Posts by Simon

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

I've never heard of 7 defendants in a single case (where it wasn't about a single act they all took part in / a conspiracy).

So it would need to be 7 separate cases, otherwise how can you deliver a verdict? They are all separate things.

He's just going the discount route with the paperwork so they can copy-paste a lot (which it appears to be).

As for Dijana, it could be todo with divorce proceedings or she may just not want to be in the limelight, but she's involved in it whether she likes it or not. Did she ever stop the ask where the money for the vacations was coming from or did she enjoy the money that was coming in?

I find it hard to be sympathetic if she's known the kind of man he was, has repeatedly caught him cheating on her and then stayed for more and refused to spill the beans.

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Are You Concerned About Inflation?

by Simon in

i saw a statistic the other day that something like 25% of all the debt that the us has incurred since 1776 was created in the last 12 months.

that's because they have printed so much currency and instead of letting that stop them, they are going to continue printing more to go on a spending spree on crazy green-new-deal schemes and union handouts.. does anyone think that this can be anything other than inflationary?

they are effectively stealing the wealth of everyone to then hand money out to people.

Simon

The largest fertilizer producer in the UK recently closed shop. The high cost of fuel meant that they couldn't continue.

No fertilizer means no food.

People like to believe "organic" is good but it's a fantasy - oil and gas puts food on your plate.

If you think prices for things are high now, wait until oil is $200 a barrel and there are global food shortages.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

Breaking news: "Bring it on" says local pervert

That video cover page makes me laugh out loud, literally, every time I see it:

It'd be good to promote things like that in advance - I didn't know it was a live stream until I clicked and watched. Great to see everyone being so supportive of each other. One positive thing Lloyd has done is brought many people together.

His days of isolating people and picking them off one by one is over.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

I just find it hard to believe that expats lost their British citizenship after Brexit.

I do too. You are a citizen of a country until you become a citizen of someplace else and revoke the previous one (or keep dual nationality).

They didn't even "un-citizen" ISIS cretins, the idea that it would be automatic for many thousands of ex-pats sounds absurd. And what if you're not in the EU? It just doesn't make sense to me.

I could see it affecting people's permanent residency status and require an application (for something that was automatically granted under the treaty previously), but that is quite different to citizenship status.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

Here is when he took many of us out of context over the Russian Ban:

And speaking of the Russian ban, who of us can forget his flow chart.

The daft thing about his video, is that he's right about the Russia thing - it is sick to be cheering on heavy handed abuse of government power, and we should separate criticism of the WTS from hatred of JWs.

... but it also applies to many of his other videos that are critical of the WTS for the sake of being critical. It's not welcoming to be ridiculing people or inventing scandals that don't exist.

I had an encounter with some crazy exJW on Twitter a few weeks ago. She wanted to claim that ALL JWs supported child abuse which is obviously not true and totally unfair. When I pointed out that she was being just as bigoted and judgemental as she claimed they were of course she went off about "white males, offering counsel" (actually no, fairly commenting in a public space).

The point is: we need to be balanced. I don't like Lloyd, but it's not difficult to say he was absolutely right about the Russia ban.

This "need to have an opposite viewpoint" based on who holds the view just permeates so much and it's not healthy and it makes some people look unbalanced and appear incapable of really looking at things objectively in a fair manner.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

"I don't feel comfortable discussing publicly the financial arrangements between myself and my lawyers"

If it was on a contingency basis, you know he'd be bragging about it, that it wasn't costing or risking him anything. So it's clearly something he's paying for, and he appears to be the perfect client ... for them. You can't take it as a complete measure of how confident they are in his case, they may not have the resources to "bet" on it, but it's certainly "a" measure and there's a gap between his description of it as some kind of slam-dunk easy victory.

What comes first?

1. Legal victory for Lloyd
2. Lack of funds from Lloyd
3. Armageddon

I think #2

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

Simon

The choices of defendants to me is suspect.

I think you have some valid points, but I also think he's an opportunistic cunt and views it as a chance to put some "competition" out of business.

Look at his history. At every step his mo has been to silence other activists, especially YouTubers, so he can own that market. Other people aren't monetizing things but if they take viewers and attention away from him they cut into his money-making potential. I think that's the lens he views things through.

Once you realize that everything he does is about $$$ then his behavior is easy to explain and predict.

This is why he needs to be absolutely discredited and run out of our community. He's a cancer and won't go away until he's defunded and his free-loading ride is taken away.

That's why I'm proud to announce my "hunt down his patreons" hit squad ...

That last bit was a joke, to check you're paying attention.

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PIMO Bethel Elder Has Special Message & Speaks out

by Newly Enlightened in

a pimo elder at bethel has come forward with a special message posted on reddit.. https://www.reddit.com/gallery/v9mgao.

the dated pictures attached are "proof conclusive" that this is for real.

no outside guests are allowed inside bethel at this time.

Simon

Probably real. I mean nothing really like new or fake about this.

Whether it's real or unreal is unknowable and that's the point - the appeal to evidence that doesn't exist makes me think it's not real ... because otherwise why do it? Why not provide the evidence? Because it's not real?

We need to be more discerning and less gullible. Just because someone appears telling you something you want to believe that you are likely to believe doesn't make it true.

Even if it is true, we should have higher standards of what "proof" means.

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Are You Concerned About Inflation?

by Simon in

i saw a statistic the other day that something like 25% of all the debt that the us has incurred since 1776 was created in the last 12 months.

that's because they have printed so much currency and instead of letting that stop them, they are going to continue printing more to go on a spending spree on crazy green-new-deal schemes and union handouts.. does anyone think that this can be anything other than inflationary?

they are effectively stealing the wealth of everyone to then hand money out to people.

Simon

The debt is too high to repay. Servicing the debt is going to come home to roost soon. I recall a friend who spent himself into a hole and was only able to pay the interest. You can write the rest of the story.

This is it - they can't afford even the interest part of the debt any more. This is why they are so keen to devalue the currency, because they also devalue the debt.

But it doesn't work because economics 101.

This is how every world power has gone down - the currency is devalued and the power collapses.

Keynesian bullshit economics.

If you want a really good insight into economics and how we got to where we are, this is essential viewing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp4U5aH_T6A

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Are You Concerned About Inflation?

by Simon in

i saw a statistic the other day that something like 25% of all the debt that the us has incurred since 1776 was created in the last 12 months.

that's because they have printed so much currency and instead of letting that stop them, they are going to continue printing more to go on a spending spree on crazy green-new-deal schemes and union handouts.. does anyone think that this can be anything other than inflationary?

they are effectively stealing the wealth of everyone to then hand money out to people.

Simon

I don't think people really understand how utterly fucked most countries are.

The pension systems are broke and only have money to about 2030, but they still offer massively inflated pensions for public sector workers. It's unsustainable.

The debt to GDP ratio is off the chart.

Just imagine you could sell every single company listed on the Nasdaq, S&P500 etc... for full, peak, valuation (so nothing goes down in value when you start selling). It would pay something like 1/4 of the debt.

THE WORLD IS BANKRUPT!!

All the geniuses in charge want to do is keep telling people it's all transitory and kick the can down the road but they have no real plan other than an inevitable massive default and economic collapse.

Now in unrelated news, why do you think they are so intent on you handing over your guns?