• foggy@lemmy.world
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    The fucking account from his husband is the most clear cut hate crime shit.

    They came home to their dead dogs skull in their driveway before the assailant approached them, yelling homophobic slurs, and shot him. Also, someone in their neighborhood set their house in fire earlier this year.

    Fuck that county. I hope that king of the hill money gets used to turn that fucking county admin inside out.

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    I’ve been watching King of the Hill at work (all shift sometimes) recently and it’s gotten to be real difficult to see the antagonistic characters on the show in the same light. Cartoons are supposed to be an exaggeration of their real life counterparts. Knowing what texas is harboring in real life really washes out the humor these antagonists are supposed to bring.

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      I currently recommend staying out entirely because of the paranoid war against “immigration” that has made our borders openly hostile to everybody, but if that ever changes there’s plenty of cities that are only as shitty as global average and if the national parks survive they are unmatched.

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    How was the husband’s testimony not suggestive of a hate crime? It’s like suggesting the guy who firebombed people in Boulder Colorado last week wasn’t committing a hate crime.

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      Not to mention there are likely records of past incidents where they were threatened. Cops are now pretending like they weren’t aware of the hate crime issue before he was even dead.