• @dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I never thought I’d see the day when a respectable blue chip company like Boeing is publicly outed as ordering an assassination. They fucked up royally. The timing of it all is too eyebrow raising not to be noticed by the entirety of the airplane-using world. Top down criminal investigation. Now.

      • @hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net
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        Murdering people has been a normal part of corporations for a long time, but they generally do it to union organizers in the developing world.

        • Cethin
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          Let’s be fair, they do it everywhere. They do it more in the developing world, but it’s not exclusive there.

      • @Morgoon@startrek.website
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        In America it used to be you could just bribe your governor and they’d deploy the national guard to kill striking worker’s families like the Ludlow Massacre and the Battle of Blair mountain.

        • @MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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          Ludlow Massacre and the Battle of Blair mountain.

          It blows my mind how blatantly these events are not taught to anybody. Never forget.

      • I mean, there have been several huge instances of mass murder by corporations. Go look into the US’ history with strikebreaking and you’ll see just how bad it used to be. At least Boeing is trying to pretend it was a suicide, instead of just blatantly firebombing him in his own home.

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        I don’t think they are allowed. But I think they do it.

    • @exanime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      well your first mistake was thinking Boeing was a respectable corporation (that ship sailed in 1997 when they dropped the “engineering first” priority in lieu of “business first”)…

      your second mistake is thinking any corporation is respectable ;-)

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          Oh, you got caught doing some shitty business thing and now you’re not making as much money. Here is a government bailout to make it up.

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            Or they got caught doing a shitty business thing fucking people over and get fined a fraction of what it made them.

      • @dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        lol you’re right.

        In other news, if you search for flights on kayak and exclude Boeing planes, holy crap the tickets are insanely expensive.

        • @djsoren19
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          Turns out people pay extra money to avoid death, who knew.

        • @mPony@lemmy.world
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          next stops: buy Kayak and shut it down; Make it illegal for similar searches to be performed; make it illegal to disclose who makes the aircraft.

          Unless citizens make it clear that they won’t stand for bullshit, they will get bullshit.

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          Scary thing nobodies talking about is: if these Boeing-built bad parts are able to slip past inspectors, which we had (naievely?) assumed were given full access top-notch, and neutral, might the standards of other planes build-quality have also dropped?

          How safe are the other company’s planes?

    • @Nobody@lemmy.world
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      Boeing is a major part of the military industrial complex. They own the politicians in both parties, the regulators, and the courts. Laws don’t apply to them.

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        If you’re the government, you want your military planes to work. It’s in their interests to have whistleblowers. (Now there’s lots of steps that are problems in realizing that.)

        • @Gabu@lemmy.world
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          No. If you’re the state you want shit to work. If you’re part of the government, you just want to get your bribes.

        • wanderingmagus
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          I mean there may simply have been internal reports already, just highly classified to avoid “embarrassing” the nation and not accessible or known to the general public.

          • @Kalysta@lemmy.world
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            I feel like “risk of door blowing off mid flight” or “25% of oxygen masks don’t work” is something the public is entitled to know about

            • wanderingmagus
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              Didn’t say they weren’t entitled to know about it, just the reasoning that might’ve gone through the government’s collective heads when not disclosing or looking the other way on Boeing doing an Epstien.

          • @MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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            “Look, it turns out if you flip this switch on the Fa-18 and forget to turn it off after 1 to 5 minutes tops, your chances of ‘uncontrollably inverting and ejecting at high speed straight into the freaking ground’ go up tenfold. We’ve provided the USAF with a 1 hour iPad training about being touchy with the defrost function.”

            –Boeing, probably

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        If they can’t deliver a product that stays in one piece when not even being shot at, they aren’t about to stay a part of that MIC for long.

        • @Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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          The MIC has very little to do with making high-quality military equipment and much more to do with kickbacks and local jobs. Boeing and the other prime contractors are massively inefficient and often performing make-work jobs that no one in the military wants (like making more tanks).

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      I never thought I’d see the day when a respectable blue chip company like Boeing is publicly outed as ordering an assassination.

      Why does this surprise you that a company, a large company, would order an assassination of someone? This doesn’t surprise me in the slightest.

    • @EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
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      At the end of which some low level schmuck will be thrown under the bus and they will be fined a few million dollars grand total for all this shit.

  • @turkishdelight@lemmy.ml
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    when a whistleblower dies on the day of his deposition, you have to work really hard to convince me that it’s suicide.

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      They could have threatened to fly his family on a 737 Max if he didn’t kill himself

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      Definitely! But a ‘friend of the family’ is not really a perfect source.

