• a_party_german [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    From McVeigh's wiki page:

    At USP Florence ADMAX, McVeigh and Nichols were housed in what was known as "bomber's row". Ted Kaczynski, Luis Felipe, and Ramzi Yousef were also housed in this cell block. Yousef made frequent, unsuccessful attempts to convert McVeigh to Islam.

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      why would you throw every bomber in a row. like what's the point. I'm not gonna act like there#s danger they're gonna build prison bombs but why go through the effort

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        It sounds like the strategy was put them together so they'd be unlikely to fight one another or join a gang, or they'd form a gang themselves. Prisons deliberately encourage inmates to join one of several gangs. Maybe at ADX the prisoners are more unstable than general prisoners, so the strategy is put similar types of violent weirdos together. Sounds like it worked.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Yeah, the california carceral system is notorious for deliberately stocking racial violence and manipulating the formation of prison gangs as part of a divide and conquer strategy. It's pretty dark even by america standards.

    • Fuckass
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      1 year ago

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    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      Yousef made frequent, unsuccessful attempts to convert McVeigh to Islam.

      :inshallah-script:

  • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    And I bet they rarely discussed politics or ideological beliefs but rather engaged in the most banal, cordial conversation- the weather, lunch, health complaints, etc. Never acknowledging each other's superstar status and keeping it chill.

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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    1 year ago

    you've heard of serial killer fanfics, now get ready for domestic terrorist shipping fanfics

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    every leftist should probably try to understand what it means for teddy to be friends with McVeigh in particular

    even though i too am fond of some uncle ted posting :a-guy:

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      I mean, I definitely get that they were both bigots with extensive published works to that effect.

      But they were also... in jail right next door to one another. Stick me in a concrete cell next to Timothy McVeigh for ten years and I'll probably strike up a few friendly conversations with him purely out of boredom. Its not like there's much else to do.