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I found this article about a NPR poll which has a breakdown of support for Israel by age group and party affiliation.

I'm not sure exactly where Biden's position on the Gaza invasion falls on this poll, but it seems closest to "Support Israels right to defend itself while encouraging a cease fire". Biden definitely isn't withholding all support, and he definitely isn't fully supporting the military actions against Hamas.

About 33% of Democrats and 27% independents think the US should suspend aid to Israel until there is a cease fire.

Similarly 38% of gen z/millennials think there should be a cease fire until there is a suspension of aid. This is the smallest voting cohort at about 36% of the population according to Wikipedia, and also the least likely to vote historically. Perhaps voter turn out would be higher among this group if we had a different candidate, but no one is going to cater their political platform to a group that had never reliably voted, especially if doing so costs them votes among reliable voters.

Among Gen X and older less that 19% support a stopping aid until a cease fire happens. This is the largest and most likely to vote voting cohort.

Also noted in the article, Biden has a 15 point lead over Trump among baby boomers who have very little support for a ceasefire.

Right? I want a PHEV so range isn't something I really need to think about.

You wanted a source that when the Secretary of the State said "we" she meant the state department?

From the article:

The quote is from a 2006 interview between Clinton and Eli Chmosky of the Jewish Press during her campaign for reelection to the US senate, and was part of a previously un-aired portion.

She wasn't the secretary of state when she said it, and probably had no idea that she would ever be secretary of state. I'm not sure why you would think the "we" is the state department.

Additionally there's no context around this quote so it's a pretty significant leap to infer that "Hillary casually said we should have rigged a foreign election". Her next sentence could have very well have been "But we didn't, and we never will because that isn't how we operate". Or it could have been "We actually did try, but we failed because we ran out of funding". Or "That's what I'm hearing from the leaders of Fatah anyway".

Hillary is a pretty big POS and it's pretty easy to find shit she did that is horrible but this quote doesn't match up with what you're trying to show.

I recently replaced some insulation in my home and i found out it's a lot more complicated than just put slap it in the wall. That is to say my understanding is pretty rudimentary so my explanation may not be the best.

Insulation in a house creates a temperature difference between the inside and the outside of your house. If the insulation doesn't have a proper moisture barrier this can lead to water getting trapped on the inside of the insulation due to condensation. The water then comes leaking out if your walls, making everything extremely damp. The darkness inside the wall along with the dampness makes an ideal environment for the mold, which quickly spreads outside of the wall and into the rest of your damp house.

A little context:

According the Arab American Institute less than 1% of American citizens are Arab American.

Arab Americans do make up significant voting blocks in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Even though they are an extremely small minority, they may have to power to cost Joe Biden these key swing states and hand the election to Donald Trump.

Most older Americans support Biden's response to Israel according to this poll. On the other hand younger Americans largely disapprove of his response. There's a lot more nuance than given in my brief summary, this is just to illustrate the diversity of opinion among voters.

Joe Biden needs to balance rejecting young Americans who are unreliable voters and Arab Americans who are a very small minority with rejecting older Americans who are a large reliable voting block. Again there's a lot more nuance here that I'm not going to go into, I'm merely pointing out that no matter what choice Joe Biden makes it's going to alienate some voters and could potentially hand the election to Trump.

I'll at least enjoy some nice tax cuts if they get Trump elected, so there's a silver lining for me.

Fun fact: the person your replying to had absolutely no idea that a desalination plant was involved in this process.

Since a lot of people seem to be jumping to extreme conclusions about this based on specious assumptions, here's how the process works according to the article:

Magrathea — named after a planet in the hit novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — buys waste brines, often from desalination plants, and allows the water to evaporate, leaving behind magnesium chloride salts. Next, it passes an electrical current through the salts to separate them from the molten magnesium, which is then cast into ingots or machine components.

It's a little worse than mismanagement:

Mao decreed that efforts to multiply grain yields and bring industry to the countryside should be increased. Local officials were fearful of Anti-Rightist Campaigns and they competed to fulfill or over-fulfill quotas which were based on Mao's exaggerated claims, collecting non-existent "surpluses" and leaving farmers to starve to death. Higher officials did not dare to report the economic disaster which was being caused by these policies, and national officials, blaming bad weather for the decline in food output, took little or no action.

