From what I've read, the real Jews in Israel are terrified of the zionists, & don't dare speak-up, about anything.

Ideological-dominion, no matter where it is, is a social-process-totalitarianism 1st.

If you live in the US of A, then you're likely to be discovering this, shortly, as Trump's been in-power 3/16ths of his alotted-term, & he's already got 48% of "Project 2025" implimented, & there's a tipping-point coming where even the masquerade of "democracy" falls-off.

There is going to be the same kind of rampaging-genociding happening in North America as there has been in Gaza these last years.

( the National Guard are being thrown-around within the US by Trump simply to "normalize" federal totalitarianism by him, obviously, & ICE, the DHS, the National Guard, etc, are his means of enforcing his shortly-to-be-total dictatorship.

As somebody pointed-out, court-injunctions now are legally-powerless against him & his appointees, Republicans now "de-register" voters who would vote Democrat ( apparently part of how he clobbered Harris, in 2024 ), & his "de-naturalization" outright removes-citizenship.

Does anybody seriously believe that all registered Democrats are going to have US citizenship once he crosses the "rubicon"?

If anybody does, they're fools.

ICE exists to deal-with all who aren't HIS kind of Republican, as the world will shortly see. )

It will never happen and they know it, thus the reason they do as they please. While a good chunk of the western world will condemn them if some other Arab nation decided to put boots on the ground those same western nations would likely send their own boots. At least the US likely would and then it's game over.

Add to the fact that even WITHOUT direct western involvement there's no a single Arab nation or anyone with a grudge against Israel that could mass an army of any threat to them or they would have done it by now.

They're that dorky little pipsqueek from school that had tough older brothers and a father with influence so people allowed the little turd to get away with whatever they wanted. No one is going to put Israel in check and Israel themselves count on this fact.

Their own scripture states that their G-d is constant, but THEY switch repeatedly between being with-G-D & then being against-G-D,

AND that their own G-D enforces their slaughter/butchery after they've proven their meaning.

Jeremiah & Isaiah both give this.

Therefore, THEIR scripture declares for all to see that Netanyahu's "Israel" is getting annihilated, shortly.

( striking in Qatar probably was "the straw that broke the camel's back", as far as regional-tolerance is concerned ).

Also, their identity is founded on genociding-others: biblegateway.com/passage/?sear…

There's another place in their bible which identifies it was 7 nations to be exterminated, not 6, but that place in their bible gives the sense of how The Final Solution, Holocausting, Exterminating, was THE intent.

According to Eitan Bar, 6 times have others tried exterminating Israel.

Now "Israel" is genociding Palestinians.. & shortly the 7th extermination of "Israel" should begin, in my eyes, if their scripture is true..

( & if basic politics are true: Arabs apparently cared nothing about Palestinians, but once Israel struck within wealthy-Arab territory .. that all changed )

Also, the Essene Jewish guru-they-rejected ( they're waiting for 1st benJoseph moshiach, then for benDavid moshiach: they were handed benJoseph, but he was Essene, & they HATED his violation of their Tradition's Lordhood, sooo they simply refuse to acknowledge him! Eitan Bar wrote some books on some of this stuff, if you care about that ), benJoseph, declared ( Matt 24 ) that Israel would be annihilated, when the abomination that Daniel had spoken-of was around.. biblegateway.com/passage/?sear…

• So, their scripture identifies the cycle of their fidelity/infidelity,
• their scripture identifies their identity standing on genociding-others,
• their scripture identifies that whey they turn to embodying abomination, then THEIR G-D enforces their near-annihilation,
• & the root-guru that they rejected ( their rabbis even prohibit Jews from reading Isaiah 53, to protect their rejection-of-benJoseph .. rabbis outranking Isaiah-their-Jewish-prophet re what Jewish Truth is! Absurdity. ) prophecies that there'll be an ANNIHILATION of Israel, which now looks somewhat immanent..

It's stacking-up, iow..

there's another angle: in my view, hamas had bullshit "strategy" as their conscious "strategy"..

but their unconscious strategy was perfectly-calibrated to their opponent's nature:

sacrifice the Palestinian people, entirely, through that 1st strike on Oct 7,

then Israel's sadism-nihilism-machiavellianism-narcissism-etc would BE INCAPABLE OF RESISTING the "bait", & it would carve its nature into the region sooo deeply that .. Netanyahu's "Israel's" "deterrent" would disappear.

