The R.I.P. thread

I work in Higher Education and the amount of times I tear my hair out supporting students who have done something slightly dumb on social media.

And they are far less than this, I’ve made my thoughts known but I’m not being so dumb as to write anything like that, it’s like some have never been near social media.

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I’d lie low if I were him, wouldn’t be surprised if we’re hearing more about him in the coming weeks.

I personally didn’t like Widdicome, but that is so so wrong.

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How would he have reacted if Ann Widdecombe had posted those words? Probably with outrage and demanding she be cancelled. The man is disgusting.

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All this gammon shite had me thinking I’d accidentally logged into Facebook in 2026.

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Nah again :zipper_mouth_face:

As someone who cosplays at being a Christian I would hope he now exists in a place entirely befitting of the life he led.

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Is this the guy who recently went missing for a couple of weeks?

Nope. I think you are thinking of Mitch McConnell.

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He may actually be thinking about Tom Kean, a Republican congressman who NJ who didn’t show up for months about whom his office and family refused to comment on his whereabouts. Before showing up 4 months later to explain he had been hospitalized for depression. Which is obviously terrible for him, but he’s a ducking public servant. He disappeared without explanation for 1/8th of his term

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The web thinks McConnell died see the US politics.

Personally I don’t think he is. I think this sort of proves it but the next conspiracy will they bumped Graham off to go look look he’s not dead we announce our dead.

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I heard Ann Widdecombe questioned about her justification regarding her views on LGBT issues and they were based on her particular Christian interpretations of the bible. Would those seemingly celebrating her murder also celebrate if for instance Alisson was murdered. After all he belongs/supports a Christian church/sect (Hillsong) that has openly campaigned against LGBT and women’s rights…

Apparently…

Hillsong does not affirm a gay lifestyle and because of this we do not knowingly have actively gay people in positions of leadership, either paid or unpaid.

Alisson has also spoken out in support of the repulsive Bolsonaro who has always been very open that he sees LGBTQ+ rights as a threat to "traditional family values”.

I am going to take a wild guess here and suggest that Alisson’s Christian conservative views on LGBT issues such as same sex marriage and also abortion would pretty much align with AW’s.

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You’ve not come across selective outrage?

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Has he ever mentioned his views on LGBT people?

Ann Widdecombe subscribed to what I would describe as brutal honestly. She stated her views publicly and those views were pretty ugly. Not snide or sophistic, just unpleasant and, oddly, rather at odds with the mainstream views of her alleged Catholic faith.

She, like anyone else, is entitled to her views and everyone else is entitled to their opinion of her, particularly if they have been of the receiving end of her opinions. To be honest, I prefer that brutal honestly to the drip feed of snide micro-aggressions that the likes of Farage engage in.

There is nothing wrong with being glad to see the back of her. At the same time there is also a sense of shock that an elderly woman living alone has been murdered in their own home. These two ideas are not incompatible.

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That’s a cop out isn’t it?
Bit like saying if a member of the Nazi party doesn’t publicly express their views then that’s ok then.

Not really. If an individual has unpleasant ideas but has neither acted on them or promoted them in public, what have they done wrong? Thought crimes?

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But we’re not talking about crime.
We’re talking about whether someone holds unsavoury beliefs by association to an organisation

Are they though. Does the Catholic Church support same sex marriage and abortion and women priests? I’ll have to check that out…

Any catholics able to enlighten me?

I understood it was precisely because her views aligned with the teachings of the Catholic Church that she left the C of E to join them

Alison hasn’t publically tried to force laws through based on those beliefs.

If he became a politician and then decided to use his beliefs to attack minorities then I would call him out.

His support for Bolosarno is something that I disagree with same as anyone who supports Trump or Farage but beyond that he hasn’t taken any actions to basically restrict my or other people’s rights.

But yeah public politician who victimised people and tried to use her power to discriminate based on beliefs she believes are from a deity that all science would suggest isn’t possible (unless you go down the simulation universe) is selective outrage. No Dane it’s being victimised for being gay mate. Think of it this way, I guess you’re straight. Anyone called you evil and son of Satan for that or threatened to fight you?

Sorry she had to die in the way she did, I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy but forgive me I don’t shred a single emotion over it.

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The selective outrage comment wasn’t aimed at you.
It was at the individual clearly outraged at the views and comments of Anne Widdicome, but not remotely outraged that a frail 78 year old woman was brutally murdered.

Cue that French prick chipping in with his usual ROFL contribution

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You’ll need to be more specific, I’m afraid :joy:

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