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        Just saying, I bet Boeings lied more about things that caused humans to die than the friend of the family has so if its he said she said, I think she’s got the superior credibility. She just doesn’t have superior profits.

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    They make airplanes tf is this mafia shit

    • @aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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      Friendly reminder that Boeing is not a plucky airline that can’t make safe airplanes, it’s an AMERICAN MILITARY DEFENSE CONTRACTOR worth billions. If I you threaten that arrangement with slander like the truth and facts, they are good friends with people who kill for a living and completely unashamed in paying for their services.

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        Put another way: there are plenty of people who will eagerly issue death threats, stalk you, and swat you over minor differences in opinion. Think what they would do over serious money.

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        it’s an AMERICAN MILITARY DEFENSE CONTRACTOR worth billions

        Probably one reason why the FAA isn’t immediately shutting Boeing’s shit down, you know when doors fall off their planes mid-flight, and investigations uncover more problems.

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      Like really…Boeing is that dirty? Surely not?

      I mean they were willing to knowingly keep producing unsafe air planes which lead to several crashes killing 100’s. So yeah, I really wouldn’t be surprised if they also do assassination to ensure their profit.

      • @nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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        Also as stated elsewhere, they make world ending nuclear bombs delivery rockets. They’ve profited from the possible destruction of all of humanity.

    • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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      Boeing is that dirty? Surely not?

      Why not?

      International profit chasing entities just wouldn’t value profits over human life?

      • @Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca
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        It is a corporations fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits over any other things. That obviously includes human lives.

        Does a human life have a value to other humans? Yes.

        Does a human have a value to a corporation? It has a value and a cost, if the cost is higher than the value of the human then it is a risk to the value of the company and can be liquidated.

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      If you want, take a deeper look into the *max events and you’ll find that being dirty is the least surprise.

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      I’m not any defender of corporations, by any means, but I’m not sure that I’m willing to take the word of a “close family friend” who “needed help one day” any more than some corporate HR; and “I don’t care what they say, I know that Mitch didn’t do that” isn’t exactly a solid argument to be basing things on.

      Edit: I seem to have missed this on my first read:

      Jennifer said she thinks somebody “didn’t like what he had to say” and wanted to “shut him up” without it coming back to anyone"…“That’s why they made it look like a suicide,”

      I’m never surprised to hear something bad about Boeing, but this is just a woman convinced with, on the face of it, no other proof than what’s in her own head. Unless she’s got a recording or document, the article’s title could have been, “Family friend tells reporter a story”

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        And he said, ‘No, I ain’t scared, but if anything happens to me, it’s not suicide.’

        He pretty much said “I think something may happen to me and they will make it look like a suicide.”

        Unless she’s got a recording or document, the article’s title could have been, “Family friend tells reporter a story”

        Yeah, it won’t hold up in court, and neither would it if she had recorded this casual, intimate conversation between two old friends.

        Maybe, though, it’s enough to get the coroner to take another look at his death.

        I’m not any defender of corporations, by any means, but I’m not sure that I’m willing to take the word of a “close family friend” who “needed help one day” any more than some corporate HR;

        You sure have a lot more faith in corporations than I do…

        • @HighElfMage@lemmy.world
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          Maybe, though, it’s enough to get the coroner to take another look at his death.

          He’s a high profile corporate whistleblower who allegedly committed suicide. Any coroner who isn’t already triple checking everything is way too corrupt or lazy to bother with another look.

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            The coroner is going to call it as suicide. This isn’t remotely a debate to me. If it is suicide it goes away. If it is murder it means work for the police and a small annoyance to the powers-that-be. The coroner knows this and knows that if they don’t writer suicide their career is over at best at worst they get Epsteined as well.

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          He pretty much said “I think something may happen to me and they will make it look like a suicide.”

          Did he state that somewhere else? Admittedly I haven’t been following the story too closely so I may have missed something there; but if he isn’t documented saying that somewhere credible, then all we have is her claiming that he “pretty much said” that. Is it likely he said it? I mean, I’d definitely be saying it if I was in his shoes, but one family friend’s claim isn’t enough to convince me that this should have been published as it was. I guess this is all more me just trying to voice frustration with the article. Not that it’s unprecedented (maybe even the norm) these days, but it’s always frustrating to see headlines with unsubstantiated claims and discussions ensuing as if it’s fact.

          Maybe, though, it’s enough to get the coroner to take another look at his death.

          Here’s to hoping

          You sure have a lot more faith in corporations than I do…

          I probably don’t, I’m just trying to present an argument with throwing on more layers of personal bias

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        This isn’t “I know Mitch didn’t do that”, it’s “he literally told me the specific thing that happened and he wasn’t going to do it”. What motivation does she have to just fully make up a conversation? Boeing has billions of dollars of motivation, she knew him from family get togethers.

