I think it’s great to see many of us take part in these kind of discourse, in the past we weren’t allowed to comment on politics or participate in voting etc. There isn’t a whole lot going on in JW-land, they literally have been shutting down the religion to save money. This forum isn’t just about JWs, it’s for JWs and regurgitating the copy-pasta from various other fact-based exJW websites would be boring.
Anony Mous
JoinedPosts by Anony Mous
-
20
Can we stick to topics that we came that we came to this forum in the first place?
by James Jack ini don’t care about politics, books you are reading, movies and tv programs you’re watching, etc..
-
-
-
16
Governor Cuomo, Mass Murderer?
by Simon inwhat term would you use for a governor who enacts policies that directly cause the deaths of well over ten thousand and then covers up the death count for fear of prosecution?.
i think "mass murderer" is the correct term.. he's far, far from the "messiah" figure the media have portrayed him to be over his handling of covid.. let the lawsuits commence.. https://nypost.com/2021/02/11/cuomo-aide-admits-they-hid-nursing-home-data-from-feds/.
-
-
Anony Mous
The Secretary of State admitted they covered it up because there was a DOJ investigation and to make Dems plans look better in the election as Biden plans for lockdowns are based on Cuomo.
He basically hid evidence from the feds. It is called obstruction.
-
83
Do You Think Trump Is Done?
by minimus incertain forces appear to be trying to make sure donald trump never runs for president again.
some republicans are clearly abandoning trump and of course the democratic press has been saying trump is done!
is trump’s goose cooked?
-
-
Anony Mous
About 47% of the population still supports him. I doubt he’ll run again, but true conservatives are forced to make a comeback to offset the crazy of the next 4 years.
No more Romney’s or Cheney’s or Bush’s, that’s for sure, if you don’t fight for your rights and your country you’ll end up with Biden and Harris and AOC.
-
23
Saving Money While Stuck At Home
by Simon inso you're stuck at home, you may be worried about your income, welcome to the world of filling your stuck-in-the-house time with saving some money!.
here in canada, our energy costs are going up because we have a carbon tax.
today, in the middle of the crisis, trudeau is raising it by 50%, probably as some perverse "thank you" to all the truckers delivering vital goods.
-
-
Anony Mous
@Italiancalipso: You can just put the entire infrastructure on a timer if you're looking to save some money. It really makes no measurable difference to switch off the antenna, pulling up the webpage to do it costs more energy than the antenna does in an entire day. In most cases it doesn't actually switch it off either, it just blocks the traffic.
The best thing to do is turn down your heat/air. I have 3 settings: day (6a-9p) 68/72F, evening (9p-1am) 64/75F and night (1am-6a) 60/80F. I turn down the night because nobody notices when they sleep, but you don't want to go out to the bathroom in 60F either, so until everyone is settled, I keep it at 65. Also reset the heat to 68F every 4 hours. If we need to boost the heat for whatever reason, we don't need to keep it that high for the rest of the day. I also have a geofence on my smartphone so if we leave the house, it turns it down to 60F and when we get within a mile, it will set it back.
The other things to do is actually invest money into insulation and the like. I saved 50-75% on my heating bill between $1500 of attic insulation and $200 for a smart thermostat. That's almost $50-75/month I'm saving (now I pay less than $100/month for gas and electric, living near Canada in the Northeast)
-
13
To The Australian Government .Have Jehovah`s Witnesses signed the Redress scheme ?
by smiddy3 inmaybe i`m a just a bit more impatient than some ,but the govt.
did say they will name and shame those who do not sign up to the redress scheme didn`t they ?
and take away their special priveledges , etc.?.
-
-
Anony Mous
As with most of these things, just grease the right hands and this will all go away. These kind of government actions are just a modern extortion scheme from those in power. They'll go through all the motions, hang this up in court for another decade and hope everyone else forgets before dismantling the operations for having done its job. The WTBTS will never have paid or lost anything, they're too small fish, the Catholic Church is much bigger and has already paid up, the extra few millions from the WTBTS won't make a change.
-
14
What’s Your Opinion of Companies That Decide To Stop Doing Business With You Because of Politics?
by minimus ini think it’s terrible.
if someone wants to believe in a political party they should not be punished or censured because of who they like or what their politics are, right or left.
.
-
-
Anony Mous
People will increasingly opt out of these woke companies. That's why you have things like Parler and Daily Wire but the left then goes for their platforms.
It's why Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are leaving their companies and cashing out. Their companies have been taken over by the mob, groups of people that aren't even their paying customers are dictating the terms with which they can do business, and they see the writing on the wall. People are leaving Facebook in droves, AWS growth has effectively been stunned and the only direction it can go is down, Google is facing the same difficulties and posting massive losses in some of their divisions simply because people in business are afraid of doing business with them. If you have Facebook or Google or Amazon stock, this is the height of their market value.
