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

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  What's all this fuss about Lloyds use of abnegate? It's a perfectly cromulent word.

  You sagacious bugger!

  Lame I know, it's the best I could come up with - the synonymophomagraphtron wasn't helping.
  
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Even if he has not engaged in sexual activity with minors, his regular use of a trade that does traffic in minors damages any attempt at combating CSA, because he will become the issue as his past gets more and more attention. He knows this, hence the many times that he has insisted that any sex workers he 'dated' were 20 or older. This, in itself, is an issue- that 20-year-old may have been forced onto the streets at a much younger age, which is the sort of thing that someone like him should be fighting against, instead of supporting with his dollars.

  I never picked up on it originally but noticed from the great review video posted a few pages back - Lloyds very first attempt to dismiss what he did on his livestream by comparing it with "worse crimes" was to say "I've not raped anybody".

  Question: How could he know? Read the experiences of people who have escaped sex work - they have to pretend that it's consensual to avoid being beaten or worse. You'd think an EX activist would know to listen to an EX to know the true reality of a system, right?

  If you do the math, and look at the reality of prostitution and trafficking, anyone who regularly uses sex work victims is almost certainly a rapist.

  Just like in politics, people tend to accuse others of the things they themselves are guilty of, because in their heads it is the absolute worse thing someone can be accused of (the thing they fear being found out about themselves), it makes me wonder when people start making pre-emptive denials of things they "haven't" done ... is it because deep down they realize they may have?
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  I hope Man City do the treble

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  man united did the treble in 1999 under sir alex ferguson (the best manager in english football - sorry, city fans!

  xd).. and now man city are just one game away from matching that achievement.. i'd just like to say that erling haaland is a phenomenon, a f**king goal machine.

  this norwegian dude is just 22 years old, and everywhere he goes he scores a f**k-ton of goals - he breaks records.. case in point - his debut season in english football, he goes and smashes alan shearer's and andy cole's 34 premiership goals (haaland scored 36 premiership goals).

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  As a City fan, I agree that City should win the treble!

  We've had some dark times (falling down to the 3rd tier at one point) and had to wait a long, long time for success to come back to Maine Road, erm, I mean the Etihad. But now things are setup for sustained success going forward and it's great to see.

  I don't care what team you support, you have to see the beauty in how City play and they are a joy to watch. Pep is transforming the game.

  If we do win the treble and equal United's achievement, hopefully they can go on to set new heights that have never been done before - maybe a 4th consecutive premier league title, or why not back-to-back trebles? We can dream now ...
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Manchester United is his second love, after himself

  Ha, great - we beat them! City is the primary club in Manchester now!

  They sound like the kind of crazed vigilante who used to get on the news here in the UK for showing up as part of a mob outside the home of some old man living alone on a housing estate who they'd all decided was a 'paedo', baying for blood outside and smashing his windows.

  Yeah, typically when they found out someone was a retired Paediatrician ...
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  My escape from the Watchtower after 35 years and their heinous false allegations!

  by gavindlt in

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  i created a site called www.dadseekingtruth.com to tell my journey since walking away from being a slave of the watchtower for 35 years.

  i left on the 21st february on my 56th birthday.. .

  i was sentenced to 5 years for my neutral stand in south africa.

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  FYI: This has to be the 10th copy of this. The more topics you start, the longer your topics will take to appear. When it says "queued for processing" that means it has been received and you have to wait for it to show up. The queue is to protect the site from spam and blabbermouths. Duplicate topics are spam to me and are removed.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Why didn't he just block her ? and he's on "vacation" or what ever and that's what he's doing , having a twitter war with a nut case?

  It probably suits his agenda to have someone making accusations like that. They are easy to bat away, because they are a little OTT. Although there are strong hints and potential evidence that something like that happened, there isn't enough to make direct accusations.

