Posts by Simon

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Afghanistan-Kabul falls to Taliban - U.S. Embassy staff evacuated by helicopter

by fulltimestudent in

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in a scene reminiscent of the fall of saigon, the usa embassy staff have been evacuated by helicopter.. for a third time in asia ( a fourth, if you count usa supported chiang kai shek's defeat in mainland china) usa supported forces have been defeated.

more than 1 trillion dollars wasted and a huge deathtoll (both sides) afghanistan is back to where it started,.

will the taliban behave differently this time ?

Simon

What an embarrassing debacle.

Who will volunteer to help the US in future?

This is on Biden, but also on Bush and Blair and all the war-mongers who pushed for a pointless war based on lies, and then continued the lies for the next 20 years.

The US spent two decades apparently building and equipping an army ... one that folded like a deck-chair within days.

What a joke. Next time "intelligence" officials tell you something, remember: they don't know jack shit about anything.

And Biden is still an incompetent corrupt racist fool.

The Taliban is now in possession of all the advanced US weapons that were left behind, including military drones.

Good job Biden, go get an ice-cream ...

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“Well at least he doesn’t make mean tweets”

by minimus in

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i asked a tennis friend this morning what he thought about what’s going on in afghanistan and he said it was terrible.

he was a military man and identifies as a middle of the road republican.

he supported most of trump’s policies but voted for biden because he couldn’t take trump’s mean tweets.

Simon

Biden has now provided the Taliban with an expensive hi-tech arsenal of US weapons. The Taliban now have advanced drones plus caches of other weapons and vehicles, all at the US taxpayers dime.

What an utterly shambolic withdrawal. Hard to imagine a worse outcome.

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It's VERY DIFFICULT for some JWs to accept the Truth-------But for other not so much------WHY?

by pistolpete in

what is it about some jws that they can't see the flip-flops of the wt's changing doctrine?.

some of the flip-flops involved the death of many of it's members, and it was not even biblical based.

yet for some reason they can't seem to grasp the significance of the matter.

Simon

It's easier to fool someone than to convince someone they have been fooled.

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“Well at least he doesn’t make mean tweets”

by minimus in

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friends

i asked a tennis friend this morning what he thought about what’s going on in afghanistan and he said it was terrible.

he was a military man and identifies as a middle of the road republican.

he supported most of trump’s policies but voted for biden because he couldn’t take trump’s mean tweets.

Simon

I wouldn't trust Biden with the TV remote. What is the US doing letting him pretend to run the country? Everyone can see he's a senile old fool, and before that he was a corrupt racist bastard.

His personal incompetence will result in misery for an untold number of women, girls and children. All so he can tick a box and meet some "memorable" withdrawal date.

What a fool.

What fools voted for this fool?

I don't believe there were 85 million of them.

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Urgent Message from American Atheists regarding the need to get the Covid-19 vaccine!

by Disillusioned JW in

the following is an urgent email message (except i deleted mention of my name and links which might include information about me,) i received from american atheists regarding the need to get the covid-19 vaccine.. ".

for months, we've thought that vaccine rates have been incredibly strong among our community..

for example, a pew poll in march found that 90% of atheist respondents indicated they'd already received the first vaccine dose or would "definitely" or "probably" seek the shot..

Simon

Tip: you can type words like "american jewish vaccination rate" into google and, well, do your own research.

The more you do this for all claims, the more informed you become. But don't just use Google and don't read the top articles only.

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You Just Can't Not Laugh

by Simon in

so this kid adds trombone-effects to his mothers life and, well, if you haven't seen it you have to watch it.

seems like she see's the funny side for some of them at least.. it's awesome and hilarious.

kudos to them both.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhlfcezkvko.

Simon

So this kid adds trombone-effects to his mothers life and, well, if you haven't seen it you have to watch it. Seems like she see's the funny side for some of them at least.

It's awesome and hilarious. Kudos to them both.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhLfceZKVko

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Overweight Jehovah’s Witnesses

by minimus in

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what was your kingdom hall like when it came to overweight witnesses?

i remember counseling some people on their drinking habits.

a few snickered that if we were going to counsel them because they have had way too many at a wedding reception, what about very overweight witnesses that have a lifestyle of overindulgence?

Simon

some people do overeat and they aren’t obese

I don't think they overeat then. It's all about how much you eat, what you eat and your energy expenditure. If you have a tough physical job then you need way more calories.

We had some real fatty-bum-bums in our hall, for some reason the "obesity" bits of the bible were never a focus.

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Before you judge anti-vaxxers

by David.L.Henson in

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Simon

The biggest correlation with anti-vaxxers are African Americans.

If you believe what the news tells you, you are a sucker for propaganda.

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Urgent Message from American Atheists regarding the need to get the Covid-19 vaccine!

by Disillusioned JW in

the following is an urgent email message (except i deleted mention of my name and links which might include information about me,) i received from american atheists regarding the need to get the covid-19 vaccine.. ".

for months, we've thought that vaccine rates have been incredibly strong among our community..

for example, a pew poll in march found that 90% of atheist respondents indicated they'd already received the first vaccine dose or would "definitely" or "probably" seek the shot..

Simon

Apparently African Americans have one of the lowest rates of vaccination, but they are not castigated by the media like conservatives are (who are demonized as being anti-vaxxers, even though there is little proof they are - what they object to is any mandate).

Also interesting is the fact that 85-90% of COVID victims are OBESE, yet that is never mentioned in the sorry excuse for the news media.

Put these things together and you have African Americans, who have some of the worse rates of obesity being less inclined to be vaccinated and their obesity then makes them more likely to be a serious case.

Of course the media will do everything they can to paint it as a conservative issue - it's got "the left" written all over it.

Oh, and lets not forget Obama setting the example of the elites - flying in on their private jets (climate change hypocrisy: check) partying unmasked (and I wonder how many of them are unvaccinated) which has now led to a surge of cases in Martha's Vineyard.

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On the current migrant crisis

by LoveUniHateExams in

thousands of migrants have come to england this year, already beating last year's total.. some may have fled syria and other war-torn countries; others are economic migrants.. let me try to get my head around this phenomenon: migrants are relatively safe in france and other countries.

they then leave the relative safety of continental europe and risk their lives and that of their children by crossing the english channel in rubber dinghies.

there's just no fixing stupid, is there .

Simon

didnt seem at all like a troll to me

Are you blind? hard to imagine a more obvious one.

i even replied

Yeah, feeding the trolls never helps - you're immediately part of the problem

which got deleted too

Of course it did, a reply to a non-existent post usually makes little sense, and this is why it becomes part of the problem - it's just creating additional work of things to clear up