• Re: Brazil age-verification law in effect,Ubuntu being monitored forcomplaince

    From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Wed Mar 18 18:11:38 2026
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    On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:49:12 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    I shouldn't complain though, our
    rates are still much lower than most of the country. Most of the power
    is generated by damns that were built years ago.

    Where I live goes back to the Rural Electrification Act in the '30s so I'm
    in a co-op that contracts with the BPA. The city was Montana Power. MPC
    sold all their power assets to out of state corporations and went into the telecommunications business just in time for the dot-com crash. They went Chapter 11, and the customers took it in the shorts.

    The governor at the time, Racicot, was big on deregulation. What that
    achieved was de-industrialization as the aluminum foundries and pulp mill couldn't afford the deregulated power. He went on to become a lobbyist.
    When he endorsed Biden over Trump the state Republicans told him to FOAD.
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  • From Chris Ahlstrom@OFeem1987@teleworm.us to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Wed Mar 18 18:03:54 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    rbowman wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS:

    On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:49:12 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    I shouldn't complain though, our
    rates are still much lower than most of the country. Most of the power
    is generated by damns that were built years ago.
    ===== heh heh

    I know, I am silly.

    The governor at the time, Racicot, was big on deregulation. What that achieved was de-industrialization as the aluminum foundries and pulp mill couldn't afford the deregulated power. He went on to become a lobbyist.
    When he endorsed Biden over Trump the state Republicans told him to FOAD.

    Snowflakery
    --
    Moebius always does it on the same side.
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  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Thu Mar 19 08:15:01 2026
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    On 2026-03-18, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
    CrudeSausage wrote:

    Brazil's Age Verification Law is in Effect, Ubuntu Being Monitored for >>Compliance

    <https://lunduke.substack.com/p/brazils-age-verification-law-is-in>

    Brazil monitoring 37 companies, including Canonical, Valve, & more. >>System76 bans users for asking about age verification. Rockstar Games & >>Arch Linux 32 restrict access in Brazil.

    My take: The age of privacy is now effectively over. If you use Linux,
    it will be because you truly believe that it is a superior operating >>system, not because you believe that it will improve your privacy or >>security.

    How can they possibly prevent Canonical, or anyone else, from offering downloads without this garbage? They can't.

    I hope you're right, but I wouldn't be sure about it.
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
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  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Thu Mar 19 08:32:41 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-18 3:41 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-17 6:10 p.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-17, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    Brazil's Age Verification Law is in Effect, Ubuntu Being Monitored for >>>>> Compliance

    <https://lunduke.substack.com/p/brazils-age-verification-law-is-in>

    Brazil monitoring 37 companies, including Canonical, Valve, & more.
    System76 bans users for asking about age verification. Rockstar Games & >>>>> Arch Linux 32 restrict access in Brazil.

    My take: The age of privacy is now effectively over. If you use Linux, >>>>> it will be because you truly believe that it is a superior operating >>>>> system, not because you believe that it will improve your privacy or >>>>> security.

    More build-up for the world-wide Electronic Gulag. That's the real reason >>>> corporations are so crazed about this AI bullshit. I hope Iran knocks some >>>> more server farms while they're at it.

    I don't believe that Iran will be doing much more damage going forward.
    As much as the media wants us to believe that the US and Israel are
    failing miserably over there, there is no substance whatsoever to their
    claims.

    I think you're mistaken here. I've seen the satellite images. There's
    basically no radars or working U.S. bases left in the Gulf (or even Jordan). >> And now they're hitting Israel after yet another "decapitation" murder by
    the genocidal Zionists. I know the Strait of Hormuz is still closed (to all >> but the Chinese, it seems). Meanwhile the U.S. is keeping their battle ships >> far out of range, while Trump (who claims the Iranians are decimated) is
    whining that no one in NATO will help. (He wants their ships to get blown
    up.) So which is it? Are the Iranians defeated, or does Trump need the help >> of the NATO countries (the ones he keeps leveling tariffs on and insulting). >> If the war is over, why does NATO matter to him? It doesn't add up.

    As I explained to my wife, NATO allies stepping to defend the Strait is evidence that there is still a point to there even being a NATO. If the United States is to be tasked with defending the European "allies," they should at least be willing to help Americans in this one task. If they
    are unwilling to do so, NATO might as well cease to exist.

    NATO should have been disbanded 35 years ago when the Soviet Union
    collapsed.

    Iran is hitting more and more of the U.S. owned oil infrastructure in the Gulf. Apparently they hit the Saudi Arabia's Red Sea terminal for their pipeline that was supposed to avoid the trouble in the Persian Gulf. (I
    pretty much saw that coming.) Gas is now up to $4.09 a gallon where I live (was at $2.69 a gallon when Trump and NutYahoo started this war). This is
    what you get when you have warmongering moron and a genocidal NutYahoo butt kisser for a president.

    Iran has (apparently) hit Saudi Arabia's "alternate route" — an oil pipeline to the Red Sea at Yanbu. I pretty much figured that would happen. I guess maybe the U.S. and Israel shouldn't have started bombing Iran's oil facilities. What comes around goes around.

    Iran is also threatening to cut the underwater Internet cables in the Gulf
    and the Red Sea. Which would disrupt 17% of worldwide Internet traffic (the Gulf States have huge AI server farms on their territory).

    Iran is threatening to cut off underwater Internet cables to the Gulf
    states if they continue to host American military forces there.

    Cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea transmit 17%
    of the world's traffic, including to artificial intelligence centers in
    the UAE and Saudi Arabia, which could potentially lead to months-long
    disruptions in operations.

    This war could very well destroy the "West's" economy. Trump was warned
    about this but the moron "knew better."
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
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  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Thu Mar 19 08:34:16 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-18, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:49:12 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    I shouldn't complain though, our
    rates are still much lower than most of the country. Most of the power
    is generated by damns that were built years ago.

    Where I live goes back to the Rural Electrification Act in the '30s so I'm in a co-op that contracts with the BPA. The city was Montana Power. MPC
    sold all their power assets to out of state corporations and went into the telecommunications business just in time for the dot-com crash. They went Chapter 11, and the customers took it in the shorts.

    The governor at the time, Racicot, was big on deregulation. What that achieved was de-industrialization as the aluminum foundries and pulp mill couldn't afford the deregulated power. He went on to become a lobbyist.
    When he endorsed Biden over Trump the state Republicans told him to FOAD.

    But I bet he got rich. Another slimeball politican, I guess. No shortage of those.
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
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  • From chrisv@chrisv@nospam.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Thu Mar 19 06:56:09 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    RonB wrote:

    chrisv wrote:
    CrudeSausage wrote:

    Brazil's Age Verification Law is in Effect, Ubuntu Being Monitored for >>>Compliance

    <https://lunduke.substack.com/p/brazils-age-verification-law-is-in>

    Brazil monitoring 37 companies, including Canonical, Valve, & more. >>>System76 bans users for asking about age verification. Rockstar Games & >>>Arch Linux 32 restrict access in Brazil.

    My take: The age of privacy is now effectively over. If you use Linux, >>>it will be because you truly believe that it is a superior operating >>>system, not because you believe that it will improve your privacy or >>>security.

    How can they possibly prevent Canonical, or anyone else, from offering
    downloads without this garbage? They can't.

    I hope you're right, but I wouldn't be sure about it.

    Worst case, someone will branch it and offer it without the garbage.

    Sorry, tyrants, but you can't legislate spyware into Free software.
    --
    "Until Linux has a REASON for people to dump Windows they won't" -
    "True Linux advocate" Hadron Quark
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  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Thu Mar 19 10:07:34 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-19 4:15 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-18, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
    CrudeSausage wrote:

    Brazil's Age Verification Law is in Effect, Ubuntu Being Monitored for
    Compliance

    <https://lunduke.substack.com/p/brazils-age-verification-law-is-in>

    Brazil monitoring 37 companies, including Canonical, Valve, & more.
    System76 bans users for asking about age verification. Rockstar Games &
    Arch Linux 32 restrict access in Brazil.

    My take: The age of privacy is now effectively over. If you use Linux,
    it will be because you truly believe that it is a superior operating
    system, not because you believe that it will improve your privacy or
    security.

    How can they possibly prevent Canonical, or anyone else, from offering
    downloads without this garbage? They can't.

    I hope you're right, but I wouldn't be sure about it.

    If the downloads are offered through torrents, I doubt that any
    government would be able to first detect that a Linux distribution was installed or who did so.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    Islam is poison, leftism is retardation.
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Thu Mar 19 10:16:25 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-19 4:32 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-18 3:41 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-17 6:10 p.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-17, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    Brazil's Age Verification Law is in Effect, Ubuntu Being Monitored for >>>>>> Compliance

    <https://lunduke.substack.com/p/brazils-age-verification-law-is-in> >>>>>>
    Brazil monitoring 37 companies, including Canonical, Valve, & more. >>>>>> System76 bans users for asking about age verification. Rockstar Games & >>>>>> Arch Linux 32 restrict access in Brazil.

    My take: The age of privacy is now effectively over. If you use Linux, >>>>>> it will be because you truly believe that it is a superior operating >>>>>> system, not because you believe that it will improve your privacy or >>>>>> security.

    More build-up for the world-wide Electronic Gulag. That's the real reason >>>>> corporations are so crazed about this AI bullshit. I hope Iran knocks some
    more server farms while they're at it.

    I don't believe that Iran will be doing much more damage going forward. >>>> As much as the media wants us to believe that the US and Israel are
    failing miserably over there, there is no substance whatsoever to their >>>> claims.

    I think you're mistaken here. I've seen the satellite images. There's
    basically no radars or working U.S. bases left in the Gulf (or even Jordan).
    And now they're hitting Israel after yet another "decapitation" murder by >>> the genocidal Zionists. I know the Strait of Hormuz is still closed (to all >>> but the Chinese, it seems). Meanwhile the U.S. is keeping their battle ships
    far out of range, while Trump (who claims the Iranians are decimated) is >>> whining that no one in NATO will help. (He wants their ships to get blown >>> up.) So which is it? Are the Iranians defeated, or does Trump need the help >>> of the NATO countries (the ones he keeps leveling tariffs on and insulting).
    If the war is over, why does NATO matter to him? It doesn't add up.

    As I explained to my wife, NATO allies stepping to defend the Strait is
    evidence that there is still a point to there even being a NATO. If the
    United States is to be tasked with defending the European "allies," they
    should at least be willing to help Americans in this one task. If they
    are unwilling to do so, NATO might as well cease to exist.

    NATO should have been disbanded 35 years ago when the Soviet Union
    collapsed.

    I could understand that they wanted it to stick around for a little bit,
    just to see if the Communist garbage was going to re-emerge. However, considering how little the "allies" actually invested in it, the
    American governments should have been in a hurry to disband it.

    Iran is hitting more and more of the U.S. owned oil infrastructure in the Gulf. Apparently they hit the Saudi Arabia's Red Sea terminal for their pipeline that was supposed to avoid the trouble in the Persian Gulf. (I pretty much saw that coming.) Gas is now up to $4.09 a gallon where I live (was at $2.69 a gallon when Trump and NutYahoo started this war). This is what you get when you have warmongering moron and a genocidal NutYahoo butt kisser for a president.

    Iran has (apparently) hit Saudi Arabia's "alternate route" — an oil pipeline
    to the Red Sea at Yanbu. I pretty much figured that would happen. I guess maybe the U.S. and Israel shouldn't have started bombing Iran's oil facilities. What comes around goes around.

    Iran is also threatening to cut the underwater Internet cables in the Gulf and the Red Sea. Which would disrupt 17% of worldwide Internet traffic (the Gulf States have huge AI server farms on their territory).

    Iran is threatening to cut off underwater Internet cables to the Gulf
    states if they continue to host American military forces there.

    Cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea transmit 17%
    of the world's traffic, including to artificial intelligence centers in
    the UAE and Saudi Arabia, which could potentially lead to months-long
    disruptions in operations.

    This war could very well destroy the "West's" economy. Trump was warned
    about this but the moron "knew better."

    Honestly, what this war _should_ do is encourage North Americans to
    demand that the oil supplies of our continent actually deliver the
    product. There is no excuse for Canada capping Alberta in the knees and preventing them from transporting their oil to the East coast, and there
    is no reason for anyone to buy from the Middle East when there is oil
    near us in Venezuela either. Either way, I know that Iran was indeed a
    serious threat and since I know that Islam and their terror is a genuine problem in the West, I am happy to see the Americans and Israel
    decimating their sponsors. I can spend another few bucks on gas if I
    know that the muhammedans and their awful religion loses influence.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    Islam is poison, leftism is retardation.
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Thu Mar 19 13:42:51 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-19 7:56 a.m., chrisv wrote:
    RonB wrote:

    chrisv wrote:
    CrudeSausage wrote:

    Brazil's Age Verification Law is in Effect, Ubuntu Being Monitored for >>>> Compliance

    <https://lunduke.substack.com/p/brazils-age-verification-law-is-in>

    Brazil monitoring 37 companies, including Canonical, Valve, & more.
    System76 bans users for asking about age verification. Rockstar Games & >>>> Arch Linux 32 restrict access in Brazil.

    My take: The age of privacy is now effectively over. If you use Linux, >>>> it will be because you truly believe that it is a superior operating
    system, not because you believe that it will improve your privacy or
    security.

    How can they possibly prevent Canonical, or anyone else, from offering
    downloads without this garbage? They can't.

    I hope you're right, but I wouldn't be sure about it.

    Worst case, someone will branch it and offer it without the garbage.

    Sorry, tyrants, but you can't legislate spyware into Free software.

    Well, we also thought they couldn't kill Usenet yet here we are, on a shrinking forum...
    --
    CrudeSausage
    Islam is poison, leftism is retardation.
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From chrisv@chrisv@nospam.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Thu Mar 19 17:40:06 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    CrudeSausage wrote:

    chrisv wrote:

    Worst case, someone will branch it and offer it without the garbage.

    Sorry, tyrants, but you can't legislate spyware into Free software.

    Well, we also thought they couldn't kill Usenet yet here we are, on a >shrinking forum...

    No one is killing Usenet. Its decline is organic and not forced.
    --
    'with the stereotypical Linux advocacy paradigm of "FREE!", it means
    that there's no bread in the bullshit sandwich, so the Linux menu is
    100% undiluted bullshit.' - lying asshole "-hh"
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  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Thu Mar 19 19:42:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-19 6:40 p.m., chrisv wrote:
    CrudeSausage wrote:

    chrisv wrote:

    Worst case, someone will branch it and offer it without the garbage.

    Sorry, tyrants, but you can't legislate spyware into Free software.

    Well, we also thought they couldn't kill Usenet yet here we are, on a
    shrinking forum...

    No one is killing Usenet. Its decline is organic and not forced.

    Well, subscribing to an ISP usually resulted in you getting the settings
    for their Usenet server should you care to join. Since a Congressman complained at the turn of the century, ISPs don't even have Usenet
    servers anymore.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    Islam is poison, leftism is retardation.
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Fri Mar 20 04:59:30 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-19, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
    RonB wrote:

    chrisv wrote:
    CrudeSausage wrote:

    Brazil's Age Verification Law is in Effect, Ubuntu Being Monitored for >>>>Compliance

    <https://lunduke.substack.com/p/brazils-age-verification-law-is-in>

    Brazil monitoring 37 companies, including Canonical, Valve, & more. >>>>System76 bans users for asking about age verification. Rockstar Games & >>>>Arch Linux 32 restrict access in Brazil.

    My take: The age of privacy is now effectively over. If you use Linux, >>>>it will be because you truly believe that it is a superior operating >>>>system, not because you believe that it will improve your privacy or >>>>security.

    How can they possibly prevent Canonical, or anyone else, from offering
    downloads without this garbage? They can't.

    I hope you're right, but I wouldn't be sure about it.

    Worst case, someone will branch it and offer it without the garbage.

    Sorry, tyrants, but you can't legislate spyware into Free software.

    I'm guessin they'll find ways around it.
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Fri Mar 20 05:00:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-19, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-19 6:40 p.m., chrisv wrote:
    CrudeSausage wrote:

    chrisv wrote:

    Worst case, someone will branch it and offer it without the garbage.

    Sorry, tyrants, but you can't legislate spyware into Free software.

    Well, we also thought they couldn't kill Usenet yet here we are, on a
    shrinking forum...

    No one is killing Usenet. Its decline is organic and not forced.

    Well, subscribing to an ISP usually resulted in you getting the settings
    for their Usenet server should you care to join. Since a Congressman complained at the turn of the century, ISPs don't even have Usenet
    servers anymore.

    That's true, but that was basically ended about twenty years ago.
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Fri Mar 20 05:04:05 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-19, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-19 4:32 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-18 3:41 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-17 6:10 p.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-17, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    Brazil's Age Verification Law is in Effect, Ubuntu Being Monitored for >>>>>>> Compliance

    <https://lunduke.substack.com/p/brazils-age-verification-law-is-in> >>>>>>>
    Brazil monitoring 37 companies, including Canonical, Valve, & more. >>>>>>> System76 bans users for asking about age verification. Rockstar Games & >>>>>>> Arch Linux 32 restrict access in Brazil.

    My take: The age of privacy is now effectively over. If you use Linux, >>>>>>> it will be because you truly believe that it is a superior operating >>>>>>> system, not because you believe that it will improve your privacy or >>>>>>> security.

    More build-up for the world-wide Electronic Gulag. That's the real reason
    corporations are so crazed about this AI bullshit. I hope Iran knocks some
    more server farms while they're at it.

    I don't believe that Iran will be doing much more damage going forward. >>>>> As much as the media wants us to believe that the US and Israel are
    failing miserably over there, there is no substance whatsoever to their >>>>> claims.

    I think you're mistaken here. I've seen the satellite images. There's
    basically no radars or working U.S. bases left in the Gulf (or even Jordan).
    And now they're hitting Israel after yet another "decapitation" murder by >>>> the genocidal Zionists. I know the Strait of Hormuz is still closed (to all
    but the Chinese, it seems). Meanwhile the U.S. is keeping their battle ships
    far out of range, while Trump (who claims the Iranians are decimated) is >>>> whining that no one in NATO will help. (He wants their ships to get blown >>>> up.) So which is it? Are the Iranians defeated, or does Trump need the help
    of the NATO countries (the ones he keeps leveling tariffs on and insulting).
    If the war is over, why does NATO matter to him? It doesn't add up.

    As I explained to my wife, NATO allies stepping to defend the Strait is
    evidence that there is still a point to there even being a NATO. If the
    United States is to be tasked with defending the European "allies," they >>> should at least be willing to help Americans in this one task. If they
    are unwilling to do so, NATO might as well cease to exist.

    NATO should have been disbanded 35 years ago when the Soviet Union
    collapsed.

    I could understand that they wanted it to stick around for a little bit, just to see if the Communist garbage was going to re-emerge. However, considering how little the "allies" actually invested in it, the
    American governments should have been in a hurry to disband it.

    Iran is hitting more and more of the U.S. owned oil infrastructure in the
    Gulf. Apparently they hit the Saudi Arabia's Red Sea terminal for their
    pipeline that was supposed to avoid the trouble in the Persian Gulf. (I
    pretty much saw that coming.) Gas is now up to $4.09 a gallon where I live >> (was at $2.69 a gallon when Trump and NutYahoo started this war). This is
    what you get when you have warmongering moron and a genocidal NutYahoo butt >> kisser for a president.

    Iran has (apparently) hit Saudi Arabia's "alternate route" — an oil pipeline
    to the Red Sea at Yanbu. I pretty much figured that would happen. I guess
    maybe the U.S. and Israel shouldn't have started bombing Iran's oil
    facilities. What comes around goes around.

    Iran is also threatening to cut the underwater Internet cables in the Gulf >> and the Red Sea. Which would disrupt 17% of worldwide Internet traffic (the >> Gulf States have huge AI server farms on their territory).

    Iran is threatening to cut off underwater Internet cables to the Gulf
    states if they continue to host American military forces there.

    Cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea transmit 17% >> of the world's traffic, including to artificial intelligence centers in >> the UAE and Saudi Arabia, which could potentially lead to months-long
    disruptions in operations.

    This war could very well destroy the "West's" economy. Trump was warned
    about this but the moron "knew better."

    Honestly, what this war _should_ do is encourage North Americans to
    demand that the oil supplies of our continent actually deliver the
    product. There is no excuse for Canada capping Alberta in the knees and preventing them from transporting their oil to the East coast, and there
    is no reason for anyone to buy from the Middle East when there is oil
    near us in Venezuela either. Either way, I know that Iran was indeed a serious threat and since I know that Islam and their terror is a genuine problem in the West, I am happy to see the Americans and Israel
    decimating their sponsors. I can spend another few bucks on gas if I
    know that the muhammedans and their awful religion loses influence.

    In what way, specifically, was Iran a "serious threat" to the West? The only thing it was a serious threat to was genocidal NutYahoo's "Greater Israel." Israel and the United States are the ones who started this war (and the one
    in June, 2025) not Iran.
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From chrisv@chrisv@nospam.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Fri Mar 20 07:06:22 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    CrudeSausage wrote:

    chrisv wrote:
    CrudeSausage wrote:
    chrisv wrote:

    Worst case, someone will branch it and offer it without the garbage.

    Sorry, tyrants, but you can't legislate spyware into Free software.

    Well, we also thought they couldn't kill Usenet yet here we are, on a
    shrinking forum...

    No one is killing Usenet. Its decline is organic and not forced.

    Well, subscribing to an ISP usually resulted in you getting the settings
    for their Usenet server should you care to join. Since a Congressman >complained at the turn of the century, ISPs don't even have Usenet
    servers anymore.

    You have a cite about this "congressman who complained" causing ISP's
    to drop Usenet?
    --
    "So sentient human beings should have their freedom restricted so that
    some bits on a disk somewhere (source code) can have freedom instead."
    - trolling fsckwit "Ezekiel", attacking the GPL
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From pothead@pothead@snakebite.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Fri Mar 20 12:17:44 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-20, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-19, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-19 4:32 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-18 3:41 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-17 6:10 p.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-17, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    Brazil's Age Verification Law is in Effect, Ubuntu Being Monitored for >>>>>>>> Compliance

    <https://lunduke.substack.com/p/brazils-age-verification-law-is-in> >>>>>>>>
    Brazil monitoring 37 companies, including Canonical, Valve, & more. >>>>>>>> System76 bans users for asking about age verification. Rockstar Games &
    Arch Linux 32 restrict access in Brazil.

    My take: The age of privacy is now effectively over. If you use Linux, >>>>>>>> it will be because you truly believe that it is a superior operating >>>>>>>> system, not because you believe that it will improve your privacy or >>>>>>>> security.

    More build-up for the world-wide Electronic Gulag. That's the real reason
    corporations are so crazed about this AI bullshit. I hope Iran knocks some
    more server farms while they're at it.

    I don't believe that Iran will be doing much more damage going forward. >>>>>> As much as the media wants us to believe that the US and Israel are >>>>>> failing miserably over there, there is no substance whatsoever to their >>>>>> claims.

    I think you're mistaken here. I've seen the satellite images. There's >>>>> basically no radars or working U.S. bases left in the Gulf (or even Jordan).
    And now they're hitting Israel after yet another "decapitation" murder by >>>>> the genocidal Zionists. I know the Strait of Hormuz is still closed (to all
    but the Chinese, it seems). Meanwhile the U.S. is keeping their battle ships
    far out of range, while Trump (who claims the Iranians are decimated) is >>>>> whining that no one in NATO will help. (He wants their ships to get blown >>>>> up.) So which is it? Are the Iranians defeated, or does Trump need the help
    of the NATO countries (the ones he keeps leveling tariffs on and insulting).
    If the war is over, why does NATO matter to him? It doesn't add up.

    As I explained to my wife, NATO allies stepping to defend the Strait is >>>> evidence that there is still a point to there even being a NATO. If the >>>> United States is to be tasked with defending the European "allies," they >>>> should at least be willing to help Americans in this one task. If they >>>> are unwilling to do so, NATO might as well cease to exist.

    NATO should have been disbanded 35 years ago when the Soviet Union
    collapsed.

    I could understand that they wanted it to stick around for a little bit,
    just to see if the Communist garbage was going to re-emerge. However,
    considering how little the "allies" actually invested in it, the
    American governments should have been in a hurry to disband it.

    Iran is hitting more and more of the U.S. owned oil infrastructure in the >>> Gulf. Apparently they hit the Saudi Arabia's Red Sea terminal for their
    pipeline that was supposed to avoid the trouble in the Persian Gulf. (I
    pretty much saw that coming.) Gas is now up to $4.09 a gallon where I live >>> (was at $2.69 a gallon when Trump and NutYahoo started this war). This is >>> what you get when you have warmongering moron and a genocidal NutYahoo butt >>> kisser for a president.

    Iran has (apparently) hit Saudi Arabia's "alternate route" — an oil pipeline
    to the Red Sea at Yanbu. I pretty much figured that would happen. I guess >>> maybe the U.S. and Israel shouldn't have started bombing Iran's oil
    facilities. What comes around goes around.

    Iran is also threatening to cut the underwater Internet cables in the Gulf >>> and the Red Sea. Which would disrupt 17% of worldwide Internet traffic (the >>> Gulf States have huge AI server farms on their territory).

    Iran is threatening to cut off underwater Internet cables to the Gulf >>> states if they continue to host American military forces there.

    Cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea transmit 17%
    of the world's traffic, including to artificial intelligence centers in >>> the UAE and Saudi Arabia, which could potentially lead to months-long >>> disruptions in operations.

    This war could very well destroy the "West's" economy. Trump was warned
    about this but the moron "knew better."

    Honestly, what this war _should_ do is encourage North Americans to
    demand that the oil supplies of our continent actually deliver the
    product. There is no excuse for Canada capping Alberta in the knees and
    preventing them from transporting their oil to the East coast, and there
    is no reason for anyone to buy from the Middle East when there is oil
    near us in Venezuela either. Either way, I know that Iran was indeed a
    serious threat and since I know that Islam and their terror is a genuine
    problem in the West, I am happy to see the Americans and Israel
    decimating their sponsors. I can spend another few bucks on gas if I
    know that the muhammedans and their awful religion loses influence.

    In what way, specifically, was Iran a "serious threat" to the West? The only thing it was a serious threat to was genocidal NutYahoo's "Greater Israel." Israel and the United States are the ones who started this war (and the one in June, 2025) not Iran.

    Well there is this, if you can believe the government, which I most certainly do NOT.