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          There’s a few accounts on these threads that are really determined to remain neutral and open minded about Boeing, I blocked a different one with the same speech pattern recently

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            Well, I for one think some rogue at Boeing is behind the Epsteining of this guy. The company is definitely run by psychopathic crooks and has been for a while and I hope these fuckers all go to jail and the company fixed before more people die.

            Idk about these accounts you blocked… but I am always going to advocate for at least being self-aware of being loosey-goosey with one’s reasoning. Maybe it is compulsion, maybe it is the decades wasted being religious that have led me to detest careless epistemology that leads to specious conclusions. Then again … if COVID taught me nothing, it should have taught me that efforts in this area are probably pointless. I must like swimming upstream. I seem to do it all the time.

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            Remaining open minded, waiting for evidence… Must be ChatGPT because that’s not a human thing, never had been!

            I am a Lemmy language user and I have processed this request.

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              Remaining open minded, waiting for evidence…

              You wrote “being willfully ignorant” wrong

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          My pet theory: Some extra dirty psycho at Boeing probably had him killed. Probably to cover up specifics about themselves. It seems pretty clear Boeing is rotting at the head and has been for decades. All these issues that have come up since MAX are the result of deeply systemic problems, stemming from crooked, greedy psychopaths at the top.

          But in the interests of being as rational and honest about this as possible, let’s also not forget that this article is based on her claim, and she’s the only one (so far) to make it. People have been known to seek attention with bullshit. It’s evidence, yeah, is it really unimpeachable? Well…

          Think about it like this: if there was a dated and notarized statement in his handwriting saying the same thing that she claims he told her, that would be more trustworthy.

          But again, pet theory, some Boeing sicko was covering their own ass by having him Epsteined. Totally plausible.

          I don’t think this is the last we will be hearing about this.

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            Amazing how standards of evidence work. I am a Jesus Mythicist and pretty much all we have to “prove” Jesus was real is one guy saying he meet some unnamed person who had a dream. But here we have a direct eyewitness stating what they heard a week ago and that isn’t good enough.

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          What motivation does she have to just fully make up a conversation?

          That’s my point: we have no idea. We have no information other than that her and Barnett’s mothers are best friends and that he was a pallbearer at her father’s funeral. She could be a well educated individual that is doing her best to make a point and draw attention to something, or she could be someone who believes tons of stuff that is blatantly false and is telling her opinion to anyone who will listen. Either way, (copying from my other comment) I guess this is all more me just trying to voice frustration with the article. Not that it’s unprecedented (maybe even the norm) these days, but it’s always frustrating to see headlines with unsubstantiated claims and discussions ensuing as if it’s fact."

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            There is literally no other corroboration that could be given, it’s a personal conversation between friends or friendly acquaintances, reported as such. There’s nothing wrong with the article. This is the maximum amount of corroboration for a private conversation (none) and it’s reported as a conversation, with information about the speaker’s relationship and direct quotes. Just because people don’t record their lives in unalterable write-once media doesn’t mean personal conversations simply should never be the subject of reporting. We have headline news stories about US generals’ personal conversations with Trump and his denials, and no one thinks “well, that shouldn’t be reported because either side could be lying and without recording they’re both equally suspicious”.

            I’m certain you don’t actually follow a philosophy of “nothing anyone says can ever be given any more credence than anyone else” because it’s an impossible way to live. And whatever high-minded “no one can ever know absolute truth” ideas you have, claiming that a HR rep and a family friend have the same level of believability is ridiculous. On one side you someone whose job is literally to say things to protect a billion dollar company and the other a family friend with nothing to gain talking about a pretty reasonable conversation one might have.

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              There’s nothing wrong with the article.

              I guess I can concede that the article describes what happened, so maybe it was the headline that set off my skepticism. In my opinion there’s a big difference between:

              ‘If anything happens, it’s not suicide’: Boeing whistleblower’s prediction before death

              and

              ‘If anything happens, it’s not suicide’: Family friend reports Boeing whistleblower’s prediction before death

              I know I’m being pedantic, that it’s just clickbait, and that’s the reality of today’s media; but I’ve spent the last 8-10 years watching some my family radicalized by headlines like this (albeit on different topics) and feel pretty strongly about it, I suppose. After realizing a few years ago the negative effect internet echo chambers were having on me I started to try and be a little more skeptical about things I was reading, especially if I agreed with them. Most of the time I just try to keep quiet but, apparently, felt like trying to start a discussion about it this morning.

              claiming that a HR rep and a family friend have the same level of believability is ridiculous.

