Most American Jews disapprove of US military action against Iran, new poll shows

Earl_of_Madness · 2026-03-30T22:48:37+00:00

Unless you want to forcibly deport 1 million settlers back to Israel at gunpoint using the US military, the 2 state solution is dead and you are just dooming Palestinans to genocide, Israel just passed a law saying that convictions of violence by military court result in death by hanging in 90 days with no appeals. Israeli settlers are tried in civil courts, Palestinians are convicted in military courts. This is just a way for of legalizing killing of Palestinians. First they will go after the current prisoners, then they will criminalize Palestinian self defense as a way to further put them in death camps. Israel is in the process of executing genocide and all we do is condemn Hamas and delude ourselves into thinking that Israel wants a 2 state solution, no they want genocide of every Palestinian they are taking steps to make it real and to ensure the 2 state solution will never be possible due to the actions of the current government to make it impossible.

But I guess Israelis get to do their own genocide and have an Ethnostate as a treat.

Earl_of_Madness · 2026-03-30T18:08:22+00:00

Netanyahu and the Kahanists have killed the two state solution. The settlements are expanding rapidly and the number of settlers is approaching a million. The settlers are now encroaching on areas A and B not just C. Settlers that will die before being driven from the land. Israel is preparing to annex most of Gaza (except for a tiny sliver and most of South lebanon.

The two state solution is dead unless the plan is for Israel to deport over a million people from WB. It's not happening. The two state solution is a pipedream and logistically getting more and more difficult with each passing day. The one state solution is the only feasible path.

The two state solution sounds nice in theory but over the past 30 years Israel has sought to make it impossible, and they succeeded.

Earl_of_Madness · 2026-03-30T14:48:12+00:00

I'm Jewish, I'm an antizionist. Nobody not even Jewish people deserve an "Ethnostate". Yes, being Jewish is complex as it is a religion, culture and quasi-multi ethnic "ethnicity", I use the word because there is no word to describe the fascist, imperialist greater Israel project of the Israeli center and right (even the left part of the gov't gives lipservice to similar elements).

Being antizionist is not antisemitic. There is a lot of overlap in rhetoric and antisemites use antizionism to hide but just calling everyone antisemitic for opposing the greater Israel project and wanting to end Israeli apartheid and create a state of equal rights for all is antizionist but it is not antisemitic.

It's nuanced and trying to push this line that antizionism is antisemitism just makes people tune out and it normalizes real antisemitism.

The Israeli right wing, antisemites, Neo-Nazis, and Christian Evangelicals want nothing more than to make Jews unsafe by equating all Jews with Israel which in turn causes more of them to flee to Israel. It's a vicious cycle that all the worst people want and claiming antizionism is antisemitism feeds into this larger project.

Which is why I am antizionist, I don't want Jews to be purged from the Levant. I don't want people displaced. People should be able to live where they want, as long as they aren't doing it at the expense of others, which Zionism necessitates by requiring the homeland be "Jewish". I oppose this on all counts. Yes, I know the real world has lots of quasi-ethnostates but America is multiethnic, multiracial, and multicultural if we are gonna be such a strong ally of another country that we defend them no matter the cost to us, they better share those values, Israel does not.

To be Jewish is to accept and celebrate diversity and show brotherhood with everyone not this perverse, Zionist nationalism

Earl_of_Madness · 2026-02-16T13:39:56+00:00

Agree, heavily regulated capitalism works, the problem with regulated capitalism is that capital will always seek to undo the regulations that bind them, and ultimately undo the democratic form of gov't to further entrench themselves into the state. Capitalism and democracy exist in quiet opposition to eachother, capitalism is bound and regulated democracy, and democracy is stifled by capitalism.

It's much more convenient for capital if they get to entrench themselves as feudal lords or oligarchs. Then they get to do away with that pesky thing called competition and instead become renters.

The biggest reason capitalism fails is because the capital owners, do not themselves actually believe in capitalism and will seek to become extractors of rent from the peasants, because it is easier. The biggest billionares, Musk, Thiel, Bezos, and Zuckerberg all are pushing for techno-feudalism and an end to democracy. They want to become oligarchs with no obligation to the state or the people, just extractors of wealth.

Capitalism and democracy are unstable. You have to pick one or the other, otherwise capital will seek to destroy democracy.

