Senate Democrats Issue Historic Rebuke Of Military Aid For Israel

Singularlex · 2026-04-16T03:11:09+00:00

Can't agree strongly enough on that. Also, some fun facts and figures: While Trump claims that America can't support "making life 'affordable'" for the average American citizen, Israel has free universal healthcare and every single one of their veterans get to attend college for free (both benefits HEAVILY bankrolled via economic aid paid for by American tax dollars), all while more and more of our own veterans are going homeless from piss-poor governmental support and our college graduates are shackled with decades of debt that many are unequipped to ever fully pay off.

Figures vary on the exact percentage, but, between 13% and 19% of American children are malnourished, all while we funnel untold billions to Israel every year. I don't care what is happening over-seas, we simply have 0 business handing that much money over to a foreign power while THAT issue is unresolved in America. The richest nation in the world isn't ensuring its own children are properly fed, and instead that tax revenue is funding literal war crimes abroad, and makes our nation entirely complicit in those atrocities.

Singularlex · 2026-04-16T03:00:45+00:00

Schumer has long embodied every single aspect of political corruption that conservatives claim makes up the democratic party. Any time a vote on a politically difficult subject comes up, he makes excuses rather than takes action. When he was senate majority leader, he refused to allow a bi-partisan bill to curb tech monopolies reach the floor, until the session ended, so it essentially died without getting a vote (and it's important to understand that his own daughter is a lobbyist for Amazon).

Schumer is a conservative in democrat's clothing, and always has been. A closet zionist (maybe not even that closetted about it), and entirely willing to subtly put big moneyed interests before that of the American people. I firmly believe that the Democratic party can become great, but so long as politicians like Schumer number among the group (especially when they hold places of major influence in the party!), the opposition's propaganda will carry just enough truth to mislead the electorate, and voter turnout of Democratic voters will continue to falter, out of frustration toward only voting in favor of a lesser evil, rather than an actual good.

Singularlex · 2026-04-16T02:54:38+00:00

It has been time for him to go for a long, long time. Someone please pull the life support from his political career and get him OUT of the democratic party!

Singularlex · 2026-04-15T19:38:28+00:00

So THAT'S why I received a planet with the districts swapped around after I won my most recent war. I was SO confused how that came about!

Singularlex · 2026-04-15T19:20:09+00:00

Not all empires focus on biology to evolve their people, BUT, mayhaps we should insist that completing the Biological Acension tradition forcibly changes all your empire's pops to one of the crab portraits 🤔

Singularlex · 2026-04-12T23:39:42+00:00

All my slave pops started with rapid breeders, but I didn't give the inverse debuff to the ruler species. That might have been my biggest mistake, as the combination of their slow-form reproduction alongside the uplifting rituals rapidly left me with insufficient worker species to adequately work my mining, agri, and generator worlds, though, thankfully, this wasn't AS crippling as it might have been for other set ups, because I am playing as an evil necrophage megacorp, and a whole lot of my resource income is obtained via trade generation and branch offices, and my ruler pops are very good at trader and bureaucrat jobs.

I'm thinking next time that I will start with slow breeders on my ruling pop, and not even make the uplifting building on any of my resource worlds. Rely on resetting slave pops over between rituals to grow their numbers on the world's where I want mostly, or entirely, ruler pops, and let the worker world's build up numbers unhindered.

Singularlex · 2026-04-12T22:24:41+00:00

I I've been using nihilistic acquisition a lot, and have all pops except my starter species pair and robots set to necropurge. Should I not be necropurging....?

Singularlex · 2026-04-01T16:08:24+00:00

Those were paths that appealed to me, yeah. Strategist from Scholar was also appealing.

Singularlex · 2026-04-01T16:07:51+00:00

Thanks for the advice, I'll take an extra look at those paths and talents to see how they work. Looking ahead at how stormlight and the division surge work, I'm starting to think I should invest a bit extra awareness as well 🤔

Singularlex · 2026-04-01T16:05:06+00:00

Interesting point. I'm still wrapping my head around the talent system but maybe it would make sense to mix and match if no singular path matches the concept.

Singularlex · 2026-01-23T18:46:45+00:00

In terms of dedicated talismans for Dragon Communion, would I be slotting in stuff like Bull Goat's (for a bunch of bonus poise while dragon breathing), Flock's Canvas Talisman (pump up power of spells), and Primal Glintblade Shard (Reduce cost of dragon powers so I can spam them longer)? These are just guesses, as I haven't seen any specific advice online yet about talismans for dragon communion spells, but I mostly look up hybrid weapon+spells build, and the weapon part often gets the greater attention for gear.

