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  Wimbledon's attitude to Russian/Belorussian players ...

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  ... is absolutely ridiculous.. last year, 2022, russian and belorussian tennis players were banned from wimbledon.

  let that just sink in.

  if you were a pro tennis player, and happened to be a russian or belorussian citizen, the all england club decided that you could not compete at their annual grass tournament.. let's explore that particular brand of discrimination and lunacy further.

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  Simon

  The 1936 Berlin Olympics were heavily politicised by Hitler to promote the belief of white supremacy. That hilariously blew up in his face when African-American sprinter Jesse Owens annihilated the white sprinters (and sprinters of other colours) to win multiple golds.

  Fun fact: Hitler didn't refuse to shake hands with Owens - he didn't congratulate any of the gold medal winners. But the US president refused to invite him to the WhiteHouse with other winners, or even send a congratulatory telegram. But hey, he was a democrat after all, what do you expect?

  Fun fact II: the Nazi party copied a lot of their racist belief system from the US democratic party, but decided to tone it down because they thought it was a bit too strong. Think about that.
  
  
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  I'm now turned off by this site

  by purrpurr in

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  in one form or another i've been a member of this site for almost 10 years.

  in the past this was a great place for debate, news and support for ex jws.

  i logged on several times a day and posted several times a week.

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  Simon

  Apparently I'm the worst offender, but they still can't clearly define what of.
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  I'm now turned off by this site

  by purrpurr in

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  in one form or another i've been a member of this site for almost 10 years.

  in the past this was a great place for debate, news and support for ex jws.

  i logged on several times a day and posted several times a week.

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  Simon

  sensational hate filled nonsense

  This is a trick the left constantly uses. They describe a thing, they encourage fear of the thing, they demand people act on the fear of the thing (by voting for them) ... but they can never actually point to the thing.

  So what "hate filled nonsense" exactly are you talking about? Pick one thing, and we'll dismantle it. Care to play?
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Simon

  He clearly hates doing JW videos now. I can’t imagine who enjoys watching this stuff either.

  I get why people watch exJW content, especially when they have recently left and are educating themselves about the WatchTower's past for example. That used to be things of some importance, like a major TV channel documentary or expose about the WTS though. But the newer stuff where someone takes a 2 hours convention talk then adds their own commentary to it which is invariable bleeding obvious "this is lies" kind of level ... WTF?! Who is sitting through that crap? What do they imagine they are learning? There's often long periods of time where n-o-t-h-i-n-g happens in JW world, it's just the same-old, yet people like him feel compelled to churn out new content about the nothing that has occurred.

  It'd be like someone rage-quitting McDonalds and then tuning in every month to hear the latest menu items and someone read out the updates to the employee manual.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  Simon

  It's one of the reasons companies love subscription services - a good percentage of people forget about them. B2B are especially lucrative as someone may signup, leave the company, and they keep paying for it.
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  Need Update Regarding Popularity of These

  by Ardian in

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  2. bible

  the artcile makes the watchtower the most popular magazine on some amibigious points.

  is it still that popular?.

  https://tingtopten.com/2020/01/top-10-most-popular-magazines-in-the-world/.

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  Most widely distributed != most popular
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  "Independent" Scotland joke!

  by BoogerMan in

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  humza yousaf, scotland's first minister, said: "scotland, i'm afraid, is suffering because we are not independent.

  " https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-66012834.

  try telling that to scotland's tourists and many island communities: the ferry services are dying month by month, and the two new overdue & over-budget ferries justify a serious legal/criminal enquiry.. any bunch of incompetents who can't provide a small country with a ferry service and a legally binding contract to build 2 new boats - having controlled scotland since 2007 - has no credibility in claiming they could run a country!.

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  If the Scotts don't like the power and control that the UK parliament, based in London, has, wait till they find out just how little the EU parliament cares about their little kingdom.

  They'll be earmarked as the dumping ground for the next batch of violent scrounging "refugees".
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  Moral responsibility.

  by nicolaou in

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  no subtlety here, it's going to be obvious where i'm going with this.

  please consider the following scenario.. you're seated on a railway platform bench waiting for your train.

  a high speed intercity is about to hurtle through without stopping when you see a small child running to the platforms edge!

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  It told the story of Kunta Kinte

  Wasn't his name Toby? ;)
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  I suspect this is his medium term plan: to stop making videos altogether but leave old videos up and keep collecting donations from whoever is stupid enough to keep sending him money. That would probably amount to substantial free money each month for years to come.

  No one cares about outdated YouTube videos about an obscure religion. Most of his content is ephemeral as it's commentary on latest convention talks etc... Those get outdated very quickly, and views will fall off very fast, so there will never be lots of sustained base-level traffic.

  The era of tech companies throwing printed money at creators is coming to an end. The economics of most of it was always fake but perpetuated while money was sloshing about in the system. But now people are tightening their belts, and that includes advertisers.

  The majority of his Patreons would have to drop him if he didn't create new any fresh relevant content. Most are too dumb to realize that's pretty much already the case, but even the stalwarts will give up when it's past even pretending.

  Other people will arrive that do things better, produce better content, appeal more to the newer audiences because they'll have newer relevant experiences than his outdated knowledge of the WTS.
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  Rainbow 🌈 Law Makers will turn on Religion NOT the UN

  by JohnTron7 in

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  2. beliefs

  it should be starting to become more clear to people what i've stated for years on this site.

  the threat against religion that becomes pivotal will come from lgbtq politicians forcing through " hate crime" bills aimed at religions.

  in the past i have had a " maybe" statement from only one commenter.

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  Simon

  Journeyman, thank you for your indepth reply to my comment. This site has censored or even deleted my previous comments regarding this subject.

  No it hasn't. But feel free to fuck off anytime.