The government took what food there was from the farmers because they were trying to swing their dicks around and impress the boss. It's like the Irish potato famine, but with rice.

Don't forget China and probably throw in India, UK, France and Germany just to be sure.

That's 100% true. That's why I'd like the help from experts to help me avoid being scammed, help me avoid drinking and eating poisoned food, or having to breath unhealthy air.

I don't always know the full repercussions from the decisions I make so I really appreciate having some expert help. This is especially true of decisions shitty people try to coerce me into making when I'm desperate or emotionally vulnerable.

Your EV experience was significantly different from mine.

I recently did a 5 day trip from London to Scotland in a non-Tesla ev and we frequently had trouble with charging. Finding charging stations that worked was a challenge, they were often offline or just wouldn't charge our car for some reason, or were the slowest chargers that took hours.

We were pretty caution with our range so it usually wasn't a problem to find another one within 20 minutes or so, but it was definitely a little stress inducing and was pretty painful overall.

A bonus is that we stayed a little longer in places we wouldn't have while the car charged and saw some neat things.

I'm not sure what features you're looking for, but Quarto has a lot of really nice features that make it really easy to self host a blog.

Do they say what the Illuminati want to terra form NZ in to? Or is just the threat of any kind of terra forming enough?

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You have to be a reliable constituent and help them get elected. Young people, progressives, leftists, whatever aren't reliable enough and don't vote in numbers significant enough to shift the Overton window significantly in a short time frame. Since they aren't reliable voters the candidate has to go farther to the right to get the votes they need to get elected.

Slow progress is the best you can hope for when you're hoping for extreme change to a system, and you can't stop because if you do a single Republican win can undo years of progress (e.g. Trump with the supreme court nominee and Roe).

Another issue is progressives are really spread thin on issues from civil rights, to economics, to foreign relations, to gun rights, you get the picture. This big tent brings in a lot of people, but some people get pushed out when you bring them in. For example many Latino voters are Catholic and are anti-LGBTQ and anti abortion. They have to decide if they care more about the inclusion the Democratic party brings, or the abortion restrictions the Republicans bring.

All of that to say progressives a often single issue abstainers; they will abstain from voting over a single trigger issue. The more issues a candidate has to support the less likely it is the candidate will support that voters trigger issue to the degree the voter wants. Now that voter is staying home and not voting, which leads to the point I made earlier.

Also we have made a lot of progress. Gay marriage is legal now, people are much more aware of racism and other discrimination and we're taking active steps to combat it, the ACA has helped with medical coverage a ton, the general population are aware Palestinians exist and Israel isn't the good guy, we've installed an amazing amount of green electricity power plants, bike and public transportation are things people want now, and many other incremental improvements.

Things aren't perfect, and some things are still fucked, but we're getting better. We can't stop because it isn't going exactly the way we want it to.

I agree with the sentiment but it's more like:

Dems: There's no way we'll get single payer universal healthcare passed because other humans exist and they have the right to vote, but we can do the ACA and try again in a few years

Leftists: Stop fucking compromising with facists you capitalist piece of shit. Just make them do what we want. I'm never voting for a Democrat in my entire life ever again

Didn't you hear Genociden Biden is doin a Genocide™ in Palestine?

Also Joe "Hamas" Biden is arming Hamas militants to do another October 7th!!!!

So if you're anti-genocide vote for Trump.

Or if you're anti-terrorist vote for Trump.

On a more serious note, voters don't do well with complicated and nuanced issues like middle east conflict or inflation. Unfortunately it's easy to reframe just about any issue so it reflects poorly on the president. Thanks to the internet (tiktok, Facebook, Twitter, etc) it's pretty easy to create targeted messaging telling people what they want to hear without ever exposing them to the counter narrative.

I think it's the physical size of the reservoir that is the limiting factor. You can't reasonable expand most reservoirs, but it's relatively easy to create new hydrogen/methane storage tanks.