As a ninja pointed-out, decades ago ( in the book "Kenjutsu" ), ALL professional-combat training presumes that the opponent will block one's strikes, to protect their lives..

So, they strike at one, & one strikes at them, diverting their strike into a block of one's-own strike, see? ( that is deterrent )

BUT, when one goes up against an opponent who's "martyring" themselves, they won't divert from the strike, to block, to protect their lives, see?

So, instead, one .. dies with them. ( notice that the kami-kaze pilots of WW2 were doing this, & it created problems for the Allies back then )

Taking them with one, but .. one has no "deterrent", anymore.

Netanyahu's "Israel" is eradicating regional-deterrent, through their sadism-nihilism-machiavellianism-shamelessness-psychopathy.

& once the region no-longer-cares what it costs, that annihilating "Israel" is REQUIRED, .. then Netanyahu's regional-leverage .. is permanently GONE.

They're too ideologically-rabid to understand that fact, but it's going to kill their "Israel" soon.

I'd been saying it'd happen by 2029's end, but .. after Netanyahu struck in Qatar .. it may happen as early as late 2025/this-year.

All of this, though, is just 1 of the "dishes" on the planet's current "buffet".

ALL regions are going to be ideologically-rabid, shortly, from the looks of things..

then once the world is divided-up into "empires", then WW3 begins.

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Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 20:17 - Complete Jewish Bible

Rather you must destroy them completely — the Hitti, the Emori, the Kena‘ani, the P’rizi, the Hivi and the Y’vusi — as ADONAI your God has ordered you;

^{Bible Gateway}

2027, It’ll be done by 2027. Everyone is confused about what is happening now— but Hamas knows if they release all of the hostages and Israel goes right back to their BS the whole world is now watching. The West is shifting heavily and the Arab nations too. Israel thinks it can bandage its reputation through manufacturing more and more consent by buying up airtime like CBS and The Times. But they can’t. And their arrogance repeatedly betrays them.

Their supremacist ideals will be their downfall. They’re flailing already and willing to throw punches any which way that suits their current tantrums. As they escalate, the world will become steadily more intolerant of their mess.

Also, on a religious note, many Gazans know the end of Gaza marks the beginning of the fall of Israel. If you’re meant to survive you will, if you’re meant to be martyred then that is from Allah SWT. This doesn’t mean they aren’t outraged many days at Hamas and what is happening period but most regular people have little control and accept that this has to happen. That it’s already written and that their faith, and Israelis lack of faith, will determine the ultimate outcome. (I’m not saying anyone wants to die or wants this to happen, they just find solace in their faith in the acceptance of they and their loved ones fates.)

There is no future where Israel does not expose themselves— where even the Rocks and Trees bear witness against them. And when Israel full on marches on Damascus, it’s game over, and they’ve already been toying with the idea. So I’d keep a close eye on Syria as well. But Israel must grow in order to fall, at least that’s the theory held by many. And a toppled giant will indeed shake the world.

WWIII started the day Israel rolled her tanks back into Gaza. It was the lighting of the fuse. We can’t stop the unraveling now, it’s too late.

Search is where I’m stuck

Run/self host Searxng on a cheapass VPS. I picked up one for testing before production a long time ago, runs me $25/year. Spin up Docker, Portainer, and Searxng in an hour or less. Add your Searxng instance to Firefox search engine and make it default. Secure the VPS with UFW, Fail2Ban, and if you're the only user, make use of the host.allow and host.deny files to pretty much weed out the baddies. Jack's a doughnut, Bob's your uncle.

I don't hear a lot of noise about self hosting here in the Privacy chan, but if you're looking to cut out corporate services from your repertoire, self hosting is a great way.

For context, I’m well into 50s

That's cute.....I just turned 71 recently. LOL Just givin' ya the piss bro. But I understand your conundrum. I've had a computer in front of me since about the mid 70s and the Altair, and it's not that I have some impressive repository of intellect, I've just screwed up enough along to way to learn a thing or two. Do, screw it up, nope that's not it. #@#$ Do it again, hey that works, write that shit down!

