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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
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original reddit post (removed).
CalvinistEmily

You got yourself on the path and keep yourself on it. He just had some videos to help, but you did the real work in your own freedom.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
CalvinistEmily

Where did he write that? That's such a strange combination of self-awareness and a complete lack thereof.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
CalvinistEmily

I'm sure the last thing people fleeing want to see is a YouTuber making a film about them.
Yup. He even says that explicitly in the video (after showing a few short clips of them), that they didn't want to be on camera.
Also the Farms spotted that he used clips from the Azov Battalion's channel - does he know who they are? I'm surprised he's platforming such a far-right group when he's usually pretty centrist and careful to be very clearly antifascist when talking about Watchtower's depictions of the Holocaust and about hate speech.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
CalvinistEmily

Hope he has a hardcore muslim on. That will be funny
Abdullah Sameer does that, and he's much more concise than Lloyd. He had a great video with Abdullah Gondal, an ex-Muslim neuroscientist, talking about the theory that Muhammad had epilepsy but it wasn't well understood at the time, and he and everyone else believed his symptoms were God affecting him.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
CalvinistEmily

Kim could be the biggest liar in the world and it still wouldn't change what he's admitted to publicly. I don't think she is, but he's really grasping at straws now when he's quibbling over whether he works one or two days a month. He's said himself he's used prostitutes, in several countries, that's what people object to.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
CalvinistEmily

At this point I'm struggling to imagine what it could possibly be that's worse than what he's already admitted to. He's been entirely open about punting on a very regular basis over many years. He can say "consenting adults" all he likes, but Andrew and a few others asked him directly about trafficking and other forms of coercion and he's not answered it. That's serial rape, and he doesn't care or think it's a big deal. And in his Ukraine video a while back, he was apparently enabling arms dealing, giving out bank details for donations to buy weapons. Unless he's killed someone or his judicial committee was for some obscure extreme crime that I've never heard of, what could possibly be worse than rape and gunrunning?
Then again, this is Lloyd, what he thinks is wrong and shameful is very different from what normal people think is wrong. Maybe he forgot to use someone's preferred pronouns on Twitter or something and he thinks that's a worse crime.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
CalvinistEmily

It's like he's rejecting Watchtower's obsession with appearances, but has gone so far the other way he's become a gross slovenly manchild. You don't have to fit the JW uniform of khakis + tucked in shirt, but if you're on camera you do need to think about how you're presenting yourself. Fateful Slave is a good example of looking put together but not in a Watchtower way: he has a longer beard and much longer hair than Lloyd, but he keeps it all neat and he looks like he's made an effort.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
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2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
CalvinistEmily

IIRC the "bunker" thing was James Lloyd Evans, aka Lloyd Evans, aka John Cedars aka the reluctant owner but not master of Little Lloyd, referencing a convention video that had a bunch of witnesses hiding in a bunker during the Great Tribulation. It looks more like a cellar than a bunker, though.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
CalvinistEmily

Racist? Surely it's far more racist of him as a white Anglo bloke to abuse Thai and Croatian trafficking victims.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
CalvinistEmily

Lloyd's a punter whether he uses a green screen or not. They all deserve the rope. I've known enough prostitution survivors personally to have seen the absolute horrors that industry, and the men who patronise it, inflicts on its victims. And those are the lucky ones who got out and are still alive.
One of the big reasons my family is so emotionally reticent is that my grandmother escaped trafficking as a "comfort woman" in Semarang, her friends didn't. She was tortured in a forced labour camp for years, and she still considered herself lucky to be there instead of the brothels, because they were far, far worse. All the public whitewashing of prostitution and claims of "happy hookers" in the last few decades triggered her trauma because it sounded just like the fascist IJA. And so did Lloyd in his livestream, making excuses for what amounts to serial rape. By his own admission, he repeatedly paid to do whatever he liked to, at worst, trafficking victims, and at best, people who only "consented" because they needed the money. It's all rape, it's just different kinds/severities.
I had been a fan and supporter of Lloyd in the first place because he positioned himself as fighting sexual abuse. If he had any sense of responsibility, ethics, or empathy towards his victims, he'd do the right thing and turn himself in to the police, or he'd find some other way to make certain he couldn't rape trafficking victims ever again. I mentioned in my voicemail that my own father died when I was very young, but he was a good man; it traumatised me, but that grief is bearable. I feel terribly sorry for Lloyd's daughters having a living serial rapist for a father.