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by skissane 1381 days ago
Cochran is the person that both GossiTheDog and eastdakota were talking about. (I'm not sure about the Jaime vs Jamie spelling – my impression is "Jaime" is what she preferred at the time of her death, so I'm going to go with that – as to why eastdakota and the screen-shotted NBC News story spelled it "Jamie", I don't know – maybe just typos or autocorrect.)

My point was that the person I was replying to was either misinformed or disingenuous about eastdakota's reasons for blocking GossiTheDog. I don't see the relevance of the rest of what you are saying to my point.
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wahnfrieden 1381 days ago
The rest is context for readers on who's being defended by the ceo and rest
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skissane 1381 days ago
I think if you used to work with someone, and now they are dead – being upset at people publicly attacking them, when they aren't around to defend themselves, is a very understandable human reaction. eastdakota's reaction here is very human.
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wahnfrieden 1381 days ago
They weren't attacked, Cf was attacked for employing them and their allies. Cf has a habit of financially supporting actual far-right activists such as Westboro Church, besides this. They are under watch.

more context on the employee at the time - https://twitter.com/Slendy5127/status/1565764927498903552

edit because reply is broken: they donated money to Westboro aka GODHATESFAGS[.]COM

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skissane 1381 days ago
> They weren't attacked, Cf was attacked for employing them

That sentence is illogical. Attacking X's employer for employing X is an attack on X – it is saying that X is unworthy of being employed

> Cf has a habit of financially supporting actual far-right activists such as Westboro Church

You make it sound like they donated money to WBC. From what I understand, at one point they accepted them as a paying customer. WBC is an atrocious organisation, but a business having them as a customer isn't "financial support" – do you apply the same standard to the many other businesses who undoubtedly have WBC and/or its leaders and members among their customers? Who is their cell carrier? What supermarket do they shop at? Which airline do they fly?

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_-david-_ 1381 days ago
> they donated money to Westboro aka GODHATESFAGS[.]COM

Do you have any proof of this?

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