Posts by Anony Mous

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Masks Are Coming Off

by minimus in

jw
friends

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

some think this is disastrous!

what’s your view?.

@Ghost: If your actions infringe on my or other people's natural rights, then it's immoral. Otherwise it isn't. There is no grey area. If you believe taking other people's property is your right, then you are so far gone, you should be jailed and if no government does pursue or cares (which is currently the state in most cities in the US) you have the right to defend yourself.

The laws we enact in the US are primarily NOT about natural rights, but about either the taking away of those rights (which is always immoral) or the regulation of commerce and exchange of goods (for good or for bad). There are no moral laws, laws that aren't immoral can turn out to have immoral or moral effects, but the laws in and of themselves do not create or shape good morality.

And yes, we all "know" our moral rights and duties, they have been encoded in EVERY religious and other long-lasting books because from the beginning of time people have known inherently something is wrong about taking life, property and the pursuit of happiness from others except in the protection of those simple needs. That is not saying the entire set of religious text is correct, but when you distil and find the commonality of things across multiple ancient religions, you'll find that they always turn out to be the same "rules" which turn out to be how people express the inherent/animalistic feeling/drive we have to maintain life, society and the survival of the species.

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Masks Are Coming Off

by minimus in

jw
friends

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

some think this is disastrous!

what’s your view?.

Anony Mous

But government isn't there to tell us what we all know is morally wrong. They are there to carry out justice - after the fact. There is very little government can do for your neighbor to not murder you, they can assign a police officer to every citizen, which would be government overreach, but it's unlikely even that will stop crime.

Likewise with COVID, assigning a mask to everyone did not stop the spread. Facts are that 95% of Americans masked up with or without a mandate, and places like Florida that never had a mandate, had higher rates of masking.

If we had to listen to government, Fauci said not to mask up in March-June 2020, many people did (hence there being a shortage). Masks reduce the spread where there are high incidences of cases. We have a vaccine, it is estimated anywhere between 30 and 70% of the population already has been in contact and thus have developed immunity naturally, people that have gotten sick have immunity.

If you tell people they need to wear a mask and socially distance and stay at home even after a vaccine has been made available to those at risk, why get a vaccine at all? There must be incentive to get the vaccine, not needing a mask is incentive.

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Masks Are Coming Off

by minimus in

jw
friends

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

some think this is disastrous!

what’s your view?.

Anony Mous

@Ghost: In the US firefighters and ambulances are not federally regulated. Typically they are not ran by any government, in few places where it is, you get issues like NYC and other cities where EMT's are uncoordinated, charge extraordinarily high rates and have to wait in line up to 30 minutes to bring in their patients to government-ran hospitals.

Privately owned public hospitals, volunteer and professional ambulances and firefighters in the US that are independent from government oversight are the reason we have some of the best equipped systems with the best response times in the world, helicopters, designated ambulances specially equipped for stroke and heart attack.

Sure it's "expensive", but the combination of insurance and taxes in the US is still lower compared to the taxes you'll pay in places like Europe.

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The Site is Going Down!!!

by BereanThinker7 in

so i'm sure many of us here have used the site https://ad1914.com/, apparently the domain had expired.

this site was instrumental to my waking up.

i have been able to use it to direct others to as well since it had a large collection of matters dealing with the validity of the "gentile times" claim.

Anony Mous

The site expired a year ago. Not sure if the owner is alive or looking to maintain the site.

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Masks Are Coming Off

by minimus in

jw
friends

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

some think this is disastrous!

what’s your view?.

Anony Mous

@jeffro: the problem is exactly the mandates, government telling you what to do and what to wear isn’t healthy.

Masks (N95) do indeed protect YOU from being sick. If you are sick, sneezing in a mask - with the big caveat being it needs to be worn correctly - prevents you from ejecting your droplets further but it doesn’t stop you completely from spreading.

Most people don’t know how to wear a mask correctly, it takes medical students 6 months-1 year to learn how to properly don both N95 (to protect themselves) and surgical masks (to protect others). The majority of people I see do not wear correctly, most people take their mask off to sneeze, scratch their nose etc which makes the mask counter-effective and the data bears this out.

All the tests on mask wearing preventing the spread were done with aerosols, when real world tests were conducted, masks had virtually no effect on particle spread. All the data shows that locked down systems with strict mandates across the world have higher spread and death rates. Compare California, NY and NJ with Florida which never had a mandate; likewise compare Texas pre- and post-mandate, government interference (as usual) makes things worse.

The problem is through the unscientific mandates, mask wearing has become a religious practice, if you’re woke enough you even do it while driving in your car and when you’re at home (yes, that’s a thing). But for the population, it’s a form of government control as it is scientifically proven to be counter effective.

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Australia: Jehovah’s Witnesses to join redress scheme for child sexual abuse survivors

by yalbmert99 in

australia: jehovah’s witnesses to join redress scheme for child sexual abuse survivors.

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/03/03/jehovahs-witnesses-redress-scheme/.

Anony Mous

Didn't they already move all the assets out of Australia though? I thought I read something about that here.

What will happen is that they'll get the claims, file for bankruptcy and that will be it. The congregations will be restarted under a different corporation.

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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!.

Anony Mous

@Jeffro: You said: If they actually endorsed the training course in question, they would have no reason to deny it.

