▲ 690 ▼ Gunpowder and plot. (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml 46 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] jared@mander.xyz 27 points 2 years ago (1 child) Big fireworks show! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 2 years ago (1 child) I mean immediately sure but in reality he was just an early al-qaeda prototype trying to spread his religion by blowing people up permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 years ago Yeah... Of all the antigovernment people to latch onto it's vaguely unfortunate that we landed on fawks. Like, I do get that it's a pop culture reference more than an actual historical reference, but still. There was legitimate persecution of Catholics in England at the time, so it doesn't least have a veneer of fighting tyranny, but he didn't even actually succeed. Shoulda gone for Louis Lingg. A bit more modern, and had the awesome criminal defense that "it's his right to fill his house with dynamite". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 2 years ago (1 child) I mean immediately sure but in reality he was just an early al-qaeda prototype trying to spread his religion by blowing people up permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 years ago Yeah... Of all the antigovernment people to latch onto it's vaguely unfortunate that we landed on fawks. Like, I do get that it's a pop culture reference more than an actual historical reference, but still. There was legitimate persecution of Catholics in England at the time, so it doesn't least have a veneer of fighting tyranny, but he didn't even actually succeed. Shoulda gone for Louis Lingg. A bit more modern, and had the awesome criminal defense that "it's his right to fill his house with dynamite". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 years ago Yeah... Of all the antigovernment people to latch onto it's vaguely unfortunate that we landed on fawks. Like, I do get that it's a pop culture reference more than an actual historical reference, but still. There was legitimate persecution of Catholics in England at the time, so it doesn't least have a veneer of fighting tyranny, but he didn't even actually succeed. Shoulda gone for Louis Lingg. A bit more modern, and had the awesome criminal defense that "it's his right to fill his house with dynamite". permalink fedilink source parent
