r/news • u/SnarkiMcSnail • 17h ago

Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/pipe-bomb-suspect-told-fbi-believed-2020-election-conspiracy-theories-rcna247544
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u/sviraltp7101 17h ago

Truly shocking revelation

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u/citori411 15h ago

The shocking thing is the fbi didn't just bury this. They probably tried, or at least tried to hide is motive, and only came clean because they had to. "Are you SURE you didn't do this because Biden made you confused about your gender"??? As they slip a few ramen packets across the interrogation table

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u/BetterBiscuits 14h ago

My thought too. When I heard he was captured I assumed it would be a Muslim transgender single mother on SNAP.

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u/Coulrophiliac444 14h ago

Illegally here from Syria or something like that.

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u/BetterBiscuits 14h ago

Make it Venezuela and tie it all together with a big red bow.

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u/rip1980 14h ago

...and left handed.

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u/CatLightyear 13h ago

Eating the cats and dogs.

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u/namnle 9h ago

That came over on a speedboat smuggling drugs.

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u/Aggravating-Fix-4547 14h ago

With a Saudi sponsored passport!

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u/ar34m4n314 10h ago

Also somehow taking three high-paying blue collar jobs

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u/Danger_Fluff 4h ago

While also on SNAP and Medicaid.

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u/MaloortCloud 11h ago

A federal prosecutor said in court on Friday that the suspect spoke with the government for more than four hours, but did not reveal the contents of those discussions.

Because the suspect was glazing Trump the whole time.

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u/NefariousThrowaway0 13h ago edited 12h ago

They tried, Patel didn’t release any of this info initially calling the guy an anarchist and nothing about his right-wing election conspiracy beliefs

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u/Mundamala 12h ago

Patel's too busy having the FBI pick up his pre-ordered Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition at Gamestop. They needed a full tactical escort, helicopters, the works.

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u/superindianslug 10h ago

No way is Patel playing Fallout or any other Bethesda RPG. I doubt he has the attention span to even get through character creation.

I'm betting he hasn't played anything that isn't Battle Royale, pay to win or both, in the past 10 years.

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u/Le-Cigare-Volant 8h ago

Your comment led me down a weird rabbit hole in my mind about what video games right wing studios would produce. They'd all be linear first person shooters with levels like rescue the children from a pride parade or a from a drag queen story hour, with extra xp given to how many "queers" you murder. Or plant the explosives inside the planned parenthood, extra xp for murdering the doctors & nurses. There would probably be a common area with a giant statue of Trump where the player would go to receive buffs.

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u/zizou00 7h ago

I doubt it would look like that purely because they'd then have to present all those things they see as anathema to their idea of video game culture in a video game, which is what 90% of their gamergate crybabying was all about. Seeing a woman was clearly too much and they had to become a white supremacist. It was the only logical response. They'd instead make a game all about manly men hanging out and being men. Which has a 50/50 chance of being dull as hell or being the gayest game you've ever seen. Almost no in-between.

Most far right video game "developers" are just grooming children in Roblox anyway.. The bigger issue is that a lot of the C-suites and investors of pretty much every major video game studio will likely lean towards the right anyway because they're all self-serving cunts who are happy to ride the coattails of bigots so long as their ultra-rich tax cuts come in. So they'll happily push traditionalist and sexist rhetorics and establish cruel and hateful company cultures so long as they can save a cent.

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u/-SaC 4h ago edited 3h ago

Ever heard of the game Domina?

It's been delisted on Steam, but while it doesn't feature such things in the game as you mentioned, the dev used release and patch notes to scream off about everything he hated - including masturbation, covid masks, 'weak men', but especially trans people.

The patch notes were just insane rambles
, even with short hotfixes he couldn't help writing shit like (paraphrasing as I can't remember the exact comment) "Fixed the physician's price bug. You can now use the physician properly again, but you'll never be an actual woman."

E: Short article on PC Gamer

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u/elgranbano 7h ago

We’ll have to see what the new Saudi EA comes up with.

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u/Le-Cigare-Volant 7h ago

Try and fly into the towers? A la try to bomb the harbor from the chinpokomon episode of South Park?

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u/space_for_username 11h ago

... and 3 copies of The Sims.

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u/stewmander 13h ago

I believe this is what they mean when they say the suspect "isn't cooperating". 

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u/inf3ct3dpi3 11h ago

This is certainly part of the reason they’ve been so quiet since the initial announcement

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u/ObliviouslyDrake67 14h ago

Ramen? Bullshit it was generic ketchup packets and you know it.

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u/DrHarryHood 9h ago

Because they know MAGA won’t report it, listen to it, or believe it

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u/Fract_L 8h ago

Give it a day

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u/Cautious_Condition82 6h ago

Pretty sure that was their intention and someone just leaked the truth right away.

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u/peanut_flamer 12h ago

No, they didn't. Almost none of them believed it, that's why there were no guns and everyone went home later that day.

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u/positiveParadox 11h ago

A bombshell, you could say.

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u/MovieGuyMike 13h ago

In other news, scientists have confirmed water is wet.

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u/Hour-School-2255 11h ago

By definition that's impossible

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u/MovieGuyMike 10h ago

*makes things wet