  It suits him to have them made because he can point to it and say "see, lies and defamation!" as though that is what all the other accusations are too. They are not, but it's how he operates - picking on one thing that is potentially untrue or unprovable and using it to dismiss everything as lies.

  People that go too far don't sound credible, they make themselves sound like nutters. Same with people who make unreasonable or sensationalized claims about the WTS too.

  BTW: let's not copy paste Twitter over here, especially if it's badly formatted - make it readable and / or do a screenshot, and link to the appropriate topic so people can confirm it for themselves.

  there no prostitutes in Bishop’s Stortford.?

  Sounds like he went to watch the FA cup ... on a telly? Hope he's a United fan!
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  As you can see from his lowest point so far (1 January/1 April 2023), that means he's so far only recouped 144 of the total 509 patrons lost from his peak in 2021 (that's just over a quarter), and the numbers had been dropping again in the past six weeks.

  The rate of decline after his temporary bounce has advanced to more than it was before, which is nice to see.

  His "sky is falling" begging is no long-term solution. It's desperation. He doesn't produce content that people need, certainly not that people want to pay. He doesn't fulfill the promises he make to get the money, even way lower levels.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  That would be hysterical, if someone bought the .com domain and redirected it to lloydevans.info

  It would. Too bad, so sad ...

  Doesn’t take much to put subtitles on your videos.

  You tube does it automatically. It's literally no effort at

  Reluctantapostate.co is owned by Paragon Names out of Berkshire. It’s a registrar, so unless Paragon Names is him, I am not sure he even owns it anymore. He hasn’t used the reluctant apostate website in some time.

  Most registrars offer forms of private registration, so the registrar is listed without exposing your personal information. They are not really the owner per-se.

  Like the .com version - it looks like someone snapped it up but "who knows" who it could possibly be? Probably not Evans as it's through a different registrar. I'm guessing it's someone who doesn't need to bleach their hair or spend money on hookers to "cope" with life, so has the spare $17, or, erm, whatever a .com domain name actually costs, to splash out on it purely for shits and giggles.

  Using a phrase Lloyd Evans himself could be pictured saying ... "where do you want me to point it?" (my wife came up with that Viz-esque Finnbarr-Saunders "fnar-fnar" and demanded that I give her credit).
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

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  Simon

  That looks like a boilerplate site template. He probably should not have posted the link until he had updated the site with his content.

  What kind of fool promotes a site that only has a web-template hosted on it? Probably hoping someone will do all the work of building it for him (for free, of course).

  Also, what kind of idiot buys the .co version of a site when the .com was available?

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  Likes and Dislikes. How about making the identities known to the poster?

  by nicolaou in

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  i haven't a clue if it's technically feasible but i think if you're going to hit the dislike button on a post you should be open to discussion with the poster.. just your own topics and posts of course.

  what do you think simon?.

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  Simon

  It's a tough one as there are good arguments both for and against it.

  The original intent was to put people off from making meaningless short posts, just to say "something" (like "me too") and to allow people to voice or vent their agreement or displeasure about something without sticking their head above a parapet. It also helped to avoid some unpleasantries by allowing people to just put a thumbs-down without having to actually post, which I think helps avoid arguments continuing (at least a little).

  It also helps show that just because someone may post something obnoxious, it doesn't mean that we as a community endorse the sentiment if there are a ton of negative votes.

  But ...

  Some people clearly misuse it and you see in the patterns that they go on a binge of up or downvoting everything certain people's posts, clearly doing so based on the person and not the content of the post (when they are innocuous). If the person doing this was visible, they may do it less. Of course the downside is you then get into arguments on why someone gave you whatever reaction.

  Overall I think I'd favor having the voter be publicly visible, similar to facebook, but with a few more options:

  Love / Like / Dislike / Angry

  Laugh / Cry / Hug / Puzzled, maybe more (ideas?)

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  Told-you-So Smug Grin (like your wife gives you when you finally have to admit she was right and you were wrong)