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Alabama Mayor Kills Self After Right-Wing Blog Outs His Cross-Dressing (www.thedailybeast.com)
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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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[–] 187 points 2 years ago (3 children)

These are the assholes who make it shameful.

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  • [–] 78 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Leopard face eating moment

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's not a "rare example", it's the whole point of the leopard-eating-face thing. People support a political party and then react with shock when the party carries through with its promises in a way that hurts them.

    It's not news when someone votes for the leopard and then sits back smugly while the leopard eats the faces of other people.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Your comment here is seriously making me rethink ever partaking in political discussion, let me just wrap my head around this for a second;

    So you think this guy deserved to kill himself or die because of some of his political beliefs? How are you better than they are exactly? Look at me, no tolerism bullshit or anything like that when I say this.

    Nobody deserves to die because of social issues or image.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The blog reported that Copeland, a Republican, confirmed that the accounts were run by him, saying they were a “hobby” he used for “getting rid of stress.” 1819 News reported that Copeland asked them to not out him, but they did so anyway, even though it does not appear he had taken any public positions against LGBTQ issues that could be construed as hypocritical.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    even though it does not appear he had taken any public positions against LGBTQ issues that could be construed as hypocritical.''

    Being GOP and anywhere on the LGBTQIA spectrum is inherently hypocritical.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    'Ol Bubba knew the wolves would turn on him.

    But anyway, what is with this. Is it that this secretive cross-dressing thing seems correlated with repressed sexual desires or what?

    JCS covered that one Canadian colonel serial killer who would cross-dress, sneaking into women's homes.

    Then I just watched this 48 Hours case about a dad who killed his son after they found pictures of him cross-dressing and literally eating his own shit.

    Wtf?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    People tend to sexualize the taboo. In a society where gender is seen as set in stone and comes with a bunch of stupid bullshit like what clothes it’s socially acceptable to wear some people will sexualize violating the taboos

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Alright, not gonna lie that last one threw me for a loop.

    Pretty sure it was the last part that caused him to do that, I think the gap between crossdressing and scatophagy (is that a word yet?) is pretty far.

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