              You probably have a point here. I could have better phrased my statement as something like, “I’m not sure that I’m willing to take the word of a “close family friend” who agrees with my point of view than I am a “close family friend” who disagrees with my point of view” or something similar. For instance, if the women in the article told the reporter, “he was very unhappy and told me he might kill himself” I’d still be thinking there was a convincing chance that Boeing was directly responsible because I wouldn’t consider her any more credible just because she’s agreeing with me.

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          I feel the same about the response given that I’m agreeing with everyone’s sentiments overall and only questioning the validity of a single source. Suppose I need to get a better feel for the site before trying to be more active.

          • @agent_flounder@lemmy.world
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            Naw, you’re good. Change nothing about yourself. :) You are spot on and you have my upvotes.

            Folks are in angry mob mode and can’t be bothered with even a hint of nuance or reason, apparently. Even if you are convinced Boeing totally killed the guy and state that clearly…

            Anyway, peace out man. I hope for once corporate scum faces consequences.

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          I’m curious if some one who disagreed with you - on something that they found completely, obviously true - tried to convince you they were right by saying that their mom’s friend’s daughter made a claim about it, how inclined would you be to believe them or that daughter?

          I think we all agree that Barnett suspected that something would happen; and we all agree that Boeing is a terrible company that is capable, and guilty, of terrible things. My point it just that there is concrete evidence of these things and articles should rely on something other than some person made a claim with nothing but, “it’s obvious” or “I know” to back it up

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        And after they find out the suicide note… was written super-generically.

        To whom it may concern,

        I cannot take it anymore. If I have a wife and/or kids, tell them that I love them.

        Good bye cruel world,

        [Don’t forget to change this text to the assassinated target’s name]

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      What feds, Boeing has been the only entity responsible for regulating Boeing for nearly two decades. I’m sure they’ll find themselves not guilty.

  • @assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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    I don’t know whether or not he killed himself, and I strongly suspect he didn’t, but I sure as hell know this warrants an intense and thorough investigation. All company and private emails of executives, with forensics to determine if anything was deleted. Long interrogations to see if alibis match up.

    There isn’t enough evidence to throw the book at Boeing, but there is enough to search every single little thing related to them.

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      There isn’t enough evidence to throw the book at Boeing, but there is enough to search every single little thing related to them.

      What am I missing? What evidence is there at all that they did it? Don’t get me wrong, I’m certainly highly suspicious that they were involved, but you have to have a lot more than suspicion.

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        His death, under suspicious circumstances, objectively benefits Boeing in an ongoing criminal investigation.

        That seems like sufficient justification to conduct an investigation.

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          His death, under suspicious circumstances, objectively benefits Boeing in an ongoing criminal investigation.

          This is motive, not evidence.

          That seems like sufficient justification to conduct an investigation.

          The fact that he has died is sufficient justification to conduct an investigation, and I’m sure they will. But the claim was that they have enough evidence against Boeing to subpoena basically everything they have. And Boeing having a motive to kill someone is not evidence that they did it, and would not pass a judge if anyone were to seek some kind of warrant.

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            Not sure why you’re being down voted, what you are saying is accurate. I guess the others are of the “Boeing is bad, therefore it’s pitchfork time” mindset and not justice and due process.

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                “Yup, that’s $blank for you.”

                Same shit’s been said ever since the caveman developed complex enough language to say. That’s a lazy, tired, and vacuous trope you’re mindlessly spouting there, tiger.

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                  That’s cavemen for you. Always getting angry over stones being thrown but not realizing they’re throwing the exact same stone.

                  I mean your response to an over-generalization is to increase the level of generalization to include literal cavemen. I wonder at what point cavemen developed a sense of irony?

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    if theyre killing witnesses, theyre too big to prosecute, and I think they should be shutdown and sold for parts

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    So the US government will not even investigate this because of the close ties / relationship with Boeing?

    I swear to god, the US and its oligarchy is just russia “at home”

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          our glorious pig’s glorious lipstick of the highest caliber*

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        Oh, I was wondering why I recognized your name!

        My apologies that you couldn’t get laid in high school.

        Are you going to explain this? Cuz it really sounds like you fucked a 12 year old when you were in high school.

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            Jax took that comment way out of context.

            The original thread was about puberty blockers being blocked by NHS when prescribed to kids with gender dysphoria.

            At no point did a specific age come up, but it’s assumed that puberty blockers would be most effective before puberty.

            However by this point in the thread, Jax had commented that they didn’t feel comfortable with kids taking birth control, a different tangent.

            I responded, in sarcastic tone (and to a reply to Jax’s post, as in, to a third party), as if surprised to learn that people should be taking birth control or receiving HPV vaccines before they start having sex (as in, not when they start having sex).

