Brandon

You’re misunderstanding me. If Trump did incite violence, then editing the speech together to show how he did that is not “fake,” it’s simply documentary storytelling that at worst, lacks nuance. if you are of the opinion that Trump is innocent, then it makes sense that you would call the documentary fake news. But my point is that we shouldn’t make the assumption that he’s innocent… At any rate, I feel this topic (from the beginning) is playing with fire and has the potential to divide brother from brother, so I recommend we all tread cautiously and not assume our point of view is universally shared, let alone then draw conclusions from that personal opinion.

At the end of the day, the question of whether Trump incited the crowd to chaos and rioting is—and this is me being generous—unresolved. I write this because (1) the first amendment grotesquely “protects” virtually any kind of speech, including hate speech; (this is why white-supremacist groups in the US like the KKK cannot be targeted for prosecution) and (2) because of the strong protections of the first amendment, the Department of Justice knew it would be such a high bar to prove incitement (this is the bar set in 1969 by means of Brandenburg v. Ohio), and declined to charge Trump for incitement Due to the aforementioned, there has been no court case to decide whether Trump’s January 6 speech constitutes criminal incitement (under the Brandenburg standard).

Perhaps he could confirm if any witnesses there have been killed by muslims, that he knows of

Ya I just downloaded Sora app a few days ago and have been going wild. It’s also a social app.

I had forgotten about trump’s “Abraham accords” thing, until he posted yesterday guess it will be easier than ever to separate the weeds (false religion) from the true one, with trump uniting Muslims and Jews into a single group🙊

My apologies then. To me it seemed somewhat “old news” as I have been aware of it for at least a decade, ever since the original Boko Haram group had been in my news sources for abducting a bunch of school aged girls and forcing them to live as muslims in his militia-cult group. I believe the government somehow killed him, this was back in like 2009. It put a dent in the spread of his cult but did not completely end Islamic extremism in northern Nigeria. Religious extremism can easily become a very violent thing, and Islam is one large source of it, but hardly the only. There are violent Hindu extremists too, not to mention Christian ones popping up from time to time. The US has a long history of cults that end in mass suicides. We hope Jehovah will act soon to bring an end to Babylon the great.

And every 3 seconds a human dies from hunger. This would be easily preventable if the rich countries (including the US) all opened they borders to humans who are suffering. I’m not sure what you want us to do other than pray. But remember we’ve been given instruction not to focus on negative news as it can sap your spirit? I believe you may be overly influenced by the news coming out of the US president (and a lot of it isn’t even true, or is half-truths) we all need to be careful with our media intake

Virtually all the experts have been saying that the Islamic radicalists are not targeting Christians but attacking many Nigerians (including muslims) in the north for all sorts of reasons. He also claimed there was a white genocide happening in South Africa, which was completely debunked, but which has led the White House to reduce their incoming number of allowed refugees from 500,000 down to 7,500 with most of these coming from “the white persecuted South Africans” who apparently need to flee their country…

AI based translators can be trained directly on JW.org content to get the theocratic dictionaries analogous between languages — just wait til the branches start using it

Well, an elder in the Spanish told me how he used the meta ray bans during an elders meeting to ensure he didn't miss anything (Spanish being his second language) and how it helped him greatly. I’m naturally a very skeptical person too, but hearing this intrigued me!

okay it’s not universal (not all languages) but the next generation of translators seem to be becoming more pervasive than ever — will we soon be able to preach in dozens of languages without studying any of them? examples: Meta glasses and latest AirPods translate your surroundings in near-real time. They can even work offline. zoom, FaceTime, and google Meet can auto translate between dozens of languages, captioning and/or speaking out the translation. In the case of gMeet, it can even replicate your voice!

Oh I also bought a Pinephone and briefly had it working with my carrier’s SIM, but it kept running into issues with APN settings and was also too underpowered. Everyone told me (after I bought it) that I should’ve bought the pro version 🫤

I use Elementary OS as it reminds me of macOS

You should be able to just copy and paste

Ya, two PDFs came up in the rss feed on saturday, the same time as the tracts came up. https://www.jw.org/en/global-communications/country/russia/EIGHTH-ANNIVERSARY-SPECIAL-REPORT-The-Persecution-of-Jehovahs-Witnesses-in-Russia/ https://cfp2.jw-cdn.org/a/a12fbc5/1/o/1013194_E_cnt_1.pdf russia https://cfp2.jw-cdn.org/a/4e8fe5/1/o/1013193_E_cnt_1.pdf Eritrea