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Significant_Ant_2607 t1_ja6ofvs wrote

They seem to be trying to investigate and/or expose the murder of Jeff Baldwin. (I tried a google search, both for Pittsburgh and nationally, for any dead Jeff Baldwins but found nothing interesting.)

I also see a mention of "John Guessman." Googling that name brought me here (https://kingofegypt.net/pitt-pa-smooth-criminal), which appears to be a lot of insane nonsense but definitely related to Pittsburgh, which convinces me that the guy who left these signs is the same guy who made the page. It's also called "King of Egypt" and the top of the sign says "King of (something)" so again, that can't be a coincidence. The website is even harder to understand than the picture is, but it does refer to John Guessman as a DEA agent in Washington DC. (FAIR WARNING: There is also a lot of use of the n-word on that website).

Again, the website is very hard to read/understand and there's a lot of things that have no obvious connection, but my best guess is that the thesis is that the white government (and John Guessman in particular) are intentionally trying to kill people of color (especially Jeff Baldwin).

There's also mentions in the picture of a $10 million heist, and a heist related to a drug cartel bust in Aliquippa that led to the death of Jeff Baldwin (same heist, I assume?)

Actually, I just searched again, and now I've found a Jeff Baldwin related to Aliquippa. Looks like he was an up and coming star linebacker at the high school level in the 80s. I can't find any mention of him dying or where he is now. Skimming through the website, a found a reference to an attorney John Hudesack Jr. of Beaver Falls advising Jeff Baldwin that it would be "dangerous to testify in the KKK case." I tried searching for Hudesack with and without the junior, in and out of Beaver Falls, but found nothing.

I've just now realized that the "King of" message at the top and bottom both say "King of Atiest" (at the top it's King of Atiesting". I believe that's a misspelling of "King of Atheist/Atheisting", which is a phrase with plenty of hits on google. This appears to be the author's name: "The King of Atheists" The final poster in the picture says the DEA raided The King's home, perhaps in 2019. It also gives Jeff Baldwin's weight as 280 pounds...is he missing?

Top right poster suggests a "double agent" told The King that "their" goal is to kill Jeff Baldwin...who at this point, I'm beginning to think might be The King's real identity.

Judge Brook Smith and Attorney Verdell Dean are both real people in Pittsburgh in those positions, per google. The phone number listed in the photo goes to Attorney Verdell Dean's office.

There's also a mention of Linda L Montgomery. Googling that took me right back to The King's website, where he says "Linda L Montgomery will never see her son if she violates any law of god." There are some photos too -- some I think are Janet Jackson, but some of them could be Linda. I wonder if she's The King's mother. Linda, Judge Brook Smith, and Attorney Verdell Dean are all listed as people who know the truth, per the picture.

That's as far as I can take it. I don't know why this is what I decided to dive into at 1 AM before a workday, but I enjoyed it.

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Significant_Ant_2607 t1_j27jwy5 wrote

It's more complicated than that, as you may expect that it would be.

In the documentary, Clemmons says he was spotted going to gay bars, and Rogers confronted him about it because in that era, being spotted in a gay bar would mean the show would be cancelled and that was bad for the children. Rogers basically ordered Clemmons to be more discrete or he couldn't be on the show anymore.

But Clemmons also says that he eventually came to understand Rogers' message of "I love you just the way you are" was specifically aimed at Clemmons directly -- that it was Rogers way of saying he loved and accepted Clemmons including his homosexuality as a natural and okay part of who he was, and that Rogers confirmed that's exactly what he meant to Clemmons directly.

So Clemmons seemed to have ended things on a positive note with Rogers.

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Significant_Ant_2607 t1_j27jn0x wrote

They touched on this in the recent Rogers documentary. That yes, Rogers encouraged Clemmons to stay in the closet (not go to gay bars where he'd been spotted, etc) for the sake of the show's survival -- but that his message about loving his neighbor was also very specifically aimed at Clemmons "I love you just the way you are."

Clemmons says that he had a conversation with Rogers where Rogers confirmed he was specifically telling Clemmons that that phrase was specifically Rogers telling Clemmons he accepted him and loved him as-is. So if Clemmons felt that Rogers was as welcoming and understanding as a trained minister could reasonably be expected to be in that era, I take Clemmons' word for it.

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Significant_Ant_2607 t1_iu8x5bw wrote

Reply to comment by izwald88 in Parenthood in a pic by MovingMoluccas98

This literally happened to my 78-year-old great uncle this year.

Crushed to death under one of his farm machines, because he didn't follow the basic safety precautions.

The exact same basic safety precautions that he taught all of us.

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