            Jax responds that they just aren’t comfortable with kids having sex.

            I respond with the quote above, Jax replies with:

            So you’re either suggesting that 12 year olds should be fucking high schoolers, or you’re just too dumb to think about what you said. I’ll give you a few minutes.

            I don’t know where that leap came from, but it followed me here a day or two later.

            AITA?

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              A lot of shitty things are done under the guise of, “It makes me feel uncomfortable”

              Trans people especially, anything to do with them really, Oh I make you uncomfortable, guess we will just magically stop existing.

              And for the uncomfortable people out there, most times the “stop existing” thing, comes in the form of unaliving because we aren’t cis like everyone else… that’s kinda the whole thing

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              I think there’s a real Red Scare style trend among zoomers with regards to pedophilia. Any time they can find the slightest pretext to link someone to pedophilia, they’ll do it and then call a mob with pitchforks.

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            Different conversation. Was talking about the effects of GnRH on the body, it led to a conversation of the similar effects of birth control on kids. I mentioned how I didn’t like the idea of kids needing to take birth control, which then brings us to that comment.

            The kids in question would have been 12, right around when puberty starts. So the “sorry you didn’t get laid in high school” sure fucking sounds like this person is saying that they think it’s normal for high schoolers to fuck 12 year olds. You can draw whatever conclusions you want from that, I’ve drawn mine.

            Edit: you can look through my comments, I stand by everything I’ve said.

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              Ah, I see. From what limited info you’ve given here, it sounds like you blew a common saying way out of proportion, but maybe I’m missing some of the more important context.

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                The context is children taking puberty blockers, which means taking them at around 12 years old.

                The context is exactly what I stated it as, I have blown exactly nothing out of proportion. I gave them the opportunity to explain themselves originally, they declined by not responding, so tell me exactly what conclusion should I draw?

                “Oh it’s fine that this person insulted me when I’m expressing my feelings (I cannot believe I just referred to being creeped out by kids taking birth control and fucking high schoolers as feelings), they deserve the respect they didn’t give me.”

                Absolutely not, if the above is what you’re suggesting you can have these hands too.

                Edit: I have to add, I did just randomly find this person again. I did not go out of my way to follow their comments. I just realized that might seem possible.

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                  Edit: I have to add, I did just randomly find this person again.

                  I… regardless, bringing this unrelated beef into this thread is a rude fucking thing to do to both them and us. Like i haven’t seen this level of pettiness in a good bit.

                  Keep it in your own thread. Isn’t that like a golden Internet rule?

                • @Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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                  kids taking birth control and fucking high schoolers

                  I think this is the issue. These are two separate statements and you’re conflating them.

                  “Someone didn’t get laid in high school” is a pretty common phrase that just means you’re lame. I think it’s a coincidence that the original topic was prepubescent puberty blockers.

                  The alternative is that someone just decided out of nowhere to proclaim their love for pedophilia. I think it’s far more likely that you misunderstood them.

    • @OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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      You are making that up, nobody said it won’t be investigated and the case he was a whistle blower for isn’t being stopped by this.

      • @Prandom_returns@lemm.ee
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        I do hope you’re right.

        I hope every single Boeing plane gets grounded until every single plane gets independently checked by a reputable 3rd party.

        But my hopes are idealistic, and the real world is far from ideal.

      • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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        The case isn’t stopped but it’s a lot less likely to succeed now.

        And I’ll believe there’ll be an investigation when there is one.

      • @Aleric@lemmy.world
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        They made it up. I won’t be surprised if it goes this way, but there’s no indication that’s how it is now.

    • Seriously. Once we nationalize it and it starts operating like it used to, it would be a shining example of why nationalization works.

      It’s also why you’re going to see an tsunami of useful idiots saying we shouldn’t do it.

    • @agent_flounder@lemmy.world
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      Then flush everyone from director up, and investigate middle management, and put people in that actually have some fucking ethics. Jesus H Christ.

    • @djsoren19
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      Go further, nationalize the MIC. I’m not gonna sit here and pretend the United States doesn’t need to manufacture arms for itself and it’s allies, but we absolutely do not need thousands of useless C-suite middlemen making millions of dollars from the process. Boeing is just the canary in the coal mine, I would not be surprised if other frequent contractors have also significantly decreased their ability to produce useful goods in favor of growing their profit margins. Great for profits, but not exactly what you’re looking for to protect troops.

      • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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        I swear if I am ever a whistleblower I am going to hire someone for minimum wage to hang out in my hotel room while I sleep and they can play on their phone, eat burritos, and play video games until the trial is fully over. And also make sure they have the ability to livestream the moment something weird happens.

