are the fucking Houthis.

You'd actually be surprised at what a populist can do when they hold the presidential microphone AKA "The Bully Pulpit"...Look at how Donald Trump can get the entire conservative media and republican party infrastructure to focus on the issues he wants. Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders... it doesn't matter who has the office, they are in a position to elevate and act on key issues.

No, he'd be polling worse given that he would've promised way more than Biden did and delivered way less given how divided congress is and how conservative the judiciary is.

Not to mention that loads and loads and loads of moderate Dems were already looking to idiotically jump ship, so you'd better believe that a third party offshoot would've emerged siphoning at least a third of the Dem base away from him and barely denting GOP numbers.

Higher, and for a specific reason.

Biden's initially high favorability was composed in part by moderates. Moderates are notoriously easy to lose. And Biden lost them when his withdrawal from Afghanistan boosted the Taliban. Then he lost progressives with his Israel policy.

Bernie's supporters weren't the type to concern themselves with world policing to begin with, so the complaining would mostly come from people who were never supporting him at all. His initial favorability would remain.

Bernie would be for Palestine I'm sure.

Wait until they find out Trump supported IVF last night at a rally.

Trains? Horses ? Bikes? As for starving people ... my defenses on property would most likely do them in.

Mononoke Hime is the only Ghibli thing Ive ever liked, so that one I guess. I consider Ghibli basically anime Disney and havent watched anything theyve done since Howls Moving Castle, which I found incredibly boring.

They tried against Obama and it failed because he rallied enough independents and disaffected leftists (youths) who didn't care about the typical partisan smears. Whereas the propaganda was effective against Hillary since she was campaigning mainly for more traditional voters.

What are they doing to earn my vote?

My issue is the idiots who choose to blame other people for their own failed candidate. Hillary is a great example, so many even today blame Bernie for Trump beating her. You know who's fault it is that Hillary lost? Hillary Clinton, that's who's to blame. She did a poor job appealing to huge numbers of voters, completely ignored Michigan even to focus on Iowa and tried to get disaffected Republicans (which didn't work) and alienated more progressive voters.

If a politician needs certain groups to win? Then they should actually try to do SOMETHING to appeal to those groups instead of just saying "vote for me or else". That's not how you win votes and a lot of people on this site need to figure that out too. Trying to guilt trip people into voting for your candidate doesn't fucking work and can be counter productive. I always encourage people to vote for the Dem because Republicans are just SO much worse but holy shit it's the politicians to blame if they fail to appeal to the voters they need, it's not the people who are to blame.

That sounds like a big deal until you realize the median hourly wage in America is about $17 and some change, which is like $700 a week assuming a 40-hour work week. The $400 for the American groceries is more than half our median weekly pay

I got a minor in Math and took up to calc 5 in college but I don't know how she got that so fast >_> (probably cuz I forgot a lot of shit lol). I know the smaller and bigger triangles are isosceles and 2 of the angles must be equal, so the smaller one has angles of 50-50-80 while the bigger one's pair must be >50 with the top one being <80. And iirc all 4 sided shapes must equal 360 degrees, so one of the angles for that arrow shape must be 280 since it's opposite of the 80 tip of the smaller isosceles, so the remaining 3 angles must equal 80.

But how did she deduce the other angles? >_> I'm trying to figure out the path to victory here but I'm forgetting how cuz I went to stupid American colleges instead of smart Japanese colleges.

theres always kids who are still in college

or people who have no job skills out there

cant yall make em work there and staff Walgreens properly?

I dont need to. I already have a career locked down.

But other people with no skills or qualifications need to start somewhere and hit up Walgreens to work there

You aren't telling us s*** we don't already know. But when people use it as an excuse, it's just so nakedly stupid. Oh you care so much about the genocide in Gaza that you're cool enabling a domestic one of LGBT people.

I think even the Governor of Utah had to get involved in this to defend the family.

at best we're repeating Iraq, at worst we're complicit in a genocide

Obviously voting Trump does not improve this, but the point is that Biden should not support this any further than he has (or should step down entirely in favor of a primary) because otherwise Biden is going to lose Michigan since its Islamic population will flatly refuse to vote at all, giving us Trump anyway, and it would be completely absurd for Democratic operatives to lecture Muslims on how "it's complicated" and yet still expect anything resembling political support.

1. Palestine/Israel is complicated.
2. What isn't complicated is that Trump is significantly more pro-Israel than Biden
3. Muslims make up a small percent of Michigan and if Biden loses 1 non-muslim voter for each muslim voter he gains, there's no reason for him to push for their vote.
4. There are other swing states where Muslims are not as influential.

Does it matter? Most polls are garbage and conducted with agendas these days.

There was a thread the other day about how Gen Z men were becoming more conservative.