• Mark with a Z@suppo.fi
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    Haven’t read unobomber’s manifesto and probably never will because fuck anyone who seeks attention this way.

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      I don’t approve of his methods, either.

      Then again, I don’t approve of the Church’s methods, but there’s some pretty good stuff buried in the Christian bible, too.

      Reading something doesn’t mean you need to agree with the author. It’s not like people are financially supporting the Unibomber, or excusing his actions, when they read his manifesto. They’re just studying history.

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        1 month ago

        The comment was half just an excuse to mispell the name after OP set it up like that.

        But from what I’ve heard, I’m not missing much of value, so I’d only be reading ramblings of a madman.

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          “We give up a piece of ourselves whenever we adjust to conform to society’s standards. That, and we’re too plugged in. We’re letting technology take over our lives, willingly.”

          Absolute insanity. Obviously a madman.

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              Just gonna rip from Wikipedia

              With its initial publication in 1995, the manifesto was received as intellectually deep and sane. Writers described the manifesto’s sentiment as familiar. To Kirkpatrick Sale, the Unabomber was “a rational man” with reasonable beliefs about technology. He recommended the manifesto’s opening sentence for the forefront of American politics. Cynthia Ozick likened the work to an American Raskolnikov (of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment), as a “philosophical criminal of exceptional intelligence and humanitarian purpose … driven to commit murder out of an uncompromising idealism”.