Bubba Copeland shot himself in front of police on Friday, days after he begged 1819 News not to expose his private life.

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    10 months ago

    Get a grip. I asked for a source that the person, who you all are celebrating the suicide of, was actually a terrible person or partook in the persecution of others.

    That was the assertion that I was responding to, and none of that was mentioned in any source in this thread besides wild assumptions by people simply for being in the republican party in a small town.

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      10 months ago

      Meh sometimes people just hate someone for not understanding them. And that’s enough. You don’t always need to pretend to have a good reason for hating someone, you just decide and then one day someone asks you why, like asking about babies crying in Africa, people often prefer not to have their beliefs challenged or broken to pieces by any kind of paradigm shift

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      10 months ago

      None of those words backs up your assertion, which was that there was “no plausible alternative” to being a GOP politician in Alabama. You can’t defend it because it’s complete nonsense.

      Also, I didn’t celebrate his death, and I haven’t seen anyone else do so either…

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      10 months ago

      This person partook in the persecution of others. proof? they were in the GOP. there’s your proof.

      And nobody is celebrating suicide. This person is not a hero is all that is being said.

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        10 months ago

        Is it implausible that perhaps this person wished to hide within the GOP to escape its suspicions about their personal life? A Democrat mayor in a deeply Republican area would attract a lot of distrust and hostility simply by virtue of being a Democrat. A Republican mayor, not so much.

        Is every trans person morally obligated to leave every institution that persecutes them? Even when to do so would scrutiny?

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        10 months ago

        You heard it here folks, association by organization means you did the same thing some other shitheads did.

        The secretaries for concentration camps? They gassed the Jews themselves, might as well have anyways, based on that logic.

        Let’s take it even further, all Germans are bad because of what Hitler did to the Jews, after all, they are ASSOCIATED with the SS, being in the same country and culture and all, they all obviously have symmetrical views because all people really believe the same thing even in a party such as the GOP.

        (Don’t you dare try to pretend those analogies flew over your head, work with me here)

        Grow up, it’s not about him “being a hero”, nobody here is claiming that. The fact you came to that conclusion somehow on your own is evidence enough that you are celebrating his death. Have some respect, it seems pretty clear to me that he had second thoughts atleast some point in his life about his political decisions, had no way out, and when someone threatened to take even that away, made the last mistake you can ever make on your own accord. Please have some respect just as you would wish for yourself.

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          10 months ago

          (Don’t you dare try to pretend those analogies flew over your head, work with me here)

          lmao I loved this part.

          You have a good point, I’m starting to think I was in a hateful mood yesterday. I still don’t think this person was a hero but it’s truly very sad that they had to hide this part of their life, and were so scared of the public’s opinion that they killed themselves.