    <https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-steve-witkoff-iran-enriched-uranium-11-nuclear-bombs/>

    And this (paywalled but you can read enough)

    <https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-strikes-2026/card/which-iranian-nuclear-sites-might-attacks-target--BFf62JJk6oCkgyzaFXiE?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqevXwpTyzD1oHUGPdb4pj5mz_LNwEYYDq6j7y3WOyGhdwjWerrmwsTvTax5sww%3D&gaa_ts=69a71d65&gaa_sig=SjiLjMRCYRxWo8Xcgh4J6PfGLuaAnli6r6R66x8A8tPGEG-yGoyK0RqdJM0a2huQMZVFfPmC6v9i_lRS2URfcA%3D%3D>

    FWIW I do not, nor I ever believed in regime/nation building.
    While not an isolationist I believe Trump needs to concentrate on America instead of
    interfering all over the world. He campaigned on that. We are not the world's piggy bank nor
    the world's protector.
    The problem is that at least in the ME, these people are religious fanatics
    and are determined to wipe anyone who doesn't believe as they do, off the map. And they will if not checked. If that is even possible and long term, let's just say I have my doubts.

    So it's a complex issue and as usual all sides are lying to some degree.
    At this point I see no long term solution.
    I hope I am wrong though.
    --

    pothead

    "How many liberals does it take to change a light bulb?
    None, they’re too busy changing their gender."

    "What’s the hardest part about being a Liberal?
    Telling your gender neutral parental units that you’re straight."
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Borax Man@boraxman@geidiprime.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Fri Mar 20 12:31:07 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-20, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-19, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-19 6:40 p.m., chrisv wrote:
    CrudeSausage wrote:

    chrisv wrote:

    Worst case, someone will branch it and offer it without the garbage. >>>>>
    Sorry, tyrants, but you can't legislate spyware into Free software.

    Well, we also thought they couldn't kill Usenet yet here we are, on a
    shrinking forum...

    No one is killing Usenet. Its decline is organic and not forced.

    Well, subscribing to an ISP usually resulted in you getting the settings
    for their Usenet server should you care to join. Since a Congressman
    complained at the turn of the century, ISPs don't even have Usenet
    servers anymore.

    That's true, but that was basically ended about twenty years ago.


    ISP's dropped Usenet because it wasn't worth it for them. If I recall correctly, my ISP, when I queried it said that there were few users, but
    the data usage was high (binaries). I suppose they didn't want to spend
    money for piracy. However, they also dropped email, which kind of sucked.
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  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Fri Mar 20 08:43:07 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-20 1:00 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-19, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-19 6:40 p.m., chrisv wrote:
    CrudeSausage wrote:

    chrisv wrote:

    Worst case, someone will branch it and offer it without the garbage. >>>>>
    Sorry, tyrants, but you can't legislate spyware into Free software.

    Well, we also thought they couldn't kill Usenet yet here we are, on a
    shrinking forum...

    No one is killing Usenet. Its decline is organic and not forced.

    Well, subscribing to an ISP usually resulted in you getting the settings
    for their Usenet server should you care to join. Since a Congressman
    complained at the turn of the century, ISPs don't even have Usenet
    servers anymore.

    That's true, but that was basically ended about twenty years ago.

    Was it the witch hunt they ended or Usenet? Either way, the result is
    the same. The fact remains that if people want a real conversation,
    there is a greater chance that they will find it on Usenet than they
    would on heavily left-biased Reddit. Here, people can control who they
    read and don't, and they can learn how to use a filter for the people
    who are simply abusive. On Reddit, the filter is applied for you and it
    isn't against abusive people; it's against people with the wrong
    opinion. By destroying Usenet, Congress also destroyed conversation.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    Islam is poison, leftism is retardation.
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Fri Mar 20 08:49:37 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-20 1:04 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-19, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-19 4:32 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-18 3:41 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-17 6:10 p.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-17, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    Brazil's Age Verification Law is in Effect, Ubuntu Being Monitored for >>>>>>>> Compliance

    <https://lunduke.substack.com/p/brazils-age-verification-law-is-in> >>>>>>>>
    Brazil monitoring 37 companies, including Canonical, Valve, & more. >>>>>>>> System76 bans users for asking about age verification. Rockstar Games &
    Arch Linux 32 restrict access in Brazil.

    My take: The age of privacy is now effectively over. If you use Linux, >>>>>>>> it will be because you truly believe that it is a superior operating >>>>>>>> system, not because you believe that it will improve your privacy or >>>>>>>> security.

    More build-up for the world-wide Electronic Gulag. That's the real reason
    corporations are so crazed about this AI bullshit. I hope Iran knocks some
    more server farms while they're at it.

    I don't believe that Iran will be doing much more damage going forward. >>>>>> As much as the media wants us to believe that the US and Israel are >>>>>> failing miserably over there, there is no substance whatsoever to their >>>>>> claims.

    I think you're mistaken here. I've seen the satellite images. There's >>>>> basically no radars or working U.S. bases left in the Gulf (or even Jordan).
    And now they're hitting Israel after yet another "decapitation" murder by >>>>> the genocidal Zionists. I know the Strait of Hormuz is still closed (to all
    but the Chinese, it seems). Meanwhile the U.S. is keeping their battle ships
    far out of range, while Trump (who claims the Iranians are decimated) is >>>>> whining that no one in NATO will help. (He wants their ships to get blown >>>>> up.) So which is it? Are the Iranians defeated, or does Trump need the help
    of the NATO countries (the ones he keeps leveling tariffs on and insulting).
    If the war is over, why does NATO matter to him? It doesn't add up.

    As I explained to my wife, NATO allies stepping to defend the Strait is >>>> evidence that there is still a point to there even being a NATO. If the >>>> United States is to be tasked with defending the European "allies," they >>>> should at least be willing to help Americans in this one task. If they >>>> are unwilling to do so, NATO might as well cease to exist.

    NATO should have been disbanded 35 years ago when the Soviet Union
    collapsed.

    I could understand that they wanted it to stick around for a little bit,
    just to see if the Communist garbage was going to re-emerge. However,
    considering how little the "allies" actually invested in it, the
    American governments should have been in a hurry to disband it.

    Iran is hitting more and more of the U.S. owned oil infrastructure in the >>> Gulf. Apparently they hit the Saudi Arabia's Red Sea terminal for their
    pipeline that was supposed to avoid the trouble in the Persian Gulf. (I
    pretty much saw that coming.) Gas is now up to $4.09 a gallon where I live >>> (was at $2.69 a gallon when Trump and NutYahoo started this war). This is >>> what you get when you have warmongering moron and a genocidal NutYahoo butt >>> kisser for a president.

    Iran has (apparently) hit Saudi Arabia's "alternate route" — an oil pipeline
    to the Red Sea at Yanbu. I pretty much figured that would happen. I guess >>> maybe the U.S. and Israel shouldn't have started bombing Iran's oil
    facilities. What comes around goes around.

    Iran is also threatening to cut the underwater Internet cables in the Gulf >>> and the Red Sea. Which would disrupt 17% of worldwide Internet traffic (the >>> Gulf States have huge AI server farms on their territory).

    Iran is threatening to cut off underwater Internet cables to the Gulf >>> states if they continue to host American military forces there.

    Cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea transmit 17%
    of the world's traffic, including to artificial intelligence centers in
    the UAE and Saudi Arabia, which could potentially lead to months-long >>> disruptions in operations.

    This war could very well destroy the "West's" economy. Trump was warned
    about this but the moron "knew better."

    Honestly, what this war _should_ do is encourage North Americans to
    demand that the oil supplies of our continent actually deliver the
    product. There is no excuse for Canada capping Alberta in the knees and
    preventing them from transporting their oil to the East coast, and there
    is no reason for anyone to buy from the Middle East when there is oil
    near us in Venezuela either. Either way, I know that Iran was indeed a
    serious threat and since I know that Islam and their terror is a genuine
    problem in the West, I am happy to see the Americans and Israel
    decimating their sponsors. I can spend another few bucks on gas if I
    know that the muhammedans and their awful religion loses influence.

    In what way, specifically, was Iran a "serious threat" to the West?

    They sponsored the terrorist groups in Gaza and Lebanon in particular
    which enforced Islamic values in the country and caused anyone with
    common sense to escape the country. This wouldn't be a significant issue
    if Islamists didn't integrate the ranks of the people with common sense
    to flood the West with like-minded barbarians who want to take over our society and enact Sharia law. Similarly, the West was still in a
    position that if Iran threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz, it could retaliate and put the country in its place. Had they been allowed to
    continue stockpiling weapons and working towards the nukes as they
    provably were (they had enriched the uranium to 60% <https://armscontrolcenter.org/irans-stockpile-of-highly-enriched-uranium-worth-bargaining-for/>),
    they would have eventually been in a position where they could do
    whatever they wish around there and the West would have had no way of retaliating.

    I will say this once again: America and Israel are not the bad guys here.

    The only
    thing it was a serious threat to was genocidal NutYahoo's "Greater Israel." Israel and the United States are the ones who started this war (and the one in June, 2025) not Iran.

    I applaud them for starting the war before it would have turned into
    something much worse for us to deal with. The same way that Islam is a
    poison, Iran is a snake.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    Islam is poison, leftism is retardation.
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Fri Mar 20 09:03:28 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-20 8:06 a.m., chrisv wrote:
    CrudeSausage wrote:

    chrisv wrote:
    CrudeSausage wrote:
    chrisv wrote:

    Worst case, someone will branch it and offer it without the garbage. >>>>>
    Sorry, tyrants, but you can't legislate spyware into Free software.

    Well, we also thought they couldn't kill Usenet yet here we are, on a
    shrinking forum...

    No one is killing Usenet. Its decline is organic and not forced.

    Well, subscribing to an ISP usually resulted in you getting the settings
    for their Usenet server should you care to join. Since a Congressman
    complained at the turn of the century, ISPs don't even have Usenet
    servers anymore.

    You have a cite about this "congressman who complained" causing ISP's
    to drop Usenet?

    I didn't save bookmarks back then in the hope that I may use them for conversations twenty-five years later. However, it might be
    misremembering as to whether a Congressman actually complained or
    whether a colleague of mine told me that they did. Either way, as I do a search now, it appears that a lot of companies retired their Usenet
    server not because of laws, but because it cost them too much in
    bandwidth and storage, especially with all the illegal content being
    shared.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    Islam is poison, leftism is retardation.
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Fri Mar 20 19:04:25 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:03:28 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

    I didn't save bookmarks back then in the hope that I may use them for conversations twenty-five years later. However, it might be
    misremembering as to whether a Congressman actually complained or
    whether a colleague of mine told me that they did. Either way, as I do a search now, it appears that a lot of companies retired their Usenet
    server not because of laws, but because it cost them too much in
    bandwidth and storage, especially with all the illegal content being
    shared.

    That was the case with my ISP. It takes a lot of terabytes to host a
    usenet node and the perceived value wasn't there as people moved to the
    newer online communities. There isn't a good way to monetize usenet. When individual.net went from free to 10 Euros a year it seemed more like a
    token charge. The site doesn't do binaries which helps. I'm not sure what
    I'll do when they drop it next year.
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Joel W. Crump@joelcrump@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Fri Mar 20 15:13:25 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 3/20/2026 3:04 PM, rbowman wrote:
    On Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:03:28 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

    I didn't save bookmarks back then in the hope that I may use them for
    conversations twenty-five years later. However, it might be
    misremembering as to whether a Congressman actually complained or
    whether a colleague of mine told me that they did. Either way, as I do a
    search now, it appears that a lot of companies retired their Usenet
    server not because of laws, but because it cost them too much in
    bandwidth and storage, especially with all the illegal content being
    shared.

    That was the case with my ISP. It takes a lot of terabytes to host a
    usenet node and the perceived value wasn't there as people moved to the
    newer online communities. There isn't a good way to monetize usenet. When individual.net went from free to 10 Euros a year it seemed more like a
    token charge. The site doesn't do binaries which helps. I'm not sure what I'll do when they drop it next year.


    I have binary access but don't use it. There's not enough posts
    anymore, and piracy is not worth it. $10 a month for this NSP gives me responsive access, and I have E-S if I need a spare account.
    --
    Joel W. Crump
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Fri Mar 20 15:30:45 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-20 3:04 p.m., rbowman wrote:
    On Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:03:28 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

    I didn't save bookmarks back then in the hope that I may use them for
    conversations twenty-five years later. However, it might be
    misremembering as to whether a Congressman actually complained or
    whether a colleague of mine told me that they did. Either way, as I do a
    search now, it appears that a lot of companies retired their Usenet
    server not because of laws, but because it cost them too much in
    bandwidth and storage, especially with all the illegal content being
    shared.

    That was the case with my ISP. It takes a lot of terabytes to host a
    usenet node and the perceived value wasn't there as people moved to the
    newer online communities. There isn't a good way to monetize usenet. When individual.net went from free to 10 Euros a year it seemed more like a
    token charge. The site doesn't do binaries which helps. I'm not sure what I'll do when they drop it next year.

    There's always Blocknews and Usenet-News.net. They're both cheap and
    work well. I'd say Blocknews is better though since secure connections actually work unlike Usenet-News.net.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    Islam is poison, leftism is retardation.
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sat Mar 21 01:23:08 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-20, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:03:28 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

    I didn't save bookmarks back then in the hope that I may use them for
    conversations twenty-five years later. However, it might be
    misremembering as to whether a Congressman actually complained or
    whether a colleague of mine told me that they did. Either way, as I do a
    search now, it appears that a lot of companies retired their Usenet
    server not because of laws, but because it cost them too much in
    bandwidth and storage, especially with all the illegal content being
    shared.

    That was the case with my ISP. It takes a lot of terabytes to host a
    usenet node and the perceived value wasn't there as people moved to the newer online communities. There isn't a good way to monetize usenet. When individual.net went from free to 10 Euros a year it seemed more like a
    token charge. The site doesn't do binaries which helps. I'm not sure what I'll do when they drop it next year.

    So far eternal-september.org is still working. And it's still free (though they ask for donations).

    Here's their FAQ on when they will or won't terminate an account. They seem
    to be pro freedom on what posts are allowed. I wonder how long that will
    last in Germany?

    https://eternal-september.org/index.php?showpage=abuse
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sat Mar 21 01:59:07 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-20, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-20 1:04 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-19, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-19 4:32 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-18 3:41 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-17 6:10 p.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-17, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    Brazil's Age Verification Law is in Effect, Ubuntu Being Monitored for
    Compliance

    <https://lunduke.substack.com/p/brazils-age-verification-law-is-in> >>>>>>>>>
    Brazil monitoring 37 companies, including Canonical, Valve, & more. >>>>>>>>> System76 bans users for asking about age verification. Rockstar Games &
    Arch Linux 32 restrict access in Brazil.

    My take: The age of privacy is now effectively over. If you use Linux,
    it will be because you truly believe that it is a superior operating >>>>>>>>> system, not because you believe that it will improve your privacy or >>>>>>>>> security.

    More build-up for the world-wide Electronic Gulag. That's the real reason
    corporations are so crazed about this AI bullshit. I hope Iran knocks some
    more server farms while they're at it.

    I don't believe that Iran will be doing much more damage going forward. >>>>>>> As much as the media wants us to believe that the US and Israel are >>>>>>> failing miserably over there, there is no substance whatsoever to their >>>>>>> claims.

    I think you're mistaken here. I've seen the satellite images. There's >>>>>> basically no radars or working U.S. bases left in the Gulf (or even Jordan).
    And now they're hitting Israel after yet another "decapitation" murder by
    the genocidal Zionists. I know the Strait of Hormuz is still closed (to all
    but the Chinese, it seems). Meanwhile the U.S. is keeping their battle ships
    far out of range, while Trump (who claims the Iranians are decimated) is >>>>>> whining that no one in NATO will help. (He wants their ships to get blown
    up.) So which is it? Are the Iranians defeated, or does Trump need the help
    of the NATO countries (the ones he keeps leveling tariffs on and insulting).
    If the war is over, why does NATO matter to him? It doesn't add up. >>>>>
    As I explained to my wife, NATO allies stepping to defend the Strait is >>>>> evidence that there is still a point to there even being a NATO. If the >>>>> United States is to be tasked with defending the European "allies," they >>>>> should at least be willing to help Americans in this one task. If they >>>>> are unwilling to do so, NATO might as well cease to exist.

    NATO should have been disbanded 35 years ago when the Soviet Union
    collapsed.

    I could understand that they wanted it to stick around for a little bit, >>> just to see if the Communist garbage was going to re-emerge. However,
    considering how little the "allies" actually invested in it, the
    American governments should have been in a hurry to disband it.

    Iran is hitting more and more of the U.S. owned oil infrastructure in the >>>> Gulf. Apparently they hit the Saudi Arabia's Red Sea terminal for their >>>> pipeline that was supposed to avoid the trouble in the Persian Gulf. (I >>>> pretty much saw that coming.) Gas is now up to $4.09 a gallon where I live >>>> (was at $2.69 a gallon when Trump and NutYahoo started this war). This is >>>> what you get when you have warmongering moron and a genocidal NutYahoo butt
    kisser for a president.

    Iran has (apparently) hit Saudi Arabia's "alternate route" — an oil pipeline
    to the Red Sea at Yanbu. I pretty much figured that would happen. I guess >>>> maybe the U.S. and Israel shouldn't have started bombing Iran's oil
    facilities. What comes around goes around.

    Iran is also threatening to cut the underwater Internet cables in the Gulf >>>> and the Red Sea. Which would disrupt 17% of worldwide Internet traffic (the
    Gulf States have huge AI server farms on their territory).

    Iran is threatening to cut off underwater Internet cables to the Gulf >>>> states if they continue to host American military forces there.

    Cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea transmit 17%
    of the world's traffic, including to artificial intelligence centers in
    the UAE and Saudi Arabia, which could potentially lead to months-long >>>> disruptions in operations.

    This war could very well destroy the "West's" economy. Trump was warned >>>> about this but the moron "knew better."

    Honestly, what this war _should_ do is encourage North Americans to
    demand that the oil supplies of our continent actually deliver the
    product. There is no excuse for Canada capping Alberta in the knees and
    preventing them from transporting their oil to the East coast, and there >>> is no reason for anyone to buy from the Middle East when there is oil
    near us in Venezuela either. Either way, I know that Iran was indeed a
    serious threat and since I know that Islam and their terror is a genuine >>> problem in the West, I am happy to see the Americans and Israel
    decimating their sponsors. I can spend another few bucks on gas if I
    know that the muhammedans and their awful religion loses influence.

    In what way, specifically, was Iran a "serious threat" to the West?

    They sponsored the terrorist groups in Gaza and Lebanon in particular
    which enforced Islamic values in the country and caused anyone with
    common sense to escape the country. This wouldn't be a significant issue
    if Islamists didn't integrate the ranks of the people with common sense
    to flood the West with like-minded barbarians who want to take over our society and enact Sharia law. Similarly, the West was still in a
    position that if Iran threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz, it could retaliate and put the country in its place. Had they been allowed to continue stockpiling weapons and working towards the nukes as they
    provably were (they had enriched the uranium to 60%
    <https://armscontrolcenter.org/irans-stockpile-of-highly-enriched-uranium-worth-bargaining-for/>),
    they would have eventually been in a position where they could do
    whatever they wish around there and the West would have had no way of retaliating.

    Gaza and Lebanon are not the "West." We sponsor the worst terrorist group in the world, the genocidal Israelis. Who's land is being taken on the West
    Bank, Gaza and in Syria and Lebanon? It's definitely not Israeli land that's being stolen.

    You talk about Sharia law, but totally ignore the Jews referring to non-Jews as "goyim," (cattle). Their Talmud teaches that land owned by the goyim can
    be taken at any time. It's considered "unoccupied land" because no "people" live there. The Jews teach that they are "exceptional" the "chosen" people. Really the *only* people. All others are animals. That's why they have no problem murdering women and children when they "mow the grass" in Gaza. NutYahoo refers to the Gazans as "Amaleks" the tribe God told true
    (Biblical) Israel to wipe out — every man, woman and child. They apply this bullshit to the Gazans. And AIPAC (Rothschilds) in the U.S. gives cover for these genocidal thugs.

    So, no, I'm not in favor of Sharia law, but more harm to "West" is done to
    us because of the Rothschild control of our countries. And our support for
    the Israeli genocidal thugs means our government(s) is (are) also genocidal.

    As for immigration to Western countries, blame the U.S. and Israel for destroying Middle East governments and sewing chaos to weaken their
    opponents. Also blame the Western countries for allowing this immigration because the Rothschilds (via Soros and his displacement actions) want to
    wipe out the white race.

    I will say this once again: America and Israel are not the bad guys here.

    I will say again, Israel is a genocidal thug country and the U.S. is guilty
    of genocide because our Rothschild controlled government supports genocidal Israel. It's insanity.

    The only
    thing it was a serious threat to was genocidal NutYahoo's "Greater Israel." >> Israel and the United States are the ones who started this war (and the one >> in June, 2025) not Iran.

    I applaud them for starting the war before it would have turned into something much worse for us to deal with. The same way that Islam is a poison, Iran is a snake.

    What was going to to "turn into something much worse?" Sorry, but you're gullible to believe the genocidal NutYahoo and his warmongering moron and
    butt leach, Trump. NutYahoo dreams of "Greater Israel," and he can only have it after destroying all other countries in the Middle East. And we, in the Rothschild controlled "West," are empowering this genocidal maniac in his drive to steal "the lands of the goyim."

    Don't be gullible about Israel's motives just because your government is allowing the Muslim (mostly Arab, not Persian) immigrants to run roughshod
    in your country. That's the result of another Rothschild (Jewish) pogrom — the planned destruction of the white race.
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From Joel W. Crump@joelcrump@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Fri Mar 20 22:15:01 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 3/20/2026 9:59 PM, RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-20, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-20 1:04 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-19, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-19 4:32 a.m., RonB wrote:

    Iran is hitting more and more of the U.S. owned oil infrastructure in the >>>>> Gulf. Apparently they hit the Saudi Arabia's Red Sea terminal for their >>>>> pipeline that was supposed to avoid the trouble in the Persian Gulf. (I >>>>> pretty much saw that coming.) Gas is now up to $4.09 a gallon where I live
    (was at $2.69 a gallon when Trump and NutYahoo started this war). This is >>>>> what you get when you have warmongering moron and a genocidal NutYahoo butt
    kisser for a president.

    Iran has (apparently) hit Saudi Arabia's "alternate route" — an oil pipeline
    to the Red Sea at Yanbu. I pretty much figured that would happen. I guess >>>>> maybe the U.S. and Israel shouldn't have started bombing Iran's oil
    facilities. What comes around goes around.

    Iran is also threatening to cut the underwater Internet cables in the Gulf
    and the Red Sea. Which would disrupt 17% of worldwide Internet traffic (the
    Gulf States have huge AI server farms on their territory).

    Iran is threatening to cut off underwater Internet cables to the Gulf
    states if they continue to host American military forces there. >>>>>
    Cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea transmit 17%
    of the world's traffic, including to artificial intelligence centers in
    the UAE and Saudi Arabia, which could potentially lead to months-long
    disruptions in operations.

    This war could very well destroy the "West's" economy. Trump was warned >>>>> about this but the moron "knew better."

    Honestly, what this war _should_ do is encourage North Americans to
    demand that the oil supplies of our continent actually deliver the
    product. There is no excuse for Canada capping Alberta in the knees and >>>> preventing them from transporting their oil to the East coast, and there >>>> is no reason for anyone to buy from the Middle East when there is oil
    near us in Venezuela either. Either way, I know that Iran was indeed a >>>> serious threat and since I know that Islam and their terror is a genuine >>>> problem in the West, I am happy to see the Americans and Israel
    decimating their sponsors. I can spend another few bucks on gas if I
    know that the muhammedans and their awful religion loses influence.

    In what way, specifically, was Iran a "serious threat" to the West?

    They sponsored the terrorist groups in Gaza and Lebanon in particular
    which enforced Islamic values in the country and caused anyone with
    common sense to escape the country. This wouldn't be a significant issue
    if Islamists didn't integrate the ranks of the people with common sense
    to flood the West with like-minded barbarians who want to take over our
    society and enact Sharia law. Similarly, the West was still in a
    position that if Iran threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz, it could
    retaliate and put the country in its place. Had they been allowed to
    continue stockpiling weapons and working towards the nukes as they
    provably were (they had enriched the uranium to 60%
    <https://armscontrolcenter.org/irans-stockpile-of-highly-enriched-uranium-worth-bargaining-for/>),
    they would have eventually been in a position where they could do
    whatever they wish around there and the West would have had no way of
    retaliating.

    Gaza and Lebanon are not the "West." We sponsor the worst terrorist group in the world, the genocidal Israelis. Who's land is being taken on the West Bank, Gaza and in Syria and Lebanon? It's definitely not Israeli land that's being stolen.

    You talk about Sharia law, but totally ignore the Jews referring to non-Jews as "goyim," (cattle). Their Talmud teaches that land owned by the goyim can be taken at any time. It's considered "unoccupied land" because no "people" live there. The Jews teach that they are "exceptional" the "chosen" people. Really the *only* people. All others are animals. That's why they have no problem murdering women and children when they "mow the grass" in Gaza. NutYahoo refers to the Gazans as "Amaleks" the tribe God told true
    (Biblical) Israel to wipe out — every man, woman and child. They apply this bullshit to the Gazans. And AIPAC (Rothschilds) in the U.S. gives cover for these genocidal thugs.

    So, no, I'm not in favor of Sharia law, but more harm to "West" is done to
    us because of the Rothschild control of our countries. And our support for the Israeli genocidal thugs means our government(s) is (are) also genocidal.

    As for immigration to Western countries, blame the U.S. and Israel for destroying Middle East governments and sewing chaos to weaken their opponents. Also blame the Western countries for allowing this immigration because the Rothschilds (via Soros and his displacement actions) want to
    wipe out the white race.

    I will say this once again: America and Israel are not the bad guys here.

    I will say again, Israel is a genocidal thug country and the U.S. is guilty of genocide because our Rothschild controlled government supports genocidal Israel. It's insanity.

    The only
    thing it was a serious threat to was genocidal NutYahoo's "Greater Israel." >>> Israel and the United States are the ones who started this war (and the one >>> in June, 2025) not Iran.

    I applaud them for starting the war before it would have turned into
    something much worse for us to deal with. The same way that Islam is a
    poison, Iran is a snake.

    What was going to to "turn into something much worse?" Sorry, but you're gullible to believe the genocidal NutYahoo and his warmongering moron and butt leach, Trump. NutYahoo dreams of "Greater Israel," and he can only have it after destroying all other countries in the Middle East. And we, in the Rothschild controlled "West," are empowering this genocidal maniac in his drive to steal "the lands of the goyim."

    Don't be gullible about Israel's motives just because your government is allowing the Muslim (mostly Arab, not Persian) immigrants to run roughshod
    in your country. That's the result of another Rothschild (Jewish) pogrom — the planned destruction of the white race.


