• Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    Thiele had previously been outed as gay by the same magazine and held a grudge.

    An often forgotten aspect here is that they waited to out him until he was in Saudi Arabia

    reasonable blacks

    The speech bubble says they forgive him, he said racist stuff. Its not really deep.

    hanoi cams

    Its handi cam. A brand of camera.

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        We dont have to speak in future tense as if this is speculation, he was fine. But the deliberation involved in his outing i feel is important in understanding the motivations of both parties.

        Thiel was outed as a way to taunt him (Motivated in part by his support of open homophobic politicians), and he was angry because they had used his sexuality to threaten his life.

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      I meant more if that character represented anyone specific, the hanoi cams fuckup was purely my goof

      and yeah good shout on the SA bit, I was just putting it simply