        Also I don’t know put a thousand or so videos on YouTube with email links to everyone I have ever known with me saying all the damaging stuff and that I am not suicidal.

        $60 or so dollars a day is worth it to me to not get silenced like a fucking Russian critic.

        • @phx@lemmy.ca
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          Until they pay your minimum wage dude to poison your cup-noodles when you’re both looking

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          Cameras everywhere, all the time, backed up to the cloud in multiple locations. A copy on a private server would be ideal. It’s not foolproof but it’s better than nothing.

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          You can still be silenced like a few US presidents. Or even blown up with explosives. Even the government pulled that one on those anarchists in Philadelphia. Because wiping out your entire neighborhood to get rid of you could very well be on the table.

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          one simple trick private investigators don’t want you to know about that will save you millions and your mental health: Don’t use the internet.

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    Look, we all know he didn’t off himself, but here’s my issue with these stories where a friend or family member says that the person said they told them it won’t be suicide:

    If Barnett really said that, why not also set up a dead man’s switch? If he was truly afraid that he had info so damming he’d be killed for it, then why not set it up so that the info still finds a way to come out even in the event of his death?

    If anything, ensuring the info comes out one way or another might have even protected him.

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      He already published his information and was in the process of repeating it in front of a court.
      His death prevented him from giving his information as sworn testimony which a dead man switch could not do.

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        I believe that’s not actually true at all. It can and has been used as sworn testimony.

        The thing is, there’s a difference between thinking a company will kill you, and THINKING a company will kill you.

    • @agitatedpotato@lemmy.world
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      Well because according to his quote he wasn’t afraid. I don’t think he thought the company he worked for for 30 years would do this. Seems he said this remark only in response to what she asked.

        • @PutangInaMo@lemmy.world
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          That’s my thought if this conspiracy were true. It wasn’t some evil corporation assassinating the guy, it was one of the menial workers who had more to lose from his testimony.

    • @Crackhappy@lemmy.world
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      Not only that, but isn’t a dying declaration specifically admissible as fact or something? I’m only vaguely recollecting this, so I’m likely wrong.

    • @MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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      It would have been really nice to have some kind of automated testimony upload or something.

      Have it in writing. “I have zero intention of killing myself and my life is great save for my horrendous former employer that should go straight to hell.”

      ANYTHING more substantial than “Y’know he told me once…”

      • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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        Someone on lemmy said it yesterday. Those Boeing shits could have put him in a no-win. Tell him that if he drops it they will still sue him and if he continues they will also sue.

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        This was my thought. As terrible as it is.

        Basically “We have a van outside your house. You have two options…”

        Man, wish they could’ve gone into witness protection and testified from an undisclosed remote location or something…

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      Unless it really was suicide via blackmail/ extortion.

      If you don’t kill yourself were going to kill all your family and friends.

      Give him videos of the surveillance on all of them to scare him.

      Still seems more likely they did kill him, but that might be a reason for no Deadman switch

      I’d wanna be in witness protection and unreachable if I was whistle-blower at that level just to avoid situations like that.

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    It’s important to remember that whistleblowing is extremely stressful, so much that it’s one of the main things the government talks about on their whistleblowing site:

    Practice self-care and stress-reducing activities throughout your whistleblowing process. It is common to experience toxic forms of retaliation – from professional isolation to gaslighting (manipulating someone by psychological means into questioning their own sanity) – which can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, or even thoughts of harm.

    https://whistleblower.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/whistleblower.house.gov/files/whistleblower_survival_tips.pdf

    Researchers have found the same thing, being a whistleblower is terrible for your mental health:

    About 85% suffered from severe to very severe anxiety, depression, interpersonal sensitivity and distrust, agoraphobia symptoms, and/or sleeping problems, and 48% reached clinical levels of these specific mental health problems. These specific mental health problems were much more prevalent than among the general population.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6604402/

    In addition, “Half of Patients With Suicidal Thoughts Deny It”

    Not only did approximately 50% of people with suicidal thoughts deny having those thoughts, roughly 50% of people who had died by suicide, and 30% of people who had attempted suicide had denied having suicidal ideation in the week or month beforehand.

    Furthermore, in many cases, people who had disclosed in apps and on paper that they had thoughts of suicide then denied that they had suicidal ideation when questioned directly in face-to-face assessments or interviews. For example, in one study, nearly 60% of those who reported their suicidal ideation on an app then denied their suicidal ideation in a telephone interview less than 24 hours later.

    https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.pn.2021.10.9

    So, just because he denied he was suicidal doesn’t mean that’s necessarily true. He might have been trying to appear strong to everyone while suffering in silence.