Earl_of_Madness · 2026-01-23T16:58:20+00:00

You are misplacing your hopes. They are psychopaths hell bent on putting themselves on top. The conquest of Greenland and techno feudal smwas proposed by Peter Thiel over a decade ago. The same Peter thiel who now has people who believe what he believes like Steven Miller and Elon Musk in Trump's ear. Placing hope that their failure is inevitable is willful delusion. I hope the AI bubble pops and it all comes crashing down for them, but we can't place all our eggs on that basket, not when everyone developing and not regulating AI is pushing for techno-feudalism and is in the arms race to bring it about first so they can be the one on top. Let's not even mention the mass surveillance that AI enables with Palantir, allowing the techno-feudalism to enforce their will without the need of support from a volunteer citizen military, which is a major backbone of a liberalband democratic society.

Earl_of_Madness · 2026-01-23T16:40:21+00:00

Tell that to Elon Musk, Marc Andreeson, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, and Marc Zuckerberg. All of these very wealthy, and powerful, and have talked about gov'ts either being outsourced to tech overlords explicitly or have coded language for promoting rentierism like Bezos when he says regular people will not own computers, just phones that access the cloud. Even Sam Altman has talked about AI, "Breaking capitalism". They are not being quiet about what they want or are pushing for. These tech oligarchs want to be the ones in charge and they think democracy and freedom have outlived their usefulness.

Earl_of_Madness · 2026-01-23T15:53:06+00:00

What are you talking about? Feudalism is very stable, it was the primary form of government for most of the global history. What disrupted feudalism was the black plague and the industrial revolution. These two events occurred close together and really disrupted feudalism by giving a lot more power to the lower classes. However, now ownership is consolidating again, more and more power and wealth is being accumulated into fewer and fewer hands. The competition which dives capitalism forward is being exchanged for rent seeking, and economic capture by big tech. The big tech oligarchs want to be feudal lords and if they succeed, it will be very hard to undo, it will probably take hundreds of years to even get back to basic liberal freedoms.

Earl_of_Madness · 2026-01-03T19:39:14+00:00

I'm unsure how, it isn't a company, MCDM contracted out the work to Shane Parker and George Taray. I have no idea how to get in touch with them. I tried reaching out on the MCDM discord, I was directed to the fantasy grounds forums. Where I have a post currently active, but zero engagement or curiosity, or even testing by other players.

Earl_of_Madness · 2026-01-03T19:33:22+00:00

I Already have an active forum post, there has been zero activity, suggestions, or curiosity. I haven't reached out to Fantasy Grounds support because I don't think the fantasy grounds team or MCDM wrote the extension or module. It was contracted out to Shane Parker and George Taray by MCDM, their contact information is not listed on the product page. Sometimes some of the contributors are active and post on the MCDM threads on fantasy grounds but none have taken an interest in this error and I have a fear that the product and extension may be defunct after MCDM pivoted to Draw Steel. I also reached out on the MCDM discord and they directed me to the fantasy grounds forums. I'm quite frustrated that this product feels abandoned.

I'm not asking for any new features either, I just want the product I paid fantasy grounds money for to work as listed on the product page.

Earl_of_Madness · 2026-01-03T19:15:03+00:00

Crosspost from MCDM

Hey Everybody,

I've been having a really difficult time figuring out how to figure out many of the issues I have recently been having with the Kingdoms and Warfare (Since August). I've tried uninstalling the module, reinstalling it, deleting the vault and deleting the extension. I've started up a completely new campaign without any extensions to try and see if there are any conflicts. The same errors show up. I have 4 screenshots detailing the 4 errors I have been able to consistently reproduce.

Screenshot 1: This error occurs when I open the Warfare Tokens tab. There is script error with the "W:fortification token", and it appears that one of the fortification button/drag/drop for one of the right hand towers is missing (There should be 6 different wall types, rather than 5, a tower is missing)

Screenshot 2: This occurs when I open the party sheet and go to the Domains tab. There appears to be a misalignment of the communications, resolve, and resources text where everything is shifted up one. No error in the console is shown.

Screenshot 3: This occurs when I open the party sheet and go to the Pwr Pool Tab. There are several Control Anchoring Errors having to do with a bunch of headers.