    Notice Crude is referencing Iran's actions *after we attacked them* (at
    the request of Netanyahu and other rogue Israeli interests). It
    couldn't be that we're putting ourselves in danger by attacking, oh no,
    it must be that these "muhammedans" were secretly plotting against us.
    No need for evidence or the slightest basis for this idiotic bigotry.

    He is why white supremacy and power must be eradicated.
    --
    Joel W. Crump
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From pothead@pothead@snakebite.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sat Mar 21 02:36:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-21, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-20, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-20 1:04 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-19, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-19 4:32 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-18 3:41 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-17 6:10 p.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-17, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    Brazil's Age Verification Law is in Effect, Ubuntu Being Monitored for
    Compliance

    <https://lunduke.substack.com/p/brazils-age-verification-law-is-in> >>>>>>>>>>
    Brazil monitoring 37 companies, including Canonical, Valve, & more. >>>>>>>>>> System76 bans users for asking about age verification. Rockstar Games &
    Arch Linux 32 restrict access in Brazil.

    My take: The age of privacy is now effectively over. If you use Linux,
    it will be because you truly believe that it is a superior operating >>>>>>>>>> system, not because you believe that it will improve your privacy or >>>>>>>>>> security.

    More build-up for the world-wide Electronic Gulag. That's the real reason
    corporations are so crazed about this AI bullshit. I hope Iran knocks some
    more server farms while they're at it.

    I don't believe that Iran will be doing much more damage going forward.
    As much as the media wants us to believe that the US and Israel are >>>>>>>> failing miserably over there, there is no substance whatsoever to their
    claims.

    I think you're mistaken here. I've seen the satellite images. There's >>>>>>> basically no radars or working U.S. bases left in the Gulf (or even Jordan).
    And now they're hitting Israel after yet another "decapitation" murder by
    the genocidal Zionists. I know the Strait of Hormuz is still closed (to all
    but the Chinese, it seems). Meanwhile the U.S. is keeping their battle ships
    far out of range, while Trump (who claims the Iranians are decimated) is
    whining that no one in NATO will help. (He wants their ships to get blown
    up.) So which is it? Are the Iranians defeated, or does Trump need the help
    of the NATO countries (the ones he keeps leveling tariffs on and insulting).
    If the war is over, why does NATO matter to him? It doesn't add up. >>>>>>
    As I explained to my wife, NATO allies stepping to defend the Strait is >>>>>> evidence that there is still a point to there even being a NATO. If the >>>>>> United States is to be tasked with defending the European "allies," they >>>>>> should at least be willing to help Americans in this one task. If they >>>>>> are unwilling to do so, NATO might as well cease to exist.

    NATO should have been disbanded 35 years ago when the Soviet Union
    collapsed.

    I could understand that they wanted it to stick around for a little bit, >>>> just to see if the Communist garbage was going to re-emerge. However,
    considering how little the "allies" actually invested in it, the
    American governments should have been in a hurry to disband it.

    Iran is hitting more and more of the U.S. owned oil infrastructure in the >>>>> Gulf. Apparently they hit the Saudi Arabia's Red Sea terminal for their >>>>> pipeline that was supposed to avoid the trouble in the Persian Gulf. (I >>>>> pretty much saw that coming.) Gas is now up to $4.09 a gallon where I live
    (was at $2.69 a gallon when Trump and NutYahoo started this war). This is >>>>> what you get when you have warmongering moron and a genocidal NutYahoo butt
    kisser for a president.

    Iran has (apparently) hit Saudi Arabia's "alternate route" — an oil pipeline
    to the Red Sea at Yanbu. I pretty much figured that would happen. I guess >>>>> maybe the U.S. and Israel shouldn't have started bombing Iran's oil
    facilities. What comes around goes around.

    Iran is also threatening to cut the underwater Internet cables in the Gulf
    and the Red Sea. Which would disrupt 17% of worldwide Internet traffic (the
    Gulf States have huge AI server farms on their territory).

    Iran is threatening to cut off underwater Internet cables to the Gulf
    states if they continue to host American military forces there. >>>>>
    Cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea transmit 17%
    of the world's traffic, including to artificial intelligence centers in
    the UAE and Saudi Arabia, which could potentially lead to months-long
    disruptions in operations.

    This war could very well destroy the "West's" economy. Trump was warned >>>>> about this but the moron "knew better."

    Honestly, what this war _should_ do is encourage North Americans to
    demand that the oil supplies of our continent actually deliver the
    product. There is no excuse for Canada capping Alberta in the knees and >>>> preventing them from transporting their oil to the East coast, and there >>>> is no reason for anyone to buy from the Middle East when there is oil
    near us in Venezuela either. Either way, I know that Iran was indeed a >>>> serious threat and since I know that Islam and their terror is a genuine >>>> problem in the West, I am happy to see the Americans and Israel
    decimating their sponsors. I can spend another few bucks on gas if I
    know that the muhammedans and their awful religion loses influence.

    In what way, specifically, was Iran a "serious threat" to the West?

    They sponsored the terrorist groups in Gaza and Lebanon in particular
    which enforced Islamic values in the country and caused anyone with
    common sense to escape the country. This wouldn't be a significant issue
    if Islamists didn't integrate the ranks of the people with common sense
    to flood the West with like-minded barbarians who want to take over our
    society and enact Sharia law. Similarly, the West was still in a
    position that if Iran threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz, it could
    retaliate and put the country in its place. Had they been allowed to
    continue stockpiling weapons and working towards the nukes as they
    provably were (they had enriched the uranium to 60% >><https://armscontrolcenter.org/irans-stockpile-of-highly-enriched-uranium-worth-bargaining-for/>),
    they would have eventually been in a position where they could do
    whatever they wish around there and the West would have had no way of
    retaliating.

    Gaza and Lebanon are not the "West." We sponsor the worst terrorist group in the world, the genocidal Israelis. Who's land is being taken on the West Bank, Gaza and in Syria and Lebanon? It's definitely not Israeli land that's being stolen.

    Why are you so sure that the land belongs to anyone other than Israel?
    Both sides have reasonable arguments as to who owns the land.
    What do you base your comments on?


    You talk about Sharia law, but totally ignore the Jews referring to non-Jews as "goyim," (cattle). Their Talmud teaches that land owned by the goyim can be taken at any time. It's considered "unoccupied land" because no "people" live there. The Jews teach that they are "exceptional" the "chosen" people. Really the *only* people. All others are animals. That's why they have no problem murdering women and children when they "mow the grass" in Gaza. NutYahoo refers to the Gazans as "Amaleks" the tribe God told true (Biblical) Israel to wipe out — every man, woman and child. They apply this
    bullshit to the Gazans. And AIPAC (Rothschilds) in the U.S. gives cover for these genocidal thugs.

    Ok.
    So in modern times, where are examples of Jews attacking those unlike them, meaning
    Christians etc?
    Do you have concrete evidence of Jews invading hostile areas and raping, killing
    people, taking hostages and so forth?
    Where is the evidence?

    It takes about 10 seconds to dig up atrocious crimes of October 7th.

    Any equivalent done by Jews?


    So, no, I'm not in favor of Sharia law, but more harm to "West" is done to us because of the Rothschild control of our countries. And our support for the Israeli genocidal thugs means our government(s) is (are) also genocidal.

    Yikes!
    Let's just say your Rothschild theory is true, they are interested in economic control
    and IMHO could care less about Sharia law, Christianity and so forth.


    As for immigration to Western countries, blame the U.S. and Israel for destroying Middle East governments and sewing chaos to weaken their opponents. Also blame the Western countries for allowing this immigration because the Rothschilds (via Soros and his displacement actions) want to wipe out the white race.

    Somewhat true but your origins are suspect.

    The elite want to take over the world. They want a 2 class society which means the ultra wealthy and the rest of this. And additionally they want this to be global.
    The entire idea behind globalism is to bring down the powerful countries, like the USA
    to the same level as the 3rd world nations so that we are "all the same" and thus
    can be controlled and manipulated by the elite.

    It's all about money and power.




    I will say this once again: America and Israel are not the bad guys here.

    I will say again, Israel is a genocidal thug country and the U.S. is guilty of genocide because our Rothschild controlled government supports genocidal Israel. It's insanity.

    I disagree.

    In modern times please list genocidal actions performed by Israel.
    Not defense tactics but overt, unprovoked operations.



    The only
    thing it was a serious threat to was genocidal NutYahoo's "Greater Israel." >>> Israel and the United States are the ones who started this war (and the one >>> in June, 2025) not Iran.

    I applaud them for starting the war before it would have turned into
    something much worse for us to deal with. The same way that Islam is a
    poison, Iran is a snake.

    What was going to to "turn into something much worse?" Sorry, but you're gullible to believe the genocidal NutYahoo and his warmongering moron and butt leach, Trump. NutYahoo dreams of "Greater Israel," and he can only have it after destroying all other countries in the Middle East. And we, in the Rothschild controlled "West," are empowering this genocidal maniac in his drive to steal "the lands of the goyim."

    You are way out there with this one Ron.
    Both Israel and the Arab countries, under various names, have been battling this since the days of the old testament Bible
    IMHO from my limited knowledge, both sides make reasonable arguments.



    Don't be gullible about Israel's motives just because your government is allowing the Muslim (mostly Arab, not Persian) immigrants to run roughshod in your country. That's the result of another Rothschild (Jewish) pogrom — the planned destruction of the white race.

    Well of course Israel wants their land to remain theirs as do the Arab countries.
    I don't dispute that.

    However, from a USA perspective Israel doesn't want those unlike them, that's us,
    wiped off the earth.
    Israel didn't knock down the twin towers.
    Israel isn't trying to attack the usa, look at the last few weeks.
    Etc.

    Any evidence of Israel plotting bombs, terrorism in the USA?
    --

    pothead

    "How many liberals does it take to change a light bulb?
    None, they’re too busy changing their gender."

    "What’s the hardest part about being a Liberal?
    Telling your gender neutral parental units that you’re straight."
    --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sat Mar 21 03:34:05 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-21, pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-21, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-20, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-20 1:04 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-19, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-19 4:32 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-18 3:41 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-17 6:10 p.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-17, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    Brazil's Age Verification Law is in Effect, Ubuntu Being Monitored for
    Compliance

    <https://lunduke.substack.com/p/brazils-age-verification-law-is-in> >>>>>>>>>>>
    Brazil monitoring 37 companies, including Canonical, Valve, & more. >>>>>>>>>>> System76 bans users for asking about age verification. Rockstar Games &
    Arch Linux 32 restrict access in Brazil.

    My take: The age of privacy is now effectively over. If you use Linux,
    it will be because you truly believe that it is a superior operating
    system, not because you believe that it will improve your privacy or
    security.

    More build-up for the world-wide Electronic Gulag. That's the real reason
    corporations are so crazed about this AI bullshit. I hope Iran knocks some
    more server farms while they're at it.

    I don't believe that Iran will be doing much more damage going forward.
    As much as the media wants us to believe that the US and Israel are >>>>>>>>> failing miserably over there, there is no substance whatsoever to their
    claims.

    I think you're mistaken here. I've seen the satellite images. There's >>>>>>>> basically no radars or working U.S. bases left in the Gulf (or even Jordan).
    And now they're hitting Israel after yet another "decapitation" murder by
    the genocidal Zionists. I know the Strait of Hormuz is still closed (to all
    but the Chinese, it seems). Meanwhile the U.S. is keeping their battle ships
    far out of range, while Trump (who claims the Iranians are decimated) is
    whining that no one in NATO will help. (He wants their ships to get blown
    up.) So which is it? Are the Iranians defeated, or does Trump need the help
    of the NATO countries (the ones he keeps leveling tariffs on and insulting).
    If the war is over, why does NATO matter to him? It doesn't add up. >>>>>>>
    As I explained to my wife, NATO allies stepping to defend the Strait is >>>>>>> evidence that there is still a point to there even being a NATO. If the >>>>>>> United States is to be tasked with defending the European "allies," they
    should at least be willing to help Americans in this one task. If they >>>>>>> are unwilling to do so, NATO might as well cease to exist.

    NATO should have been disbanded 35 years ago when the Soviet Union >>>>>> collapsed.

    I could understand that they wanted it to stick around for a little bit, >>>>> just to see if the Communist garbage was going to re-emerge. However, >>>>> considering how little the "allies" actually invested in it, the
    American governments should have been in a hurry to disband it.

    Iran is hitting more and more of the U.S. owned oil infrastructure in the
    Gulf. Apparently they hit the Saudi Arabia's Red Sea terminal for their >>>>>> pipeline that was supposed to avoid the trouble in the Persian Gulf. (I >>>>>> pretty much saw that coming.) Gas is now up to $4.09 a gallon where I live
    (was at $2.69 a gallon when Trump and NutYahoo started this war). This is
    what you get when you have warmongering moron and a genocidal NutYahoo butt
    kisser for a president.

    Iran has (apparently) hit Saudi Arabia's "alternate route" — an oil pipeline
    to the Red Sea at Yanbu. I pretty much figured that would happen. I guess
    maybe the U.S. and Israel shouldn't have started bombing Iran's oil >>>>>> facilities. What comes around goes around.

    Iran is also threatening to cut the underwater Internet cables in the Gulf
    and the Red Sea. Which would disrupt 17% of worldwide Internet traffic (the
    Gulf States have huge AI server farms on their territory).

    Iran is threatening to cut off underwater Internet cables to the Gulf
    states if they continue to host American military forces there. >>>>>>
    Cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea transmit 17%
    of the world's traffic, including to artificial intelligence centers in
    the UAE and Saudi Arabia, which could potentially lead to months-long
    disruptions in operations.

    This war could very well destroy the "West's" economy. Trump was warned >>>>>> about this but the moron "knew better."

    Honestly, what this war _should_ do is encourage North Americans to
    demand that the oil supplies of our continent actually deliver the
    product. There is no excuse for Canada capping Alberta in the knees and >>>>> preventing them from transporting their oil to the East coast, and there >>>>> is no reason for anyone to buy from the Middle East when there is oil >>>>> near us in Venezuela either. Either way, I know that Iran was indeed a >>>>> serious threat and since I know that Islam and their terror is a genuine >>>>> problem in the West, I am happy to see the Americans and Israel
    decimating their sponsors. I can spend another few bucks on gas if I >>>>> know that the muhammedans and their awful religion loses influence.

    In what way, specifically, was Iran a "serious threat" to the West?

    They sponsored the terrorist groups in Gaza and Lebanon in particular
    which enforced Islamic values in the country and caused anyone with
    common sense to escape the country. This wouldn't be a significant issue >>> if Islamists didn't integrate the ranks of the people with common sense >>> to flood the West with like-minded barbarians who want to take over our >>> society and enact Sharia law. Similarly, the West was still in a
    position that if Iran threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz, it could >>> retaliate and put the country in its place. Had they been allowed to
    continue stockpiling weapons and working towards the nukes as they
    provably were (they had enriched the uranium to 60% >>><https://armscontrolcenter.org/irans-stockpile-of-highly-enriched-uranium-worth-bargaining-for/>),
    they would have eventually been in a position where they could do
    whatever they wish around there and the West would have had no way of
    retaliating.

    Gaza and Lebanon are not the "West." We sponsor the worst terrorist group in
    the world, the genocidal Israelis. Who's land is being taken on the West
    Bank, Gaza and in Syria and Lebanon? It's definitely not Israeli land that's
    being stolen.

    Why are you so sure that the land belongs to anyone other than Israel?
    Both sides have reasonable arguments as to who owns the land.
    What do you base your comments on?

    What are the "reasonable" arguments for Israel stealing Palestinian land? The Palestinians (in good faith) took them in during and after World War II,
    only to have the bastards steal the land from their hosts. Israel is
    parasite country. Calling modern Israel the Israel of the Bible, doesn't
    make it so. That Israel ceased to exist in 70 A.D. It's purpose was
    fulfilled.

    You talk about Sharia law, but totally ignore the Jews referring to non-Jews
    as "goyim," (cattle). Their Talmud teaches that land owned by the goyim can >> be taken at any time. It's considered "unoccupied land" because no "people" >> live there. The Jews teach that they are "exceptional" the "chosen" people. >> Really the *only* people. All others are animals. That's why they have no >> problem murdering women and children when they "mow the grass" in Gaza.
    NutYahoo refers to the Gazans as "Amaleks" the tribe God told true
    (Biblical) Israel to wipe out — every man, woman and child. They apply this
    bullshit to the Gazans. And AIPAC (Rothschilds) in the U.S. gives cover for >> these genocidal thugs.

    Ok.
    So in modern times, where are examples of Jews attacking those unlike them, meaning
    Christians etc?

    Gaza. Lebanon. Syria — and, using (mostly) the United States as their proxy, Iraq and Iran. The Israelis have no problem killing Christian Palestinians
    and Lebanese as well as Muslims. Every month they steal more land on the
    West Bank. Thugs from the United States (dual citizens of the U.S. and
    Israel) go to the West Bank, cut down orchards, kill sheep and burn down Palestinian homes. After all, they're only goyim, aren't they? And this is "unoccupied" land. No "people" live there and own property.

    Do you have concrete evidence of Jews invading hostile areas and raping, killing
    people, taking hostages and so forth?
    Where is the evidence?

    Have you been totally ignoring the news of the genocide in Gaza and the
    theft of land in the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria? You need to widen your scope of reading beyond the MSM (owned and controlled by the Rothschild cabal).

    It takes about 10 seconds to dig up atrocious crimes of October 7th.

    Compared to sixty years of Israelis "mowing the grass" in the open air gulag of Gaza? How many Israelis died on October 7th (and how many were killed by "friendly" fire)? How many tens of thousands of Gazans have been murdered or starved out by the genocidal thugs in Israel? There's no comparison. You
    would have to be completely blind not to see the discrepancy. (How many Iranians die each day now in Iran because of U.S. and Israeli carpet bombing of Tehran?) Wake up and smell the reality.

    Any equivalent done by Jews?

    No, no equivalent. The Israelis are genocidal. The Palestinians are
    oppressed and have the right to try to break out of their prison and take
    back the land stolen from them. And Iran has the right to support their
    cause. Point, blank, period.

    So, no, I'm not in favor of Sharia law, but more harm to "West" is done to >> us because of the Rothschild control of our countries. And our support for >> the Israeli genocidal thugs means our government(s) is (are) also genocidal.

    Yikes!
    Let's just say your Rothschild theory is true, they are interested in economic control
    and IMHO could care less about Sharia law, Christianity and so forth.

    You are aware of AIPAC right? You do know that almost every Congresslug
    takes bribes from these foreign agents, correct? AIPAC doesn't exist in a vacuum. It was created by somebody for some purpose. Start learning a little about the reality of this specific situation and the Rothschild "dynasty's" support for Zionism. I can't do all the work for you. You have to try to
    learn something on your own.

    As for immigration to Western countries, blame the U.S. and Israel for
    destroying Middle East governments and sewing chaos to weaken their
    opponents. Also blame the Western countries for allowing this immigration >> because the Rothschilds (via Soros and his displacement actions) want to
    wipe out the white race.

    Somewhat true but your origins are suspect.

    Only if you're not aware of what's going on. This is happening all over the "West" — basically since we destroyed Libya for no good reason. Doesn't it occur to you that this sort of thing doesn't "just happen?"

    The elite want to take over the world. They want a 2 class society which means
    the ultra wealthy and the rest of this. And additionally they want this to be global.
    The entire idea behind globalism is to bring down the powerful countries, like the USA
    to the same level as the 3rd world nations so that we are "all the same" and thus
    can be controlled and manipulated by the elite.

    And who are the "elite" who want this? Look at the "Messiah" the Jews are waiting for. He's not the sacrificial lamb of the Christians. From the Jews point of view the Messiah will physically rule over the world with an iron rod. If you want to put a name to the "elite" look into the Rothschild cabal and their many allies. Look at the Talmud — look into the Biblical "synagogue of satan" and to those whom Jesus said "made the law of God on non-effect." Look at whom Christ condemns as the children of satan, who murdered the prophets and have the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on Earth. It's not the Muslims Jesus is talking about. It's the satanists who rejected their Messiah.

    It's all about money and power.

    And controlled by satan.


    I will say this once again: America and Israel are not the bad guys here. >>
    I will say again, Israel is a genocidal thug country and the U.S. is guilty >> of genocide because our Rothschild controlled government supports genocidal >> Israel. It's insanity.

    I disagree.

    In modern times please list genocidal actions performed by Israel.
    Not defense tactics but overt, unprovoked operations.

    Every attack on Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran that the genocidal Jews have undertaken in the last 60 years. Every one, except
    (maybe) the October 7th attack. Israel responded to October 7th with
    genocidal attacks on the civilians of Palestinian. Murdering and starving tens of thousands of civilians (women and children), committing various war
    crimes (for which NutYahoo was found guilty), including carpet bombing, starvation, cutting off water and electricity to the prisoners of the Gaza gulag and purposely bombing hospitals, mosques and Christian churches. All
    of these fall under the definition of war crimes.

    The only
    thing it was a serious threat to was genocidal NutYahoo's "Greater Israel."
    Israel and the United States are the ones who started this war (and the one
    in June, 2025) not Iran.

    I applaud them for starting the war before it would have turned into
    something much worse for us to deal with. The same way that Islam is a
    poison, Iran is a snake.

    What was going to to "turn into something much worse?" Sorry, but you're
    gullible to believe the genocidal NutYahoo and his warmongering moron and >> butt leach, Trump. NutYahoo dreams of "Greater Israel," and he can only have
    it after destroying all other countries in the Middle East. And we, in the >> Rothschild controlled "West," are empowering this genocidal maniac in his >> drive to steal "the lands of the goyim."

    You are way out there with this one Ron.
    Both Israel and the Arab countries, under various names, have been battling this since the days of the old testament Bible
    IMHO from my limited knowledge, both sides make reasonable arguments.

    No, unfortunately you're ignorant about the facts. You rely too much on the Rothschild owned and operated MSM.

    And no, modern Israel is NOT the Israel of the Bible. Most modern Israelis descend from the Khazars, a Turkic people who converted to Rabbinic Judaism
    in the 8th century A.D. Note the term "rabbinic" — this means NOT Biblical. The Biblical "Jews" (actually Israelites, the Jews were only one tribe)
    ended in 70 A.D. The purpose of the Old testament religion was to bring to
    us the Messiah. That purpose was fulfilled when the Temple veil was torn
    from top to bottom at Christ's death on the Cross. There is no Old Testament religion. Rabbinic Judaism is based the satanic Babylonian Talmud (codified "traditions of the elders" that Christ said made the law of God of non-effect").

    Zionisms is a political movement, sponsored by the Rothschild's (and allies) in their goal to control the world. That is their "Messiah."

    Don't be gullible about Israel's motives just because your government is
    allowing the Muslim (mostly Arab, not Persian) immigrants to run roughshod >> in your country. That's the result of another Rothschild (Jewish) pogrom —
    the planned destruction of the white race.

    Well of course Israel wants their land to remain theirs as do the Arab countries.
    I don't dispute that.

    Land they stole.

    However, from a USA perspective Israel doesn't want those unlike them, that's us,
    wiped off the earth.
    Israel didn't knock down the twin towers.
    Israel isn't trying to attack the usa, look at the last few weeks.
    Etc.

    Iran didn't knock down the Twin Towers either. That was mostly our "good buddies" in Saudi Arabia. But we attacked the Iraqis for it. Because the Iraqis were the next on the Israel list of Arab countries they wanted destroyed. Hussein had earlier been our ally in another of our unprovoked
    wars against Iran. We provided him with chemical weapons he used to kill and maim 100s of thousands of Iranians.

    Yay for the virtuous United States and their masters in Israel!

    Any evidence of Israel plotting bombs, terrorism in the USA?

    Any evidence of Iran plotting bombs, terrorism in the USA?

    Sorry, I don't buy into the anti-Iranian bullshit. I don't support genocidal (and satanic) Israel.
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
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  • From pothead@pothead@snakebite.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sat Mar 21 14:49:07 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-21, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-21, pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-21, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-20, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-20 1:04 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-19, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-19 4:32 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-18 3:41 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-18, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-17 6:10 p.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-17, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    Brazil's Age Verification Law is in Effect, Ubuntu Being Monitored for
    Compliance

    <https://lunduke.substack.com/p/brazils-age-verification-law-is-in>

    Brazil monitoring 37 companies, including Canonical, Valve, & more.
    System76 bans users for asking about age verification. Rockstar Games &
    Arch Linux 32 restrict access in Brazil.

    My take: The age of privacy is now effectively over. If you use Linux,
    it will be because you truly believe that it is a superior operating
    system, not because you believe that it will improve your privacy or
    security.

    More build-up for the world-wide Electronic Gulag. That's the real reason
    corporations are so crazed about this AI bullshit. I hope Iran knocks some
    more server farms while they're at it.

    I don't believe that Iran will be doing much more damage going forward.
    As much as the media wants us to believe that the US and Israel are >>>>>>>>>> failing miserably over there, there is no substance whatsoever to their
    claims.

    I think you're mistaken here. I've seen the satellite images. There's >>>>>>>>> basically no radars or working U.S. bases left in the Gulf (or even Jordan).
    And now they're hitting Israel after yet another "decapitation" murder by
    the genocidal Zionists. I know the Strait of Hormuz is still closed (to all
    but the Chinese, it seems). Meanwhile the U.S. is keeping their battle ships
    far out of range, while Trump (who claims the Iranians are decimated) is
    whining that no one in NATO will help. (He wants their ships to get blown
    up.) So which is it? Are the Iranians defeated, or does Trump need the help
    of the NATO countries (the ones he keeps leveling tariffs on and insulting).
    If the war is over, why does NATO matter to him? It doesn't add up. >>>>>>>>
    As I explained to my wife, NATO allies stepping to defend the Strait is
    evidence that there is still a point to there even being a NATO. If the
    United States is to be tasked with defending the European "allies," they
    should at least be willing to help Americans in this one task. If they >>>>>>>> are unwilling to do so, NATO might as well cease to exist.

    NATO should have been disbanded 35 years ago when the Soviet Union >>>>>>> collapsed.

    I could understand that they wanted it to stick around for a little bit, >>>>>> just to see if the Communist garbage was going to re-emerge. However, >>>>>> considering how little the "allies" actually invested in it, the
    American governments should have been in a hurry to disband it.

    Iran is hitting more and more of the U.S. owned oil infrastructure in the
    Gulf. Apparently they hit the Saudi Arabia's Red Sea terminal for their >>>>>>> pipeline that was supposed to avoid the trouble in the Persian Gulf. (I >>>>>>> pretty much saw that coming.) Gas is now up to $4.09 a gallon where I live
    (was at $2.69 a gallon when Trump and NutYahoo started this war). This is
    what you get when you have warmongering moron and a genocidal NutYahoo butt
    kisser for a president.