    This should definitely be investigated as possibly being murder. And, even if the investigation does determine that he shot himself, they should keep looking to see if he was being blackmailed or if he might have been pressured into suicide.

    I just can’t imagine an executive at Boeing going out and hiring a hit man. But, what I can imagine them doing is hiring a team of private investigators to go through this guy’s entire life and dig up every bit of dirt on him. It could be they found something really embarrassing and were going to blackmail him with it. It could be that they found something innocent that they could frame as being awful, like to make him look like he was a child molester or something.

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      I just can’t imagine an executive at Boeing going out and hiring a hit man

      Really? That’s weird, I totally can. It’s an exceptionally narrow-minded and short-sighted knee-jerk reaction to a perceived threat of one’s executive career. Most coked-out executives already have a massive god complex once they get their MBA and are installed above the proles workers. I can absolutely realistically imagine one Boeing executive getting angry enough and coked-out enough to just decide, “fuck it, I’m going to fix this problem for us before he threatens my career and reputation any more”.

      The information you present about whistleblowing being stressful is fair. He may indeed have been driven to kill himself instead of being straight-up assassinated like others believe. I refuse, however, to give the benefit of doubt to a massive corporation who has already demonstrated a complete lack of regard for human life and an extremely poor track record of moral and ethical decision-making. This needs to be investigated under the assumption that a hit is an entirely possible reality. Unless you’d rather that nobody blows the whistle on anything in the future - you’ve already demonstrated that it’s an incredibly stressful action. If there’s the lingering remote possibility that you can be simply assassinated over it and everyone will look the other way, nobody will ever raise their voice again. The nature of his actions before his death demand a comprehensive and exhaustive investigation into if any person from Boeing had anything to do with it whatsoever, or whistleblowing will continue sliding into something only the insane consider.

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        Really? That’s weird, I totally can.

        While Boeing executives may be criminals, they’re pretty much exclusively white collar criminals. They went to business school, not the military. They come from rich households. They don’t have gang or organized crime affiliations. How would they know anything about hiring hit men?

        Hiring a firm to do PR and to dig up dirt on a whistleblower, sure, that’s within their skillset. That’s even something they can brag about in board meetings because it’s legal. It’s the kind of thing they can google, or have a secretary research for them. It doesn’t matter if transcripts leak. But, hiring a hit man, how do they know they won’t get caught – and this time for the kind of crime where people actually get sent to real prisons?

        This needs to be investigated under the assumption that a hit is an entirely possible reality.

        Sure, they should work under the assumption that it was a very careful hitman who made it look like a suicide. They should be 10x more careful than they normally would if they even suspected it might be a suicide. But, I still think driving him to suicide is much more likely.

        IMO, the kind of press this is getting is part of the reason I don’t think it was a hit. If this were Russia, sure. A hit sends the message to anybody else that they better not think of doing the same thing. The press will tell whatever story the government wants. Even on social media nobody very few people will speak up in Russia. But, in the US, this death is going to draw so much more attention to Boeing. Just look at how many articles there are about the whistleblower’s death vs. how many there were about him beforehand. Corporations are used to managing news cycles when it comes to legal cases and congressional hearings. Those are boring and don’t tend to go viral. But a whistleblower dying as he was giving testimony, that’s exciting, it’s like the movies, so it’s all everyone’s going to talk about.

        Unless he had even more damaging information that he somehow didn’t give to anybody yet, despite the fact he had already been testifying, it seems like the damage his death does is much higher than the damage his testimony would have done.

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          You didn’t think executives would resort to violence?

          Let me introduce you to Coca Cola and Shell. And the East and West India Companies before them.

          These guys approved MCAS knowing it could create situations that were were unrecoverable. They aren’t above killing people for profit.

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            Let me introduce you to Coca Cola and Shell.

            They’ve been found guilty of killing people on American soil? I hadn’t heard that, do tell.

            And the East and West India Companies before them.

            Yeah, the 1400s are really relevant here.

            These guys approved MCAS knowing it could create situations that were were unrecoverable.

            Yes, white collar crime.

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              Get your history correct atleast. East India Company was in charge of India until 1857 and squeezed it dry. It was basically an early blueprint of modern day capitalism and imperialism.

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                I was off by a couple of centuries, but it’s hardly relevant now. If the most recent example of bad corporate behaviour you can find is from a company that was dissolved 150 years ago, you don’t have much of an argument.

            • @FreddyDunningKruger@lemmy.ml
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              Your naiveness is super precious. You can’t see someone with incredible amounts of wealth hiring someone else to make a problem go away?