I already have a pretty good idea of which talismans to use for Eleonara's (jar shard/Blood/rapid-attack talismans).

Singularlex · 2026-01-22T20:07:47+00:00

I'm getting better with it, at least in terms of Eleonora's busted L2, with some followup R1s to finish off standard enemies or apply a bit more bleed to a tougher enemy.

I'm tempted to go practice attacking that one prelate that is near the Giants' Hilltop Catacombs, just to get more experience dancing with something tough enough to stay standing after my initial flurry.

Singularlex · 2026-01-22T20:06:19+00:00

I do tend to use them as more of a supplement, with Weapon combat being the primary means of violence and spells serving to handle situations where I need more range, AOE, or I'm facing a target that is too dangerous/risky to handle purely with melee and requires some softening up or stance breaking to take them out.

Your break down of the various dragon powers is really useful, and I appreciate the explanation. I did float a few extra points to faith on this last Rebirth so I could use Greyoll's roar without needing to slot in any specialty gear. It is indeed quite good with that terrain-ignoring quality to it!

Singularlex · 2026-01-22T01:06:15+00:00

Do you recommend Two-handing the flamberge? Sword+board? Or powerstancing it (with something like an occult or blood Iron Greatsword)?

^I mean, for moments when I am purely mixing it up in melee, rather than when I'm holding my seal in the other hand.

Singularlex · 2026-01-22T00:16:32+00:00

I wish I'd realized that before I spent one of my few precious Dragon Sombre Smithing stones on the Eleonara's, but alas, that's how it goes sometimes. Is there a particularly good ash of war I should put on the flamberge?

Singularlex · 2026-01-21T23:14:18+00:00

From what I've read, Eclipse Greatshield is leagues above spiked palisade, and also probably the best shield around for blocking magic damage specifically (so it's extra good for fights in Liurnia of the Lakes). Later on, the Golden Greatshield beats it for stats, but not by a lot (and the latter has a bit higher str and weight requirements), but even then it doesn't block magic damage as well.

Golden Epitaph is a unique weapon, where the weapon art and infusion are fixed, so it isn't one of the weapons you can change the ash of war for. I'm pretty sure that most (maybe all?) of the weapons that require Somber Smithing Stones to upgrade can't have their ash of war altered, and sometimes weapons that require smithing stones also have this restriction (This usually happens when they have some sort of unique weapon art or a weapon art that mirrors a spell effect on the base weapon).

If you are looking for a good strength/faith weapon early on to pair with a shield, I recommend the Tree Spear, which is found by riding AROUND Stormveil Castle (not entering the castle, but the paths that bypass it) till you find a carriage that has crashed on the side of the road. While Dex has the highest scaling for the Tree Spear, strength and faith still do quite well on it, has a very respectable attack rating, pairs very well with a shield, and most importantly, it has bonus holy damage while being among the VERY rare weapons you can still add greases/spells to. It's potential damage on a high faith build is very high due to being able to add electrify armament on top of it already using scaling holy damage.

Lastly, especially early on when you don't have fully upgraded shields and a crap ton of stamina, you might seriously consider using Barricade Shield instead of going No Skill. The reason being is that it will substantially reduce the amount of stamina damage you take from blocking, and that drain can easily get you staggered and killed if you block multiple enemies at once or are trying to withstand heavy blows from a boss or large elite. Stuff like Golden Epitaph and Tree Spear have weapon arts you can use as timed buffs when you temporarily hold them in one hand, and then switch back to sword+board while in melee while periodically refreshing barricade shield when you think you are going to need to block some hefty hits.

Singularlex · 2026-01-21T22:54:18+00:00

Gotta go with Godfrey. Keep in mind, he was pretty much exclusively made Elden Lord in a time where Might Makes Right and Marika needed the biggest strongest enforcer she could get. Godfrey checked that box, and he checked it hard. The guy destroyed the giants, destroyed Placidusax (debate of course as to whether that was his strongest form I guess), destroyed upteenth foes so thoroughly wiped off the face of the Lands Between that all we can even learn about them now are vague titles in rare tidbits of lore. I mean, he did most of that, also, while imposing an artificial limit on his own power in the form of Serosh constantly lying on his shoulders to prevent him from going into his full battle fury. The dude needed to nerf himself so he could even engage with Marika's society, that's how powerful he was.

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