    Iran has (apparently) hit Saudi Arabia's "alternate route" — an oil pipeline
    to the Red Sea at Yanbu. I pretty much figured that would happen. I guess
    maybe the U.S. and Israel shouldn't have started bombing Iran's oil >>>>>>> facilities. What comes around goes around.

    Iran is also threatening to cut the underwater Internet cables in the Gulf
    and the Red Sea. Which would disrupt 17% of worldwide Internet traffic (the
    Gulf States have huge AI server farms on their territory).

    Iran is threatening to cut off underwater Internet cables to the Gulf
    states if they continue to host American military forces there. >>>>>>>
    Cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea transmit 17%
    of the world's traffic, including to artificial intelligence centers in
    the UAE and Saudi Arabia, which could potentially lead to months-long
    disruptions in operations.

    This war could very well destroy the "West's" economy. Trump was warned >>>>>>> about this but the moron "knew better."

    Honestly, what this war _should_ do is encourage North Americans to >>>>>> demand that the oil supplies of our continent actually deliver the >>>>>> product. There is no excuse for Canada capping Alberta in the knees and >>>>>> preventing them from transporting their oil to the East coast, and there >>>>>> is no reason for anyone to buy from the Middle East when there is oil >>>>>> near us in Venezuela either. Either way, I know that Iran was indeed a >>>>>> serious threat and since I know that Islam and their terror is a genuine >>>>>> problem in the West, I am happy to see the Americans and Israel
    decimating their sponsors. I can spend another few bucks on gas if I >>>>>> know that the muhammedans and their awful religion loses influence. >>>>>
    In what way, specifically, was Iran a "serious threat" to the West?

    They sponsored the terrorist groups in Gaza and Lebanon in particular >>>> which enforced Islamic values in the country and caused anyone with
    common sense to escape the country. This wouldn't be a significant issue >>>> if Islamists didn't integrate the ranks of the people with common sense >>>> to flood the West with like-minded barbarians who want to take over our >>>> society and enact Sharia law. Similarly, the West was still in a
    position that if Iran threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz, it could >>>> retaliate and put the country in its place. Had they been allowed to
    continue stockpiling weapons and working towards the nukes as they
    provably were (they had enriched the uranium to 60% >>>><https://armscontrolcenter.org/irans-stockpile-of-highly-enriched-uranium-worth-bargaining-for/>),
    they would have eventually been in a position where they could do
    whatever they wish around there and the West would have had no way of >>>> retaliating.

    Gaza and Lebanon are not the "West." We sponsor the worst terrorist group in
    the world, the genocidal Israelis. Who's land is being taken on the West >>> Bank, Gaza and in Syria and Lebanon? It's definitely not Israeli land that's
    being stolen.

    Why are you so sure that the land belongs to anyone other than Israel?
    Both sides have reasonable arguments as to who owns the land.
    What do you base your comments on?

    What are the "reasonable" arguments for Israel stealing Palestinian land? The
    Palestinians (in good faith) took them in during and after World War II, only to have the bastards steal the land from their hosts. Israel is parasite country. Calling modern Israel the Israel of the Bible, doesn't make it so. That Israel ceased to exist in 70 A.D. It's purpose was fulfilled.

    Israel claims a combination of their God of the Bible and history proves it's their land.
    Basically they claim to be the indigenous people of the land and for thousands of years.
    Various archaeological evidence.

    And the Palestinians claim similar reasons although technically they didn't exist as a group
    until sometime in the 1960's. However the ancient people of the area, Egyptians, Jordanians, Syrians,
    and others can be traced to modern day people as well.

    And then of course in modern times we have the disaster the UN caused which has resulted
    in the political angle being pushed currently.


    You talk about Sharia law, but totally ignore the Jews referring to non-Jews
    as "goyim," (cattle). Their Talmud teaches that land owned by the goyim can
    be taken at any time. It's considered "unoccupied land" because no "people"
    live there. The Jews teach that they are "exceptional" the "chosen" people.
    Really the *only* people. All others are animals. That's why they have no >>> problem murdering women and children when they "mow the grass" in Gaza. >>> NutYahoo refers to the Gazans as "Amaleks" the tribe God told true
    (Biblical) Israel to wipe out — every man, woman and child. They apply this
    bullshit to the Gazans. And AIPAC (Rothschilds) in the U.S. gives cover for
    these genocidal thugs.

    Ok.
    So in modern times, where are examples of Jews attacking those unlike them, meaning
    Christians etc?

    Gaza. Lebanon. Syria — and, using (mostly) the United States as their proxy,
    Iraq and Iran. The Israelis have no problem killing Christian Palestinians and Lebanese as well as Muslims. Every month they steal more land on the West Bank. Thugs from the United States (dual citizens of the U.S. and Israel) go to the West Bank, cut down orchards, kill sheep and burn down Palestinian homes. After all, they're only goyim, aren't they? And this is "unoccupied" land. No "people" live there and own property.

    It's a war.
    However, do you have some cites for the above?
    Having grown up in NYC where my neighborhood was truly a melting pot
    and bordering on an area that was mostly Hasidic Jews (the penguins), there
    was NEVER a problem. They kept to themselves and followed their religion.
    The stores and shops in that area were closed on Saturday and open on Sunday where shops in my area were closed.


    These days?
    It's a war zone and in the press almost weekly.
    Guess why?
    I'll give you a hint, it ain't the penguins.


    Do you have concrete evidence of Jews invading hostile areas and raping, killing
    people, taking hostages and so forth?
    Where is the evidence?

    Have you been totally ignoring the news of the genocide in Gaza and the theft of land in the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria? You need to widen your scope of reading beyond the MSM (owned and controlled by the Rothschild cabal).

    You are not offering proof.
    I give you Oct 7th.
    What do you have?



    It takes about 10 seconds to dig up atrocious crimes of October 7th.

    Compared to sixty years of Israelis "mowing the grass" in the open air gulag of Gaza? How many Israelis died on October 7th (and how many were killed by "friendly" fire)? How many tens of thousands of Gazans have been murdered or starved out by the genocidal thugs in Israel? There's no comparison. You would have to be completely blind not to see the discrepancy. (How many Iranians die each day now in Iran because of U.S. and Israeli carpet bombing of Tehran?) Wake up and smell the reality.

    So where are the cites showing this?
    You are going in circles with conspiracy theories.

    As for Iran, they killed more than 30,000 of their own people in the past months.
    They just had public hangings of 3 people whose only "crime" was peaceful protesting.
    And how many Americans and others have they killed since 1979 despite all the attempts
    at appeasement ie:pallets of cash?

    Any Jews knocking down buildings?
    Throwing gays off rooftops?
    Beheading people?
    Shouting death to Israel and America?
    I'm not seeing it.

    I am however seeing Islamist's creating havoc all over the world daily.
    We recently had 3 or 4 attacks in the USA.
    Is it the Jews again?


    Any equivalent done by Jews?

    No, no equivalent. The Israelis are genocidal. The Palestinians are oppressed and have the right to try to break out of their prison and take back the land stolen from them. And Iran has the right to support their cause. Point, blank, period.

    But you still have not proven that the land belongs to them.

    As for Iran, I oppose the war however I also have enough common sense
    to realize that when a regime like Iran's, who is funding terrorist
    proxy groups like Hamas and others and who are on a pilgrimage to wipe
    out the USA should not have nuclear weapons.

    I snipped the rest because you are wandering all over the place with
    conspiracy theories, the Rothschild's and so forth.

    As for the Congress critters, they are all corrupt. And if they didn't start out corrupt they quickly learned how to play the game.
    The place really is a swamp.
    Both sides.

    At this point, I would like to see the US pull out and let the Iranian
    people decide what type of government they want moving forward. I have always been against the US being involved in nation building.
    I'm an isolationist in that respect.

    WRT to the Palestinian Israel issue a two state solution is my choice.
    --

    pothead

    "How many liberals does it take to change a light bulb?
    None, they’re too busy changing their gender."

    "What’s the hardest part about being a Liberal?
    Telling your gender neutral parental units that you’re straight."
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sat Mar 21 19:11:02 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:49:07 -0000 (UTC), pothead wrote:

    Israel claims a combination of their God of the Bible and history proves
    it's their land.
    Basically they claim to be the indigenous people of the land and for thousands of years.
    Various archaeological evidence.

    There are a lot of people that would like the land their ancestors lived
    on 2000 years ago but they are shit out of luck. They don't own most of
    the politicians and confused Christians that didn't get the message about
    a new covenant.

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  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sun Mar 22 05:47:21 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-21, pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-21, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

    (Lots of snips)

    What are the "reasonable" arguments for Israel stealing Palestinian land? The
    Palestinians (in good faith) took them in during and after World War II,
    only to have the bastards steal the land from their hosts. Israel is
    parasite country. Calling modern Israel the Israel of the Bible, doesn't
    make it so. That Israel ceased to exist in 70 A.D. It's purpose was
    fulfilled.

    Israel claims a combination of their God of the Bible and history proves it's their land.
    Basically they claim to be the indigenous people of the land and for thousands of years.
    Various archaeological evidence.

    What the modern state of Israel claims and what is true are too different things. Until 1948, Israel did not exist since the Romans destroyed the
    Temple and Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Some Jews lived (in peace) in Palestine as well as Christians and Muslims. But there is no historic claim to Israel for modern (rabbinic) Judaism. Native Americans have a more clear historic claim to the United States, then do modern Jews have claim to Palestine.

    I don't know if you believe in the Bible or not. If you do, please show me where God promised the modern nation of Israel the right to Palestine. Do
    you think the Bible teaches that the Jews are still God's chosen people. If so, where do you find that? In the New Testament, or in the Old? Or
    anywhere?

    And the Palestinians claim similar reasons although technically they didn't exist as a group
    until sometime in the 1960's. However the ancient people of the area, Egyptians, Jordanians, Syrians,
    and others can be traced to modern day people as well.

    The main difference is that the Palestinians — Christians, Muslims and Jews were living peacefully together in Palestine before the Jews decided to
    steal the land and force the Palestinians into refugee camps. They did this through guile, terrorism and force.

    And then of course in modern times we have the disaster the UN caused which has resulted
    in the political angle being pushed currently.

    Only a disaster because the Jews wouldn't accept that the native
    Palestinians had a right to their own land, homes and property. Would you quietly go into the night if and Indian tribe showed up at your house, said "this is mine" and used terrorist thugs to force you out of your own home? They would (of course) "generously" offer you a tent in a fenced off "refugee camp" and tell you that you should be happy you got that. (And then they
    would take back their word and force you out that camp a few years later,
    when you started growing orchards and building huts to live in.)

    Gaza. Lebanon. Syria — and, using (mostly) the United States as their proxy,
    Iraq and Iran. The Israelis have no problem killing Christian Palestinians >> and Lebanese as well as Muslims. Every month they steal more land on the
    West Bank. Thugs from the United States (dual citizens of the U.S. and
    Israel) go to the West Bank, cut down orchards, kill sheep and burn down
    Palestinian homes. After all, they're only goyim, aren't they? And this is >> "unoccupied" land. No "people" live there and own property.

    It's a war.
    However, do you have some cites for the above?
    Having grown up in NYC where my neighborhood was truly a melting pot
    and bordering on an area that was mostly Hasidic Jews (the penguins), there was NEVER a problem. They kept to themselves and followed their religion.
    The stores and shops in that area were closed on Saturday and open on Sunday where shops in my area were closed.

    Yes, it's a war. Who started it in the 1940s? Who stole homes and property from the people who lived there? Who's committing genocide against those
    they forced out of their own land and into the open air gulag of Gaza and
    the refugee camps of the West Bank? I'm not arguing that it's not a war, I'm just trying to figure out why you take the side of the genocidal thugs who STOLE the land in the first place and have been "mowing the grass" (killing men, women and children) for decades? Where's your sense of justice?

    As for the Hasidic Jews, they have a huge pedophile problem. Strangely
    enough, the city of New York let's them take care of it "in house." It's not
    a far stretch for them, when it's argued in their "sacred" Talmud that
    raping a child of three years and one day, makes her the wife of the rapist.

    These days?
    It's a war zone and in the press almost weekly.
    Guess why?
    I'll give you a hint, it ain't the penguins.

    Yeah, their crimes are quiet, covered up and behind the scenes. (I'm not saying all Hasidic Jews, btw.)

    Have you been totally ignoring the news of the genocide in Gaza and the
    theft of land in the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria? You need to widen your >> scope of reading beyond the MSM (owned and controlled by the Rothschild
    cabal).

    You are not offering proof.
    I give you Oct 7th.
    What do you have?

    You haven't seen pictures of the utterly destroyed Gaza? Really? You haven't read the news of the Israeli government cutting off their utilities, (water and electricity) and blocking food and medicine shipments? You haven't seen pictures of blown up hospitals, churches or the skeletal children, who have nothing to eat and are starving to death?

    I congratulate you on your amazing myopia. It must be nice to live in delusional bullshit world, free of all reality.

    October 7th doesn't excuse the government of Israel or their Army from war crimes. As mentioned before, collective punishment is a war crime. Genocide
    is a war crime. NutYahoo has already been found guilty of war crimes in an international court for his actions Gaza. The five Nordic states will not allow him to travel to their countries. Did you also miss that bit of news?

    Compared to sixty years of Israelis "mowing the grass" in the open air gulag
    of Gaza? How many Israelis died on October 7th (and how many were killed by >> "friendly" fire)? How many tens of thousands of Gazans have been murdered or
    starved out by the genocidal thugs in Israel? There's no comparison. You
    would have to be completely blind not to see the discrepancy. (How many
    Iranians die each day now in Iran because of U.S. and Israeli carpet bombing
    of Tehran?) Wake up and smell the reality.

    So where are the cites showing this?
    You are going in circles with conspiracy theories.

    No one is so blind as those who won't see. You really have to work at it, to miss the obvious, don't you?

    Here, tell me what you see... Is this a "conspiracy?"

    This is what Israel has done to Gaza. It's what they're trying to do Tehran.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwQlPm7lCUc

    There are thousands upon thousands of these pictures and videos showing this destruction. The only way to avoid the evidence (your so-called
    "conspiracy") is to be purposely obtuse and force yourself to ignore
    reality.

    As for Iran, they killed more than 30,000 of their own people in the past months.
    They just had public hangings of 3 people whose only "crime" was peaceful protesting.
    And how many Americans and others have they killed since 1979 despite all the attempts
    at appeasement ie:pallets of cash?

    So you claim, again, with zero proof. I call your claim bullshit (not your bullshit, but something gullibly believe on faith). It's a lying
    "conspiracy." Prove me wrong. As you will probably not remember, since you seem adept at ignoring facts, Israel and the United States bragged about how many Starlink receivers they had smuggled into Iran, and how many Mossad agents and their stooges who were part of the coup attempt. They thought
    they were going to win while they were bragging. Guess what, those traitors and Mossad agents were wiped out. (As they would be in any country.) But you ignore the fact that many Iranian policemen were killed by these terrorists (who happened to be "good" terrorists because they were on our side).

    The claim that these "protesters'" (seditionists) "only crime" was protesting is bullshit. It was an armed attempt to overthrow the government of Iran, which is sedition. Sedition is a capital crime every where. Just reality.

    Any Jews knocking down buildings?
    Throwing gays off rooftops?
    Beheading people?
    Shouting death to Israel and America?
    I'm not seeing it.

    Have you looked at ANY, any pictures at all, of Gaza after Israel's carpet bombing of the city. I can't believe you're so reality challenged that
    you're even asking this question. Are you in some of cult where they don't allow you to think or observe?

    I am however seeing Islamist's creating havoc all over the world daily.
    We recently had 3 or 4 attacks in the USA.
    Is it the Jews again?

    Right. It was the "Islamists" who started these two wars against Iran, not
    the Israelis or their NutYahoo butt leach, Trump.

    "Islamist" covers a lot of territory. The Islamists terrorists are almost always Sunni, not Shia. And yet Trump cuddles up to the terrorist who now claims to be the "president" of Syria. We're "great friends" with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (whose public executions are continual). We seem to have blinders on our eyes when talking about the Sunni terrorists, who have committed 82% of all terrorist attacks in three decades (as reported by both the United States and France). Before Trump decided it was time kiss the
    ass of the current, head-chopping terrorist president of Syria, he first removed the $10 million dollar bounty on his head for... (you guessed it) terrorism. There is no moral high ground in our country and especially not
    in genocidal Israel.

    No, no equivalent. The Israelis are genocidal. The Palestinians are
    oppressed and have the right to try to break out of their prison and take >> back the land stolen from them. And Iran has the right to support their
    cause. Point, blank, period.

    But you still have not proven that the land belongs to them.

    The reality is they had ownership of the land before it was stolen from them by the Jews. You haven't even attempted to prove that Jews had any right to that land. When are you going to provide "proof" (or even evidence) for your claim? I'm guessing it will be a long wait, because you won't find any.

    As for Iran, I oppose the war however I also have enough common sense
    to realize that when a regime like Iran's, who is funding terrorist
    proxy groups like Hamas and others and who are on a pilgrimage to wipe
    out the USA should not have nuclear weapons.

    It's okay for us to fund proxy groups to take governments down that we (and more importantly for our feckless leaders) those Israel doesn't like, but
    it's not okay for Iran to fund proxies who are trying to those who are
    trying to defend themselves from Israel's greed and dreams of a "Greater Israel." Talk about hypocrisy.

    I snipped the rest because you are wandering all over the place with conspiracy theories, the Rothschild's and so forth.

    It's only a "conspiracy theory" if you're too lazy (or uncaring) to investigate it. Would you say our elected government is actually running our country? That when 80% of Americans opposed the war on Iran, our "democratically" elected government would stand for us? Would you say AIPAC
    is a "conspiracy" or a myth? Would you claim that the Rothschilds don't
    exist, and don't control worldwide banking? I guess so. Personally I'm not into sticking my head in the sand and ignoring reality.

    As for the Congress critters, they are all corrupt. And if they didn't start out corrupt they quickly learned how to play the game.
    The place really is a swamp.
    Both sides.

    Agreed. And nearly every Congresslug receives cash from AIPAC. Not fiction. Not a conspiracy. A fact.

    At this point, I would like to see the US pull out and let the Iranian
    people decide what type of government they want moving forward. I have always been against the US being involved in nation building.
    I'm an isolationist in that respect.

    WRT to the Palestinian Israel issue a two state solution is my choice.

    Same here. As for Iran, the United States and Israel might not have any
    choice but to back out. I doubt we'll get our bases back in the Gulf. The
    Arab states in the Gulf found out how empty our promises to protect them
    were. Military equipment was pulled out of the Gulf states and sent to
    Israel.
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
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  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sun Mar 22 05:58:22 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-21, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:49:07 -0000 (UTC), pothead wrote:

    Israel claims a combination of their God of the Bible and history proves
    it's their land.
    Basically they claim to be the indigenous people of the land and for
    thousands of years.
    Various archaeological evidence.

    There are a lot of people that would like the land their ancestors lived
    on 2000 years ago but they are shit out of luck. They don't own most of
    the politicians and confused Christians that didn't get the message about
    a new covenant.

    I don't even really consider Zionist "Christians" Christians, as they seem
    to think God's "chosen people" are the Jews to whom we need to scrape and
    bow. It was made clear in the New Testament that the "chosen people"
    were neither Jews or Gentiles, they were those who became Christians.

    That ass, Ted Cruz, was whining about Christians who call Christ the King.
    He claimed that, somehow (not explained) this made them "anti-Semitic." That it reminded him of Crusaders.

    It's obvious where this Zionist "Christian's" loyalty lies — and it's not Christianity, it's Zionism. I guess he's jealous that Trump gets to kiss NutYahoo's tush more than he does.

    And speaking of NutYahoo, he recently compared Jesus unfavorably to Genghis Khan, whom he said (unlike Jesus) "got things done." (Paraphrased.) It even got some Zionist "Christians" confused and upset. I didn't think that was possible.
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
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  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sun Mar 22 07:36:19 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-21 3:11 p.m., rbowman wrote:
    On Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:49:07 -0000 (UTC), pothead wrote:

    Israel claims a combination of their God of the Bible and history proves
    it's their land.
    Basically they claim to be the indigenous people of the land and for
    thousands of years.
    Various archaeological evidence.

    There are a lot of people that would like the land their ancestors lived
    on 2000 years ago but they are shit out of luck. They don't own most of
    the politicians and confused Christians that didn't get the message about
    a new covenant.

    The reality is that the precedent set by Israel gives the Indigenous
    here in Canada the right to ask for their land back. The government of
    British Columbia just screwed over anyone who bought land anywhere in
    the metropolitan areas by giving ownership of the land back to a tribe
    of around 1,400 people. You can imagine the nightmare it will be once
    the current owners die. These useless Indians will get billions for
    merely existing.

    The reality is that to the winners go the spoils.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    Islam is poison, leftism is retardation.
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sun Mar 22 18:05:01 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Sun, 22 Mar 2026 05:58:22 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    And speaking of NutYahoo, he recently compared Jesus unfavorably to
    Genghis Khan, whom he said (unlike Jesus) "got things done."
    (Paraphrased.) It even got some Zionist "Christians" confused and upset.
    I didn't think that was possible.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledot_Yeshu

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_in_Islam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam

    just saying...
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  • From pothead@pothead@snakebite.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sun Mar 22 21:20:52 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-22, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-21, pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-21, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

    (Lots of snips)

    What are the "reasonable" arguments for Israel stealing Palestinian land? The
    Palestinians (in good faith) took them in during and after World War II, >>> only to have the bastards steal the land from their hosts. Israel is
    parasite country. Calling modern Israel the Israel of the Bible, doesn't >>> make it so. That Israel ceased to exist in 70 A.D. It's purpose was
    fulfilled.

    Israel claims a combination of their God of the Bible and history proves it's their land.
    Basically they claim to be the indigenous people of the land and for thousands of years.
    Various archaeological evidence.

    What the modern state of Israel claims and what is true are too different things. Until 1948, Israel did not exist since the Romans destroyed the Temple and Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Some Jews lived (in peace) in Palestine as well as Christians and Muslims. But there is no historic claim to Israel for modern (rabbinic) Judaism. Native Americans have a more clear historic claim to the United States, then do modern Jews have claim to Palestine.

    And this goes back to the beginning of time. Who owned the land from the start and
    why do they , each side, believe it's their land.
    Israel as a state was formed in 1948.
    Modern Palestine was created when the Brits abandoned the area. so for arguments sake,
    within the last 100 years or so.

    Prior to that, Palestine was known as the land of Canaan where the Hebrew tribes/kingdoms
    of Judah and what became modern day Israel existed.

    Historically speaking, the ancient Israelites established kingdoms in that land way back
    in the BC era which was way ahead of the Palestinians which although did have a presence
    in the same area were not recognized as such until the Romans renamed the regine "Palestine"
    the early AD time frame.



    I don't know if you believe in the Bible or not. If you do, please show me where God promised the modern nation of Israel the right to Palestine. Do you think the Bible teaches that the Jews are still God's chosen people. If so, where do you find that? In the New Testament, or in the Old? Or anywhere?

    Dragged to Sunday school for years by my mom I have a decent knowledge of the Bible.
    Also, I was the kid who would ask the tough questions like if Adam and Eve had 2 sons,
    where did all the other people come from?
    Yep.
    I actually asked that question among others.

    So anyway, you keep tossing in Modern Israel where both the Israelites and Palestinians belief
    in land ownership goes way back in time.

    Anyway, Look in Genesis where God has a covenant with Abram and where he is specific in defining
    the borders of the land as between 2 rivers.
    God also tells Joshua that he is giving the same land (Canaan) to the people of Israel as he promised
    to their ancestors.

    And there are many more verses like that.
    I cannot believe I still remember this from my Catechism days.


    And the Palestinians claim similar reasons although technically they didn't exist as a group
    until sometime in the 1960's. However the ancient people of the area, Egyptians, Jordanians, Syrians,
    and others can be traced to modern day people as well.

    The main difference is that the Palestinians — Christians, Muslims and Jews
    were living peacefully together in Palestine before the Jews decided to steal the land and force the Palestinians into refugee camps. They did this through guile, terrorism and force.

    It takes 2 to hora :)
    The Jews believe the land is theirs.
    The Palestinians believe it belongs to them.

    And then of course in modern times we have the disaster the UN caused which has resulted
    in the political angle being pushed currently.

    Only a disaster because the Jews wouldn't accept that the native Palestinians had a right to their own land, homes and property. Would you quietly go into the night if and Indian tribe showed up at your house, said "this is mine" and used terrorist thugs to force you out of your own home? They would (of course) "generously" offer you a tent in a fenced off "refugee
    camp" and tell you that you should be happy you got that. (And then they would take back their word and force you out that camp a few years later, when you started growing orchards and building huts to live in.)

    Again: The Jews believe the land is theirs.
    The Palestinians believe it belongs to them.


    Gaza. Lebanon. Syria — and, using (mostly) the United States as their proxy,
    Iraq and Iran. The Israelis have no problem killing Christian Palestinians >>> and Lebanese as well as Muslims. Every month they steal more land on the >>> West Bank. Thugs from the United States (dual citizens of the U.S. and
    Israel) go to the West Bank, cut down orchards, kill sheep and burn down >>> Palestinian homes. After all, they're only goyim, aren't they? And this is >>> "unoccupied" land. No "people" live there and own property.

    It's a war.
    However, do you have some cites for the above?
    Having grown up in NYC where my neighborhood was truly a melting pot
    and bordering on an area that was mostly Hasidic Jews (the penguins), there >> was NEVER a problem. They kept to themselves and followed their religion.
    The stores and shops in that area were closed on Saturday and open on Sunday >> where shops in my area were closed.

    Yes, it's a war. Who started it in the 1940s? Who stole homes and property from the people who lived there? Who's committing genocide against those they forced out of their own land and into the open air gulag of Gaza and the refugee camps of the West Bank? I'm not arguing that it's not a war, I'm just trying to figure out why you take the side of the genocidal thugs who STOLE the land in the first place and have been "mowing the grass" (killing men, women and children) for decades? Where's your sense of justice?

    Actually it was given to the Jews in 1917 via Balfour and your buddies the Rothschilds.
    when the Ottomans abandoned the area, the league of nations granted GB control in order to
    provide, on that land, a Jewish home for lack of a better term.

    The Brits made a mess of the place making promises to both sides that they were unable to
    keep which started the modern day conflicts.

    Jump to 1948 where Israel was formed without any input from the Palestinians which
    at the time were the major number of people living there.

    This was bad.
    And I don't agree with it at all.


    As for the Hasidic Jews, they have a huge pedophile problem. Strangely enough, the city of New York let's them take care of it "in house." It's not a far stretch for them, when it's argued in their "sacred" Talmud that raping a child of three years and one day, makes her the wife of the rapist.

