& I'm advocating for the removing of the obscenely-rich pensions given to his ilk, as an equally-effective means of reducing economic "waste".
Notice how they'll butcher those below them, but not tolerate their-own wealth to be even-reduced..
Narcissism's nature is indellible.
Carve it in G-D's eye, sociopath, let the world see the "soul" you commit..
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WHEN you bet your life that your threat-to-your-opponents DETERS them,
THEN you are betting your life that they will limit their actions, for fear of the harm you could do to them.
But WHEN you polarize them to the degree that they no longer care if they die: they ONLY care that you are annihilated ..
THEN you don't have any "deterrent" anymore, you have only .. your own-children's ashes, in your hands.
Netanyahu is apparently incompetent in understanding this concept, as all Zionists apparently are.
Karma will demonstrate exactly the principle I'm trying to point-out, here.
idiocy.
Competitive-nihilism, whether mass-shooters, or Netanyahu-types, do NOT "win" for their countries, they win only for hell's dominion on our world's lives.
"can't see past their noses" morons.
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Pretending that Trump-regime's intent is peace, is incompetence, at this point: the evidence ( including "Project 2025" ) falsified that, ages ago.
Quit living-in making-believe, & do actual Journalism, instead.
Appeasing may be more short-term moneymaking, but it is betrayal of the Journalism-principles required to HAVE civil-rights, in the following-years..
https://www.project2025.observer/en for evidence of their eradication of the basis of peace and its ruthlessly-effective implimentation.
Not systematically-reported-on, of course, by "journalism" appeasing-the-regime..
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Meaningless posturing: once Trump snaps, then Trump won't care one single photon about China's butchering of Asia into being its property, its subjugated empire:
the only thing that will be consuming Trump, is that there are still countries in the Americas which aren't broken, under him, as HIS empire.
The non-Chinese are going to be as the Tibetans are, under Chinese rule: finished.
Trump's US won't back ANY US "ally", when push comes to shove, in 2026: he'll be waging war against them, instead..
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For a taste of what actual-conditions mean in the Congo, please glance at this page of videos, & see that it's nothing like what the privileged live-in:
https://theync.com/search/congo/
the evidence is both sickening & horrifying, & anybody who grows-up in that, is more desensitized-to that than the developed-West's populations are.
To remove S.O.P.-atrocities, the entire atrocities-regime needs removing.
& the West's "journalism"'s hiding the true-conditions of the world from the population they consume their revenue from, isn't Journalism.
( "The Watchdog That Didn't Bark" is 1, of many, books on the West's "journalism" and its protection of the corruption that is cancer-izing our viability toward being completely-fatal.
It's just at an earlier-stage, for our countries, than it is in the Congo, is all: same underlying condition, just different degree.
Wait until Trump snaps, & begins war on everybody in the Americas, except his cult, & then you'll see. )
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cut output, instead of cleaning-up operations..
Solving The Wrong Problem(tm), as corruption insists the only allowed answer is..
Corruption needs to be force removed from all authority-roles, XOR it'll force-demise our species, for sake of its non-accountability games.
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Putin turning Russia in to China's vassal-state, economically, while enforcing unpopular-war, while enforcing Russia's economic grinding-to-hell ..
.. has consequences??
No, really??
I've stated for the last few years, that Russia is going to be China's mere-vassal-state.
I'm adding, here, that WHEN Trump takes Greenland, as a means of militarily-enforcing his annexation of Canada ( Alaska/navy+airforce/mainland/navy+airforce/Greenland, sealing us off from ALL trade, to butcher us like Russia butchered Mariupol ),
THEN Putin, with BRICS'/China's backing, will be rampaging Europe, for Putin's ego/psychopathy & for China's strategic gain, since once Trump & Putin, & their-legacy-regimes, implode, then China's built-up empire ( Modi's India bet-the-farm on Russia helping India fight China, which .. is based in fantasy, not geopolitical-facts, so India has no stron ally within BRICS, & their tiny investment in military won't match China's: India will fall, when Trump's rampaging Canada, the non-Republicans within the US in Civil War Part2, AND Central & South America, including Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, Cuba, etc, in his greed to be the West's "KING" ) .. China's built-up empire will then be able to begin butchering-down the remnants of NATO..
