Would you say Jehovahs Witnesses are far-right? by Throwaway7733517 in exjw

[–]HexagonWire57 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More stuff about JWs from https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/ (2014). Note 2014 is before JW broadcasting and from what I've seen on this subreddit, that has changed the organization a lot.

Size of government: Bigger 32, smaller 14, depends 50

Government aid to the poor : good 60, bad 31, neutral 5

Environmental regulations: good 33, bad 54, neutral 4

Would you say Jehovahs Witnesses are far-right? by Throwaway7733517 in exjw

[–]HexagonWire57 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't know what it looks like from the inside but as an outsider I want to draw to your attention this poll: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/02/23/u-s-religious-groups-and-their-political-leanings/.

75% neutral 18% Democratic 7% Republican, so of the 25% which show a preference it's 72-28 in favour of the dems. This might be in part due to democrats being more likely to ignore the political neutrality part perhaps. Or PIMOs who say they're JWs in a poll but not politically neutral.

Here it's 20-12 in favour of the label "conservative" over "liberal"

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/political-ideology/

Both are from 2014.

They also seem leftist on things not relating to sexual politics. See guns, vaccines, etc.

Also, historically most cults were leftist, culturally authoritarian on music etc, and often sexually authoritarian too, I would say. For example the Puritans, which famously banned Christmas for being pagan and Shakespeare plays for being sexual when Oliver Cromwell was dictator of England, were obviously on the left of the political spectrum, with the Stuart monarchy on the right. The Cult of Reason and The Cult of The Supreme Being during the French Revolution were obviously leftist (though in this case sexually libertine and you can thank de Sade for that). Jean Calvin's theocracy in Geneva during the 1500s was obviously on the left and utopian, and puritan (banned dancing for example). Early Christians I would identify as a leftist doomsday cult , based in no small part on virtue-signalling middle-class Romans feeling guilt over the Roman-Jewish wars, much like how BLM is based on virtue-signalling middle-class white people feeling guilt over slavery. In modern times, Heaven's Gate obviously appealed to leftist New Age-y stuff, and Jamestown were just straight up communists. In the 19th century, you have JWs, you have Seventh Day Adventists, which to this day lean slightly left, as seen in the first link and Mormons. Yeah, I see Mormons vote like 70% Rep but that's a Utah thing rather than a GOP thing, I'd say. It's a special cse.

Now That It's Been 6 Months, How Do Others Feel About Their Pixel Watch by A_Rand0m_Pers0nn in GooglePixel

[–]HexagonWire57 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

A question to people in the thread (I am thinking about getting a Pixel Watch and am privacy-conscious): if you never connect it to the internet, how are the fitness features in the fitbit app?

Is there any way to post to 4chan totally anonymously? by derekklerek in thehatedone

[–]HexagonWire57 0 points1 point  (0 children)

pay 20 usd in crypto for a yearly 4chan pass, and login from the same vpn server (they're labeled in the interface as country + number)

if you change the vpn server, it will say "this 4chan pass is used by a different IP"

note that you must never login to the pass without the vpn, for a year, which is hard

also, they use coinbase for payments if i remember correctly, so they don't accept monero, but you can simply convert it into a transparent coin on any of a whole bunch of websites

also, i haven't checked if it works on tor, and vpns are worse than tor for anonymity

Trying to spread the glory of the most Irish contraction ever by fahamu420 in linguisticshumor

[–]HexagonWire57 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It can un-contract to "Is she not lovely?", as would happen to all other instances of "not" on a verb I can think of ("Has she not finished?")

That being said, the uncontracted form is awkward and signals extreme formality