    They are also, at least prior to the illegal invasion in NYC one of the top ethnic
    groups milking the welfare systems.
    They know how to work the system.
    I can't argue the pedo point because it seems to be true.
    There are many perverse type behaviors being done in the name of religion.
    Like Rabbis checking young girls panties to see if they were unclean (period).

    I don't agree with any of that, but what I am saying is compared to the ethnic groups moving
    into NYC these days, they didn't cause us christians any trouble.
    We didn't have to worry about some bomber on a bus blowing us up.
    These days?
    Read the papers and decide for yourself.
    And then of course they have their various sects as well and there were plenty of
    reformed, non ultra religious Jews living there as well and they didn't cause any troubles at all.

    These days?
    It's a war zone and in the press almost weekly.
    Guess why?
    I'll give you a hint, it ain't the penguins.

    Yeah, their crimes are quiet, covered up and behind the scenes. (I'm not saying all Hasidic Jews, btw.)

    They are "connected" to some degree if you will but they aren't targeting
    you and I simply because we are not like them.
    That's my point.

    But you know full well who is.
    A group of people who have no intention of assimilating into the culture but instead
    want to force their culture upon the citizens of the countries they invade. It's a fact.
    And they do not even deny it.

    Have you been totally ignoring the news of the genocide in Gaza and the >>> theft of land in the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria? You need to widen your >>> scope of reading beyond the MSM (owned and controlled by the Rothschild >>> cabal).

    You are not offering proof.
    I give you Oct 7th.
    What do you have?

    You haven't seen pictures of the utterly destroyed Gaza? Really? You haven't read the news of the Israeli government cutting off their utilities, (water and electricity) and blocking food and medicine shipments? You haven't seen pictures of blown up hospitals, churches or the skeletal children, who have nothing to eat and are starving to death?

    Of course I have.
    And what and who started this modern day war?

    I also see articles where Hamas, sponsored by Iran BTW, are intercepting UN food and
    medical supplies thus starving their own people.

    Do I agree with Israel turning off water, electricity and such to civilians?
    Of course not.
    I also do not support Hamas hiding in hospitals, Mosques, funeral homes, schools
    and so forth where they are using civilians as human shields.

    Does Israel do that?
    How many Israel suicide bomber attacks can you find compared to Islamic or those supporting Islam?
    How many protests turning violent can you find organized by Jews as compared to Islamist's?
    How many times have you seen Israel holding hostages, killing some and using them as bargaining chips?
    Shooting up concerts?
    Attacking military bases here in US?
    Knocking down the WTC?

    etc.....


    I congratulate you on your amazing myopia. It must be nice to live in delusional bullshit world, free of all reality.

    I wouldn't know as I consider all sources including AlJazeera and other Arabic centered
    media.


    October 7th doesn't excuse the government of Israel or their Army from war crimes. As mentioned before, collective punishment is a war crime. Genocide is a war crime. NutYahoo has already been found guilty of war crimes in an international court for his actions Gaza. The five Nordic states will not allow him to travel to their countries. Did you also miss that bit of news?

    Both sides have committed war crimes.
    So has Russia and Ukraine.
    As for the Nordic countries, also known as Quislings, they have a point regarding the food and
    electricity being turned off.
    I mentioned this above.
    I'm part Nordic myself. Do you know what the Scandinavian slang word for traitor is?

    It's Quisling.

    Compared to sixty years of Israelis "mowing the grass" in the open air gulag
    of Gaza? How many Israelis died on October 7th (and how many were killed by
    "friendly" fire)? How many tens of thousands of Gazans have been murdered or
    starved out by the genocidal thugs in Israel? There's no comparison. You >>> would have to be completely blind not to see the discrepancy. (How many >>> Iranians die each day now in Iran because of U.S. and Israeli carpet bombing
    of Tehran?) Wake up and smell the reality.

    So where are the cites showing this?
    You are going in circles with conspiracy theories.

    No one is so blind as those who won't see. You really have to work at it, to miss the obvious, don't you?

    Here, tell me what you see... Is this a "conspiracy?"

    This is what Israel has done to Gaza. It's what they're trying to do Tehran.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwQlPm7lCUc

    Have you seen footage of what Hamas did to families, women, babies on Oct 7th?

    As for Gaza, this is war.
    It's horrible and IMHO a waste of life.
    Have you seen pics of Dresden after WW2?
    Looks just like Gaza in your video.

    The civilians are always the ones to suffer.
    This is one reason why war sux.

    As for Iran, you need to do some research. They sponsor terrorism via
    proxies.
    They just revealed that they have miselles capable of traveling much longer distances than first believed.
    They admitted to negotiators that they have enough almost fully enriched uranium to build several nuclear bombs.

    The Iran Nuclear Deal was a complete farce and Iran was building bombs
    as fast as they could.
    They have a netork of underground tunnels and have hidden their stockpile very well.
    These are crafty people on a religious mission and nothing will stop them.
    The US is playing whack a mole here.
    Appeasement does not work with fanatics.
    Ask Biden and Obama about their pallets of cash given to Iran and how it helped.

    Somebody has to do something to at least slow them down because if not they will
    be launching nukes at all of their enemies.
    They are crazy and don't care if they die for Allah.

    There are thousands upon thousands of these pictures and videos showing this destruction. The only way to avoid the evidence (your so-called "conspiracy") is to be purposely obtuse and force yourself to ignore reality.

    I'm referring to your claims of years of mowing the lawn and waging wars.
    Where is evidence of this?
    What you are showing is post Oct 7th.
    It's a war and who started the latest version of it?

    Where is your evidence that this type of behavior is BAU for Israel?
    Terrorism is certainly BAU for the Islamist radicals.



    As for Iran, they killed more than 30,000 of their own people in the past months.
    They just had public hangings of 3 people whose only "crime" was peaceful protesting.
    And how many Americans and others have they killed since 1979 despite all the attempts
    at appeasement ie:pallets of cash?

    So you claim, again, with zero proof. I call your claim bullshit (not your bullshit, but something gullibly believe on faith). It's a lying "conspiracy." Prove me wrong. As you will probably not remember, since you seem adept at ignoring facts, Israel and the United States bragged about how many Starlink receivers they had smuggled into Iran, and how many Mossad agents and their stooges who were part of the coup attempt. They thought they were going to win while they were bragging. Guess what, those traitors and Mossad agents were wiped out. (As they would be in any country.) But you ignore the fact that many Iranian policemen were killed by these terrorists (who happened to be "good" terrorists because they were on our side).


    You are all over the place Ron :)
    Let's take one at a time.

    1. Iran killing their own citizens for protesting.

    <https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-senior-officials/>

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres>

    <https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/27/iran-protests-death-toll-disappeared-bodies-mass-burials-30000-dead>

    <https://iranhumanrights.org/2026/03/three-protesters-publicly-hanged-in-iran-dozens-more-at-imminent-risk-of-execution/>

    2. Starlink receivers being smuggled into Iran?

    Yea. And so what? You do know that Iran cut off the Internet. Why? So that the regime could censor people
    from finding out exactly what was going on there.

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Internet_blackout_in_Iran>

    And do you really believe that Iran is not cyber attacking Israel, USA etc ?
    Of course they are trying.

    Why does it bother you that the truth about what is really going on in Iran is allowed
    to be told?


    The claim that these "protesters'" (seditionists) "only crime" was protesting
    is bullshit. It was an armed attempt to overthrow the government of Iran, which is sedition. Sedition is a capital crime every where. Just reality.

    And the protests supporting Palestine here in the USA are being funded and organized
    by professional protesters.
    Your point?

    Sure sedition may be a crime but if the majority of the people don't like the current
    regime it's up to them to change it.
    Welcome to the US Revolutionary war.

    And BTW, I really doubt that 30,000 people were ALL dangerous seditionist's. You have zero proof of that.





    Any Jews knocking down buildings?
    Throwing gays off rooftops?
    Beheading people?
    Shouting death to Israel and America?
    I'm not seeing it.

    Have you looked at ANY, any pictures at all, of Gaza after Israel's carpet bombing of the city. I can't believe you're so reality challenged that you're even asking this question. Are you in some of cult where they don't allow you to think or observe?

    After October 7th.
    And who started that again?


    I am however seeing Islamist's creating havoc all over the world daily.
    We recently had 3 or 4 attacks in the USA.
    Is it the Jews again?

    Right. It was the "Islamists" who started these two wars against Iran, not the Israelis or their NutYahoo butt leach, Trump.

    Again you are all over the place.
    You point to evidence regarding Gaza destruction and then morph into Iran.

    Someone had to stop Iran from their evil.
    Have you noticed that the other Arab states are being attacked by Iran?
    Have you noticed that those states are aligning with the US and Israel?

    Why do you think that is?

    Maybe they know something you don't.
    Ya think?


    "Islamist" covers a lot of territory. The Islamists terrorists are almost always Sunni, not Shia. And yet Trump cuddles up to the terrorist who now claims to be the "president" of Syria. We're "great friends" with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (whose public executions are continual). We seem to have blinders on our eyes when talking about the Sunni terrorists, who have committed 82% of all terrorist attacks in three decades (as reported by both the United States and France). Before Trump decided it was time kiss the
    ass of the current, head-chopping terrorist president of Syria, he first removed the $10 million dollar bounty on his head for... (you guessed it) terrorism. There is no moral high ground in our country and especially not in genocidal Israel.

    And Biden/Obama gave them pallets of cash in order to appease them.
    Of course Islam encompasses many types of people and beliefs. I am referring in particular to the terrorist faction.

    Taken as a whole the entire Middle East are not to be trusted in terms of being allies to the US.
    The only country who is a true ally to the US is Israel.
    And call me paranoid but I don't trust them either but I trust them more than the Arab states.

    As for political posturing, that's politics.
    They all do it.
    And like i always say, follow the money to find the reasons why.



    --snip a bunch of stuff we mostly agree on.
    Who would have guessed :)
    --

    pothead

    "How many liberals does it take to change a light bulb?
    None, they’re too busy changing their gender."

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    Telling your gender neutral parental units that you’re straight."
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  • From Brock McNuggets@brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Mon Mar 23 01:22:18 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Mar 22, 2026 at 2:20:52 PM MST, "pothead" wrote <10ppmfj$3kgms$1@pothead.dont-email.me>:

    On 2026-03-22, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-21, pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-21, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

    (Lots of snips)

    What are the "reasonable" arguments for Israel stealing Palestinian land? The
    Palestinians (in good faith) took them in during and after World War II, >>>> only to have the bastards steal the land from their hosts. Israel is
    parasite country. Calling modern Israel the Israel of the Bible, doesn't >>>> make it so. That Israel ceased to exist in 70 A.D. It's purpose was
    fulfilled.

    Israel claims a combination of their God of the Bible and history proves >>> it's their land.
    Basically they claim to be the indigenous people of the land and for
    thousands of years.
    Various archaeological evidence.

    What the modern state of Israel claims and what is true are too different
    things. Until 1948, Israel did not exist since the Romans destroyed the
    Temple and Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Some Jews lived (in peace) in Palestine as >> well as Christians and Muslims. But there is no historic claim to Israel for >> modern (rabbinic) Judaism. Native Americans have a more clear historic claim >> to the United States, then do modern Jews have claim to Palestine.

    And this goes back to the beginning of time. Who owned the land from the start
    and
    why do they , each side, believe it's their land.
    Israel as a state was formed in 1948.
    Modern Palestine was created when the Brits abandoned the area. so for arguments sake,
    within the last 100 years or so.

    Prior to that, Palestine was known as the land of Canaan where the Hebrew tribes/kingdoms
    of Judah and what became modern day Israel existed.

    Historically speaking, the ancient Israelites established kingdoms in that land way back
    in the BC era which was way ahead of the Palestinians which although did have a presence
    in the same area were not recognized as such until the Romans renamed the regine "Palestine"
    the early AD time frame.



    I don't know if you believe in the Bible or not. If you do, please show me >> where God promised the modern nation of Israel the right to Palestine. Do
    you think the Bible teaches that the Jews are still God's chosen people. If >> so, where do you find that? In the New Testament, or in the Old? Or
    anywhere?

    Dragged to Sunday school for years by my mom I have a decent knowledge of the Bible.
    Also, I was the kid who would ask the tough questions like if Adam and Eve had
    2 sons,
    where did all the other people come from?
    Yep.
    I actually asked that question among others.

    So anyway, you keep tossing in Modern Israel where both the Israelites and Palestinians belief
    in land ownership goes way back in time.

    Anyway, Look in Genesis where God has a covenant with Abram and where he is specific in defining
    the borders of the land as between 2 rivers.
    God also tells Joshua that he is giving the same land (Canaan) to the people of Israel as he promised
    to their ancestors.

    And there are many more verses like that.
    I cannot believe I still remember this from my Catechism days.


    And the Palestinians claim similar reasons although technically they didn't >>> exist as a group
    until sometime in the 1960's. However the ancient people of the area,
    Egyptians, Jordanians, Syrians,
    and others can be traced to modern day people as well.

    The main difference is that the Palestinians — Christians, Muslims and Jews
    were living peacefully together in Palestine before the Jews decided to
    steal the land and force the Palestinians into refugee camps. They did this >> through guile, terrorism and force.

    It takes 2 to hora :)
    The Jews believe the land is theirs.
    The Palestinians believe it belongs to them.

    And then of course in modern times we have the disaster the UN caused which >>> has resulted
    in the political angle being pushed currently.

    Only a disaster because the Jews wouldn't accept that the native
    Palestinians had a right to their own land, homes and property. Would you
    quietly go into the night if and Indian tribe showed up at your house, said >> "this is mine" and used terrorist thugs to force you out of your own home? >> They would (of course) "generously" offer you a tent in a fenced off "refugee
    camp" and tell you that you should be happy you got that. (And then they
    would take back their word and force you out that camp a few years later,
    when you started growing orchards and building huts to live in.)

    Again: The Jews believe the land is theirs.
    The Palestinians believe it belongs to them.


    Gaza. Lebanon. Syria — and, using (mostly) the United States as their proxy,
    Iraq and Iran. The Israelis have no problem killing Christian Palestinians >>>> and Lebanese as well as Muslims. Every month they steal more land on the >>>> West Bank. Thugs from the United States (dual citizens of the U.S. and >>>> Israel) go to the West Bank, cut down orchards, kill sheep and burn down >>>> Palestinian homes. After all, they're only goyim, aren't they? And this is >>>> "unoccupied" land. No "people" live there and own property.

    It's a war.
    However, do you have some cites for the above?
    Having grown up in NYC where my neighborhood was truly a melting pot
    and bordering on an area that was mostly Hasidic Jews (the penguins), there >>> was NEVER a problem. They kept to themselves and followed their religion. >>> The stores and shops in that area were closed on Saturday and open on Sunday
    where shops in my area were closed.

    Yes, it's a war. Who started it in the 1940s? Who stole homes and property >> from the people who lived there? Who's committing genocide against those
    they forced out of their own land and into the open air gulag of Gaza and
    the refugee camps of the West Bank? I'm not arguing that it's not a war, I'm >> just trying to figure out why you take the side of the genocidal thugs who >> STOLE the land in the first place and have been "mowing the grass" (killing >> men, women and children) for decades? Where's your sense of justice?

    Actually it was given to the Jews in 1917 via Balfour and your buddies the Rothschilds.
    when the Ottomans abandoned the area, the league of nations granted GB control
    in order to
    provide, on that land, a Jewish home for lack of a better term.

    The Brits made a mess of the place making promises to both sides that they were unable to
    keep which started the modern day conflicts.

    Jump to 1948 where Israel was formed without any input from the Palestinians which
    at the time were the major number of people living there.

    This was bad.
    And I don't agree with it at all.


    As for the Hasidic Jews, they have a huge pedophile problem. Strangely
    enough, the city of New York let's them take care of it "in house." It's not >> a far stretch for them, when it's argued in their "sacred" Talmud that
    raping a child of three years and one day, makes her the wife of the rapist.

    They are also, at least prior to the illegal invasion in NYC one of the top ethnic
    groups milking the welfare systems.
    They know how to work the system.
    I can't argue the pedo point because it seems to be true.
    There are many perverse type behaviors being done in the name of religion. Like Rabbis checking young girls panties to see if they were unclean (period).

    I don't agree with any of that, but what I am saying is compared to the ethnic
    groups moving
    into NYC these days, they didn't cause us christians any trouble.
    We didn't have to worry about some bomber on a bus blowing us up.
    These days?
    Read the papers and decide for yourself.
    And then of course they have their various sects as well and there were plenty
    of
    reformed, non ultra religious Jews living there as well and they didn't cause any troubles at all.

    These days?
    It's a war zone and in the press almost weekly.
    Guess why?
    I'll give you a hint, it ain't the penguins.

    Yeah, their crimes are quiet, covered up and behind the scenes. (I'm not
    saying all Hasidic Jews, btw.)

    They are "connected" to some degree if you will but they aren't targeting
    you and I simply because we are not like them.
    That's my point.

    But you know full well who is.
    A group of people who have no intention of assimilating into the culture but instead
    want to force their culture upon the citizens of the countries they invade. It's a fact.
    And they do not even deny it.

    Have you been totally ignoring the news of the genocide in Gaza and the >>>> theft of land in the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria? You need to widen your >>>> scope of reading beyond the MSM (owned and controlled by the Rothschild >>>> cabal).

    You are not offering proof.
    I give you Oct 7th.
    What do you have?

    You haven't seen pictures of the utterly destroyed Gaza? Really? You haven't >> read the news of the Israeli government cutting off their utilities, (water >> and electricity) and blocking food and medicine shipments? You haven't seen >> pictures of blown up hospitals, churches or the skeletal children, who have >> nothing to eat and are starving to death?

    Of course I have.
    And what and who started this modern day war?

    I also see articles where Hamas, sponsored by Iran BTW, are intercepting UN food and
    medical supplies thus starving their own people.

    Do I agree with Israel turning off water, electricity and such to civilians? Of course not.
    I also do not support Hamas hiding in hospitals, Mosques, funeral homes, schools
    and so forth where they are using civilians as human shields.

    Does Israel do that?
    How many Israel suicide bomber attacks can you find compared to Islamic or those supporting Islam?
    How many protests turning violent can you find organized by Jews as compared to Islamist's?
    How many times have you seen Israel holding hostages, killing some and using them as bargaining chips?
    Shooting up concerts?
    Attacking military bases here in US?
    Knocking down the WTC?

    etc.....


    I congratulate you on your amazing myopia. It must be nice to live in
    delusional bullshit world, free of all reality.

    I wouldn't know as I consider all sources including AlJazeera and other Arabic
    centered
    media.


    October 7th doesn't excuse the government of Israel or their Army from war >> crimes. As mentioned before, collective punishment is a war crime. Genocide >> is a war crime. NutYahoo has already been found guilty of war crimes in an >> international court for his actions Gaza. The five Nordic states will not
    allow him to travel to their countries. Did you also miss that bit of news?

    Both sides have committed war crimes.
    So has Russia and Ukraine.
    As for the Nordic countries, also known as Quislings, they have a point regarding the food and
    electricity being turned off.
    I mentioned this above.
    I'm part Nordic myself. Do you know what the Scandinavian slang word for traitor is?

    It's Quisling.

    Compared to sixty years of Israelis "mowing the grass" in the open air gulag
    of Gaza? How many Israelis died on October 7th (and how many were killed by
    "friendly" fire)? How many tens of thousands of Gazans have been murdered or
    starved out by the genocidal thugs in Israel? There's no comparison. You >>>> would have to be completely blind not to see the discrepancy. (How many >>>> Iranians die each day now in Iran because of U.S. and Israeli carpet bombing
    of Tehran?) Wake up and smell the reality.

    So where are the cites showing this?
    You are going in circles with conspiracy theories.

    No one is so blind as those who won't see. You really have to work at it, to >> miss the obvious, don't you?

    Here, tell me what you see... Is this a "conspiracy?"

    This is what Israel has done to Gaza. It's what they're trying to do Tehran. >>
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwQlPm7lCUc

    Have you seen footage of what Hamas did to families, women, babies on Oct 7th?

    As for Gaza, this is war.
    It's horrible and IMHO a waste of life.
    Have you seen pics of Dresden after WW2?
    Looks just like Gaza in your video.

    The civilians are always the ones to suffer.
    This is one reason why war sux.

    As for Iran, you need to do some research. They sponsor terrorism via proxies.
    They just revealed that they have miselles capable of traveling much longer distances than first believed.
    They admitted to negotiators that they have enough almost fully enriched uranium to build several nuclear bombs.

    The Iran Nuclear Deal was a complete farce and Iran was building bombs
    as fast as they could.
    They have a netork of underground tunnels and have hidden their stockpile very
    well.
    These are crafty people on a religious mission and nothing will stop them. The US is playing whack a mole here.
    Appeasement does not work with fanatics.
    Ask Biden and Obama about their pallets of cash given to Iran and how it helped.

    Somebody has to do something to at least slow them down because if not they will
    be launching nukes at all of their enemies.
    They are crazy and don't care if they die for Allah.

    There are thousands upon thousands of these pictures and videos showing this >> destruction. The only way to avoid the evidence (your so-called
    "conspiracy") is to be purposely obtuse and force yourself to ignore
    reality.

    I'm referring to your claims of years of mowing the lawn and waging wars. Where is evidence of this?
    What you are showing is post Oct 7th.
    It's a war and who started the latest version of it?

    Where is your evidence that this type of behavior is BAU for Israel? Terrorism is certainly BAU for the Islamist radicals.



    As for Iran, they killed more than 30,000 of their own people in the past >>> months.
    They just had public hangings of 3 people whose only "crime" was peaceful >>> protesting.
    And how many Americans and others have they killed since 1979 despite all >>> the attempts
    at appeasement ie:pallets of cash?

    So you claim, again, with zero proof. I call your claim bullshit (not your >> bullshit, but something gullibly believe on faith). It's a lying
    "conspiracy." Prove me wrong. As you will probably not remember, since you >> seem adept at ignoring facts, Israel and the United States bragged about how >> many Starlink receivers they had smuggled into Iran, and how many Mossad
    agents and their stooges who were part of the coup attempt. They thought
    they were going to win while they were bragging. Guess what, those traitors >> and Mossad agents were wiped out. (As they would be in any country.) But you >> ignore the fact that many Iranian policemen were killed by these terrorists >> (who happened to be "good" terrorists because they were on our side).


    You are all over the place Ron :)
    Let's take one at a time.

    1. Iran killing their own citizens for protesting.

    <https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-senior-officials/>

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres>

    <https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/27/iran-protests-death-toll-disappeared-bodies-mass-burials-30000-dead>

    <https://iranhumanrights.org/2026/03/three-protesters-publicly-hanged-in-iran-dozens-more-at-imminent-risk-of-execution/>

    2. Starlink receivers being smuggled into Iran?

    Yea. And so what? You do know that Iran cut off the Internet. Why? So that the
    regime could censor people
    from finding out exactly what was going on there.

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Internet_blackout_in_Iran>

    And do you really believe that Iran is not cyber attacking Israel, USA etc ? Of course they are trying.

    Why does it bother you that the truth about what is really going on in Iran is
    allowed
    to be told?


    The claim that these "protesters'" (seditionists) "only crime" was protesting
    is bullshit. It was an armed attempt to overthrow the government of Iran,
    which is sedition. Sedition is a capital crime every where. Just reality.

    And the protests supporting Palestine here in the USA are being funded and organized
    by professional protesters.
    Your point?

    Sure sedition may be a crime but if the majority of the people don't like the current
    regime it's up to them to change it.
    Welcome to the US Revolutionary war.

    And BTW, I really doubt that 30,000 people were ALL dangerous seditionist's. You have zero proof of that.





    Any Jews knocking down buildings?
    Throwing gays off rooftops?
    Beheading people?
    Shouting death to Israel and America?
    I'm not seeing it.

    Have you looked at ANY, any pictures at all, of Gaza after Israel's carpet >> bombing of the city. I can't believe you're so reality challenged that
    you're even asking this question. Are you in some of cult where they don't >> allow you to think or observe?

    After October 7th.
    And who started that again?


    I am however seeing Islamist's creating havoc all over the world daily.
    We recently had 3 or 4 attacks in the USA.
    Is it the Jews again?

    Right. It was the "Islamists" who started these two wars against Iran, not >> the Israelis or their NutYahoo butt leach, Trump.

    Again you are all over the place.
    You point to evidence regarding Gaza destruction and then morph into Iran.

    Someone had to stop Iran from their evil.
    Have you noticed that the other Arab states are being attacked by Iran?
    Have you noticed that those states are aligning with the US and Israel?

    Why do you think that is?

    Maybe they know something you don't.
    Ya think?


    "Islamist" covers a lot of territory. The Islamists terrorists are almost
    always Sunni, not Shia. And yet Trump cuddles up to the terrorist who now
    claims to be the "president" of Syria. We're "great friends" with the Crown >> Prince of Saudi Arabia (whose public executions are continual). We seem to >> have blinders on our eyes when talking about the Sunni terrorists, who have >> committed 82% of all terrorist attacks in three decades (as reported by both >> the United States and France). Before Trump decided it was time kiss the
    ass of the current, head-chopping terrorist president of Syria, he first
    removed the $10 million dollar bounty on his head for... (you guessed it)
    terrorism. There is no moral high ground in our country and especially not >> in genocidal Israel.

    And Biden/Obama gave them pallets of cash in order to appease them.
    Of course Islam encompasses many types of people and beliefs. I am referring in
    particular to the terrorist faction.

    Taken as a whole the entire Middle East are not to be trusted in terms of being
    allies to the US.
    The only country who is a true ally to the US is Israel.
    And call me paranoid but I don't trust them either but I trust them more than the Arab states.

    As for political posturing, that's politics.
    They all do it.
    And like i always say, follow the money to find the reasons why.



    --snip a bunch of stuff we mostly agree on.
    Who would have guessed :)


    Pothead’s post is one of those “I skimmed some history once and now I’m an
    expert” situations. He starts with a couple of real facts – sure, Israel exists since 1948, and yes, ancient Israelite kingdoms were a thing – and then
    immediately stretches them way past their breaking point. The whole “Palestinians didn’t exist until the 1960s” line is just flat wrong. National
    identity doesn’t magically spawn in a single decade because it’s convenient for your argument. People were living there, identifying with that place, long before the politics of the 1960s came along.

    He does the same thing with key history. The Balfour Declaration wasn’t Britain handing over the land like a real estate transaction – it was a vague,
    hedged political statement. And acting like Israel just popped into existence “without Palestinian input” ignores the UN Partition Plan for Palestine entirely. You can argue it was unfair, badly handled, whatever – but pretending there was no proposal, no debate, no rejection is just rewriting history to keep things simple.