& that war-of-attrition will simply keep going on, & on, & on, for decades, until the world-population has been reduced by a few billion.
People back what they're born-into, right?
Religions use that, to enforce their-population's ideology/identity..
Political-ideologies use it, cultures use it..
Hofstede's whole Cultural-Dimensions-Theory is rooted in it!
People born into short-term cultures ( macho tropical cultures, e.g. ) are more embodying of short-term values, views, & reacting-instincts, while people born into long-term cultures ( South Korea ) are more embodying of long-term values, views, & reacting-instincts.
Same is true for external-"success" orientation vs inner-"nurturing" orientation.
Same is true for uncertainty-denial vs uncertainty-comfort.
Nationalisms all use this same imprint/programming mechanism ( lower-forebrain, Kahneman & Tversky "System 1", etc ), to prevent either objectivity or correct-reasoning from interfereing with them..
But then what happens when neither objectivity nor correct-reasoning is tolerated to have any place in any education, as Leninism & Fox Network & Repubican "education" all enforce??
Well, then you have multi-generational incapability of being anything whatsoever other-than ideology and ideological-reacting.
& what happens when the vast majority of the world's population is born into that condition?
Global Deathmatch.
Some call it "The Great Filter", but it's the same thing.
Some call it "The Great Purification", but it's the same thing.
Some call it "The Valley of Death"/"Armageddon", but it's the same thing.
Some call it "The Tribulation", but it's the same thing.
ALL worlds that are as chimp-minded as we are, who gain industry & nukes, without our unconscious-minds growing-up, get the same "species-puberty" enforcement-process.
There's nothing "religious" or "divine" about species-ignorance trying to beat & break universe/G-D into OBEYING its ego-ignorance.
Not on this world, not on any other, not anywhere.
It's simply an ( ignorance ) addict breaking their-own life to "prove" that their addiction is the "only LORD", same as any street-junkie obliterating their only life is doing, but humankind's doing it at whole-planet scale..
The only method which can produce species-survival, is the Venn-diagram intersection of
No other method can produce survival of the species-"puberty" process on humankind, this century!
There are 3 categories of game:
That mass-shooters, Netanyahu, Putin, Trump, & Millei are playing Negative-Sum games, at their own scales, has consequences:
All who pretend that zero-sum-game is the game that they are playing, are no-more than appeasing & denying, to protect their assumptions' feelings.
Putin's ignoring/denying is fundamental to the game he's playing, & there won't be any meaningful "Russia" left, in 4 more decades, thanks to his regime.
Trump is doing the same with the USA, same timescale.
Netanyahu's "Israel" isn't going to exist in the 2030's, by the looks of it: retaliation is inevitable, & their own scripture ( Jeremiah & Isaiah, at-least ) explicitly identifies that every time "Israel" turns against G-D, then G-D's wrath expresses through others, against it, annihilating its regime. Every time: it's G-D's LAW.
So, the Zionists rejection of Jeremiah & Isaiah .. is "Judaism", of some kind, then?
shruggeth
Let their reaping be what their sowing has been, & let their G-D's wrath .. have their regime.
I'd rather my relationship with OriginOfAllLife be distinctly different from what the negative-sum-game rulers are enforcing.
But please see the scale of it all!
See that the treachery-against-Russia that Putin's psychopathic regime embodies, butchers Russia's future.
( the White-Blue-White Russians are every bit as Russian, to me, as Putin's White-Blue-Red Russians are, competing against each-other.
Same as the Trumpites compete against the sane, in the US.
Same as the humanist Jews oppose the Zionists,
& the humanist Muslims oppose the Islamists,
& the good Catholics oppose their church's protecting-of-child-molestation ( that pope who had the dark bags under his eyes, when he'd been the Catholic church's enforcer, had written, in latin, an order that anybody who cooperated-with-police against Catholic-officials bestiality or molesting, would be excommunicated. My mom took that, when an English lawyer translated it for the world, into English, to her church, & got locked-out from that basilica's providing-music-for-mass, permanently. She moved to another church, since she'd been effectively excommunicated for her holding-to-accountability.. the church official who protected the church's satanic established-behavior? No accountability for him, among worldly-law.. )
It's all the same, everywhere:
We have to let-go of worldly-machiavellianisms & worldly-narcissisms, & simply let LivingSpirit do the strategy for us, while we work-on what we can earn.
