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The outed crossdressing Mayor is your regularly scheduled reminder (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Bobble9211@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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What is uploaded to the internet stays on the internet. For analysis by random people until there ceases to be an internet.

GOP mayor dies by suicide after cross-dressing revealed by rightwing site

Edit01: This story is associated with a lot of different topics. It is posted here because I see it as primarily someone who wanted to keep an aspect of their digital life private.

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[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 11 months ago

So a conservative blog outs him, even though he asked them to please respect his private life.

The church he cares enough about to deliver sermons at sees fit to release a public statement about it - amplifying the reach of the blog and drawing attention to it in the local community.

And then the local cops just happen to pull him over while he’s driving for a ‘wellness check’?

I’ve never, in my life, heard of a traffic stop wellness check. We know what they were doing. We know what that church was doing. And we know what that blog was doing.

What a tragedy. I hope everyone involved knows the stain they bear.