Laz Mann <lazmann@protonmail.com> wrote in news:588e5ace-6230-434a-9a1b-c67b7db947b1n@googlegroups.com:

On Saturday, January 7, 2023 at 6:34:28 AM UTC-8, Davey Zimmerman #274
wrote:

Laz Mann <laz...@protonmail.com> wrote in
news:0a784264-4214-4bc1...@googlegroups.com:

Immediately following the post here, over $600 was donated.

Donating to a perpetual beggar is subject to diminishing returns and
repeated begging. Given that one only hears from John when he is
mooching is not much of an incentive to give this mooch a thing and
provide any personal information. After all, look at what Chad and
John do with personal information, they use it to stalk people and
threaten them.

But I'll kick in a few bucks in exchange for a hard-hitting expose on
how ethical people scammed Beth Aultmann out of her life savings and
left her to die slowly and painfully. What say ye?

Never happened, and didn't happen that way if it did happen.

You're denying that Beefaroni Boy didn't get tens of thousands of
dollars from her and never repaid her? You're denying she had a slow,
painful and lingering death and that John ghosted her once he got all
the money he was going to mooch from her?

You're either a gullible fool or you're a liar. Or both. Poor Chad.

While your fat ass is tap dancing for Jo-zo The Clown perhaps you could
let us know how many times his family streeted the mooch and why.

JH is up to $735/$10000 now, which has created a little bit of
breathing room, enabling him to get his adobe bill paid, his
hosting bill paid, his microsoft bill paid, and to give his
landlord a little cash, reducing his owed rent from $2200 to $1800.

So how is the Beefaroni situation coming along? Will The Chef need to
decrease production? Should I short the stock?

The landlord needs to cut his losses. I hope there is a dumpster
outside so that John can lose another fight with an undeserving
monitor again. Protip: Wear work gloves this time, it'll at least
give you a fighting chance.

Second video is up. One should be dropping daily.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRgx3f92iXI

Same spiel every time. Why would anyone care? Not much content in the
last three months either. So whatever Jo-Jo professes to produce
isn't showing up or is deleted. Why would anyone pay for nothing and
have to listen to endless begging until he finally feeds the worms?

It isn't the same spiel every time. It's a different spiel. Two new
videos up:

HAHAHAHAHA!!! Here's pretty much the same spiel. Send me money, I'm
about to get evicted and whatnot. All he does is beg and stiff
landlords.

This is from almost 10 years ago. Sounds like the same reruns now.

Be warned, it's more verbal diarrhea from the King of Babbling.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-me-finish-my-ba#/

"I've struggled to make it this far, from living in a van down by the
river to about 3/4 of a bachelor's degree. I'm out of funds for the last
lap."

A last lap he never completed.

"I have worked my way from literally living in a van down by the river
to almost completing my bachelor's degree in media production, with a
political science minor. I have struggled greatly with finances
throughout my life and my college career, and now I've hit the final
challenge - I need help to get this done."

Nine years later he's about to get evicted from a flophouse filled with
losers who managed, unlike John, to pay their rent. Rerun!

"I'm a 43 year old father and grandfather who has constantly wavered
between following my heart and dreams, and "doing the right thing."
"The right thing" has constantly proven to be a short-term solution with
no long-term benefit, and it's time to focus on doing what I know I can
do well. I need to finish my degree for various reasons. Primarily, I
want the education; secondarily, in my line of work (as in most) you
simply won't be taken seriously without a degree. This degree helps me
take a huge step forward from "guy on the internet" to "subject matter
expert regarding social and political issues and mass communication."
"John Henry the long-haired guy screaming at a camera" isn't going to
get booked on Jon Stewart or have access to start-up funding - or for
that matter the credibility to support a successful crowdfunding
campaign - for a media company. Instead of being a drain on the
resources of social welfare programs, I can once again become a taxpayer
and, ultimately, job creator. I have big goals for my education, and
the only thing standing in my way is lack of funding. Current Situation
At present, I am several months behind on rent for my dorm room - in
fact, I was sent an eviction notice giving me 7 days to pay up 14 days
ago - I literally could be homeless at any moment. I'm also in debt to
the school's food services for several months of meals charged on
"credit" against my student account, due to having no other options
available for food. As a result, my student account is "locked," meaning
I cannot register for more classes, which means I can't access the
student loan system until the existing debt is paid off.

My current total outstanding debt is about $3600. I have set my
fundraising goal to $7500 so that I can not only pay the debt off but be certain that I'm able to cover my rent for my remaining time in school
and pay for food to cook at home rather than relying on the $10/meal
cafeteria service.

Perks/Rewards
The nature of this fundraiser doesn't really lend itself to "perks" or
rewards for contribution - it's not like I can give you a fraction of my degree. However, given the activities supported by my education, there
are some things I can offer.