"Think Globally, but Act Locally", taken to its logical-conclusion..
NONE of the "country" entities which exist NOW, will exist +1 century in our future.
So, why concentrate on what we can't own, +1-century nationalism, when we can own our own viability?
We can own our own uprighting, our own kaizen, our own improving, right?
THIS https://theworldwatch.com/ is what the on-the-ground world really is like, re ideological-programmed REACTING, displacing objectivity, displacing correct-reasoning, displacing reasoned-evolution, from humankind.
It is ideological-programming that is the true enemy of our viability!
See how ideology squanders all LivingPotential, all LivingOpportunity, for its rule..
The ONLY way that Palestine could have been saved, was if the UN had taken-over ALL public-service in the territory, disallowing ANY ideology's rule, disallowing Hamas AND Zionism from interfering, & then, after about 3 generations of that, the ideologues would have been retired-out-from authority-roles, and THEN peace would have become possible..
Obviously, neither Hamas nor Zionism would tolerate such result, so they both enforced that the current "apocalypse" get manufactured, right?
Putin's enforcing that the "apocalypse" of Russia be guaranteed.
Trump's enforcing that the "apocalypse" of the US of A be guaranteed.
& we're all unconsciously contributing to this, through our holding-onto ideologies, instead of breaking the mind-rabies-of-ideology, ITSELF, from our world..
IT is our enemy..
IT always produces opposite-to-good results, in the long-term..
Inevitably..
Every culture, very region, every time, consistently..
Ideology always insists that it isn't ideology that is the problem, it is that ideology that is the problem, so if we just become infected with opposite ideology, & be ideology's pathogens against that ideology, then we'll "win"..
We've been scammed by our unconscious-mind's mechanisms/games, & really ought grow-up about it, now, you know?
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single-verse: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+20%3A17&version=CJB
Genociding was the founding of Israel, itself.
There isn't any "Israel" which isn't standing-on genociding, since all "Israel"s are standing on that biblical historical fact
( much in the bible is visibly-corrupted, much is simply male-ego's bullying, pretending that male-ego is the worldly-manifestation of G-D, but that bit, corroborated in other books, looks factual, to me )
Genociding other nations was the basis of Israel, right at the root, according to the Jewish bible.
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Your position is the careful & considered position of someone who's earning real experience-induced-understanding, in this world, 1 of the kinds of wisdom..
Carefulness-with-meaning is one of the fundamental signs of inner-maturity, in AwakeSoulism/Buddhism..
"right speech" it is called..
The "ALPHA/successfully-bullying is what VALID means!!" ideology/rabies will never value, let-alone respect, it, .. but some of us, who've also earned enough experience-induced-understanding to be careful, value it when we see it..
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A single verse: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+20%3A17&version=CJB
The original founding of Israel, millenia-ago, was on the bedrock of genociding.
I presume that there's been ebb-&-flow in motivation, .. but I've seen Jewish discussions asking why there was sooo much genociding, in the founding of Judaism..
All this recent world-history, though, has caused me to understand something that I was too stupid to understand, before:
ALL genociding is rooted in narcissism.
Maybe "national" narcissism, maybe "personal" narcissism, maybe "ideological" narcissism, but ALL of it is rooted in narcissism, & sociopathy ( induced ) or psychopathy ( intrinsic brain-defect of deficient/zero empathy ), to boot.
Therefore anyone wanting to root-out genociding, has to root-out narcissism, genociding's origin..
That change-in-perspective means differentiating between the symptoms, vs the origin/cause, & if the cause is narcissism, which we ALL ( all demographies, all cultures, all languages, all populations ) have in us, & then have our culture intentionally & systematically amplify..
.. that makes things much more impersonal, more systemic, more civilization-scale-correction is required ..
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An excellent point you make, which all of us, in all cultural-traditions/"nations"/"religions" ought be relentlessly aware-of.
Salut, Namaste, Kaizen, & Gratitude for your insight.
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I'd assumed that they were simply using Vultr's servers..
but Vultr is intentionally backing Chinese repression, even-though they are a US company..
That's different.
Good to know.
There's still Linode, isn't there?
( is there NO corporation which has any real upright integrity?? )
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