I think he's pretty strategic, not to any specific state, but to rural Middle America in general. He grew up working on a farm, worked in a factory for a bit, joined the army then worked as a teacher and football coach, he's the salt of the earth common American vance pretends to be. Not saying he'll turn all the rural areas blue but even going from say 20% to 25% will help a lot in those swing states which have a large rural population.
It's true Palestinian Americans will rarely get reported on due to media bias, but they'll still report on incidence like these effecting international aid workers and journalists as they sympathize with them more, even the above article mentions 196 have been killed and that's from months ago.
As for the state non-state definition the u.s. has gotten around that with calling them "state sponsors of terrorism" putting them on a list and imposing sanctions. The fact Cuba is on that list and Israel isn't really shows the legitimacy of it.
There are also u.s. citizens being bombed in Gaza, is the person dropping the bomb or anyone on the chain of command up to Bibi being designated a terrorist?
How, all's she's done is express more empathy than Biden, but she still hasn't given any concrete policies that differ from Biden. All the above article mentions is her calling for a temporary ceasefire, which Biden has been doing for months. She hasn't mentioned anything about and still seems hostile to conditioning aid to Israel or promising to stop blocking the UN or ICJ or calling for a permanent ceasefire, those are what Muslim groups should be demanding for there endorsement, not fluffy words of empathy.
Couldn't you join a party and then you get to vote for the parties leader ? Don't see much of a difference between that and the primary system other then you have to officially join the party, which I'm not sure what that entails, as opposed to just registering to vote for it.
Why? Not saying they shouldn't eventually, she's still way better then trump, but you shouldn't give up your one piece of leverage before she's even given any hint of being better then Biden on Gaza.
I don't think this would have much of an effect. Even your average democrat these days doesn't give a fuck about homeless people. Even if they do it's probably very low on there list of concerns, even progressives would probably care more about his Gaza stance than this. No one can imagine they could be homeless until they are.
This is the same candidate who filmed an ad where she is running with a bulletproof vest, a pistol and a rifle down the streets and then says "in America you can be anything you want, so don't be weak and gay" and tagged Andrew Tate on it.
It seems she's amping up the Marjorie Taylor green strategy of saying the most outrageous offensive shit to trigger the libs and rally her bigoted base.
Conifers aren't trees by this definition. It seems to completely ignore gymnosperms and even misclassified a couple as dicots like sequoias and junipers.
We need to stop looking for a scientifically coherent category for a tree and ,like fish, embrace the true, intuitive, childlike definition of it as just a form, a trunk with leaves at the top.
Bidens not losing because Democrats are infighting, the GOP are literally shooting at each other and just put up a vp that made his initial career off bad mouthing trump and his base, no one gives a shit about party cohesion. Biden is losing because he's a bad unpopular candidate, he has the worst approval rating since Carter and is the oldest candidate ever to run. Stop blaming the mostly impotent left and start blaming the establishment that got us into this mess in the first place.
By a truly unbelievable coincidence, I was recently out for a walk when I saw a small package fall off a truck ahead of me. ... Inside, we found the latest versions of the Cellebrite software, a hardware dongle designed to prevent piracy (tells you something about their customers I guess!), and a bizarrely large number of cable adapters.
I guess it makes sense signal works with the mafia
Yes breed, go harder right, you'll definitely not alienate more of your voters and leave room for peskin. You'll definitely pick up votes to your right from the billionaire backed candidates that they really want.
Why do you think this, fascism has never been defeated by armed popular uprisings. Even in the best case of the Spanish civil war where the workers were armed by the Republic, combined with the remnants of the Republican regular army and the Republican state capacity, they still lost to the fascists.
That was in early twentieth century Spain with a very small liberal middle class and huge swaths of deprived poor industrial and rural workers which faced even more deprivation under a fascist regime making them actually willing to fight. The vast majority of Americans, like the middle class in Germany, would go along with fascism if it meant they got to keep the material comfort they've accrued, which it probably will if it plans to succeed. Also civil war Spain had a massive labor and communist movement to organize the workers while America is completely atomized and hostile to any left organizing. Maybe 10% of Americans would rise up if the fascists started the purges, and that amount of untrained, unorganized armed mass can easily be defeated by the army.
We aren't sending them to war to die, there hasn't been a draft in half a century
You can argue morally but legally there's nothing in the constitution defining what an adult is except for the 26th amendment and that specifically talks about the right to vote. In the case of voting Oregon v Mitchell decided that it was unconstitutional to force states to lower there voting age to 18 for state and local elections without an amendment, which eventually was added. Barring another amendment passing why can't states choose to decide what they define as adults for gun ownership?
Wonder how many of the engineers will follow him. Idk if this is true but felt like Twitter was one of the top places / most desirable places to work, you got to solve high scale, highly visible problems to help people communicate along with the standard silicon valley amenities. Now with the musk take over I doubt they're having luck finding the best talent. Will be fun to see it decay over the coming years.
Idk about ever, since the neoliberal turn in the 80s your probably right, but that ignores FDR who set the foundations for the NLRB and fought hard to get the courts to get them any sort of power. Bidens been a breath of fresh air from the 40 year onslaught against unions but he doesn't compare as well to presidents before that in the new deal era. Even Nixon got OSHA and ERISA signed, granted he had a more functional congress.
I'd think he'd be worried about trump removing ev subsidies, as he said he would multiple times, but Tesla stock seems so untied to reality that even if sales plunged the stock might increase as more of his braindead supporters would buy it to own the libs.
There's an argument to be made that you need rent control before mandating any wage increases otherwise landlords will just raise rent since they know you have the money. Same argument can be said for UBI, it'll just be a $1000 a month gift to landlords. If you maintain capitals control over setting prices any increase in income will be gobbled up by them as they raise prices and increase profits.
You need to squeeze capital from both sides, price controls and wage increases, for redistribution to be effective. Otherwise they'll compensate for losses on one side by increasing/decreasing the other.
Their main example is Gaza and that violence is political. Hamas is a political party with support from Palestinians that Israel is trying to wipe out using violence. In fact most violence is political in that you are trying to get certain changes to the governing apparatus through action.
There's a mao quote that goes something along the lines of politics is war without violence and war is politics with violence. They're two sides of the same coin.
I think he's pretty strategic, not to any specific state, but to rural Middle America in general. He grew up working on a farm, worked in a factory for a bit, joined the army then worked as a teacher and football coach, he's the salt of the earth common American vance pretends to be. Not saying he'll turn all the rural areas blue but even going from say 20% to 25% will help a lot in those swing states which have a large rural population.