Various types of "thank you," "supporter," "sponsored by" credits on my websites and in the credit roll of my videos. T-shirts - I have one
design that reads "You cannot be controlled if your mind is free," and
another that reads "I support independent media because for-profit news, information, and analysis is too easily corrupted." You can see these at http://lowgenius.spreadshirt.com "Shout-outs" - I can give a happy
birthday, anniversary, wedding or birth congratulations, or other acknowledgement in a video "Requests" - for a certain level of
contribution, you can request I do an video or article - your choice as
to whether it's an opinion/commentary or news/information piece - about
the topic of your choice. Note that I do not promise you will like or
agree with what I have to say, fact or opinion, about your topic; only
that I will research it and present related factual information and
opinion derived from fact and reason relevant to the subject you select. Product or business advertising - the threshold for this will
necessarily be high because I can't run standard advertising on videos
that have a paid product or service pitch included. These can range from
a "promotional consideration paid for by..." line to a full-out
in-stream advertisement for your product or service. Important caveat: I
cannot ethically ENDORSE a product or service I have not used or do not
approve of. If BP offered me a million dollars to endorse them I
wouldn't do it, because I think they're a bad corporation that cares so
much more about profit than ethics that they're willing to destroy the
Gulf of Mexico if it means they can add a few cents to their stock
price, and I just can not support that for any price. I can read and
write ad copy all day long, but a personal product endorsement requires
that I actually use and support the product or service in question. If I
allow my endorsement to be simply purchased, my integrity is gone and my endorsement is of no value. This does not mean I automatically oppose
product endorsements; it does mean that if you're looking for an
endorsement, as opposed to an advertisement, it would probably be best
to contact me directly so we can discuss putting the product or service
in my hand and allowing me to use it and, contingent on my genuine
approval of that product or service, craft an endorsement message. For
very large contributions, we can arrange for you to be interviewed for
or otherwise participate on-camera in a video produced for
LowGenius.Net, but given the expense involved in creating that kind of arrangement, the contribution in question would have to be quite
substantial. Over & Under
What happens if I fall short or go over? Well, if I raise roughly half
of my goal, after deducting IGG's share, I'll still be able to pay off
my existing bill and unlock my account, but I'll also still be stuck
constantly worrying about how to pay rent and feed myself while trying
to focus on attending class, getting homework done, and maintain my
websites. The anxiety and depression created by my precarious financial situation has had a terribly negative impact on my academic performance;
this, as well as various attempts at working and going to school at the
same time, are the biggest reason I haven't already finished my degree.

(There are, of course, other issues in play as regards my mental health,
and I've been seeing a therapist - with excellent results - for the last
year or so. This will be discussed in greater detail in upcoming videos
and writing related to this project.)

If I go over - which would be absolutely wonderful! - there's a whole
list of expenses I could address. It just depends on "by how much." A
couple hundred dollars might mean a video card upgrade or an AC adapter
for my camera so I can shoot single scenes longer than ten minutes. If I
double my goal, it could well mean owning a car for the first time in
three years, which would of course open a whole lot of possibilities for additional income. Software, hardware, lights, sound equipment, cameras, lenses, storage, replacing my aging laptop with a tablet, finally
getting a mobile phone...it all depends on how much we're talking about.

How Am I Helping Myself?
There are multiple answers to this question.

Producing Content
First, I own and operate two websites - lowgenius.net and peoples-news-network.com - plus my YouTube channel, where I make a
little money from ad revenue. It's not much, though; generally, I get a
check for around $100 every three months or so. These are long-term
investments which are critical components of my long-term,
post-education goals; while I'm certainly not in the postion of some
sites of the same general type, I have built an audience of around 3,700 Facebook subscribers, and my videos have been seen nearly a quarter of a million times over a period of several years. Given the complete absence
of any sort of advertising or publicity on my part other than
word-of-mouth through social media, that's not too bad. Another factor
that works both for and against me is that I don't engage in
click-baiting and easy-traffic techniques like so many others do; you
won't see "articles" on my sites that are merely an embedded clip from
The Daily Show or Rachel Maddow with a 400 word summary and a salacious headline like "Watch Jon Stewart DESTROY Ted Cruz!!!!" I think those
behaviors are part of the problem, and a core component of the work I do
is trying to appeal to a more reasoned and thoughtful audience.

From a commercial standpoint, that's stupid; integrity doesn't make the
big fast bucks. From a long-term standpoint of "doing good in the
world," however - which is my goal - it's the best possible approach. My audience is smaller than many, this is true, but they also have much
higher expectations for accuracy, integrity, and balance than readers of
most other sites, and I have an obligation to ensure that I meet those expectations. My readers know they're not always going to like or agree
with my perspective, but that it will be fact-based and presented with
reason and rationality instead of just pandering to confirmation bias
for easy money.

The long and short of it: choosing to do things the right way isn't easy
or lucrative. If it was, there'd be no need for what I do at all.

"Get A Job!"
I've done that, too. My grades bit the dust, I was endlessly exhausted,
the job didn't even even cover my bills, and then it was arbitrarily cut
by the school (probably justified by saving money, I never asked; we
were just notified that the student jobs would end as of the date they
ended). The reality of my situation is that I'm an undegreed 43 year old
man living on a college campus with no car in a town with poor public transportation services. I've applied for various jobs around campus
with no luck; college students don't want to buy their beer and rolling
papers from an "old dude," no matter how long my hair is or how "cool" I
might look or actually be. This is to say nothing, of course, of the low
wages and hours inherent to such positions. "Real jobs" - the kind that
pay real money - are few and far between in the best of circumstances,
but certainly not plentiful when you have no way to commute to them and
you have to work around a class schedule.

