re: #147 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

The hinterland gentry:
Alabama Mayor Calls for Killing LGBTQ People in Facebook Post

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These people are the heart and soul of the Republican Party, billionaires and goobers notwithstanding. There is a reason that the local aristocracy was the main target of the French Revolution. Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and other high profile types lost their heads, to be sure, but it was the hereditary bosses out in the provinces who contributed the real numbers to Madame Guillotine.

The GIFT theory strikes again: Give an otherwise “normal” person the illusion of “anonymity” on the Internet and you find out that they harbor a lot of beliefs that they’d never voice out in public for fear of censure or worse.