    Then he really starts winging it. The “30,000 protesters killed in Iran” claim
    is the kind of number you throw out when you don’t expect anyone to check. It doesn’t line up with any credible reporting. Same with the “pallets of cash”
    line – technically rooted in something real, but stripped of all context so it
    sounds like a Bond villain payoff instead of a legal settlement. There’s a pattern: grab a headline, remove the nuance, crank up the outrage.

    And of course, there’s the casual bigotry sprinkled in. At one point he leans into ugly, recycled claims about Hasidic Jews – the kind of stuff that takes isolated incidents and smears an entire group with it. That’s not just sloppy,
    it’s straight out of the same playbook used by white supremacist types for decades. Pair that with the “Rothschilds” framing earlier in the thread and the whole thing starts to smell less like “concerned geopolitical analysis” and more like someone flirting with conspiratorial, ethnic blame narratives. Even if he’d deny the label, the talking points are doing him no favors.

    By the end, it’s basically a greatest hits collection: oversimplified history,
    selective facts, inflated numbers, and a few not-so-subtle digs at entire groups of people. It sounds confident, maybe even persuasive if you don’t look
    too closely – but once you do, it’s pretty clear the whole thing is held together with duct tape and attitude.
    --
    It's impossible for someone who is at war with themselves to be at peace with you.
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Mon Mar 23 01:41:16 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:20:52 -0000 (UTC), pothead wrote:


    Prior to that, Palestine was known as the land of Canaan where the
    Hebrew tribes/kingdoms of Judah and what became modern day Israel
    existed.

    iirc, after despoiling Egypt and Moses getting his GPS fixed, they moved
    into the land of Caanan and killed all the Canaanites. Not much has
    changed.


    Dragged to Sunday school for years by my mom I have a decent knowledge
    of the Bible.
    Also, I was the kid who would ask the tough questions like if Adam and
    Eve had 2 sons,
    where did all the other people come from?
    Yep.
    I actually asked that question among others.

    Luckily they tried to raise me Catholic. I finally read the New Testament
    in the 'Good News for Modern Man' version in boot camp because there was nothing else to read. I've taken a few shots at the OT and never got too
    far other than skipping ahead to Ecclesiasticus.,Proverbs, and Psalms. I
    think I made it through Apocalypse once. They had some good 'shrooms on Patmos. The followers of Darby and Schofield lap that slop up.

    Anyway, Look in Genesis where God has a covenant with Abram and where he
    is specific in defining the borders of the land as between 2 rivers.
    God also tells Joshua that he is giving the same land (Canaan) to the
    people of Israel as he promised to their ancestors.

    My ancestors were chasing mammoths around northern Europe at the time. Why should I worry about west Asian tribal myths. Of course it says god gave
    them the land; they wrote the frigging book.

    And there are many more verses like that.
    I cannot believe I still remember this from my Catechism days.

    I think my catechism was a bit different. iirc it said there was no
    salvation outside of the Church, and they didn't mean some random
    storefront church.

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  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Mon Mar 23 10:53:01 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-22, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-21 3:11 p.m., rbowman wrote:
    On Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:49:07 -0000 (UTC), pothead wrote:

    Israel claims a combination of their God of the Bible and history proves >>> it's their land.
    Basically they claim to be the indigenous people of the land and for
    thousands of years.
    Various archaeological evidence.

    There are a lot of people that would like the land their ancestors lived
    on 2000 years ago but they are shit out of luck. They don't own most of
    the politicians and confused Christians that didn't get the message about
    a new covenant.

    The reality is that the precedent set by Israel gives the Indigenous
    here in Canada the right to ask for their land back. The government of British Columbia just screwed over anyone who bought land anywhere in
    the metropolitan areas by giving ownership of the land back to a tribe
    of around 1,400 people. You can imagine the nightmare it will be once
    the current owners die. These useless Indians will get billions for
    merely existing.

    The reality is that to the winners go the spoils.

    I'm waiting to see who wins in the war between Iran and Israel. I've got a feeling it won't be Israel.
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
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  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Mon Mar 23 11:03:28 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-22, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Mar 2026 05:58:22 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    And speaking of NutYahoo, he recently compared Jesus unfavorably to
    Genghis Khan, whom he said (unlike Jesus) "got things done."
    (Paraphrased.) It even got some Zionist "Christians" confused and upset.
    I didn't think that was possible.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledot_Yeshu

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_in_Islam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam

    just saying...

    And yet these Zionist "Christians" choose the Jews, who ridicule Jesus and Mary, over the Muslims who, at least, respect them. This whole "brand" of "kowtowing to the Jews" "Christianity" didn't show up until the late 1800s.
    I guess they forget to read the New Testament they claim to base their religion on.
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
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  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Mon Mar 23 10:00:45 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-23 6:53 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-22, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-21 3:11 p.m., rbowman wrote:
    On Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:49:07 -0000 (UTC), pothead wrote:

    Israel claims a combination of their God of the Bible and history proves >>>> it's their land.
    Basically they claim to be the indigenous people of the land and for
    thousands of years.
    Various archaeological evidence.

    There are a lot of people that would like the land their ancestors lived >>> on 2000 years ago but they are shit out of luck. They don't own most of
    the politicians and confused Christians that didn't get the message about >>> a new covenant.

    The reality is that the precedent set by Israel gives the Indigenous
    here in Canada the right to ask for their land back. The government of
    British Columbia just screwed over anyone who bought land anywhere in
    the metropolitan areas by giving ownership of the land back to a tribe
    of around 1,400 people. You can imagine the nightmare it will be once
    the current owners die. These useless Indians will get billions for
    merely existing.

    The reality is that to the winners go the spoils.

    I'm waiting to see who wins in the war between Iran and Israel. I've got a feeling it won't be Israel.

    And I've got a feeling that I don't care about either side. Both have no
    love for Christ or Christianity, so they are reserved to their fate.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    Islam is poison, leftism is retardation.
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  • From pothead@pothead@snakebite.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Mon Mar 23 14:12:53 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-23, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:20:52 -0000 (UTC), pothead wrote:


    Prior to that, Palestine was known as the land of Canaan where the
    Hebrew tribes/kingdoms of Judah and what became modern day Israel
    existed.

    iirc, after despoiling Egypt and Moses getting his GPS fixed, they moved into the land of Caanan and killed all the Canaanites. Not much has
    changed.

    Moses GPS!
    ROTFLMAO!

    Actually the Bible contradicts itself on this one.
    It does offer up God, supposedly, commanding Joshua to destroy
    the Canaanites, other texts suggest otherwise. From an archaeological perspective modern interpretations suggest that the Israelite s were not foreign
    invaders but instead emerged from within the Canaanite population itself.
    Too much contradiction to have a solid, factual this is what happened scenario.

    Dragged to Sunday school for years by my mom I have a decent knowledge
    of the Bible.
    Also, I was the kid who would ask the tough questions like if Adam and
    Eve had 2 sons,
    where did all the other people come from?
    Yep.
    I actually asked that question among others.

    Luckily they tried to raise me Catholic. I finally read the New Testament
    in the 'Good News for Modern Man' version in boot camp because there was nothing else to read. I've taken a few shots at the OT and never got too
    far other than skipping ahead to Ecclesiasticus.,Proverbs, and Psalms. I think I made it through Apocalypse once. They had some good 'shrooms on Patmos. The followers of Darby and Schofield lap that slop up.

    LOL!
    Good story!


    Anyway, Look in Genesis where God has a covenant with Abram and where he
    is specific in defining the borders of the land as between 2 rivers.
    God also tells Joshua that he is giving the same land (Canaan) to the
    people of Israel as he promised to their ancestors.

    My ancestors were chasing mammoths around northern Europe at the time. Why should I worry about west Asian tribal myths. Of course it says god gave them the land; they wrote the frigging book.

    Whether it's true or not, this is the source of the problem of who owns the land.
    Romans 3 v1-2 is called Oracles rule.
    It's an interesting read.

    And when modern archaeology and secular history is taken into account it becomes
    even more confusing.


    And there are many more verses like that.
    I cannot believe I still remember this from my Catechism days.

    I think my catechism was a bit different. iirc it said there was no salvation outside of the Church, and they didn't mean some random
    storefront church.

    Probably was.
    Which poses the age old question, which religion is the true religion?
    Until someone actually comes back from the dead with data, we will never know. --

    pothead

    "How many liberals does it take to change a light bulb?
    None, they’re too busy changing their gender."

    "What’s the hardest part about being a Liberal?
    Telling your gender neutral parental units that you’re straight."
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  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Mon Mar 23 16:26:10 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-22, pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-22, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-21, pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-21, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

    (Lots of snips)

    What are the "reasonable" arguments for Israel stealing Palestinian land? The
    Palestinians (in good faith) took them in during and after World War II, >>>> only to have the bastards steal the land from their hosts. Israel is
    parasite country. Calling modern Israel the Israel of the Bible, doesn't >>>> make it so. That Israel ceased to exist in 70 A.D. It's purpose was
    fulfilled.

    Israel claims a combination of their God of the Bible and history proves it's their land.
    Basically they claim to be the indigenous people of the land and for thousands of years.
    Various archaeological evidence.

    What the modern state of Israel claims and what is true are too different >> things. Until 1948, Israel did not exist since the Romans destroyed the
    Temple and Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Some Jews lived (in peace) in Palestine as >> well as Christians and Muslims. But there is no historic claim to Israel for
    modern (rabbinic) Judaism. Native Americans have a more clear historic claim
    to the United States, then do modern Jews have claim to Palestine.

    And this goes back to the beginning of time. Who owned the land from the start and
    why do they , each side, believe it's their land.
    Israel as a state was formed in 1948.
    Modern Palestine was created when the Brits abandoned the area. so for arguments sake,
    within the last 100 years or so.

    When the Brits left Palestine the people who owned the land were still in their own homes — Christian, Muslim and Jew. It doesn't matter what they called it, it was Palestinian owned land and property. What part of this
    don't you get?

    Prior to that, Palestine was known as the land of Canaan where the Hebrew tribes/kingdoms
    of Judah and what became modern day Israel existed.

    Historically speaking, the ancient Israelites established kingdoms in that land way back
    in the BC era which was way ahead of the Palestinians which although did have a presence
    in the same area were not recognized as such until the Romans renamed the regine "Palestine"
    the early AD time frame.

    Who cares what the ancient Israelites did? Modern Jews are not "ancient Israelites." Ancient Israel ceased to exist in 70 A.D. There's no connection between modern Israel and ancient Israel. (Just as there is no true
    connection between modern (rabbinic, Talmud based) Judaism and the religion
    of the Old Testament (which was not Judaism, the Judaens were just one tribe of Israel).

    I don't know if you believe in the Bible or not. If you do, please show me >> where God promised the modern nation of Israel the right to Palestine. Do >> you think the Bible teaches that the Jews are still God's chosen people. If >> so, where do you find that? In the New Testament, or in the Old? Or
    anywhere?

    Dragged to Sunday school for years by my mom I have a decent knowledge of the Bible.
    Also, I was the kid who would ask the tough questions like if Adam and Eve had 2 sons,
    where did all the other people come from?
    Yep.
    I actually asked that question among others.

    Fine. So you don't believe the Bible is inspired by God. Why then would believe the Israelites have a right to Israel that was supposedly promised
    to them in the Old Testament? BTW the promises were conditional, the Israelites continually failed to meet the conditions. Once the Old Covenant ceased, the New Covenant replaced it and Israel (Biblical Israel, not the modern Zionist state) ceased to exist.

    So anyway, you keep tossing in Modern Israel where both the Israelites and Palestinians belief
    in land ownership goes way back in time.

    Yep. Only difference is the Palestinians (Jew, Christian and Muslim) were living there when the Jewish refugees moved in and, using terrorism, stole
    it from the rightful owners.

    Anyway, Look in Genesis where God has a covenant with Abram and where he is specific in defining
    the borders of the land as between 2 rivers.
    God also tells Joshua that he is giving the same land (Canaan) to the people of Israel as he promised
    to their ancestors.

    Conditional promises. So you DO believe in the Bible... or just the parts the modern Jews cherry pick? Remember the prophets in the Old Testament. Most of the time they were trying to get the Israelites to keep their covenant (promises to God). They didn't. Just before the Pharisees (the fathers of modern "rabbinic" Judaism) had Christ crucified, Jesus said this about them.

    26 Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the
    dish, that the outside may become clean. 27 Woe to you scribes and
    Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which
    outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men's
    bones, and of all filthiness. 28 So you also outwardly indeed appear to
    men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. 29 Woe to
    you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; that build the sepulchres of the
    prophets, and adorn the monuments of the just, 30 And say: If we had
    been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with
    them in the blood of the prophets.

    31 Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons
    of them that killed the prophets. 32 Fill ye up then the measure of your
    fathers. 33 You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from
    the judgment of hell? 34 Therefore behold I send to you prophets, and
    wise men, and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and
    crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from
    city to city: 35 That upon you may come all the just blood that hath
    been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the
    blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the
    temple and the altar.

    36 Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.
    37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them
    that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy
    children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou
    wouldest not? 38 Behold, your house shall be left to you, desolate. 39
    For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say: Blessed
    is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. — St Matthew 23

    Pretty clear that these Pharisees had not kept their promises to God, even though Jesus wanted them to repent and come back to God. And it was on the oral tradition of the Pharisees that the written Talmud was based. "The traditions of the elders that made the Law of God of non effect." So on whom will the blood of the righteous fall? Note the same words applied to the Mystery Babylon Harlot in Apocalypse 17...

    3 And he took me away in spirit into the desert. And I saw a woman
    sitting upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having
    seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was clothed round about with
    purple and scarlet, and gilt with gold, and precious stones and pearls,
    having a golden cup in her hand, full of the abomination and filthiness
    of her fornication. 5 And on her forehead a name was written: A mystery;
    Babylon the great, the mother of the fornications, and the abominations
    of the earth.

    6 And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the
    blood of the martyrs of Jesus. — Apocalypse 17

    This is not the side I'm going to root for in the Israel-Iran war.

    8 And to the angel of the church of Smyrna write: These things saith the
    First and the Last, who was dead, and is alive: 9 I know thy tribulation
    and thy poverty, but thou art rich: and thou art blasphemed by them that
    say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
    — Apocalypse 2

    7 And to the angel of the church of Philadelphia, write: These things
    saith the Holy One and the true one, he that hath the key of David; he
    that openeth, and no man shutteth; shutteth, and no man openeth: 8 I
    know thy works. Behold, I have given before thee a door opened, which no
    man can shut: because thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word,
    and hast not denied my name. 9 Behold, I will bring of the synagogue of
    Satan, who say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie. Behold, I will
    make them to come and adore before thy feet. And they shall know that I
    have loved thee.

    I could quote all night. Modern Judaism has no connection to God. There's
    only one way to God in the New Covenant, and that's through Jesus. Modern Judaism opposes Christ and is animated by satan. They long ago rejected the conditional promises God offered them. Will they repent at the end? I don't know. Maybe. I do know that Jews who convert to Christianity often make the strongest Christians.

    And there are many more verses like that.
    I cannot believe I still remember this from my Catechism days.

    As a Christian you may have wanted to concentrate more on the New Testament and the New Covenant that superseded the Old Covenant. (Hebrews fully
    explains that the Old Covenant was about gone — the Temple was destroyed in 70 A.D.) The book of Hebrews was probably written between 65-70 A.D., so shortly before the Temple was destroyed and Old Testament sacrifice was
    ended forever.

    And the Palestinians claim similar reasons although technically they didn't exist as a group
    until sometime in the 1960's. However the ancient people of the area, Egyptians, Jordanians, Syrians,
    and others can be traced to modern day people as well.

    The main difference is that the Palestinians — Christians, Muslims and Jews
    were living peacefully together in Palestine before the Jews decided to
    steal the land and force the Palestinians into refugee camps. They did this >> through guile, terrorism and force.

    It takes 2 to hora :)
    The Jews believe the land is theirs.
    The Palestinians believe it belongs to them.

    Yeah, because they were living there BEFORE the Jewish refugees arrived (who were generously taken in by the Palestinians). To repay that act of kindness they stole the property of their hosts. How gracious of them.

    And then of course in modern times we have the disaster the UN caused which has resulted
    in the political angle being pushed currently.

    Only a disaster because the Jews wouldn't accept that the native
    Palestinians had a right to their own land, homes and property. Would you >> quietly go into the night if and Indian tribe showed up at your house, said >> "this is mine" and used terrorist thugs to force you out of your own home? >> They would (of course) "generously" offer you a tent in a fenced off "refugee
    camp" and tell you that you should be happy you got that. (And then they
    would take back their word and force you out that camp a few years later, >> when you started growing orchards and building huts to live in.)

    Again: The Jews believe the land is theirs.
    The Palestinians believe it belongs to them.

    The Jews believe that ANY land inhabited by the "goyim" (cattle) belongs to them. It's considered "uninhabited" land.

    Gaza. Lebanon. Syria — and, using (mostly) the United States as their proxy,
    Iraq and Iran. The Israelis have no problem killing Christian Palestinians
    and Lebanese as well as Muslims. Every month they steal more land on the >>>> West Bank. Thugs from the United States (dual citizens of the U.S. and >>>> Israel) go to the West Bank, cut down orchards, kill sheep and burn down >>>> Palestinian homes. After all, they're only goyim, aren't they? And this is
    "unoccupied" land. No "people" live there and own property.

    It's a war.
    However, do you have some cites for the above?
    Having grown up in NYC where my neighborhood was truly a melting pot
    and bordering on an area that was mostly Hasidic Jews (the penguins), there >>> was NEVER a problem. They kept to themselves and followed their religion. >>> The stores and shops in that area were closed on Saturday and open on Sunday
    where shops in my area were closed.

    Yes, it's a war. Who started it in the 1940s? Who stole homes and property >> from the people who lived there? Who's committing genocide against those
    they forced out of their own land and into the open air gulag of Gaza and >> the refugee camps of the West Bank? I'm not arguing that it's not a war, I'm
    just trying to figure out why you take the side of the genocidal thugs who >> STOLE the land in the first place and have been "mowing the grass" (killing >> men, women and children) for decades? Where's your sense of justice?

    Actually it was given to the Jews in 1917 via Balfour and your buddies the Rothschilds.
    when the Ottomans abandoned the area, the league of nations granted GB control in order to
    provide, on that land, a Jewish home for lack of a better term.

    That's nice of the Rothschilds to give away land they didn't own. Do you realize you're strengthening my argument?

    The Brits made a mess of the place making promises to both sides that they were unable to
    keep which started the modern day conflicts.

    The Brits fought a war against the terrorist Israeli gangs, like the Stern gang. From whom do you think the Palestinians learned how to bomb buses?
    Have you read any of the history about how the Jews took this land that
    didn't belong to them?

    Jump to 1948 where Israel was formed without any input from the Palestinians which
    at the time were the major number of people living there.

    This was bad.
    And I don't agree with it at all.

    I don't either. Especially since the Palestinians took in boatloads of Jewish refugees who were fleeing the war and pogroms in Europe. They actually
    invited them to live in their homes. Then, when they would leave for a few days, the Jews they had invited in, changed the locks on the doors and, when the owners tried to get into their own homes, Jewish thugs (masquerading as soldiers) hauled them off to jail or refugee camps (basically the same
    thing).

    This is how modern Israel was born.

    As for the Hasidic Jews, they have a huge pedophile problem. Strangely
    enough, the city of New York let's them take care of it "in house." It's not
    a far stretch for them, when it's argued in their "sacred" Talmud that
    raping a child of three years and one day, makes her the wife of the rapist.

    They are also, at least prior to the illegal invasion in NYC one of the top ethnic
    groups milking the welfare systems.
    They know how to work the system.
    I can't argue the pedo point because it seems to be true.
    There are many perverse type behaviors being done in the name of religion. Like Rabbis checking young girls panties to see if they were unclean (period).

    Yeah, I understand. Pedophilia seems to be everywhere now. It's unbelievably disgusting. That's why I want the Esptein files (ALL of them) released and
    the billionaire bastards tried in courts of law. At least in Idaho
    pedophilia can result in death by firing squad. (Maybe that's why Trump doesn't campaign in Idaho? — I'm guessing not.)

    I don't agree with any of that, but what I am saying is compared to the ethnic groups moving
    into NYC these days, they didn't cause us christians any trouble.
    We didn't have to worry about some bomber on a bus blowing us up.
    These days?
    Read the papers and decide for yourself.
    And then of course they have their various sects as well and there were plenty of
    reformed, non ultra religious Jews living there as well and they didn't cause any troubles at all.

    I knew (via the old screenwriting newsgroup) an atheist Jew who went to Catholic school (knew more about some of the teachings of my religion than I did). I argued with him a lot, but he was a good guy, in my opinion. He had two sons and he would have gladly died for them if needed. At one point pedophilia came up on the user group and he said "Pedophiles should burn in the deepest pits of hell." I thought that was kind of funny coming from an atheist, but it's a natural sentiment of any father — or at least it should be. His wife was an Orthodox Jew, so I'm guessing there some of her
    influence rubbed off on him and the family. (He wrote some movies you might have seen, like 13 Ghosts.)

    These days?
    It's a war zone and in the press almost weekly.
    Guess why?
    I'll give you a hint, it ain't the penguins.

    Yeah, their crimes are quiet, covered up and behind the scenes. (I'm not
    saying all Hasidic Jews, btw.)

    They are "connected" to some degree if you will but they aren't targeting
    you and I simply because we are not like them.
    That's my point.

    But you know full well who is.
    A group of people who have no intention of assimilating into the culture but instead
    want to force their culture upon the citizens of the countries they invade. It's a fact.
    And they do not even deny it.

    I'm not defending Muslim immigrants and the crimes they've committed. But
    take a close at who is coming here, and it's almost always the Sunni Muslims (Arabs). The Sunnis (at least some of them) tend to be much more violent
    than the Shia Muslims. I had an Iranian doctor for while in Texas. Very nice person (the most helpful doctor I've ever had). I don't know if he was Muslim or Christian, I just know he came from Iran. Lots of smart people in Iran.

    Have you been totally ignoring the news of the genocide in Gaza and the >>>> theft of land in the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria? You need to widen your >>>> scope of reading beyond the MSM (owned and controlled by the Rothschild >>>> cabal).

    You are not offering proof.
    I give you Oct 7th.
    What do you have?

    You haven't seen pictures of the utterly destroyed Gaza? Really? You haven't
    read the news of the Israeli government cutting off their utilities, (water >> and electricity) and blocking food and medicine shipments? You haven't seen >> pictures of blown up hospitals, churches or the skeletal children, who have >> nothing to eat and are starving to death?

    Of course I have.
    And what and who started this modern day war?

    It doesn't matter who started it, collective punishment is a war crime. Bombing hospitals, cutting off food, water, medical supplies — all war crimes. Carpet bombing civilians, war crimes. Modern Israel doesn't give a damn. After all these people are "Amaleks" or "goyim," they're not people, they're animals to be slaughtered.

    I also see articles where Hamas, sponsored by Iran BTW, are intercepting UN food and
    medical supplies thus starving their own people.

    There's a lot of lying bullshit published by our vacuous talking heads.
    Don't believe everything you hear. And even if that was true, how does that justify murdering and starving women and children?

    Do I agree with Israel turning off water, electricity and such to civilians? Of course not.
    I also do not support Hamas hiding in hospitals, Mosques, funeral homes, schools
    and so forth where they are using civilians as human shields.

    Of course they "hid" in hospitals because... well... because lying Israel
    told us so. Just like the Iraqis were killing babies and had Weapons of Mass Destruction, which require that we immediately come in and destroy Hussein's government (who had been our ally against Iran). War propaganda is, by it's nature, lying bullshit. Just like Iran "murdered" 33,000 "peaceful protesters."

    Does Israel do that?
    How many Israel suicide bomber attacks can you find compared to Islamic or those supporting Islam?
    How many protests turning violent can you find organized by Jews as compared to Islamist's?
    How many times have you seen Israel holding hostages, killing some and using them as bargaining chips?
    Shooting up concerts?
    Attacking military bases here in US?
    Knocking down the WTC?

    etc.....

    We're kind of off the subject of Iran when talking about suicide bombers — but you're kind of missing the point. These suicide bombers (like Israel's terrorists bombing buses and hotels in the 1940s) don't have jets to carpet bomb Tel Aviv. Their damage is minor compared to carpet bombing which, strangely enough, we never call "terrorism." Which kills more innocent civilians?

    I congratulate you on your amazing myopia. It must be nice to live in
    delusional bullshit world, free of all reality.

    I wouldn't know as I consider all sources including AlJazeera and other Arabic centered
    media.

    Well, you kept claiming you hadn't seen the damage in Gaza (that you wanted
    me to provide evidence) so I assumed you really hadn't seen that. I guess
    you just basically shrugged at it, like "oh well?"

    October 7th doesn't excuse the government of Israel or their Army from war >> crimes. As mentioned before, collective punishment is a war crime. Genocide >> is a war crime. NutYahoo has already been found guilty of war crimes in an >> international court for his actions Gaza. The five Nordic states will not >> allow him to travel to their countries. Did you also miss that bit of news?

    Both sides have committed war crimes.
    So has Russia and Ukraine.
    As for the Nordic countries, also known as Quislings, they have a point regarding the food and
    electricity being turned off.
    I mentioned this above.
    I'm part Nordic myself. Do you know what the Scandinavian slang word for traitor is?

    It's Quisling.

    Saying both sides have committed war crimes is bit disingenuous. seeing that Hamas killed less then a hundred Israeli civilians and the Israelis have murdered tens of thousands of Gazan women and children. It's nowhere near
    "an eye for an eye."

    I don't quite understand why you're bringing up the word "traitor" in this context?

    Compared to sixty years of Israelis "mowing the grass" in the open air gulag
    of Gaza? How many Israelis died on October 7th (and how many were killed by
    "friendly" fire)? How many tens of thousands of Gazans have been murdered or
    starved out by the genocidal thugs in Israel? There's no comparison. You >>>> would have to be completely blind not to see the discrepancy. (How many >>>> Iranians die each day now in Iran because of U.S. and Israeli carpet bombing
    of Tehran?) Wake up and smell the reality.

    So where are the cites showing this?
    You are going in circles with conspiracy theories.

    No one is so blind as those who won't see. You really have to work at it, to
    miss the obvious, don't you?

    Here, tell me what you see... Is this a "conspiracy?"

    This is what Israel has done to Gaza. It's what they're trying to do Tehran.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwQlPm7lCUc
    .
    Have you seen footage of what Hamas did to families, women, babies on Oct 7th?

    You mean the hostages were starving because Israel cut off the food and
    water to Gaza?