Getting into self hosting did drive home the enormity of traffic on the tubes. You are kind of aware of the amount of traffic, but not really first hand until you open your first port and watch as a vast horde of bots pull a train on your little server relentlessly. They are like piranha and can smell an open port 22 from half way around the world.

There is a competent self hosting chan here: lemmy.world/c/selfhosted. Good guys there ready to help. Like I said, I possess no great wealth of intelligence, but if you ever want somebody to bounce a few ideas off of, I'm always down to help in any way.

That’s cute…..I just turned 71 recently. LOL Just givin’ ya the piss bro.

😀

Thx a lot for the link (and for the help offer!), I will have a look.

Yeah, I’m used to GPT and Claude for code, so Duck.ai just pales in comparison, as much as I appreciate that it might be more private.

Edit:

Actually, seems you can get access to more advanced models if you give them $10 / month.

Except, if we were to read the article, things are materially worse than when he took office:

Milei had predicted a V-like recovery with the creation of new jobs in a more prosperous and stable economy. Instead, the economy stalled out, declining in the second quarter compared with the previous three months. Unemployment is at 7.6%, up from 5.7% when Milei took office. And Argentina has about 200,000 fewer jobs since he took office, government data shows.

I get what you're saying and agree with the basic premise, "economies are extremely complicated and it's hard to ascribe x caused y, when so many other things can go sideways". It drives me nuts when people think the US president controls oil prices, if they did it would just be perpetually free!

Where I wholeheartedly disagree with your message is because Milei promised quick and easy solutions to Argentina's economy. He sold the story that 100 years of economic turmoil was due to corruption and gross incompetence. He promised he was not corrupt (which was a lie), and applying some basic economic principals would lead to a roaring economy (which never materialized and never will because economists already know the policies he's proposing don't work in the long run).

Yes his austerity measures led to inflation going down which his foreign apologists immediately point to, but the exchange rate skyrocketed offsetting any gains for a typical Argentine (most everything financial in Argentina is measured in USD, even ironically government fees).

If today you go ask typical Argentines "are you better off financially now than 3 years ago" the answer is going to usually be no.

In the before times (Trump, COVID, Harambe) Libertarians believed in the Non Aggression Principal or NAP as it was commonly referred to.

After the tea party and preperheads co-opted the libertarian imagery, it seems to have long since been forgotten.

But initially, that ideology was one of not using coercion to rule. Not restricting behavior or actions as long as NAP is not violated. Yes excess taxes are bad but also stay out of my bedroom and my non-binary neighbors garden. You want a coal plant cool, BUT if it is spewing crap into the air that we breath, it violates NAP and not allowed to operate.

Personally, I believe some of the ideals have merit but they require people to not be shit and that seems way too hard an ask. There are other ways to govern and maintain personal freedom not at the expense of others.

As a fun read Dr. Jo Jorgensen (she/her) was an interesting libertarian candidate years ago and huge contrast to what we see in the pork chop sideburns guy from Argentina. A long way from what could have been. They forgot her faster than the NAP.

You want a coal plant cool, BUT if it is spewing crap into the air that we breath, it violates NAP and not allowed to operate.

Most of the libertarians I've met don't seem to believe that sort of thing. They might accept that punching someone is bad, but something complex like pollution they don't accept.

"I should be free to dump my garbage on my property! It's mine!"

"Yeah, but then you pollute the river and everyone down stream suffers"

"...it's my property!"

The other end of the spectrum isn't really present in USA, the most left wing that is popular is Social Democrat, and that's actually quite moderate, and is 100% about regulated but free markets, and works on a balance between economy and protecting workers.

Balance is not extreme opposed to the extreme capitalism Republicans represent, on the contrary it is extremely sensible unless you are a complete sociopath.
The social democratic model is very successful in the Scandinavian countries. That have good economies, higher freedom ratings than USA, and way way happier populations.

For instance somehow people aren't angry about having free healthcare and education and 5 week holidays, and being able to live on a minimum salary!