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  Incredible News from History

  by Simon in

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  you think you know things, then you come across something that makes you do a double-take.

  how was it kept so qiet?.

  for instance, how many were killed in the jones-town massacre?

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  The Americans and Japanese had some battles in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska during WW2, technically WW2 was fought on US soil.

  The Canadians and Americans had a weird fog battle in the Aleutians both thinking they were the Japanese.
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  Incredible News from History

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  you think you know things, then you come across something that makes you do a double-take.

  how was it kept so qiet?.

  for instance, how many were killed in the jones-town massacre?

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  Riley

  i remember attending one day of the loyalty assembly a few years back just because i heard it was just messed up. It was literally the most cultist thing i have ever been a part of. It was almost laughable.

  An elder started taking to me at Home depot a few weeks later and asked me what i thought ? I was like I was surprised it didn’t end in a mass suicide. He was not impressed with that comment .

  Too funny.
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  A humorous look at the efficacy of the vaccines

  by Vidqun in

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  https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/friday-dark-humor-vaccine-efficacy-science-explained.

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  Our local health authority use to run the data ( before they stopped reporting to make the conservative base happy ) in cases in the last 120 days. It was further broken down into age groups, number of vaccinations given, cases and cases per 100,000, Hospitalizations, ICU admissions and deaths. It showed exactly who was ending up in the ICU and dying. The very elderly ( 80 plus ) or people between 50-75 who didn't have three doses. Even if there was a death or ICU admission in the 10-50 range, it as 90% unvaxxed. The really scary part was the amount of young ones ending up in ICU care.
  

  With the data being broken down into 120 day cycles, it really dismissed the idea that data was altered because large numbers of unvaxxed people prior to the vaccine roll out died.

  I thought the right wing media loved to tell us more people died under Biden than Trump anyway.
  
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  A humorous look at the efficacy of the vaccines

  by Vidqun in

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  2. humour

  https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/friday-dark-humor-vaccine-efficacy-science-explained.

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  I had an discussion with a guy the other day who really thought he had a smoking gun. He showed me some data how nearly as many people vaccinated died of covid as univaccinated people ( thus it was pointless to get vaccinated ). He was so proud of himself.

  I had to explain to him how you can't use a one to one ratio when 90% of the population is vaccinated and explained some basic mathematics to him and how cases per 100,000 is a much better indicator of how the vaccine works.

  Ran the numbers and showed him he was 12 times more likely to die of covid univaccinated. What is what the data you are showing me is displaying.

  His face dropped, said " Well, you can't trust the Data, Fake News blah blah " ( which came from his Right Wing website).

  It doesn't really matter that this point. Anti-Vaxxers are just fucking idiots. There is no reasoning, no logic. Just fools.
  
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  A humorous look at the efficacy of the vaccines

  by Vidqun in

  1. social
  2. humour

  https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/friday-dark-humor-vaccine-efficacy-science-explained.

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  It saddens me to see people leave the borg and still be gullible idiots.

  There are two types of people in the world. The first goes to University from 4 to 12 years and becomes a Nurse, Doctors or Scientists. The other reads facebook and twitter and cover their car with flags and stickers. The seconds believes they are equal to the first.

  It is embarrassing.
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  Why are so many Jehovah’s Witnesses Angry and Rude?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  why do you think many jws are hostile and rude?

  or is that just my imagination?.

  mark jones writes: the vast majority of jehovah’s witnesses are nice people.

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  I have been out for a long time but the unfortunate part for me is my wife is still in.

  Once a while I would go to the kitchen in the middle of a zoom meeting and catch some of the meeting. It is insane once you put distance between yourself and it and hear some of it. It is so bloody hate filled.

  Boast and Slander

  Eschatology based nonsense

  Boast and Slander

  Eschatology based nonsense

  Everybody sing.

  Stupid, just effing stupid.
  
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  Romans 10:9, 13 Identifying Jesus as Jehovah?

  by Daniel Michaels in

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  the use of the divine name in the nwtcgs

  romans 10:9, 13

  identifying jesus as jehovah

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  Romans 10 really shows the ambitious use of the tetragrammaton, which is an idea rooted in the old testament.

  LORD is invisible and no one talks to him or can see him but they did talk and see a figure who is LORD.
  

  John 1:18 - No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
  
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  Why are so many Jehovah’s Witnesses Angry and Rude?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  why do you think many jws are hostile and rude?

  or is that just my imagination?.

  mark jones writes: the vast majority of jehovah’s witnesses are nice people.

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  I went to a JW function a few years back and it was no secret I didn't give a shit anymore. Some old timer got me in a corner and basically wanted to start a debate. What made it more strange it was just the unique nonsense to the WTS.

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  Jesus is the Michael

  Faithful Slave

  New World Translation most accurate version of the bible.

  Finally I just told him to give me a brief summary of the book of Romans. He walked away. and was pissed off too. Too funny. I still can't believe how much of a one trick pony I was.
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  “The United Socialist States of America?”

  by Fisherman in

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  when i was growing up, some people were on welfare but the vast majority were working people that paid their own rent, doctor’s bills, medicine, food, etc.

  —and saved money.

  so, a working person did not need financial help from the government if they didn’t have vices.

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  I was a fairly devoted conservative till I did some travelling in the developing world. People say things like the invisible hand of capitalism will lead to prosperity and tax cuts seem to be the be all end all solution to everything. All I saw was people who paid no taxes and who received no services. The very epitome of what unbridled capitalism is. Of course there was a very few ultra rich but mostly poor. Really really poor.

  Wanting a progressive tax system and a social contract doesn't make you woke or a communist.
  
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  Will Ukraine win?

  by Fisherman in

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  i was under the impression that it was going to be a short war, that russia’s military would indeed subdue ukraine’s forces quickly but that is not happening.

  seems that russia’s military power is much less than it’s reputed to be.

  no guess how it will all end..

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  Something that doesn't to make US history books is post 1970, the South Vietnam army had become a capable fighting force, the government was rather stable and the communists had become rather unpopular in the South. The whole anti-war movement was more about the prospect of rich kids getting drafted than an actual moral opposition to the war.

  I digress.

  This new world order is people like Putin, Erdogan ( Turkey), Bolsonaro ( Brazil), Orban ( Hungry ) even Trump. Populist assholes with peddling simple answers to stupid people. The fight in Ukraine is about so much more. Are we going to do the right thing or is the world just going to become a series of strongmen ruling the world.