I've recently recommended against Amazon Web Services for example because they can, at any point, turn off the system and they've proven a willingness and capacity of doing it. So it's bad practice for any company to rely on those third party vendors that will disconnect you the minute you or your employee makes a comment they don't agree with, and we've seen you don't even have to mean it and you could be as left wing as you want, cancel culture can come to you as they redefine words and dig up an old tweet that doesn't meet the new definition. These are purely technical decisions, as most things in business are, they aren't motivated by politics, but if you can't guarantee me a service and won't stand by a customer of 10 years because someone on Reddit or Twitter is throwing a hissy fit, then you don't deserve to be relied upon.
As a result, major corporations will be pulling out or at least diversifying, cutting the funding to these already underperforming services. Goya is one of the more clear examples, they simply are not bowing to the left and they survived, you'll eventually see this happen over and over again and these corporations will just opt out of the establishment systems.
-
28
GameStop - Great Seeing Short-Selling Hedge Funds Get Beaten Up
by Simon inin case you haven't seen what's happened with gamestop and redditors.. these are the people who drive companies like blockbuster out of business and put people out of work.. but maybe the people have more power after all .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9toogruq7me.
-
-
Anony Mous
The flippers generally increase the housing market values temporarily. There is no way you can sell a flipped home for the purchase price you paid since any renovations are so crap and generally don't touch the mechanicals.
It's basically the equivalent of putting a new paint job on a rusted out 1995 Chevy with 300,000 miles on the odometer and yes there are some idiots that will buy those houses and then get in over their head between debts they incur repairing their homes and the higher mortgage they got into and higher property taxes than their neighborhood is actually valued at. The problem is that housing market values and local wages are closely tied together, so these people will generally not make enough to make payments + maintenance on the 'nice house' that is falling apart inside.
hat drove the housing bubble was primarily government forcing and backing sub-prime mortgagees. People that couldn't afford a house but through various incentives were promoted into buying a house they actually couldn't afford. Besides the government providing banks the difference between the "market interest rate" and the "woke interest rate", there were programs in NY and CA that effectively paid your mortgage if you were of certain race and income, but once those incentives disappeared, which is inevitably what happens, the banks had to adjust for the real market value of the loans leaving those people on the hook for insane mortgage payments on an adjustable mortgage which the banks used to recoup any losses they had made during the "woke years".
Whenever the government gives money, the market value will adjust to absorb these incentives. It's why college/university tuition costs are so high, because the government basically gives sub-prime loans to the students who don't have to pay for about a decade or so which sounds good, until the first payment is due and you've accumulated 10 years worth of interest. So colleges adjust their prices to adjust their value for this free money.
It's the same problem as the minimum wage, you can increase it but that compresses all other wages and the market has to adjust accordingly. So the entire market moves up $10 which is reflected in the cost of products at the store, so in the end, the value of the extra money is absorbed again in the market as everything becomes more expensive. You can give people $100/h in minimum wages, it will just make whatever is currently valued at $15 cost $100 in the future and more likely $115 to recoup the losses from the inevitable recession that follows a minimum wage increase.
Everything seems to go through this cycle between "woke equity" and "real equality". Businesses can't operate at a loss indefinitely, there is no such thing as a business owner swimming in cash like Scrooge McDuck, money that doesn't move has no value. But the woke seem to think that we need to take these cash reserves from anyone that does any better and redistribute them, which inevitably leads to a backlash against higher taxes and regulation during which businesses have to recoup their losses.
-
46
Sound Familiar?
by peacefulpete ina republican congressman voted his conscience to impeach trump.
the results might surprise some of us.. "my dad's cousins sent me a petition - a certified letter - saying they disowned me because i'm in 'the devil's army' now," kinzinger said in a phone conversation on thursday.
"it's been crazy, when you have friends - that you thought were good friends that would love you no matter what - that don't.".
-
-
Anony Mous
Jordan Peterson's recent podcast with Douglas Murray is a great relatively non-partisan review of the whole situation and addresses exactly this from a world renowned Canadian psychologist and a real British journalist (not a fake news one).
-
30
How Many Masks Will You Wear?
by minimus inthere are recommendations that we should start doubling up on masks.
some have even suggested that tripling masks would even be better!
what’s your opinion of wearing numerous masks?
-
-
Anony Mous
I have the best defense against COVID: a plastic bag over my nose and mouth. It assures me I will not die of COVID.
-
28
GameStop - Great Seeing Short-Selling Hedge Funds Get Beaten Up
by Simon inin case you haven't seen what's happened with gamestop and redditors.. these are the people who drive companies like blockbuster out of business and put people out of work.. but maybe the people have more power after all .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9toogruq7me.
-
-
Anony Mous
The threads on Reddit and Facebook and Twitter have been shut down because what they were doing was considered 'racist'. Not kidding, WallStreetBets, the Reddit channel that organized the buying against short-selling hedge funds got SHUT DOWN. Other firms stopped trading on the target stocks altogether, RobinHood blocked all trades on GameStop and others because of 'racism'.
It took less than a day for big tech, big government and the corporate media to spring into action and begin colluding to protect their hedge fund buddies on Wall Street. This is what a rigged system looks like, folks!