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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  You said that the source was 100% verifiable and not only that but it has also been verified. I am simply asking you, the person making the claim, how and by whom it's been verified.

  There are ways to reason on things even if you don't have all the evidence.

  Consider if it was faked. The person faking it can't just hope that someone one day stumbles on it, it could never be found. They would either have to release it themselves OR tell someone else to go check it out.

  So it comes down to whether the person saying "I came across this when *I* registered on a dating site" is telling the truth or not. I have no reason to believe or disbelieve them, but I doubt the scenario that "someone made it up and just hoped someone else would find it and then someone did happen to find it" to be realistic.
  

  But knowing what I do of Lloyd Evans, the fact that he's once again left his wife and children to go holiday alone, and appears to have been trying to contact women for meetups, does totally match his behavior of the last 4-5 years (that he's recently admitted to, longer for his sexual indiscretions and cheating).

  Of course, it could have been made up and the person reporting it is part of the fraud, but if people vouch for them, what would they have to gain vs what would they have to lose? There is no reason to do it.

  I certainly wouldn't trade my reputation just to take a cheap shot at Lloyd, however dislikable he is. But if I came across something that would be embarrassing to him with no reason to doubt it's validity I would tell everyone about it.

  So that is what I believe the situation is. If people I trust are saying "I trust this person" then I think it's real. Other things (like Marko) also seem to match his MO but have more question marks over them because of how they were revealed and to who.

  Dijana said she has no such relative. Mark O'Donnell also said "Marko" is not a relative.

  I don't believe what either say, for different reasons. I don't know if it's really Dijana saying anything or being coerced to say something. I don't see how Mark O'Donnell would be any expert on Dijana's family tree and think when he said that he was pretty much in bed with Lloyd which makes his opinion about Lloyd less credible and it more likely to be something he's repeating from Lloyd. So the claim may as well be "Lloyd said ..." in both cases.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Most of us (including myself) have this belief that he knows exactly what he is doing, it could be the case he doesn't and that is the scary thing about all this. If he has no idea wnat he is doing, that could actually be very dangerous.

  I don't think anyone believes he doesn't know what he's doing, the key thing is he doesn't appear to see anything wrong with it or feel any remorse, like he lacks morals, not that he's broken any moral code. i.e. he's amoral as well as immoral.

  All he seems to feel is anger and resentment if he's be inconvenienced, challenged or caught doing something. Nothing todo with shame or remorse for the act itself, just the consequences of people's reactions to it. He's angry at losing patreons and the money, and doesn't see anything really wrong with what he's done.

  I can only speak for myself, but I suspect most people would be similar: not only would we never even think of visiting prostitutes in the first place but if we had, having it come out and telling the world about it would be so shame inducing I don't think I'd ever leave my house, let alone talk about it to the world on YouTube.

  He has to have no shame whatsoever to do that. He can't have any real sense of the hurt he's caused his wife and the damage it does to his kids, because if someone did, how would they keep at it so regularly for 4+ years?

  Instead, we get an act. He knows what a normal person is supposed to react like, so we get a poorly-acted version of it. But it's off, slightly odd, because the real feelings don't appear to be there.

  This appears to have been his entire life. Living as a fraud, knowing how he's meant to behave but never believing it, never living up to it, and then always excusing what he's done and seeing no shame for anything. His book is hardly the work of someone who sounds "repressed" in any way, it sounds more like someone with no controls over their behavior.

  For most people, the potential shame or embarrassment of being immoral helps temper their behavior. He doesn't appear to have that switch.

  I don't know if it's common for that to be a factor in men seeing women as objects to be used. I suspect there is some element involved as you have to no care about other people's feelings as most as you don't care about their opinions of you.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  If someone could view the actual date that dating-site account was created, and messages posted from it, that would serve as verification. If any predate the announcement that he's going to London or were made close to the same time, I'd take that to be him, not someone faking it.

  At this point, why would anyone fake anything? There's no need - you just have to watch the guy stumble to his next fuck-up.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  "I promised my wife 'no more hookers' so ... hello speed-dating site, because 'me so smart' ... wait, I can't get a ticket? Someone, anyone, meet me for a drink! Who ever heard of first-come first-served for a ticketed event? Oh, everyone?"

  What a pathetic excuse for a man, and what an eedjit!

  I hope someone in Croatia is changing some locks right now.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Putting his wife first ... not!
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  I think that depends on the rules regarding evidence for civil trials in Croatia. It's likely that they would allow it, since it can help with the determination of liability

  If that were true, then every civil case would be proceeded by a criminal case, regardless of the chance of success.

  Basic logic - if simply submitting a claim counted as "evidence" then everyone would do it as a matter of course. It would destroy their criminal justice system by overloading it.

  Which is why I don't believe it would count as evidence.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  So that when & if he lodges a civil suit, he can document that he registered a criminal complaint as supporting evidence?

  If something is free to do with no barrier to it being initiated, then it can't be used as evidence of anything other than it was initiated. So it should neither strengthens or weakens the other case. Only a verdict would do that.
  
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

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  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  all automatic and semi-automatic rifles and most handguns are banned for public use in Iceland.

  So? Iceland has a total population less than most small cities and much lower rates of gun ownership.

  They don't have the same social issues that the US does. So what is the point of comparing them?

  But even so, they still have lots of guns but few to no gun related homicides. Almost like it's not caused by the guns existing ...

  Why not, if you want to do that, compare individual cities in the US and then look at why some are like the worse shit-hole country war zones and others are perfectly nice places to live. Even though all exist in the same gun-owning country.
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

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  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  Guns - made only to kill.

  You seem to be implying that they're made only to kill people, which they are not.

  Ignoring the purely target shooting aspect, both knives and guns are tools. Dangerous tools that should be treated with respect. Same with vehicles, which kill about the same number of people each year as guns. Are cars made to kill at all? No, and yet they do. Why? Misuse.

  The focus on guns is pointless when they problem obviously isn't the guns themselves. It's who has access to them, what is done about people who have behavioural problems, and what causes those behavioural problems.

  Now, as I've said several times - nothing is going to remove guns from society. So magic-wand solutions are meaningless posturing and nothing more.

  We'd be better focusing on practical solutions that can actually be enacted.

  Looking at the over-prescribing of drugs to children and attaching some liability for that might have a bigger impact than banning guns.

  Having offenders actually handled rather than getting off and escalating their behaviour would be sensible, surely?

  What about the government intervention that encourages fatherless children, a major factor in most mass-shooters lives?

  Most of these shootings turn out to be foreseeable and preventable, but nothing could be done for whatever reason. Let's look at those reasons and remove the blockers.

  In this case, we need to look closely at the police and why they didn't shoot. Is this a consequence of the criminalization of policing?
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Simon

  ARE YOU GETTING THE MESSAGE YET LLOYD?

  KEEP SEEKING OUT THE FEW LEFT THAT SUPPORT YOU, TO TICKLE YOUR EARS.

  BUT THE SILENT MAJORITY IS SPEAKING PRETTY LOUDLY!

  Also, just saw this:

  

  NOTE: Of course it's not real, it's satire - disclaimer added so the Chippie-Chomper can't complain about "faked tweets"