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Byron Looper - Obsessed with his political career, he legally changed his middle name to "(Low Tax)" and murdered his election opponent (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 6 months ago by decadentrebel@lemmy.world to c/creepywikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] atocci@kbin.social 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I absolutely misinterpreted the title. He quite literally murdered his opponent. Before reading the article, I assumed it meant like, he murdered him at the polls, ya know, politically destroyed. I thought "With a name like Low Tax on the ballot, I guess he won by a landslide or something." Nope, he actually killed a guy.

[–] kindenough@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Wuch…I hear you….the “slammed, blasted, murdered, nuked, destroyed” in the headlines when some person has a civilized worded counter opinion to whatever somebody else said for instance.

We need outrage, every night and day, every minute and second we need to be engaged. It is war people…

…on our mental health really.