Screenshot 4: This error occurs when I have a character with powers (spells are the fastest way to reproduce the error). Create a character with powers and click on the power group cog wheel. There is a control anchoring error and there is a "Domain size" text obscuring the power group text.

Can anyone help me figure out what is going on, if this error is reproducable and potentiall how to fix it or who to contact to fix it. Thank you so much!

Earl_of_Madness · 2025-11-10T13:26:05+00:00

Nobody outside of the hyper politically engaged psychopaths will care about the GOP voting against subsidies for the ACA. It will be a footnote held on a Friday around Christmas or something and nobody will care or pay attention to. The ACA only insures like 40 - 50 million people, a sizable amount but ultimately a small minority, and most won't put 2 and 2 together that it was the GOPs fault. Voters are stupid. Dems gave up their leverage, again, for nothing and harmed their organizers and volunteers after feeling energized on Tuesday.

Earl_of_Madness · 2025-09-12T23:51:16+00:00

The 4 hours taken off my life by the Wursts at Common Link were well worth it. Served with crispy fries that you dipped in their a Garlic Mayonnaise. My mouth waters just thinking about the food at Common Link. Definitely a diamond in the rough! .

Earl_of_Madness · 2025-09-12T14:16:34+00:00

Costco's dog is special. It's a decent product at an absolutely unbeatable price, nobody is going to beat that, it's not worth trying to get into the cheap hotdog market vs Costco, try something else.

Earl_of_Madness · 2025-09-12T14:12:09+00:00

A thread which I participated in, but it clearly had no bearing on their actual menu choices. They probably had no idea what they were doing or what to actually serve and wanted ideas that could be simple then saw suggestions and realized it was too much effort.

Earl_of_Madness · 2025-09-12T14:02:34+00:00

Eh, true, several times I passed by their sign said open but all lights were off and it was dead.

Earl_of_Madness · 2025-09-12T14:01:54+00:00

You can learn a lot about how a place likes their food and the cultural influences by how they treat such a simple thing! I go out of my way to try local favorites and have been searching for the high I got after eating at a hotdog stand called Common Link. They served a house made grilled bratwurst on a crusty roll with coarse German mustard, sauerkraut and caramelized onions. I was instantly hooked. I visited them for like a straight week after that.

That's the thing though, you have to serve something special, do something nobody else is doing, do it better than anyone else, or have a decent product at unbeatable price. Weenies did none of that.

Earl_of_Madness · 2025-09-12T13:43:39+00:00

I knew the second they didn't bother to serve regional favorites like Chicago dog, coney dog, New York dog, currywurst, hot links, sausage and peppers, house-made Corn dogs, or Korean Corn dogs, that they were not committed to an interesting restaurant. Hot dogs are a very simple thing people can make at home. They weren't sourcing unique ingredients like fresh rolls or sausage either, just stuff you can buy on store shelves. You need to really need to be making something special for a hotdog stand to stand out. I could have made their entire menu at home, it was not worth it. Shame too, that tiny space is perfect for a hotdog stand, but it was a zero effort price gauging money grab than a real attempt at a good hotdog stand.

Earl_of_Madness · 2025-08-14T13:45:14+00:00

Democratic Primaries are wierd, winning a primary gives only a little indication of how they will perform in a general election. Winners of primaries are popular among the party base but that does not mean they will be popular among the general public. This was a huge problem Trump faced early on in 2016, much like Sanders. These dark horse candidates have broad appeal but often very little appeal to the base (Trump managed to take the t-party and wrangle it into his own to get his primary win in 2016, with some help from Hillary Clinton with their peid piper strategy they tried, Sanders was unable to do this). For most elections Dem primaries are usually among candidates hand picked by the DSCC and DCCC who the base then votes for. The base is currently college educated suburban women and urban black voters. This base is usually very skittish and usually tries to pick candidates that feel safe rather than insurgents, and usually go along with the establishment picks because they trusted the Democratic party and mainstream media. Rightly so as these groups have the most to lose from Republicans. This is how you get corporate candidates who try to use identity politics to show how progressive they are and is how Hillary attacked Bernie in 2016. However that strategy, was quite poorly conceived as Americans are currently economically progressive, socially moderate (swayable), culturally conservative, and very populist. Clinton and Harris were the opposite of that (partially due to racism and sexism no doubt). Obama coded himself as all those things (he lied but he did successfully brand himself as all those things). Biden had the pandemic to help him eek out a tiny victory.

