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

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

  • Drusas
    8•1 year ago

    Or brainwashed. This was a boomer who grew up in very rural Alabama. There was almost no chance he wasn’t going to grow up to be a Republican. And from what I’ve read, from all accounts, he was not a bigot and was supportive of trans people.

    This is a terrible shame and I hope the people who needlessly outed and ridiculed him feel the guilt on their consciences.

    • FaceDeer
      5•1 year ago

      There are plenty of Democratic voters in Alabama. Even in rural Alabama. The 2020 presidential election, for example, has a map that breaks down voting by county. Look at all the pink and light red regions - those went Republican, sure, but only by tens of percentage points.

      This guy didn’t have to be Republican.

      • Drusas
        1•1 year ago

        I’d like to see it broken down by age group as well.

    • Bizarroland
      4•1 year ago

      I’m not a republican but almost every other member of my family is Republican.

      The grand majority of them could care less about whether a person is gay or not, or what they do in their own time or in the privacy of their own homes.

      I am a minister and I performed a gay wedding for my brother-in-law’s brother and his husband just a month ago.

      Every single one of them vote Republican because they believe that voting Republican will either decrease their tax burden, that it will prevent abortions, that it will keep illegal immigrants out of the country, or that it will help prevent the world from going even more insane than it already is.

      That’s why they vote republican.

      The fact that the Republican party is anti-trans and anti women’s rights and pro white rights at the cost of the right of every other race and anti-environment and pro-billionaire simply cannot penetrate into their brains and so they do not consider those topics.

      You cannot bring up those topics to them, because they do not have the mental or emotional faculties to communicate about them.