    As for Gaza, this is war.
    It's horrible and IMHO a waste of life.
    Have you seen pics of Dresden after WW2?
    Looks just like Gaza in your video.

    The civilians are always the ones to suffer.
    This is one reason why war sux.

    Yep, I've seen pictures of Dresden. Also carpet bombing and what should have been a war crime. There was no reason for this, it was just more terrorism. Like our military ghouls using atoms bombs on two Japanese cities, when we were already negotiating Japan's surrender. No excuse for this kind of crap. Not then, not now.

    As for Iran, you need to do some research. They sponsor terrorism via proxies.
    They just revealed that they have miselles capable of traveling much longer distances than first believed.
    They admitted to negotiators that they have enough almost fully enriched uranium to build several nuclear bombs.

    And... your point? It looks like it's a good thing they made these missiles because Israel decided they wanted to destroy the Iranian government. They tried doing it by "decapitating" their leaders. If not for their missiles
    and drones, the government would have fallen by now.

    And, the Ayatollah that we just murdered, had a fatwa against nuclear and chemical weapons. The reason he wrote this fatwa was because Iran suffered huge casualties caused by the chemical weapons we (the United States)
    provided to Iraq's Hussein for their proxy war on Iran. The Ayatollah, we murdered, did not believe this kind of weapon could coexist with Islam, that missiles were enough. Not everyone in Iran agreed with him and NOW Iran may actually make nuclear weapons — something the lying NutYahoo said they were "weeks from doing" 35 years ago (and he kept spewing the same bullshit over and over throughout those years, the lying piece of shit).

    The Iran Nuclear Deal was a complete farce and Iran was building bombs
    as fast as they could.

    Iran did not make NUCLEAR bombs. Nothing in the agreement kept them from making missiles. With the insane NutYahoo in charge of Israel I would be making missiles as fast as I could also. EVERY country has a right to self defense, including Iran.

    They have a netork of underground tunnels and have hidden their stockpile very
    well.

    Yes... and...? So what? They've done this because Israel and the U.S. (both long time enemies of Iran) have superior air power. Are you saying Iran does not have the right to defend themselves?

    These are crafty people on a religious mission and nothing will stop them. The US is playing whack a mole here.

    The U.S. is playing emperor of the world here... and is losing. We don't
    have the right to tell Iran (a sovereign country, much more ancient than us) what they can and can't do. Who the hell do you think we are? Do you think
    we should be pretending to be God? Good grief.

    Appeasement does not work with fanatics.
    Ask Biden and Obama about their pallets of cash given to Iran and how it helped.

    "Fanatics" for defending their own country? But Trump and our government
    are the "reasonable" ones... let's see, last count Trump bombed eight countries in his first year as president. But Iran is the "fanatic" country for defending themselves in two wars they did not start? Yeah, that makes sense.

    Somebody has to do something to at least slow them down because if not they will
    be launching nukes at all of their enemies.
    They are crazy and don't care if they die for Allah.

    Why does someone have to do "something," when they aren't attacking anyone? The reason Israel wanted us "to do something" about Iran is because the
    crazed bastards in Israel want to be the hegemon of the Middle East. Iran is standing in the way of their greed and their desperate "need" to steal the Gulf oil.

    And yes, the Iranians are willing to die defending their country. Somehow
    that kid of patriotism is a "bad" thing?

    The crazed bastards in this war are NutYahoo and his permanent butt leach, Trump.

    There are thousands upon thousands of these pictures and videos showing this
    destruction. The only way to avoid the evidence (your so-called
    "conspiracy") is to be purposely obtuse and force yourself to ignore
    reality.

    I'm referring to your claims of years of mowing the lawn and waging wars. Where is evidence of this?
    What you are showing is post Oct 7th.
    It's a war and who started the latest version of it?

    Have you done a Google search for "mowing the lawn" and Gaza. You'll find it if you look.

    Where is your evidence that this type of behavior is BAU for Israel? Terrorism is certainly BAU for the Islamist radicals.

    Did you watch the video I linked? This kind of thing has happened over and over in Gaza. Again, "google it."

    As for Iran, they killed more than 30,000 of their own people in the past months.
    They just had public hangings of 3 people whose only "crime" was peaceful protesting.
    And how many Americans and others have they killed since 1979 despite all the attempts
    at appeasement ie:pallets of cash?

    So you claim, again, with zero proof. I call your claim bullshit (not your >> bullshit, but something gullibly believe on faith). It's a lying
    "conspiracy." Prove me wrong. As you will probably not remember, since you >> seem adept at ignoring facts, Israel and the United States bragged about how
    many Starlink receivers they had smuggled into Iran, and how many Mossad
    agents and their stooges who were part of the coup attempt. They thought
    they were going to win while they were bragging. Guess what, those traitors >> and Mossad agents were wiped out. (As they would be in any country.) But you
    ignore the fact that many Iranian policemen were killed by these terrorists >> (who happened to be "good" terrorists because they were on our side).


    You are all over the place Ron :)
    Let's take one at a time.

    I'm responding to you.

    1. Iran killing their own citizens for protesting.

    <https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-senior-officials/>

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres>

    <https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/27/iran-protests-death-toll-disappeared-bodies-mass-burials-30000-dead>

    <https://iranhumanrights.org/2026/03/three-protesters-publicly-hanged-in-iran-dozens-more-at-imminent-risk-of-execution/>

    Time magazine, Wikipedia, The Guardian and Iran Human Rights. So where does this information come from?

    Quote from Time Magazine...

    The 30,000 figure is also far beyond tallies being compiled by activists
    methodically assigning names to the dead. As of Saturday, the U.S.-based
    Human Rights Activists News Agency said it had confirmed 5,459 deaths and
    is investigating 17,031 more.

    TIME has been unable to independently verify these figures.

    No verification of 30,000. The exaggerated estimate is coming from the U.S. based "Human Rights Activists News Agency" based in Fairfax, Virginia
    (i.e., Washington, D.C.) They do not reveal who sponsors them. I wonder why?

    Quote from The Guardian...

    Estimates of the number killed vary substantially, hampered by the
    ongoing internet shutdown. The Iranian government has acknowledged more
    than 3,000 dead, and the US-based organisation HRANA (Human Rights
    Activists News Agency), whose figures have been reliable during previous
    crackdowns, says it has verified more than 6,000 dead and has more than
    17,000 more recorded deaths under investigation, giving a possible total
    of about 22,000. Other estimates from doctors based outside Iran range
    up to 33,000 or more.

    Here we go again. The same source (still located in Fairfax, Virginia). No verification, just an "estimate" by an anti-Iranian government NGO located
    in the United States.

    Now Wikipedia...

    On 25 January, Time reported that a specific list included 30,304
    protest-related deaths registered in civilian hospitals for 8 and 9
    January alone.[3] The same day, Iran International estimated the total
    number of deaths at ~36,500.[4] On 28 January, The Guardian reported
    that the death toll could be more than 30,000, and that less than 10% of
    deaths may have been officially registered.

    Their source is Time Magazine and The Guardian, whose source was the U.S. based HRANA. So one big circle jerk.

    As for the last source, Center for Human Rights in Iran, based in New
    York... there's no mention of 30,000 deaths. Instead, the news story is
    about three protesters who were hung, probably for sedition. This is another anti-Iranian government organization. Apparently they want the son of the despotic Shah of Iran to be made the new despotic Shah of Iran. Whoopee!

    Looking at the Wikipedia article (linked), I see that (as of now) HRANA is only claiming 7,007 deaths in the attempted coup. I don't know if they are including the deaths of Iranian policeman and Mossad agents in this count or not.

    2. Starlink receivers being smuggled into Iran?

    Yea. And so what? You do know that Iran cut off the Internet. Why? So that the regime could censor people
    from finding out exactly what was going on there.

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Internet_blackout_in_Iran>

    The point being that this was organized coup attempt on Iran. That's "so what." Any government has the right to stop a violent coup. Why do you think sedition is a capital crime worldwide?

    And do you really believe that Iran is not cyber attacking Israel, USA etc ? Of course they are trying.

    And... so what? Israel and the United States is obviously doing the same. Do you think only "our" side should be able to do that. Are you jingoist?

    Why does it bother you that the truth about what is really going on in Iran is allowed
    to be told?

    The Starlink receivers were used by the protesters to coordinate their attempted coup. The point being that this was not just a protest, it was a failed attempt to take down the government.

    The claim that these "protesters'" (seditionists) "only crime" was protesting
    is bullshit. It was an armed attempt to overthrow the government of Iran, >> which is sedition. Sedition is a capital crime every where. Just reality.

    And the protests supporting Palestine here in the USA are being funded and organized
    by professional protesters.
    Your point?

    Some are. But, so far I haven't seen any of these people shooting at the police, like they did in Iran. Have you? (In Iran over 200 policemen were killed by Mosad agents and the "innocent" and (many) armed protesters). It
    was a full fledged coup attempt that failed. Death penalties were handed
    out. That's what happens to traitors.

    Sure sedition may be a crime but if the majority of the people don't like the current
    regime it's up to them to change it.
    Welcome to the US Revolutionary war.

    Yep. And Americans died in the Revolutionary war, right? Your point?

    And BTW, I really doubt that 30,000 people were ALL dangerous seditionist's. You have zero proof of that.

    And BTW, I really doubt that 30,000 people were killed in this coup attempt. Zero proof or evidence of it. Just claims, all originating from the same source in Washington, D.C. (Like they would know.)

    Any Jews knocking down buildings?
    Throwing gays off rooftops?
    Beheading people?
    Shouting death to Israel and America?
    I'm not seeing it.

    Have you looked at ANY, any pictures at all, of Gaza after Israel's carpet >> bombing of the city. I can't believe you're so reality challenged that
    you're even asking this question. Are you in some of cult where they don't >> allow you to think or observe?

    After October 7th.
    And who started that again?

    You're repeating yourself. What happened on October 7th does not justify Israeli war crimes. Period. NutYahoo is convicted war crime criminal. That's how serious the world has taken his actions on the CIVILIANS of Gaza.

    I am however seeing Islamist's creating havoc all over the world daily.
    We recently had 3 or 4 attacks in the USA.
    Is it the Jews again?

    Right. It was the "Islamists" who started these two wars against Iran, not >> the Israelis or their NutYahoo butt leach, Trump.

    Again you are all over the place.
    You point to evidence regarding Gaza destruction and then morph into Iran.

    You keep saying that. I'm responding to you, so apparently you're "all over the place."

    Someone had to stop Iran from their evil.
    Have you noticed that the other Arab states are being attacked by Iran?
    Have you noticed that those states are aligning with the US and Israel?

    No, they're not. They're pissed because they let the U.S. build bases on
    their territory (with the promise to protect them) and the United States withdrew, taking their weapons with them. (Have I mentioned this before?)

    Why do you think that is?

    Why do I think what is? The false claim that the Arab states are backing Israel and the United States?

    Maybe they know something you don't.
    Ya think?

    Know what? Something you're making up on the fly?

    "Islamist" covers a lot of territory. The Islamists terrorists are almost >> always Sunni, not Shia. And yet Trump cuddles up to the terrorist who now >> claims to be the "president" of Syria. We're "great friends" with the Crown >> Prince of Saudi Arabia (whose public executions are continual). We seem to >> have blinders on our eyes when talking about the Sunni terrorists, who have >> committed 82% of all terrorist attacks in three decades (as reported by both
    the United States and France). Before Trump decided it was time kiss the
    ass of the current, head-chopping terrorist president of Syria, he first
    removed the $10 million dollar bounty on his head for... (you guessed it) >> terrorism. There is no moral high ground in our country and especially not >> in genocidal Israel.

    And Biden/Obama gave them pallets of cash in order to appease them.
    Of course Islam encompasses many types of people and beliefs. I am referring in
    particular to the terrorist faction.

    Pallets of cash we stole from Iran (and not all what we stole from them). We pulled off the same crap against Russia. In that case we stole $300 billion dollars. Your point?

    Taken as a whole the entire Middle East are not to be trusted in terms of being
    allies to the US.
    The only country who is a true ally to the US is Israel.
    And call me paranoid but I don't trust them either but I trust them more than the Arab states.

    So why are wasting our time and money in the Middle East? Israel is not an ally, they're a parasite. They take, take and take and demand we support
    their insane warmongering bullshit.

    As for political posturing, that's politics.
    They all do it.
    And like i always say, follow the money to find the reasons why.

    If you're talking about AIPAC, it's against the law to take lobbying money from a foreign country. This is not just general corruption, it's treason.

    --snip a bunch of stuff we mostly agree on.
    Who would have guessed :)

    We don't agree on a whole lot here.
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
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  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Mon Mar 23 16:33:03 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-23, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-23 6:53 a.m., RonB wrote:
    On 2026-03-22, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-21 3:11 p.m., rbowman wrote:
    On Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:49:07 -0000 (UTC), pothead wrote:

    Israel claims a combination of their God of the Bible and history proves >>>>> it's their land.
    Basically they claim to be the indigenous people of the land and for >>>>> thousands of years.
    Various archaeological evidence.

    There are a lot of people that would like the land their ancestors lived >>>> on 2000 years ago but they are shit out of luck. They don't own most of >>>> the politicians and confused Christians that didn't get the message about >>>> a new covenant.

    The reality is that the precedent set by Israel gives the Indigenous
    here in Canada the right to ask for their land back. The government of
    British Columbia just screwed over anyone who bought land anywhere in
    the metropolitan areas by giving ownership of the land back to a tribe
    of around 1,400 people. You can imagine the nightmare it will be once
    the current owners die. These useless Indians will get billions for
    merely existing.

    The reality is that to the winners go the spoils.

    I'm waiting to see who wins in the war between Iran and Israel. I've got a >> feeling it won't be Israel.

    And I've got a feeling that I don't care about either side. Both have no love for Christ or Christianity, so they are reserved to their fate.

    Except there *are* Christian Palestinians. Most have been run out by Israel, but some still live there.
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
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  • From Adison Vohn Caterson@Adison@Caterson.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Mon Mar 23 17:02:29 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-23, pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-23, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:20:52 -0000 (UTC), pothead wrote:


    Prior to that, Palestine was known as the land of Canaan where the
    Hebrew tribes/kingdoms of Judah and what became modern day Israel
    existed.

    iirc, after despoiling Egypt and Moses getting his GPS fixed, they moved
    into the land of Caanan and killed all the Canaanites. Not much has
    changed.

    Moses GPS!
    ROTFLMAO!

    Actually the Bible contradicts itself on this one.
    It does offer up God, supposedly, commanding Joshua to destroy
    the Canaanites, other texts suggest otherwise. From an archaeological perspective modern interpretations suggest that the Israelite s were not foreign
    invaders but instead emerged from within the Canaanite population itself.
    Too much contradiction to have a solid, factual this is what happened scenario.

    Neanderthal were there 100,000 years ago, then hobo sapiens moved in
    from Africa and gave the hobos the boot.
    Around 80,000 years ago the climate changed, the hobo sapiens that were
    roaming that area either left, or got booted out by the Neanderthals
    that moved back in. For the next 25,000 years Neanderthals roamed around looking for Yahweh, didn't find him...
    So 55,000 years again hobo s. came back to finish the search...

    That area could probably have every human on the planet staking an
    ancestral claim ;)

    Dragged to Sunday school for years by my mom I have a decent knowledge
    of the Bible.
    Also, I was the kid who would ask the tough questions like if Adam and
    Eve had 2 sons,
    where did all the other people come from?
    Yep.
    I actually asked that question among others.

    Luckily they tried to raise me Catholic. I finally read the New Testament >> in the 'Good News for Modern Man' version in boot camp because there was
    nothing else to read. I've taken a few shots at the OT and never got too
    far other than skipping ahead to Ecclesiasticus.,Proverbs, and Psalms. I
    think I made it through Apocalypse once. They had some good 'shrooms on
    Patmos. The followers of Darby and Schofield lap that slop up.

    LOL!
    Good story!


    Anyway, Look in Genesis where God has a covenant with Abram and where he >>> is specific in defining the borders of the land as between 2 rivers.
    God also tells Joshua that he is giving the same land (Canaan) to the
    people of Israel as he promised to their ancestors.

    My ancestors were chasing mammoths around northern Europe at the time. Why >> should I worry about west Asian tribal myths. Of course it says god gave
    them the land; they wrote the frigging book.

    A bunch of illiterate, sheep fuckin cave dwellers at that.

    Whether it's true or not, this is the source of the problem of who owns the land.
    Romans 3 v1-2 is called Oracles rule.
    It's an interesting read.

    And when modern archaeology and secular history is taken into account it becomes
    even more confusing.

    It was a well traveled area between Asia, Africa, and Europe.
    All kinds of cultures spouted up around there.

    And there are many more verses like that.
    I cannot believe I still remember this from my Catechism days.

    I think my catechism was a bit different. iirc it said there was no
    salvation outside of the Church, and they didn't mean some random
    storefront church.

    Probably was.
    Which poses the age old question, which religion is the true religion?
    Until someone actually comes back from the dead with data, we will never know.

    The true religion in the one one believes in.
    Last I heard it was The Flying Spaghetti Monster.
    --
    End Transmission
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Mon Mar 23 19:05:40 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:03:28 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    On 2026-03-22, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Mar 2026 05:58:22 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    And speaking of NutYahoo, he recently compared Jesus unfavorably to
    Genghis Khan, whom he said (unlike Jesus) "got things done."
    (Paraphrased.) It even got some Zionist "Christians" confused and
    upset.
    I didn't think that was possible.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledot_Yeshu

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_in_Islam
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam

    just saying...

    And yet these Zionist "Christians" choose the Jews, who ridicule Jesus
    and Mary, over the Muslims who, at least, respect them. This whole
    "brand" of "kowtowing to the Jews" "Christianity" didn't show up until
    the late 1800s.
    I guess they forget to read the New Testament they claim to base their religion on.

    Most are very fond of the OT. The game has changed since Vatican II but
    when I was a kid the Catholics were clear on the question of Christ-
    killers. There was a prayer on Good Friday for the perfidious Jews that
    the veil be lifted from their hearts.

    It has been rewritten several times with suggestions from the ADL. The
    Society of Saint Pius X was upset by the concession to the Jews.

    While there was nothing that said Catholics couldn't read the OT, few did.
    The Psalms and a few cherry picked prophesies were included in the liturgy
    but that was about it.


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  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Mon Mar 23 19:25:26 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-23 3:05 p.m., rbowman wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:03:28 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    On 2026-03-22, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Mar 2026 05:58:22 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    And speaking of NutYahoo, he recently compared Jesus unfavorably to
    Genghis Khan, whom he said (unlike Jesus) "got things done."
    (Paraphrased.) It even got some Zionist "Christians" confused and
    upset.
    I didn't think that was possible.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledot_Yeshu

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_in_Islam
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam

    just saying...

    And yet these Zionist "Christians" choose the Jews, who ridicule Jesus
    and Mary, over the Muslims who, at least, respect them. This whole
    "brand" of "kowtowing to the Jews" "Christianity" didn't show up until
    the late 1800s.
    I guess they forget to read the New Testament they claim to base their
    religion on.

    Most are very fond of the OT. The game has changed since Vatican II but
    when I was a kid the Catholics were clear on the question of Christ-
    killers. There was a prayer on Good Friday for the perfidious Jews that
    the veil be lifted from their hearts.

    It has been rewritten several times with suggestions from the ADL. The Society of Saint Pius X was upset by the concession to the Jews.

    While there was nothing that said Catholics couldn't read the OT, few did. The Psalms and a few cherry picked prophesies were included in the liturgy but that was about it.

    The only lines in the OT that matter to me are the ones which predict
    the coming of Jesus Christ and shockingly detail what would happen to
    the Messiah, 750 years before he was revealed to the world. If Jesus
    Christ came to fulfill the Old Testament, then the New Testament is what matters most. Besides, faggots and Muslims consistently have problems
    with the Old Testament and misinterpret _it_ to make us sound like
    hypocrites or to suggest that the Bible has been corrupted, but they
    don't have much to say about the New Testament. It's almost as if it
    were perfect.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    Islam is poison, leftism is retardation.
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  • From Joel W. Crump@joelcrump@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Mon Mar 23 19:45:38 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 3/23/2026 7:25 PM, CrudeSausage wrote:

    The only lines in the OT that matter to me are the ones which predict
    the coming of Jesus Christ and shockingly detail what would happen to
    the Messiah, 750 years before he was revealed to the world. If Jesus
    Christ came to fulfill the Old Testament, then the New Testament is what matters most. Besides, faggots and Muslims consistently have problems
    with the Old Testament and misinterpret _it_ to make us sound like hypocrites or to suggest that the Bible has been corrupted, but they
    don't have much to say about the New Testament. It's almost as if it
    were perfect.


    Phobes have used Paul's words against LGBTQ people. The NT isn't
    perfect. Hell, idiots have even said that Jesus talked about the man
    leaving home to be with his wife, that must mean only str8 couples
    matter, blah blah. Just any excuse they can find to justify their
    homophobia. Meanwhile, Jesus is Yahweh's BF, and the Son of Man has a
    trans GF (yes, I mean myself).
    --
    Joel W. Crump
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Tue Mar 24 01:26:02 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:25:26 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

    The only lines in the OT that matter to me are the ones which predict
    the coming of Jesus Christ and shockingly detail what would happen to
    the Messiah, 750 years before he was revealed to the world.

    I don't remember the details but I recall some of those lines wer very
    freely translated from Hebrew. That's not difficult.

    https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3087993/jewish/Why-No- Vowels-in-the-Torah.htm

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  • From Joel W. Crump@joelcrump@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Mon Mar 23 21:34:22 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 3/23/2026 7:25 PM, CrudeSausage wrote:

    The only lines in the OT that matter to me are the ones which predict
    the coming of Jesus Christ and shockingly detail what would happen to
    the Messiah, 750 years before he was revealed to the world.


    I overlooked that the first time - he's obviously referencing Isaiah 53,
    which is about a specific period of time in *my* life. Commonly claimed
    to be a prophecy of Jesus, but wrongly.
    --
    Joel W. Crump
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  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Tue Mar 24 15:28:18 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-23, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:03:28 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    On 2026-03-22, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Mar 2026 05:58:22 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    And speaking of NutYahoo, he recently compared Jesus unfavorably to
    Genghis Khan, whom he said (unlike Jesus) "got things done."
    (Paraphrased.) It even got some Zionist "Christians" confused and
    upset.
    I didn't think that was possible.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledot_Yeshu

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_in_Islam
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam

    just saying...

    And yet these Zionist "Christians" choose the Jews, who ridicule Jesus
    and Mary, over the Muslims who, at least, respect them. This whole
    "brand" of "kowtowing to the Jews" "Christianity" didn't show up until
    the late 1800s.
    I guess they forget to read the New Testament they claim to base their
    religion on.

    Most are very fond of the OT. The game has changed since Vatican II but
    when I was a kid the Catholics were clear on the question of Christ-
    killers. There was a prayer on Good Friday for the perfidious Jews that
    the veil be lifted from their hearts.

    It has been rewritten several times with suggestions from the ADL. The Society of Saint Pius X was upset by the concession to the Jews.

    While there was nothing that said Catholics couldn't read the OT, few did. The Psalms and a few cherry picked prophesies were included in the liturgy but that was about it.

    Actually there is more than that, at least in my experience. Catholics
    really like the Book of Wisdom and some of the other books the Jews (and
    later the Protestants) reject. The dueterocannoncals were originally in the LXX (Old Testament Israelites Greek Old Testament) but there were too many prophesies there pointing to Christ, so the Jews rejected them (and, of course, the Protestants followed suit).
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
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  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Tue Mar 24 15:46:17 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-23, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
    On 2026-03-23 3:05 p.m., rbowman wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:03:28 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    On 2026-03-22, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Mar 2026 05:58:22 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    And speaking of NutYahoo, he recently compared Jesus unfavorably to
    Genghis Khan, whom he said (unlike Jesus) "got things done."
    (Paraphrased.) It even got some Zionist "Christians" confused and
    upset.
    I didn't think that was possible.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledot_Yeshu

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_in_Islam
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam

    just saying...

    And yet these Zionist "Christians" choose the Jews, who ridicule Jesus
    and Mary, over the Muslims who, at least, respect them. This whole
    "brand" of "kowtowing to the Jews" "Christianity" didn't show up until
    the late 1800s.
    I guess they forget to read the New Testament they claim to base their
    religion on.

    Most are very fond of the OT. The game has changed since Vatican II but
    when I was a kid the Catholics were clear on the question of Christ-
    killers. There was a prayer on Good Friday for the perfidious Jews that
    the veil be lifted from their hearts.

    It has been rewritten several times with suggestions from the ADL. The
    Society of Saint Pius X was upset by the concession to the Jews.

    While there was nothing that said Catholics couldn't read the OT, few did. >> The Psalms and a few cherry picked prophesies were included in the liturgy >> but that was about it.

    The only lines in the OT that matter to me are the ones which predict
    the coming of Jesus Christ and shockingly detail what would happen to
    the Messiah, 750 years before he was revealed to the world. If Jesus
    Christ came to fulfill the Old Testament, then the New Testament is what matters most. Besides, faggots and Muslims consistently have problems
    with the Old Testament and misinterpret _it_ to make us sound like hypocrites or to suggest that the Bible has been corrupted, but they
    don't have much to say about the New Testament. It's almost as if it
    were perfect.

    Different Covenants, Old and New — the new is better. As St. Paul writes in Hebrews...

    1 Now of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum: We have such
    an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of majesty in
    the heavens, 2 A minister of the holies, and of the true tabernacle,
    which the Lord hath pitched, and not man. 3 For every high priest is
    appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that
    he also should have some thing to offer. 4 If then he were on earth, he
    would not be a priest: seeing that there would be others to offer gifts
    according to the law, 5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of
    heavenly things. As it was answered to Moses, when he was to finish the
    tabernacle: See (saith he) that thou make all things according to the
    pattern which was shewn thee on the mount.

    6 But now he hath obtained a better ministry, by how much also he is a
    mediator of a better testament, which is established on better promises.
    7 For if that former had been faultless, there should not indeed a place
    have been sought for a second. 8 For finding fault with them, he saith:
    Behold, the days shall come, saith the Lord: and I will perfect unto the
    house of Israel, and unto the house of Juda, a new testament: 9 Not
    according to the testament which I made to their fathers, on the day when
    I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt: because
    they continued not in my testament: and I regarded them not, saith the
    Lord. 10 For this is the testament which I will make to the house of
    Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my laws into their
    mind, and in their heart will I write them: and I will be their God, and
    they shall be my people:

    11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour and every man his
    brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the least to
    the greatest of them: 12 Because I will be merciful to their iniquities,
    and their sins I will remember no more. 13 Now in saying a new, he hath
    made the former old. And that which decayeth and groweth old, is near its
    end. —Hebrews 8

    Saint Paul is quoting from Jeremiah 31...

