Anony Mous

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  Is the tide turning against covid vaccines?

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. current

  have you seen this video about the covid vaccines?

  have you got any views on the information?

  i find it worrying at least.

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  @Rivergang: You do realize that in Denmark, the government stopping to provide vaccines for those under 50, except to those at high risk (similar policy as Florida), they are effectively restricting access. Unlike the US, socialized healthcare means that if you want alternative care, you are going to pay the full price out of pocket at a private hospital.

  Moreover, they did “ban” the vaccine, per Denmark’s health authority: From 1 July, 2022, it will no longer be possible for children and youngsters under the age of 18 to receive the 1st injection, and from 1 September, 2022, it will no longer be possible to receive the 2nd injection. There is an exception for very high risk groups if a panel of doctors approves.

  Since you don’t understand the meaning of the words ‘no longer be possible’, that is effectively a ban.
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  Is the tide turning against covid vaccines?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. social
  2. current

  have you seen this video about the covid vaccines?

  have you got any views on the information?

  i find it worrying at least.

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  Florida’s health department announced that it now recommends against the vaccine for young people because it increases the risk of heart inflammation. This was supported by emerging evidence about the risks with the data showing a significant increase in cases in the first 30 days after a vaccine vs the regular distribution of cases.

  Multiple states now recommend against it for younger children and some are suggesting may outright ban the practice.

  More states have hinted will follow as the risks become more evident.
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  Illinois Elders as mandatory reporters must undergo training

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  illinois now requires all elders as mandatory reporters to undergo state approved training every three years to ensure they fully understand their roles as mandated reporters.

  this will include a pre training assessment, 60 - 90 mins of self paced, interactive training with a final assessment to ensure reporters understand their responsibilities.

  following the course, mandated reporters must make a declaration that they understand their status as a reporter and will fully comply with mandatory requirements.

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  @carla: Illinois has mandatory training and certification now for all members and employees as well as volunteers of a religious organization that have contact with children (ordained ministers, people in the church day care etc).

  This is so far the only state with this requirement. Yes, the other states have similar laws but don’t require state certification.

  The reason the state is doing this, is that in case of a child abuse case, the religious organization is either on the line for not making their “employees” and volunteers take the training or make people personally liable for failure to report (you can’t get away with excuses such as “they are volunteers and we didn’t vet them” or “we didn’t know about the law”). The law also crosses corporate boundaries and instead goes after the ecclesiastical hierarchy.

  This law was specifically written with the WTBTS legal construction of congregations in mind, as they are the only organization that tries to claim they aren’t responsible for appointing their own clergy or that the local Kingdom Hall is a separate corporate entity.

  This makes it liable on the Octopope to tell all their “volunteers” regardless of corporate structure or whomever they appoint or not, to complete the training or else the law says they should be barred from continuing a “volunteer” so they can’t get from under this one anymore.
  
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  Illinois Elders as mandatory reporters must undergo training

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  illinois now requires all elders as mandatory reporters to undergo state approved training every three years to ensure they fully understand their roles as mandated reporters.

  this will include a pre training assessment, 60 - 90 mins of self paced, interactive training with a final assessment to ensure reporters understand their responsibilities.

  following the course, mandated reporters must make a declaration that they understand their status as a reporter and will fully comply with mandatory requirements.

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  Wouldn’t that be “all” JWs since the WTBTS considers them all to be ordained ministers.
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  UK Tax cut for the wealthiest

  by BettyHumpter in

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  I do believe you can run a government without any or minimal taxation, one system that has been proposed is to only levy a minimal total property tax.

  That guarantees that the only thing the government would be interested in is protecting the value of real property, people aren’t hoarding property because it would cost too much money, businesses would optimize for space and thus it would become affordable for anyone to buy and own property. People would be forced to make long term decisions, in the realm of policy and anywhere else.

  The government shouldn’t be in charge of welfare or any other services, leave that to individual organizations such as charities and insurance.
  
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  UK Tax cut for the wealthiest

  by BettyHumpter in

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  Taxes are bad, any reduction of them is good for the economy. All tax breaks are tax breaks for the rich, the poor do not pay taxes.

  Even if you go for a flat tax rate or want to eliminate all taxes, the rich will always have their taxes reduced by more. If I could afford a Ferrari, I will pay $250k * 10% in taxes. If I am poor, I will buy a piece of shit and pay $2500 * 10%. If someone eliminated sales taxes, the media would still say: hey the rich guy got their taxes reduced by $25000, and you only got $250, get the pitchforks.

