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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
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CalvinistEmily

It amazes me how that sort of neoliberalism is considered "left". That sub-Reddit needs to read some Marx, Lenin, Kollontai, Zetkin etc, or basically any communist. Not one of them ever supported prostitution, and they especially didn't support the men that abuse it. It's postmodern identity politics where they're more concerned about what language they use to describe an atrocity than the material conditions itself. Lloyd is a rich white anglo man who went to a poor country to sexually molest the native people through bribing them to endure it. How anyone can support that and call themselves "left", I do not know.
I've said before that it's more in line with fascism, trafficking minority ethnic women and children for prostitution was an official policy of Germany and Japan. These "leftists" should look at the company they keep and let us actual MLs get on with things.
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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've seen survivors use terms like "prostituted (woman/man/girl/boy)" or "prostitution survivor/victim". Nordic Model Now has a lot of good resources and interviews with survivors of the industry.
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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 think he's just parroting phrases used in discussions of ethics and morality and thinking it'll win him the argument. For example, in discussions of gay rights you often see "consenting adults" to describe relationships that are acceptable and exclude ones that aren't.
The difference is that's a good argument when it's about ordinary gay and lesbian couples with no power imbalance between them. It's not a good argument when it's about a punter and his victim.
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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

Omg that's gold! Adding it to my playlist, it unironically bangs :D reminds me of one of Frank Klepacki's.
I did wonder if samples of his livestream would make a good track, maybe "mister kind of saintly Brandon" over a jungle beat, or "WHOT?!" as a sample.
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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

He sings like one of those deep voiced elders at the Kingdom Hall who felt they should take the lead in getting everyone to sing louder. His "We Are The Slave" song he composed was pitiful (on his channel, so wont post here).
He sounded like quite a high tenor in his Christmas song. I'm an alto and I can sing deeper than him. It's reedy too, no timbre to it.
I see in the We Are The Slave song it says "performed by David Evans" - is that a relative of his? His dad's called Jonathan so presumably it's another of the Evans clan?
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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 figured that's why he always got Arthur Weber to do the singing. That, and he seemed to like making his co-hosts do stupid things on the show for no reason.
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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

And I remember his bitchy attitude towards Christmas. Can you imagine "celebrating" with a parent who can barely contain his boredom and distaste for what should be a happy family holiday?
Unfortunately, thanks to the quotes from his book posted here, I can imagine Lloyd "celebrating" Christmas...
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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 think people are misreading cost. I've seen $8 allocated on a sheet here in Europe as 8,000.
That's possible. In continental Europe they tend to use commas instead of full stops/periods to indicate decimal points. Can be confusing for us Brits, Irish and non-Europeans.
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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

Well, he is used to paying by the hour...
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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

"the new normal" WTF is he using essentially communist propaganda for?
Nah, he's a typical neoliberal. I wish he were a communist, I'm an ML myself and we have much more rigorous analysis of and response to exploitation and inequality than just virtue signalling.
For example in China, using prostitutes carries the death penalty.