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I’m curious if the Patreon algorithm drops the higher goal when there is more than one unmet one. Reason I ask is that he’s going to look goofy having two up there that are unsatisfied.
Even funnier would be if Patreon has a bot account that emails him after all these losses and he absolutely loses his shit because he can’t issue a snide comeback at a bot. Something like “Is Everything OK? Here are tips to increase your patronage!”
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This pic is fairly representative of how the video went.
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He was careful to mention his wife coordinating behind the scenes with the Red Cross in the video. Now he's tweeting on behalf of both of them.
This was the "PR" he was going on about before.
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This video is a huge LOL... He assembles a "team" which consisted of Tibor, his cameraman and a Ukrainian interpreter carrying over a van half full of supplies. No less than two times did he compare his plight during the Croatian earthquake to those of the refugees, the last time directly to the Ukrainians themselves.
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We haven't even talked about the challenges of bringing court cases in a non-English-speaking court when the whole focus is on what has been said in English. So how does that work?
I have some background in court cases that have considered evidence in another language. The Croatian judge doesn't just switch to English in the courtroom and assume everyone has to follow along. This is the reason there are official languages in many countries, and in case you are wondering, Croatian is the sole recognised language there. This will present difficulties in sorting through the "evidence", none of which is in Croatian. A translation company that is approved (and paid for) by the court and bonded must be hired. They need to fill out an affidavit swearing under oath that the translation was conducted to the best of their knowledge. The translator(s) could be called to the stand to testify.
And these are not only social media posts, but YouTube videos what must be first transcribed and then translated into Croatian. Not just the parts Lloyd thinks are relevant, but the entire video, some of which are well over an hour long. For any defense, this would be an opportunity to really bog down the case and make it complicated over what a particular phrase or chain of words mean in the speaker's particular English dialect.
All this trouble and government money wasted because Lloyd feels he's being slandered online. I'd be curious to get whatever statement the court releases in dismissal of this case translated for pure entertainment purposes.
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Now I wonder how many trips abroad he's taken alone vs with his family in the last few years? Because it now sounds like he might have been doing it while they were with him which is even more yucky, for them.
As much as his "activism" has been tied in with family holidays, this is almost a certainty.
More like:
"Daddy, why aren't you coming with us to the beach?"
"Daddy needs to do some more work with the TTATT guys. I am going to their hotel room to compose more interview questions for Angus Stewart tomorrow. We only have one crack at this so it's important! We'll be up late and I might just stay in Javier Ortiz's room tonight. Just stay with mummy and sissy and order some room service"
Completely disgusting man and he does owe TTATT and ALL their donors a huge apology for the added delay and cost of editing this creep out of the doc.
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Wally really took him to task for lying to both his family and everyone. This is further proof of what an utter disaster the Andrew Gold interview was for him. It was kind of under the radar because he was saying so many ridiculous things at once, but Wally hit upon a key point. The Gold interview was an attempt to outright deny he had seen sex workers in Thailand. Instead he "dated" them. This is direct contradiction to his livestream comments and his lengthy FB statement about him seeing sex workers there.
He's like a 5 year old stuck in a web of lies and thinks he can lie his way out.
This is a huge blow as Wally has a reputation as a balanced individual who is hesitant to wade into exJW controversy. Lloyd continues to keep antagonising the wrong people.
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I believe he lives in Stanford area
Saintly Brandon is in Australia. He changed his Twitter handle to "Saintly Brandon" for a time but I think he's off Twitter now. Legend.
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The title of his book is the giveaway of the reality: The Reluctant Apostate. He's not an "apostate" because he saw through and objected to anything
People who knew him from this forum for the most part saw right through it. In his post where he announced he started writing his book, it was clear that he was thinking a publisher would pick it up and give him an advance. He even started making plans for meetups like the Tahoe one "if I get a decent sized advance":. So he wrote two chapters in rapid fashion whilst he was still "cedars" on this forum and sent it off to potential publishers as a sample.
The plan as he described it in his post was to write the book under his real name (no one knew it at the time) and expect a judicial hearing in response to publication. Then he was to get disfellowshipped, and as he put it, this would necessitate the need for a 2nd edition with a final chapter(s) about that incident. More book sales.
What he completely misses is the real exJW experience with DFng and shunning. He had a father he did not respect, a sister he was estranged from, was in a congregation where he could not speak the language, so really what was he missing out on? Disfellowshipping is not a stunt we can make money off of. This is also why his book did not connect on a emotional level with many people.
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FYI - The indiegogo campaigns on his books are still accessible online. TRA crowdfunded $20,149.
The Reluctant Apostate | Indiegogo
"How to Escape Jehovah's Witnesses" pulled in $5311.
How To Escape From Jehovah's Witnesses | Indiegogo
