• WhiteRabbit@lemmy.today
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    What a coincidence - I just finished the Manhunt: Unabomber TV series. It’s well made, reminded me of Mindhunter. And very sympathetic towards Ted Kaczynski actually. Highly recommend it if you haven’t seen it.

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      I am staunchly against randomly murdering people with package bombs. But they put that poor man through hell with the MK Ultra stuff.

      The big monsters that run our world turned a brilliant mind into a little monster. A massive tragedy from every angle

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          He was the isolation subject, no? Pretty much made the guy a patsy to get him socially exiled from his college campus while they ran him through the program?

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            No they set him up with a prosecutor out of Boston that Ted thought was another student. The prosecutor’s job was to argue against any position that kaczynski took… Completely undermining his internal Tom Tom

            Debating

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              Right! Thank you, frankly that era of Cold War adjacent shit makes me feel like I need to give my computer a bath just thinking about it. Appreciate the reminder!

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        Ah sorry for the tease lol it was free on Prime yesterday but the deadline JUST passed. Had to binge watch it quick over the last 2 days. But I’ve seen it before on Netflix too, so I’m sure it’ll get rotated to another platform at some point.