    31 Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and I will make a new
    covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda [Jeremias
    (Jeremiah) 31:31] 32 Not according to the covenant which I made with
    their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out
    of the land of Egypt: the covenant which they made void, and I had
    dominion over them, saith the Lord. 33 But this shall be the covenant
    that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the
    Lord: I will give my law in their bowels, and I will write it in their
    heart: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And they
    shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother,
    saying: Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the least of them even
    to the greatest, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I
    will remember their sin no more. 35 Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the
    sun for the light of the day, the order of the moon and of the stars, for
    the light of the night: who stirreth up the sea, and the waves thereof
    roar, the Lord of hosts is his name.

    Note: "The covenant which they (the Israelites) made void" will be replaced.

    The Old Covenant was conditional. The Israelites did not meet the
    conditions. But they can enter into the New Covenant if they're willing.

    The Zionist "Christians" don't teach these facts.
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
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  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Tue Mar 24 15:52:39 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-24, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:25:26 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

    The only lines in the OT that matter to me are the ones which predict
    the coming of Jesus Christ and shockingly detail what would happen to
    the Messiah, 750 years before he was revealed to the world.

    I don't remember the details but I recall some of those lines wer very freely translated from Hebrew. That's not difficult.

    https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3087993/jewish/Why-No- Vowels-in-the-Torah.htm

    What a lot of people don't realize is that many (if not the majority) of Old Testament passages quoted in the New Testament come from the Greek
    Septuagint (LXX) translation of the Bible. That's why it's sometimes hard to "collate" the Old Testament passages (from the Hebrew Old Testament) with
    the quotes in the New Testament.
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
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  • From pothead@pothead@snakebite.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Tue Mar 24 16:10:55 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-24, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-23, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:03:28 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    On 2026-03-22, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Mar 2026 05:58:22 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    And speaking of NutYahoo, he recently compared Jesus unfavorably to
    Genghis Khan, whom he said (unlike Jesus) "got things done."
    (Paraphrased.) It even got some Zionist "Christians" confused and
    upset.
    I didn't think that was possible.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledot_Yeshu

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_in_Islam
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam

    just saying...

    And yet these Zionist "Christians" choose the Jews, who ridicule Jesus
    and Mary, over the Muslims who, at least, respect them. This whole
    "brand" of "kowtowing to the Jews" "Christianity" didn't show up until
    the late 1800s.
    I guess they forget to read the New Testament they claim to base their
    religion on.

    Most are very fond of the OT. The game has changed since Vatican II but
    when I was a kid the Catholics were clear on the question of Christ-
    killers. There was a prayer on Good Friday for the perfidious Jews that
    the veil be lifted from their hearts.

    It has been rewritten several times with suggestions from the ADL. The
    Society of Saint Pius X was upset by the concession to the Jews.

    While there was nothing that said Catholics couldn't read the OT, few did. >> The Psalms and a few cherry picked prophesies were included in the liturgy >> but that was about it.

    Actually there is more than that, at least in my experience. Catholics really like the Book of Wisdom and some of the other books the Jews (and later the Protestants) reject. The dueterocannoncals were originally in the LXX (Old Testament Israelites Greek Old Testament) but there were too many prophesies there pointing to Christ, so the Jews rejected them (and, of course, the Protestants followed suit).


    Well from a biblical POV, Revelation 22:18 discusses adding or removing anything
    from the Bible, so with all of the different variations we are in trouble already.
    --

    pothead

    "How many liberals does it take to change a light bulb?
    None, they’re too busy changing their gender."

    "What’s the hardest part about being a Liberal?
    Telling your gender neutral parental units that you’re straight."
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  • From DFS@nospam@dfs.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Tue Mar 24 13:08:05 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 3/23/2026 9:34 PM, Joel W. Crump wrote:


    he's obviously referencing Isaiah 53, which is about a specific
    period of time in *my* life.


    I can't believe so much kookery and narcissism can be found at the
    bottom of a can of Pepsi.

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  • From Joel W. Crump@joelcrump@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Tue Mar 24 13:11:03 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 3/24/2026 1:08 PM, DFS wrote:

    he's obviously referencing Isaiah 53, which is about a specific
    period of time in *my* life.

    I can't believe so much kookery and narcissism can be found at the
    bottom of a can of Pepsi.


    In this case, it had to do with snorting very good and powerful crystal methamphetamine.
    --
    Joel W. Crump
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  • From DFS@nospam@dfs.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Tue Mar 24 13:20:02 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 3/24/2026 1:11 PM, Joel W. Crump wrote:
    On 3/24/2026 1:08 PM, DFS wrote:

    he's obviously referencing Isaiah 53, which is about a specific
    period of time in *my* life.

    I can't believe so much kookery and narcissism can be found at the
    bottom of a can of Pepsi.


    In this case, it had to do with snorting very good and powerful crystal methamphetamine.

    Cosby sold it to you?




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  • From Joel W. Crump@joelcrump@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Tue Mar 24 13:25:56 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 3/24/2026 1:20 PM, DFS wrote:

    he's obviously referencing Isaiah 53, which is about a specific
    period of time in *my* life.

    I can't believe so much kookery and narcissism can be found at the
    bottom of a can of Pepsi.

    In this case, it had to do with snorting very good and powerful
    crystal methamphetamine.

    Cosby sold it to you?


    A very good friend shared with me.
    --
    Joel W. Crump
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  • From vallor@vallor@vallor.earth to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Tue Mar 24 17:29:33 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    At Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:25:56 -0400, "Joel W. Crump" <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 3/24/2026 1:20 PM, DFS wrote:

    he's obviously referencing Isaiah 53, which is about a specific
    period of time in *my* life.

    I can't believe so much kookery and narcissism can be found at the
    bottom of a can of Pepsi.

    In this case, it had to do with snorting very good and powerful
    crystal methamphetamine.

    Cosby sold it to you?


    A very good friend shared with me.

    Don't look now, but the Distro Lackey will be "shoulding"
    you any minute.

    Speaking of which: what do you think of your current Linux install?
    --
    -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 Mem: 258G
    OS: Linux 7.0.0-rc5 D: Mint 22.3 DE: Xfce 4.18 (X11)
    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090Ti (24G) (595.45.04)
    "Math is the language God used to write the universe."
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  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Tue Mar 24 13:45:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-24 1:20 p.m., DFS wrote:
    On 3/24/2026 1:11 PM, Joel W. Crump wrote:
    On 3/24/2026 1:08 PM, DFS wrote:

    he's obviously referencing Isaiah 53, which is about a specific
    period of time in *my* life.

    I can't believe so much kookery and narcissism can be found at the
    bottom of a can of Pepsi.


    In this case, it had to do with snorting very good and powerful
    crystal methamphetamine.

    Cosby sold it to you?

    Cosby doesn't need to drug Joel to get him to bend over; he will do it
    for free.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    Islam is poison, leftism is retardation.
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  • From Joel W. Crump@joelcrump@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Tue Mar 24 13:53:03 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 3/24/2026 1:29 PM, vallor wrote:
    At Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:25:56 -0400, "Joel W. Crump" <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 3/24/2026 1:20 PM, DFS wrote:

    ; he's obviously referencing Isaiah 53, which is about a specific >>>>>  > period of time in *my* life.

    I can't believe so much kookery and narcissism can be found at the
    bottom of a can of Pepsi.

    In this case, it had to do with snorting very good and powerful
    crystal methamphetamine.

    Cosby sold it to you?

    A very good friend shared with me.

    Don't look now, but the Distro Lackey will be "shoulding"
    you any minute.


    Perhaps.


    Speaking of which: what do you think of your current Linux install?


    I never went back to Debian after "temporarily" installing Win11 25H2.
    I've decided that preference doesn't matter more than convenience.
    --
    Joel W. Crump
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Tue Mar 24 18:14:12 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:52:39 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    What a lot of people don't realize is that many (if not the majority) of
    Old Testament passages quoted in the New Testament come from the Greek Septuagint (LXX) translation of the Bible. That's why it's sometimes
    hard to "collate" the Old Testament passages (from the Hebrew Old
    Testament) with the quotes in the New Testament.

    iirc that is a problem for the Protestant 'sola scriptura' crowd/
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Tue Mar 24 18:17:47 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:28:18 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    Actually there is more than that, at least in my experience. Catholics
    really like the Book of Wisdom and some of the other books the Jews (and later the Protestants) reject. The dueterocannoncals were originally in
    the LXX (Old Testament Israelites Greek Old Testament) but there were
    too many prophesies there pointing to Christ, so the Jews rejected them
    (and,
    of course, the Protestants followed suit).

    I like Ecclesiasticus (Wisdom of Sirach).
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  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Tue Mar 24 23:15:57 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-24, pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-24, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

    Actually there is more than that, at least in my experience. Catholics
    really like the Book of Wisdom and some of the other books the Jews (and
    later the Protestants) reject. The dueterocannoicals were originally in the >> LXX (Old Testament Israelites Greek Old Testament) but there were too many >> prophesies there pointing to Christ, so the Jews rejected them (and, of
    course, the Protestants followed suit).


    Well from a biblical POV, Revelation 22:18 discusses adding or removing anything
    from the Bible, so with all of the different variations we are in trouble already.

    That's why Christ left the Church with a teaching authority that decided
    what was Biblical and what wasn't. The Church codified the canon in the
    early centuries of the Church and it included the dueterocannoicals.

    As for the Scofield Bible commentary and the Zionist "Christianity" taught
    by Moody and company, there's a lot there that's simply *not* in the Bible. (Like the rapture and the rebuilding of the Temple at the end times.)
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
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  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Tue Mar 24 23:55:23 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-24, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:52:39 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    What a lot of people don't realize is that many (if not the majority) of
    Old Testament passages quoted in the New Testament come from the Greek
    Septuagint (LXX) translation of the Bible. That's why it's sometimes
    hard to "collate" the Old Testament passages (from the Hebrew Old
    Testament) with the quotes in the New Testament.

    iirc that is a problem for the Protestant 'sola scriptura' crowd/

    Sitting discussing what you think the Bible means (like Protestant Bible Study) results in a lot of confusion and Christian sects. Jesus left a teaching Church so that Christians could *know* what the Bible meant.

    30 And Philip running thither, heard him reading the prophet Isaias. And
    he said: Thinkest thou that thou understandest what thou readest?

    31 Who said: And how can I, unless some man shew me? And he desired
    Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

    Those who published the first English Catholic Bible had this to say in the Preface of the 1582 Rheims New Testament.

    Now since Luther's revolt also, diverse learned Catholics, for the more
    speedy abolishing of a number of false and impious translations put forth
    by sundry sects, and for the better preservation or reclaim of many good
    souls endangered thereby, have published the Bible in the several
    languages of almost all the principle provinces of the Latin Church: no
    other books in the world being so pernicious as heretical translations of
    the Scriptures, poisoning the people under color of divine authority, and
    not many other remedies being more sovereign against the same (if it be
    used in order, discretion, and humility) than the true, faithful, and
    sincere interpretation opposed thereunto.

    ...

    Then (in the past) the scholar taught not his master, the sheep
    controlled not the Pastor, the young student set not the Doctor to
    school, nor reproved their fathers of error and ignorance. Or if any were
    in those better days (as in all times of heresy such must needs be) that
    had itching ears, tinkling tongues and wits, curious and contentious
    disputers, hearers, and talkers rather than doers of God's word: such the
    Fathers did ever sharply reprehend, counting them unworthy and
    unprofitable readers of the holy Scriptures. St. Jerome in his Epistle to
    Paulinus, after declaration that no handicraft is so base, nor liberal
    science so easy, that can be had without a master (which St. Augustine
    also affirmeth, De utilitate cred. cap. 7.) nor that men presume in any
    occupation to teach that they never learned, Only (saith he) the art of
    Scripture is that which every man chalengeth: this the chatting old wise,
    this the doting old man, this the brabling, sophister, this on every
    hand, men presume to teach before they learn it. Again, Some with poise
    of lofty words devise of scripture matters among women: othersome (fee
    upon it) learn of women, what to teach men, and lest that be not enough,
    by facility of tongue, or rather audacity, teach that to others, which
    they understand never a whit themselves, to say nothing of such as be of
    my faculty: who stepping from secular learning to holy scriptures, and
    able to tickle the ears of the multitude with a smooth tale, think all
    they speak, to be the Law of God. This he wrote then, when this malady of
    arrogancy and presumption in divine matters, was nothing so outrageous as
    now it is.

    A long quote (I know) but the but it actually goes on much longer than this
    in the Preface).
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
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  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Tue Mar 24 23:56:21 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-24, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:28:18 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    Actually there is more than that, at least in my experience. Catholics
    really like the Book of Wisdom and some of the other books the Jews (and
    later the Protestants) reject. The dueterocannoncals were originally in
    the LXX (Old Testament Israelites Greek Old Testament) but there were
    too many prophesies there pointing to Christ, so the Jews rejected them
    (and,
    of course, the Protestants followed suit).

    I like Ecclesiasticus (Wisdom of Sirach).

    I don't know if I've ever read it. I should do so.
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
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  • From pothead@pothead@snakebite.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Wed Mar 25 01:20:47 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-24, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-24, pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-24, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

    Actually there is more than that, at least in my experience. Catholics
    really like the Book of Wisdom and some of the other books the Jews (and >>> later the Protestants) reject. The dueterocannoicals were originally in the
    LXX (Old Testament Israelites Greek Old Testament) but there were too many >>> prophesies there pointing to Christ, so the Jews rejected them (and, of >>> course, the Protestants followed suit).


    Well from a biblical POV, Revelation 22:18 discusses adding or removing anything
    from the Bible, so with all of the different variations we are in trouble already.

    That's why Christ left the Church with a teaching authority that decided what was Biblical and what wasn't. The Church codified the canon in the early centuries of the Church and it included the dueterocannoicals.

    As for the Scofield Bible commentary and the Zionist "Christianity" taught by Moody and company, there's a lot there that's simply *not* in the Bible. (Like the rapture and the rebuilding of the Temple at the end times.)

    Yes.
    And that is why the question arises as to what is the true Bible?
    Christ's arrival supposedly made the old testament somewhat obsolete.
    All the sacrifices and so forth.

    Yet so many changes were made by Luther, King James and many others before them.
    Look at the lost books like Enoch.
    True?
    I dunno.
    I don't think anyone does.
    And of course we have something unearthed almost yearly which perports to
    be the true Bible.

    I dunno about that either.

    To me it's like ancient skeletal remains. Imagine someone with encephalitis
    or no limbs being dug up 500 years from now. Would those people believe this is what
    the past history was like.
    They might.

    Having been brought up in the Lutheran church my current thoughts are more towards
    a supreme being or beings and that the Bible, scrolls, statues, drawings in caves and
    so forth are observations based upon the knowledge at the time. Hence Ezekiel and his
    "spaceship".
    Things were written down in terms that people of the day could relate to.

    I certainly do not believe that we just came out of nothing.
    There is too much order in the world to believe that.
    This is planned and my belief is some supreme being, a God if you will
    created it.

    I suppose someday we will find out although the recent events are certainly lining
    up with the Bible.

    Time will tell.
    --

    pothead

    "How many liberals does it take to change a light bulb?
    None, they’re too busy changing their gender."

    "What’s the hardest part about being a Liberal?
    Telling your gender neutral parental units that you’re straight."
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  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Wed Mar 25 02:50:23 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-25, pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-24, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-24, pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
    On 2026-03-24, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

    Actually there is more than that, at least in my experience. Catholics >>>> really like the Book of Wisdom and some of the other books the Jews (and >>>> later the Protestants) reject. The dueterocannoicals were originally in the
    LXX (Old Testament Israelites Greek Old Testament) but there were too many
    prophesies there pointing to Christ, so the Jews rejected them (and, of >>>> course, the Protestants followed suit).


    Well from a biblical POV, Revelation 22:18 discusses adding or removing anything
    from the Bible, so with all of the different variations we are in trouble already.

    That's why Christ left the Church with a teaching authority that decided
    what was Biblical and what wasn't. The Church codified the canon in the
    early centuries of the Church and it included the dueterocannoicals.

    As for the Scofield Bible commentary and the Zionist "Christianity" taught >> by Moody and company, there's a lot there that's simply *not* in the Bible. >> (Like the rapture and the rebuilding of the Temple at the end times.)

    Yes.
    And that is why the question arises as to what is the true Bible?
    Christ's arrival supposedly made the old testament somewhat obsolete.
    All the sacrifices and so forth.

    Yet so many changes were made by Luther, King James and many others before them.
    Look at the lost books like Enoch.
    True?
    I dunno.
    I don't think anyone does.
    And of course we have something unearthed almost yearly which perports to
    be the true Bible.

    I dunno about that either.

    To me it's like ancient skeletal remains. Imagine someone with encephalitis or no limbs being dug up 500 years from now. Would those people believe this is what
    the past history was like.
    They might.

    Having been brought up in the Lutheran church my current thoughts are more towards
    a supreme being or beings and that the Bible, scrolls, statues, drawings in caves and
    so forth are observations based upon the knowledge at the time. Hence Ezekiel and his
    "spaceship".
    Things were written down in terms that people of the day could relate to.

    I certainly do not believe that we just came out of nothing.
    There is too much order in the world to believe that.
    This is planned and my belief is some supreme being, a God if you will created it.

    I suppose someday we will find out although the recent events are certainly lining
    up with the Bible.

    Time will tell.

    G.K. Chesterton wrote the following in "Orthodoxy."

    “What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has
    moved from the organ of ambition and settled upon the organ of
    conviction, where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be
    doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been
    exactly reversed. We are on the road to producing a race of men too
    mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

    I don't know why, but for as long as I can remember, I believed in God. Even when my dad (at a young age) told me it was bunk. (He had tried the
    Mormonism route at the time and was jaded by his experience.) Maybe because
    my dad read to us the King James New Testament (with pictures) when we very young. I don't know. I just believed — a gift of faith I guess.

    When I grew older and was baptized into the Christian Church (Campbellites)
    I enjoyed the Bible studies. That carried on until I went to Bible College. But, as time passed, I began seeing where even the "Bible-only" Christian Church seemed to diverge from the Bible. I remember reading in the Gospel where Christ said "You must eat my Body and Blood," and I thought, this is talking about communion. (I had no concept of the Real Presence at that point.) Our teacher said (vehement) "No! This has nothing to do with communion." I had no idea why he was so adamant about that point until
    later.

    Same thing with Christ renaming Simon to Peter. Thou art Peter (Rock) and
    upon this rock I will build my Church." I heard the argument that "Peter" didn't mean "rock" it meant "little stone." They gave the Greek words for stone and rock — but I wasn't really convinced. Peter was never a name before Christ gave it to him and, in Aramaic, the language Jesus was using, there is only one word for rock.

    There were other practices in this "non-denominational" church that didn't seem to jive with the Bible. Everything was subject to interpretation. And then a consensus... which wasn't very convincing. I decided that they had enough things wrong, that I probably should start my own church.

    And then I remembered that Christ prayed that his disciples "all be one."
    And that made me realize that, if I started yet another sect (among
    thousands) than there would be just one more division.

    And that's when I started studying Catholic doctrine. I kept going through their book (which was just a textbook on doctrine, not something written for apologetics) and I kept thinking, "how are they going to get out of this?" then I would read their arguments from the Bible and would think "Okay,
    that's how they got out of it." (This was not just me, it was my twin
    brother and me going through this book.)

    At any rate I was convinced. It still took me some ten to fifteen years to enter the Church but I believed the Catholic Church was the Church Jesus founded on the "Rock" (Peter).

    St. Paul writes to Timothy (II Timothy 1:12)... "For I know whom I have believed, and I am certain..."

    Certitude was a concept I wasn't even aware of before finding the Catholic Church. Besides a few proof verses from the New Testament, there was nothing really "certain" in the church I had attended when it came to Bible interpretation. They rejected all authority and believed that personal interpretation in the Bible was enough. Many claimed that their truth was given to them by the Holy Spirit "working in them." But, if the Holy Spirit was working within them, why did they all come to separate conclusions?

    6 But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I
    profit you, unless I speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge,
    or in prophecy, or in doctrine? 7 Even things without life that give
    sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction of sounds,
    how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 8 For if the trumpet give
    an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle.
    — I Corinthians 14

    Everyone saying something different is not distinct, it simply sews
    confusion.

    So how can we get certainty in our beliefs? If you're a Christian the only
    way that will happen is if you have an authoritative Church. What Bible-only believers seem to forget is that the Church predated the New Testament — the Church decided what to be in the New Testament (the canon) so, obviously,
    the first Christians could not have been "Bible-only Christians."

    So that's why I don't concern myself with what somebody (2,000 years later) thinks *should* have been the Bible. All that was taken care some 1,500
    years ago by the authoritative Church Christ founded.

    16 Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living
    God. 17 And Jesus answering, said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon
    Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my
    Father who is in heaven. 18 And I say to thee: That thou art Peter
    (Rock); and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell
    shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give to thee the keys of the
    kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be
    bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it
    shall be loosed also in heaven 20 Then he commanded his disciples, that
    they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ.
    — St. Matthew 16

    Does that mean all the social gospel crap the Catholic Church (infiltrated
    by Modernists) is now teaching is "authoritative?" No. Because they're not teaching any of this "_ex cathedra_" (from the throne). That's the only way Catholic teaching on morals and doctrine can be binding for all Catholics.
    And there have been no _ex cathedra_ pronouncements since Modernism infiltrated the Church during Vatican II.

    As for the Old Testament, and the Old Covenant, it's purpose was to bring
    the Messiah into the world. Once that was fulfilled in Christ, its purpose
    was no longer valid. The New Testament (New Covenant) took its place.

    Sorry for rambling so long.
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Wed Mar 25 05:58:42 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:55:23 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    30 And Philip running thither, heard him reading the prophet Isaias.
    And he said: Thinkest thou that thou understandest what thou readest?

    31 Who said: And how can I, unless some man shew me? And he desired
    Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

    It's not clear who wrote Acts, but let's go with the best guess, Luke, a
    Green gentile physician, writing for gentiles.

    Now let's look at Saul of Tarsus. The Jews certainly do not hold him in
    high regard.

    https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13232-saul-of-tarsus

    In any case he has his vision or epileptic fit as one prefers and finds a
    new career, building a religion base on Christ on the cross rather than
    much of what Jesus was reported to teach by the apostles who actually knew him.

    Joseph Smith had some unique visions too but so far the LDS sect hasn't
    been as successful as Pauline Christianity.

    It's strange that Marcion, who wanted to be entirely free of the OT
    demiurge mostly kept Luke's gospel but also much of Paul, although he
    edited both heavily.
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Wed Mar 25 06:01:56 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:56:21 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    On 2026-03-24, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:28:18 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    Actually there is more than that, at least in my experience. Catholics
    really like the Book of Wisdom and some of the other books the Jews
    (and later the Protestants) reject. The dueterocannoncals were
    originally in the LXX (Old Testament Israelites Greek Old Testament)
    but there were too many prophesies there pointing to Christ, so the
    Jews rejected them (and,
    of course, the Protestants followed suit).

    I like Ecclesiasticus (Wisdom of Sirach).

    I don't know if I've ever read it. I should do so.

    It's like Proverbs, mostly down to earth observations. Sort of like the Havamal for that matter.

    "Let a man never stir on his road a step
    without his weapons of war;
    for unsure is the knowing when need shall arise
    of a spear on the way without."

    Now that's a gospel I can get behind, although my spear may be .45
    caliber.
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Wed Mar 25 06:08:50 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:20:47 -0000 (UTC), pothead wrote:

    Yet so many changes were made by Luther, King James and many others
    before them. Look at the lost books like Enoch.

    Supposedly Luther's first edition left out the 'epistle of straw', aka
    James.

    https://biblehub.com/kjv/james/2.htm

    "Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. 19Thou
    believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe,
    and tremble. 20But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? "

    That didn't line up well with 'sola fide, sola gratia, and sola
    scriptura'.
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  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Wed Mar 25 14:13:40 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-25, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:55:23 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    30 And Philip running thither, heard him reading the prophet Isaias.
    And he said: Thinkest thou that thou understandest what thou readest?

    31 Who said: And how can I, unless some man shew me? And he desired
    Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

    It's not clear who wrote Acts, but let's go with the best guess, Luke, a Green gentile physician, writing for gentiles.

    Now let's look at Saul of Tarsus. The Jews certainly do not hold him in
    high regard.

    https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13232-saul-of-tarsus

    The Jews didn't like any of the Christians. Modern Judaism was started as an opposition to Christianity. But St. Paul was particularly hated because he
    had been a Pharisee and they considered him a traitor.

    In any case he has his vision or epileptic fit as one prefers and finds a new career, building a religion base on Christ on the cross rather than
    much of what Jesus was reported to teach by the apostles who actually knew him.

    Vision, not an "epileptic fit." Is this something you read in the Jewish
    crap, above?

    Joseph Smith had some unique visions too but so far the LDS sect hasn't
    been as successful as Pauline Christianity.

    "Pauline Christianity" was Christianity. I've read of people attempting to claim a divide between him and the other Apostles, but I never bought into that. Just an attack on the Church.

    As for Joseph Smith, his whole "church" was an attempt to build a new
    Masonic Lodge because the old Masonic Lodge didn't buy into his talking (fiery) lizard crap. He thought it would make him the high Mason mucky muck.

    It's strange that Marcion, who wanted to be entirely free of the OT
    demiurge mostly kept Luke's gospel but also much of Paul, although he
    edited both heavily.

    Thomas Jefferson tried chopping up the Bible also. I guess he and Marcion thought the knew better than those who wrote it. Even Luther wanted to cut
    out books, like the Epistle of St. James, which he called the "Epistle of straw" — probably because St. James wrote, "faith without works is dead, being alone." Luther even added "alone" to verse in Romans where St. Paul wrote "we are saved by faith" — Luther changed it to "we are saved by
    faith *alone.*" When confronted about that he said he said (paraphrased),
    that he would do whatever he damned well felt like doing.

    When it comes down to it, the Jews' and the heretics' opinions concerning
    the Catholic Church really don't interest me much. They're full of crap and they have an agenda
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
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  • From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Wed Mar 25 14:15:56 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-03-25, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:20:47 -0000 (UTC), pothead wrote:

    Yet so many changes were made by Luther, King James and many others
    before them. Look at the lost books like Enoch.

    Supposedly Luther's first edition left out the 'epistle of straw', aka James.

    https://biblehub.com/kjv/james/2.htm

    "Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. 19Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. 20But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? "

    That didn't line up well with 'sola fide, sola gratia, and sola
    scriptura'.

    I should have read further down before so I wouldn't have written basically the same thing. Sorry for the redundancy.
    --
    Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews. Zionism ≠ Judaism.
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