  In the US, approximately 80% of the Federal Revenue is paid by people making over 250k, 90% of it is paid by people making over $1M.
  

  Reagan cut marginal taxes from 73% to 28%, the US saw the greatest economic recovery followed by the greatest income growth (20%/year) until Clinton destroyed the dotcom era with taxes, regulation and interest rate shenanigans.

  Thatcher cut marginal taxes from 80% to 60% and although not as great as the US, it did start an economic recovery that lasted until Tony Blair “redistributive economy” hiked taxes by an estimated GBP2000/person/year (even at the low end) which doubled interest and inflation rates.
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  Ron DeSantis: "We do not require assistance. The people of Florida will rebuild on our own"

  by BettyHumpter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as if.no, of course he's already asking for federal aid.

  it's the republican way.

  florida needs the rest of the country to pitch in taxpayer dollars because it's different when it happens to me.

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  Interesting that I explain to you the reason your data is wrong and then you quote the exact same data as if it were gospel.

  There are other data sources that chart federal tax breaks through the SALT deduction, federal ‘forgivable’ loans etc.

  Also, you claim civil rights were a problem in the south, look up which party did that. The party of the KKK, the party that opposed civil rights bills in the senate that had been proposed since the 1940s, certainly not the party of Abraham Lincoln. The same party today that keeps the poor poor, through welfare and handouts, the party that proposes mass abortion for blacks and single parenthood, destroying black culture. The party that says you’re not black if you don’t vote for them, the party that says women and men are functionally the same thereby destroying LGB and women/men’s rights.
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  Ron DeSantis: "We do not require assistance. The people of Florida will rebuild on our own"

  by BettyHumpter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as if.no, of course he's already asking for federal aid.

  it's the republican way.

  florida needs the rest of the country to pitch in taxpayer dollars because it's different when it happens to me.

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  Left wing state receive far more aid overall than any other. Your can look up the largest receivers of total federal funds and take into account those numbers are excluding the large amount of accounting tricks such as the fact they can deduct local taxes from federal taxes (which is basically giving them a massive tax break), the fact they also get funding to maintain large amounts of federal lands and other federal handouts.

  Biggest receivers of Federal funds per capita when accounting for the tax breaks: New York (>$30k/resident), Connecticut, New Jersey California and DC.

  Other accounting tricks: federal loans, it doesn’t show up on the balance sheet, NY is also at the top of never paying back, at just 9% annually (so 90% of their grants and loans are never paid back)
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  Ron DeSantis: "We do not require assistance. The people of Florida will rebuild on our own"

  by BettyHumpter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as if.no, of course he's already asking for federal aid.

  it's the republican way.

  florida needs the rest of the country to pitch in taxpayer dollars because it's different when it happens to me.

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  Anony Mous

  Hurricane Sandy hit NYC and destroyed 300 homes and did $19B in damage. Obama immediately signed $4.2B in aid for NY. The same hurricane hit New Jersey and did approximately $65B in damage in that state. Obama signed $300M because NJ governor was Chris Christie, his political opponent.

  The vote you are talking about was in Congress to amend these numbers. Democrats eventually allocated about $50B for NY. and NJ got $2B, eventually they got to about $5B in total aid. NYC still has $8B it hasn’t even spent yet in 2019.

  Obviously Republicans opposed this straight up political favoritism and government handouts disguised as aid.
  

  Get your background straight, there was a reason why people opposed giving NY even more funding.
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  I made a page where you can search the subtitles of all videos on JW.BORG

  by ComingOutaMyCage in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i recently went through and extracted all the subtitles for every video on the platform.

  i've compiled them here on a searchable page.. https://comingoutamycage.github.io/jw_lib_analytics/vodsearch.html.

  also, here are he most commmon scriptures within videos:.

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  I’ve been experimenting with the same on the more ‘scriptural’ talks and the engine is literally going into reasoning circles over and over again.

  This is not supposed to happen (it’s supposed to give random but progressive story) but having trained it on some of the JW.org content from the above website, it is literally breaking modern AI engines to go into a loop. I was able to feed it a scripture with some context, it keeps circling around a scripture, gives the WTBTS valid explanation, quotes more scriptures from various Bible verses that are vaguely related (quite impressive actually), then goes back to the same scripture and gives the same explanation worded slightly different over and over again with different scriptures every time, putting emphasis on different words. Hilarious.