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Wow, some Republicans really DO believe anyone who is unemployed don’t deserve to live.
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Hancock and Rex Sinquelfield were on the warpath. They were going to destroy those that questioned the way they did business. The Missouri GOP embraced antisemitism and then extorted those that called them out on it. So they pushed even harder.
To get what old rich conservatives want, nothing is out of the question. When you have the money and the Supreme Court in your back pocket, you can walk around with blood on your hands and never care in the least how indecent it makes you look in the process.
The more these people talk about family values and principles the less credibility they have.
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Please use correct subjunctives. The headline should read “might,” not may. “May” goes with present tense. “Might” goes with the past-tense “was”… i.e., “was warned his job might be in jeopardy.” Sorry, but that all-too-common misuse bugs me.
That said, the way the state GOP has handled this whole disaster – which their own readiness to use bigotry as a weapon created in the first place – is very, very revealing.
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Weird he thought he might be on his way out. The last five letters of his name weren’t …stein.
This is just beyond bizarre. I don’t believe for a moment this man took his life to avoid unemployment. Clearly there is something more to this story.
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It could be Samaritan, these were Persons of Interest.
What it boils down to is the fact that in order to be a Republican politician or operative, you have to be a demented freak. Some people aren’t cut out for that.
So speaks a man who’s never experienced the awful depths of despair often plumbed by people who have lost their livelihood, especially when no longer young and vigorous and confident. He obviously had experienced a pretty bad situation of unemployment in the past; the fear of facing it again could very possibly trigger feelings of desperation. He would be far from the only person to commit suicide for this reason.
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This guy was the aide to a politician. That isn’t exactly a job known for terrific job security. Do you really think the possibility of losing his job when the new auditor is appointed would throw a guy eager to take a job like that into a deep suicidal depression. Just asking.
Sounds like he was desperate to have a job, so yes, he’d take anything.
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I realize I’m going through April Fools Day Traumatic Disorder when I read, “Samaritans were Persians of Interest.”
Exactly, first person ever to commit suicide over not being able to find work, very suspicious (eyeroll…).
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Amazing how simple common sense dispels nutty conspiracy theories. On the one hand they have him as a low level operative, on the other hand he knew so much about “the powers that be” that he needed to be killed!!! Hysterical.
Yes. Keep in mind that this was a low level job, and that’s all he had. And now NO ONE would hire him, he was branded for life. So he ended it. Hell, the guy he was an aide to killed himself over having been called Jewish, even when his grandfather was. Bullied people frequently commit suicide also, and this guy was being bullied out of his career.
An argument premised with conclusions not in evidence, and then a giant jump. WOW.
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Umm, that’s what YOU did.
Is it. I said the guy was a political aide which is not a job with a lot of job security. He would have had to be very stupid not to have expected he would eventually lose his job. I am not sure the suicide note is all that convincing. I also know that suicide notes are not common and sometime indicate an attempt to mask a murder.
You have to understand that he may well have been seriously depressed before this apparent job threat came along… then his desperately needed job (that’s my interpretation, nothing else) is threatened and that triggers the actual suicide. The job threat itself would not likely have “caused” the depression, though long term deprivation, deep insecurity and anxiety, etc. might well have laid the groundwork for suicidal ideation. One must separate the cause of a depression from the trigger for a suicide. And there might have been a bit of a copy-cat element in it too, from the recent example close to him.
Oh, you could not be more wrong. I have been unemployed and have a full understanding of the financial and psychic toll.
There is more to this story.