• SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today
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      Fairfax dealt with his own scandal when two women came forward accusing him of sexually assaulting them years earlier. Though Fairfax denied the allegations and was never charged, his reputation was tarnished.

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      police say he killed himself and his wife, Dr. Cerina Fairfax, while their two children were home. The murder-suicide came in the middle of a divorce and just two weeks before a judge had told him he would have to move out of the home he shared with his estranged wife in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Annandale.

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      Throughout his campaign, his team acknowledged that the sexual assault allegations changed the state of the race. Fairfax insisted at the time that voters, particularly Black people, would see through what he insisted — without proof — was a smear campaign.

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      Fairfax finished fourth out of five candidates and got less than 4% of the vote.

      Court filings show that Fairfax had financial challenges following the sexual assault allegations, which prompted his resignation as a partner at a prestigious law firm. According to court documents, his “mental and emotional health” suffered, and he drank heavily and withdrew from his family.

      Very tragic. https://apnews.com/article/justin-fairfax-murder-suicide-political-career-deee87b0542d7b782c640825681a21b0

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    The appeal to Christianity in the west is that, you ARE the God.

    IIRC you can make Christian arguments on why you’d be left or right in most of the world, but here in the west it’s almost always self-worship.

    Sins like greed, arrognce, violence, and more are overlooked because that’s what someone who’s on top gets to do. Almost all things called unchristian aren’t even evil, just things people see as yucky. And yucky is evil apparently.

    Take that to its logical conclusion and technically its a sin to go to the bathroom. I sure hope a very cool and funny Simpsons poster we have here on Hexbear knows exactly the scene I’m referencing…