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  What Do You Think of Dr. Fauci?

  by minimus in

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  last year millions of people were singing his praises.

  what’s your opinion of him right now?.

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  Anony Mous, ''What about Belgium? Italy? UK? They have twice and even three times the death rate.''

  I know looking at statistics can be a minefield and open to interpretation but once again you've confused me

  Could you show where you get your figures from to say that Belgium Italy and the UK have two or even three times the death rate?

  Looking at

  https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rates_by_country

  Those stats show Belgium, Italy and the UK having mortality rates per capita as 20%, 12% and 11% higher per capita respectively than the USA.

  I've no idea whether the figures are correct either way of course as I never compiled them.

  
  
  
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  What Do You Think of Dr. Fauci?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  last year millions of people were singing his praises.

  what’s your opinion of him right now?.

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  ThomasCovenant

  https://patents.justia.com/inventor/anthony-s-fauci
  
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  Derek Chauvin - The Right to a Fair Trial

  by Simon in

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  anyone following the derek chauvin trial?.

  if you are actually following it, not just listening to the media, you will likely realize that there is a huge gap between what is going on in court and what is being reported in the media.. if the trial was fair, i think he should be acquitted.

  there is plenty of reasonable doubt about the cause of death (his dealer doesn't want to testify because he could be guilty of 3rd degree murder for selling him a fatal amount of fentanyl) and even doubt over whether the officer even had his knee on the guys neck or did anything counter to what they were meant to do as per policy.. but is it fair?

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  ThomasCovenant

  Anony Mous said,

  ''What the prosecution has to demonstrate is that he had premeditated killing Floyd (first degree murder), acted in a depraved manner causing his death (second degree murder) or was committing a felony causing his death (third degree murder). The first one is unlikely, because he didn't know Floyd personally, the second one is not applicable because he didn't just randomly pick Floyd out of the crowd and wrestled him to the ground, the third is unlikely because he was authorized and trained to use the force he did.''

  I didn't think Mr Chauvin was being charged with first degree murder, so you've confused me now. And I'm a bit confused with your descriptions of second degree and third degree murder.

  I thought the charges are,

  1) second degree unintentional murder, killing someone unintentionally but while using violence to commit a felony,

  2) third degree murder, an unintentional killing that occurs as a result of ''depraved mind'', generally interpreted as acting recklessly with a total indifference to human life,

  3) second degree manslaughter, a killing that results from an offenders' negligence.

  You also said,

  ''Same for the EMT, they arrived and couldn't get to him because of the crowd, should the EMT have pushed through, they MAY have saved him,''

  Again I'm confused, I didn't realize that the paramedics couldn't get through because of the crowd.
  
  
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  Zoom Memorial

  by gabcol in

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  2. beliefs

  well i did it.. i attended the zoom memorial ( in respect for my mum).

  it was very strange to say the least.

  everyone had bread and wine at their houses.

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  ThomasCovenant

  Gabcol said,

  '' I always felt like no matter where I went in the world, if I went to a meeting I felt like they were my family... and now when I attended, I felt like an outsider.''

  Me too.
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  Speedy Gonzales and Pepe The French Spunk And Others Are Offensive!

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  these cartoons have been labeled by the venerable new york times newspaper as offensive.

  they offend mexicans and pepe is a womanizing french skunk too handsy enabling the “rape culture “.

  this stuff is getting so ridiculous it isn’t funny.

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  ThomasCovenant

  ''If you rail against the country’s direction, go where you will be happier. If not , then shush.''

  minimus to me,

  Thomas and your point is??

  As you know Minimus, these are your words on another posting. At the time I disagreed with your position. So I'm surprised you are not following through with your own advice.
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  Speedy Gonzales and Pepe The French Spunk And Others Are Offensive!

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  these cartoons have been labeled by the venerable new york times newspaper as offensive.

  they offend mexicans and pepe is a womanizing french skunk too handsy enabling the “rape culture “.

  this stuff is getting so ridiculous it isn’t funny.

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  ThomasCovenant

  MickBobcat,

  Also known known as PhoenixRising, TobyJones262, HotHabanero, and others.

  Why do you feel the need to be so demeaning to others?
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  Speedy Gonzales and Pepe The French Spunk And Others Are Offensive!

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  these cartoons have been labeled by the venerable new york times newspaper as offensive.

  they offend mexicans and pepe is a womanizing french skunk too handsy enabling the “rape culture “.

  this stuff is getting so ridiculous it isn’t funny.

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  ThomasCovenant

  ''If you rail against the country’s direction, go where you will be happier. If not , then shush.''
  
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  Masks Are Coming Off

  by minimus in

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  a number of states are allowing people to not wear a mask.

  some think this is disastrous!

  what’s your view?.

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  ThomasCovenant

  https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210203-why-vaccinated-people-may-still-be-able-to-spread-covid-19
  
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  Try To Be Less White

  by minimus in

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  that’s what coca-cola is telling their employees.

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  this is ridiculous!.

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  ThomasCovenant

  Jeffro, you did your best. It doesn’t matter . You explained in detail everything you could possibly explain. Your logical response is much appreciated. Don’t cast your pearls before swine unnecessarily.
  
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  JW Net and Politics

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this site was and remains instrumental in assisting people that want to leave the jw's.. there has been political discussion here for some time now, a good couple of years and it makes me feel a little uneasy.

  i just opened up the site for the first time in some weeks, of the 10 posts being discussed, 4 were by the same poster, about politics, promoting their right wing beliefs.. this has been the trend for some time now, the same name behind a peppering of posts stirring the right v left of politics.. i remain forever grateful to the site and it's founders simon & angharad, i appreciate that simon shares some of these these political beliefs.

  it would be a shame to see the site evolve from a place for jw freedom of thought and escape, to political squabbling, that the world is frankly tired of right now.. just to clarify, politics is my hobby, whilst my friends read the football scores, i'm reading polling data.

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  ThomasCovenant

  Eden One,

  ''But starting threads, even many threads, to merely provoke and taunt, floating innuendos or outright conspiracy theories, attacking political views that you dislike, using this forum as a political megaphone, thus flooding this forum with incendiary titles that have little to do with discussing matters related to the JW cult, it's frankly detrimental to the original purpose of this website.'' (my bold)

  I think the original purpose of the forum is long gone. Unfortunately.

  Thanks for posting.