Aum Shinrikyo: Japan's Strange Terrorist Cult

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  @TheCasualCriminalist · 4 years ago · pinned

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  @MountainCry · 4 years ago

  Ah yes, the six horseman of the Apocalypse: pestilence, war, famine, death, copyright strikes, and de-monitization.

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  @hilarys3405 · 4 years ago

  &quot;Fun&quot; Fact - After the sarin attack the majority of public trash cans were removed throughout Japan. To this day, people transport their trash home with them.

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  @fsfaith · 4 years ago

  Apparently in the UK any males can use Esquire as part of their name IF you don&apos;t have a grander title. So by adding Esq. to your own name you are essentially telling everyone you&apos;re a pretentious nobody.

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  @caittails · 4 years ago

  CHRIS. The fact that you just casually brought up your Kung Fu cult and didn&apos;t branch off onto a completely new episode just about that is a crime and I demand an entire script on that story.

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  @Setsunadiava149 · 1 year ago

  I had a student who over slept the day of the Tokyo &nbsp;sarin gas attack. The doors literally shut in her face. It’s insane how close she came to death that day.

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  @KristiContemplates · 4 years ago

  &quot;looks a bit peaky&quot; <br>Looks sick. <br>Going out in Japan when sick, without wearing protective devices, is highly disrespectful. Thus the looks of disapproval towards the old man

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  @SkyeFyre2131 · 3 years ago

  Allegedly, being a defence lawyer in Japan is such a shitshow that Phoenix Wright&apos;s most fantastical aspect is Wright&apos;s success rate.

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  @simplyixia3683 · 4 years ago

  If I had a nickel for every time one of Simon’s sponsors had the word “spoon” in their name, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice…

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  @JonnyJonJohn · 4 years ago

  Lol loving the irony that Simons skepticism is getting so high he is bordering on BECOMING a conspiracy theorist with his disbelief in common medical practices such as massage therapy.

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  @Fynikz · 4 years ago

  When you hear how incompetent the police in this story are, and then look at Japan&apos;s conviction rate, you quickly start to put 2 and 2 together on how accurate their convictions are.

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  @the-chillian · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daQA6KBK2Xw&amp;t=2940">49:00</a> -- Japanese police aren&apos;t known for being especially effective investigators. The near-100% conviction rate in their courts is less because police have gathered devastating evidence for prosecutors to present, and more because of a strong institutional bias toward conviction. It&apos;s actually a pretty nasty system.

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