You said later "it was the course that was removed rather than just one slide from it"

So if they didn't endorse the training after the fact, why did they endorse the training in the first place? If I want to offer training to my company, and I brand it with my logo or provide my employees with a link, doesn't that imply that I reviewed and endorsed ALL the training that is under the branded site? If you get a vague statement from your boss to complete this mandatory training and the link contains a bunch of modules, that may or may not be mandatory from corporate, and you do them anyway because it's under the same link, doesn't that imply that they were at least believed to be mandatory.

If not, again, this may be a rogue manager or VP deciding they make things mandatory without input from legal and the C-suite. In that case, Coca Cola should DENOUNCE the practice, heads should roll, but nobody is doing that either because if you DENOUNCE DeAngelo's training, you are considered a racist and should be cancelled.

To give you a comparison: it's well known that the WTBTS keeps lists of sex offenders. When this came out, they said, well our "congregations don't keep lists of sex offenders" and if authorities then happen to find a file in a red folder that the secretary of the congregation has "the WTBTS did not endorse this congregation keeping a list of sex offenders" which is true but a lie of omission, per WTBTS instructions the sex offender has to be passed onto WTBTS HQ and the records in the congregation destroyed. But we all know some elders either don't know about this guidance or don't want to give up control over their own little kingdom and thus keep records the WTBTS doesn't want you to keep.

By your logic, we have to give the WTBTS a pass and pretend everything is okay because they never publicly stated that they didn't keep a list of sex offenders and any congregation that didn't follow their strict guidelines we have to ignore as well, because WTBTS clearly didn't endorse the independent decision making of it's CO and Elders in the congregations. Also, Elders and CO's that didn't follow the guidelines don't get called out publicly because by doing so you would admit to covering up a bunch of other crap you don't want the public to know about.

We all know that is BS, everything that happens in WTBTS-land is controlled to some extent by WTBTS and they should be held responsible and liable for everything that happens in WTBTS land, which is what courts generally agree in abuse cases but also in employment cases. If your managers decides to sexually harass you and your company doesn't immediately investigate and/or fire the responsible party, they become liable.

Now replace congregation with division, WTBTS with Coca Cola and sex offender with racist training session.I'm giving Coca Cola all the benefit of the doubt here, I'm not accusing Coca Cola of demanding the racist training, but unless they publicly state they have investigated and taken action against those that demanded it, they are liable to the same extent they would be liable for sexual harassment and other issues they decide to cover up. Right now all we have is a statement from Coca Cola with a bunch of weasel words that still leave it sufficiently vague as to whether some or all of the training was mandatory across their entire company. They never denied the accusation it wasn't offered in their official curriculum, regardless of it's mandatory-ness, they actually admitted it was on there but they didn't apologize, they didn't claim it wasn't true that some employees could've interpreted it as mandatory, they have no counter-evidence, including e-mail that said what was and wasn't mandatory because if they did, they would have.

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The left is so retarded its offically lost its collective minds.

by mickbobcat in

what a total bunch of asswipes the left has become.

now they have gotten the publishers to stop printing dr. seuss.

dr seuss.

Anony Mous

@TheListener: my point was that it was being taken out of the library. That is not a nothing burger. Go read some real literature, if you still can, Ray Bradbury, George Orwell and Steven Hassan’s books.

If you can’t read because school didn’t teach you anything about reading, try watching Citizen Kane, The Death of Stalin or Schindler’s List, the old 1984 movie or Animal Farm if you rather have an animated film.

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Why I care about people who see racism everywhere

by StephaneLaliberte in

today, i was watching a tv show and a black celebrity in quebec said that his latest incident of racial profiling was being asked questions by the police as he was walking in a quiet neighborhood at 2am while wearing a hoody.

then the other guest next to him validated his claim saying that she, as a white women, was never stopped like this by the police.

i became very frustrated and agitated.

Anony Mous

We are sensitive to it because it’s the same techniques a cult uses. There is a reason many thinkers on the right and in the center are labeling this movement a religion or a cult of personality. In the early 20th century it is Lenin and Marx and Trotsky and Stalin, today it is AOC and Kendi and Jones. But they are not much different to the Elders and the COs.

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Try To Be Less White

by minimus in

jw
friends

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

.

this is ridiculous!.

Anony Mous

Okay, I’ve now quoted three times that there are MULTIPLE witnesses, Coca Cola stated they “invited” their employees to do the training as part of an “extension” of their mandatory inclusiveness and anti-racism (anti-racism is defined as the belief that everyone that is not black is individually and systematically racist) training. The corporate statement is a lot of weaselwords, they removed the training later on. They did admit to requiring the racist anti-racist training, just that portion highlighted was somehow the only non-mandatory part.

Again, I already stated, they should fire or reprimand whoever included or required the racist anti-racist theory part of the training to take place, to my knowledge they have not done so.

All you have done is moved the goalpost. You say it wasn’t true, then when pointed out, you wanted evidence, then when pointed out you want more evidence to every minute detail of the claim.

And to prove they are talking out of their ass here is Coca Cola’s own statements: https://www.coca-colacompany.com/shared-future/diversity-and-inclusion/racial-equity/external-action

they have a pretty large page devoted to the notion of (racist) racial equity (not equality as demanded by law). Equality is typically defined as treating everyone the same and giving everyone access to the same opportunities. Meanwhile, equity refers to proportional representation (by race, class, gender, etc.) regardless of their skill and qualifications in those same opportunities. So Coca Cola admits they do care about equity (and as a consequence promoting racism, sexism and classism) and thus it is as a corporation diametrically opposed to equality (which is currently the law of the land and has been since the Civil Rights Acts of the 1950s and 1960s).