I don't have parents to bail me out - my mom passed away in 2009, and my
dad is in a nursing home. I don't have a bunch of stuff I can sell; the
only things I own that are worth anything are the tools I use for school
work and content creation - my camera, my desktop computer, my laptop. Everything I own put together might, if I'm lucky, cover my back
rent...and frankly, I doubt they'd go that far.

The Impact
So what makes my education worth supporting anyway? Naturally that
depends on your point of view. If you're the sort of person who believes
in a mercenary system where poverty is something people "deserve," then
frankly it's probably not worth supporting from your point of view.

The benefits of having a degree really need no repetition here; even
though I don't fully agree with the popular idea that a degree, in and
of itself, makes you good at anything, the reality of my line of work is
that without one you have little to no credibility and little to no
prospect of finding work. I have built a solid audience from nothing at
all, with no advertising or publicity except for word of mouth and the
earning of public trust by consistent demonstration of integrity. My
ultimate goal is to be a loud and effective voice for those who have
none. The time I spent homeless in 2009 only served to reinforce my already-existent commitment to social justice. Seeing the wide variety
of people - families who thought they were secure, young teens who had
been kicked out of their homes by their parents because they came out as
gay, people who thought they would never be in that position - who were
living with little to no hope helped me to realize that I have a unique
set of talents that can make a huge positive difference in the world. I
then set out to acquire the skills to go with those talents; that is the purpose of my education. We have far too few independent media voices,
and many of the independent voices we do have are far more interested in getting rich by pandering to confirmation bias and popular political
trends than in making a genuine positive impact in the world. So many
people who are stuck in a poverty situation believe they have no options
for escape. I'd like to prove them wrong. My life hasn't been perfect
and my decisions haven't always been wise, but I've learned how to
overcome those mistakes and become the sort of person I only pretended
to be for much of my life. Unfortunately that learning process has not
brought a financial windfall with it, and so I'm still struggling with
money. This is the last hurdle for me. If I can get past this last
situation, I've "won," at least to the extent that I'll be able to
finish my degree and step into the world as an objectively qualified professional. If I can't get past this last situation, then we've lost a powerful voice for social justice and progress. It only takes 750 people
giving $10 each to reach my goal - a pittance, when you look at it like
that.

Other Ways You Can Help
Not everybody has even five or ten bucks to spare, and I understand
that. There are other ways you can help that don't involve direct
contributions

First and most important: help me spread the word. Post a link to this fundraiser to your FB or Twitter or G+ feed, share it whenever you can - there's a nice variety of tools right here on this page. Share links to
content on my websites (here and here) and my YouTube channel I will
also be building up content at my other website, LowGenius.Com, to serve
as the main website for my media production company. (I recently took
this site entirely offline and deleted all the existing content;
rebuilding it is a work in progress at the time of this writing) Through
that site, I will offer professional services including voiceover work,
video editing, graphic design, website hosting, domain registration, and
more. If you know of anyone looking for radio newsreaders, advertising creators, etc., by all means please send them by or have them e-mail me directly (lowgenius@gmail.com) Regardless of whether you can contribute
$5 or $50 or $5000 or if you can't contribute anything but simply share
a link to this page, I deeply appreciate it and look forward to working
on behalf of all those who struggle and strive, who feel hopeless and
helpless, who feel like their society has turned their backs on them, to
have a voice and find a pathway to a fulfilling and successful life
pursuing their goals and interests to the greatest extent of their
ability."

All that from almost 10 years ago? Damn, sounds like he could have
written over 90% of it yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7OsHGqgKX0
This one is a slightly deeper dig into who JH is and what he does.

Rerun of "The Neverending Mooch". Yawn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZi3FqtWCnM
This is JH's gritty backstory. Trigger warning: topics of abuse
covered.

He was born a fuckup and has been losing ground ever since. Another John
Henry rerun.

To those who have helped: it's a good start, but not enough. If you
can help, and haven't helped, consider helping. If you've already
helped, help again if you can.

You're getting exactly nothing from this group, Chad. Nobody cares
about his "content" unless he's the incoming content for a
crematorium.

Unbelievable!

It sure is, but it doesn't stop the begging. So how much did the ethical
mooch get from Beth Aultmann again? Do tell. Better yet, how much has he mooched from RSPW? Not counting Chadpon The Cowardly Capon, of course.

Only Freezer was stupid enough to make a fool of himself sticking up
for Jo-Jo and I don't think even that nitwit is dumb enough to do it
again. Rest assured there's plenty of other topics he will be
embarassed about.

Well, RSPW? Do you agree with this guy, or do you support RSPW
legend John Henry? Speak with deeds:

So he got nothing from the losers here and you're back begging for him?
You never were too bright, Chadweasel. That's yet another rerun.

[Flush of ceaseless begging and spam.]

Grasshopper John, meet the ants. Now fuck off.

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