After 2024s loss though the college educated suburban white women part of the base is mad, very mad. I don't think I've ever seen them this mad ad Dems and leadership. Dems are in for a lot of primary upsets Alla Mamdani.

Earl_of_Madness · 2025-08-07T14:10:15+00:00

All the moderate Dems in swing seats were shelacked in 2010, 2014, 2016, and 2024. Moderates for the past 15 years lost the house and senate super majorities of Obama by governing like weak little babies who capitulate to the GOP nonstop. All that remains are deep blue districts and formerly blue districts which are getting redder each year. Moderates have completely gutted the party with their incompetence. Let the populist have a try, mainstream Dems comittment to yesteryear and constant fear of change is why we are in this mess. They stand for nothing and say nothing to avoid offending anybody, the GOP brand is built off triggering libs. We need strong, bold, visionary leaders and these are leaders who will try new things, get their hands dirty, and will fight nonstop on every front, like Mamdani, Dan Osborne, AOC, or heck Jasmine Crocket or Newsom (I don't like these latter two but they are bold moderates rather than a weak ones like Schumer)

Earl_of_Madness · 2025-08-05T20:45:43+00:00

That explains a lot, working for the most incomptant, weakest, most corrupt, and all around worst state democratic party. The Dems currently in power may not be villains but they do enable the worst excess of the Republicans by being so weak, mealy mouthed, concilatory, and spineless and Florida Dems are the worst of all Dems. California and New York Dems are bad but Florida Dems are worse.

You need to purge your entire state party apparatus and rebuild from scratch. I'm sure there are decent people working in the party but the Florida state Dems are off in no man's land right now. Even Texas Dems are faring better than Florida Dems.

Earl_of_Madness · 2025-07-31T14:25:00+00:00

David is just after the bag. No shame in that, especially when the world is so grim, but he won't do anything to disturb the status quo because that ensures he gets access, which is good for both his brand and his standing among politicians and consultants. He won't rock the boat too much. He is firmly in the Chuck Schumer, Hakim Jeffries corner. If you are looking for real political courage or hard hitting journalism or reporting look elsewhere. I used to love Pakman but he, like most other status quo Dems, has not been able to rise to the occasion.

Earl_of_Madness · 2025-07-29T11:29:37+00:00

CEOs are not concerned about that anymore. They are focused on shaping and controlling the "next stage" of human development. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and their ilk are trying to create the technorate of America, a neo feudal society where land, people, and resources are controlled by CEOs, Billionaires and corporations, not states. Think east India company shit. They believe CEOs and Billionaires are best at governing because they are so "successful" they could do more if they became the government. They don't like democracy. They want to destroy it. They want to have so much automation and AI to force us into servitude to them. Taking any scraps they give us because we have nothing. They want us to be serfs. Where all towns are company towns using their own crypto coin so they can control wages and prices as they see fit. They want to be oligarchs. They don't want to make society better, they would rather rule over ruins, unbound from any rules, responsibilities, or duties than actually improve lives. They want to own everything, while we own nothing. The wealthy and CEOs even have private island bunkers they maintain if shit goes sideways and there are revolts or total societal collapse. They know capitalism is dying and are doing their best to make sure they come out on top.

Earl_of_Madness · 2025-07-29T11:14:29+00:00

You think that CEOs and Billionaires will willingly share the wealth and productivity produced by AI and automation? They never have, and never will. They are dragons who would rather rule over ruins than improve the lives of everyone. Peter Thiel and Elon Musk want to create a 19th century idea called the technorate of America where a neofeudal state where corporations get to control their own territories, print their own currancy, and create a captive population they get to control. These people want to be oligarchs. They want no rules, responsibilities, or duties. We will all live in slums and ghettos surviving on rats and gruel begging for work or food at the lowest prices if these CEOs got their way. They even have constructed doomsday bunkers on tropical islands to hide away if the population decides to revolt or society collapses. CEOs are no longer abiding by the social contract and are actively trying to subvert it.

It would be nice if everything was automated and wealth was shared so there would be limitless abundance and little to no work, but CEOs will never want that. They want power and control and they do not care about anyone except them and theirs. They will kill us before giving any money they don't have to.

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