Comment on The man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy case

• Nommer@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  a religious cult that was armed to the teeth, who refused to surrender to the police in a 50+ day siege and had prepped their own compound with flammables.

  That’s all very likely propaganda spread by the FBI after shit went down. Incidentally these two collosal fuck ups is what inspired the unibomber.

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ye, they were a bit cultish, but most of the propaganda definitely came after the fact/during. I remember thinking “where the hell did this cult stuff come from suddenly?”

    And even if they were cultish, none of the PR justifies the feds actions.

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  • meat_popsicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And Timothy McVeigh.

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