              OK! Next time, you should try a couple of Google searches before wasting all that time typing out nonsense. I didn’t even finish the first page of search results, there were so many. And they are just the ones dumb enough to get caught.

              https://www.insideedition.com/husband-of-murdered-microsoft-execs-ex-wife-arrested-after-allegedly-hiring-hitman-to-carry-out

              https://www.cbsnews.com/news/erik-maund-hired-hitmen-kill-mistress-holly-williams-blackmailer-william-lanway-indictment/

              https://patch.com/california/venice/westside-ceo-sentenced-hiring-hitman-kill-partner

              https://nypost.com/2022/06/12/ex-amazon-mexico-ceo-juan-garcia-paid-hitman-9k-to-kill-his-wife/

            • So what do you mean by white collar crime? Does it include killing people or not? Because knowingly bringing about systems that result in the death of people, having a private security contractor that you know will shoot striking workers in your third world countries plantation or ordering a hit on someone are all the same. It is decided that people will die for the companies profit and just because the people who order it dont do it directly themselves, doesn’t change the gravity of it.

              Also there os myriads of examples from today, where western companies directly or indirectly order people to get killed, just usually in third countries. The idea that a defense company with billions of profits at stake every year doesn’t have access to hitmen is unconvincing. Why wouldn’t they? Just as the mafia is branching into white business, white business of size are employing criminal means.

              If you still think there is some unpenetrable divide, all you need is a private detective agency that has a history of dealing with problems “reliably” in the past.

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                So what do you mean by white collar crime?

                It’s a pretty well defined term.

                Does it include killing people or not?

                It may mean being responsible for their deaths, but not in a way in which you could be charged for murder.

                Also there os myriads of examples from today, where western companies directly or indirectly order people to get killed

                Almost always indirectly, and almost never on US soil. Not hiring a hitman to stage a suicide in the US. The kinds of things that US corporations do are the kinds of things they can talk about at board meetings without worrying that they’ll go to jail of the meeting is bugged. They can talk about hiring SecuriCo in Zambia to deal with unrest at the mine. Or, they can talk with hiring the law firm Goldman, Burke and Mott to deal with the bad PR from the whistleblower. They’re not going to chat about going onto a dark web server to hire a hit man to kill a whistleblower. That’s movie stuff, not reality.

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              These guys approved MCAS knowing it could create situations that were were unrecoverable.

              Yes, white collar crime.

              If that’s “white collar crime” then so is hiring a hitman.

              You’re being rather naive. Sure, those bosses would have a hard time doing violence on other people, personally. But through another person? Nah. The same as approving MCAS, knowing it will kill people.

              Also, you need to take a basic history lesson. “1400’s” is a really bad guess.

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                  I haven’t had one in ~14 years.

                  I do live in a bad part of town and this guy used to be my neighbour (before he died a few years ago.)

                  Chill guy all in all (except when someone snitched and he lost like 2 pound of meth). Interesting stories as well.

                  Made really good risotto.

                  I don’t need a TV. :)

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                If that’s “white collar crime” then so is hiring a hitman.

                No, it isn’t. If you hire a hitman you can be tried for conspiracy to commit murder. If you approve a system that could be unsafe for an airplane, your company might have to pay a fine. They’re vastly different crimes, even if one results in a lot more deaths.

                You’re being rather naive

                You watch too many movies.

                Sure, those bosses would have a hard time doing violence on other people, personally. But through another person? Nah

                They might have the mindset required to hire a hitman. But, they don’t have the connections. They also don’t want to take on the personal liability of doing that. These are almost all finance guys who have MBAs. They wouldn’t make a decision like this on their own, and they wouldn’t be able to talk about it in a board meeting without risking a conspiracy charge.

                The MCAS decision is ridiculous, but it exactly the kind of thing they can discuss in a board meeting without risking criminal charges. Even if the meeting had been recorded, the transcript would be boring board-room talk, nothing that they could be indicted for.

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                  They might have the mindset required to hire a hitman. But, they don’t have the connections.

                  Anyone can find a hitman online, all it takes is 15min to get to know how deep web markets work. They’re by far the least reliable service ofc, but it is sold and there are escrow services as well. How well they work in cases like that is a whole other matter, but I, personally, find it rather ludicrous a suggestion that a high-level Boeing boss who manages the complexities of a job like that (especially when simultaneously playing Jenga with airline safety) wouldn’t be able to figure out how to access a black market.

                  Especially when they could always hire a person to do that for them. Do they trust anyone at all, with any of their criminal shenanigans? Well surely the co-conspirators at least. These massive, systemic changes that made Boeing go from trusted airline to killing whistleblowers weren’t the actions of one man.

                  And if there was a group of men, then it’s shared responsibility. Even if they conspire to hire a hitman. It doesn’t feel as much like a violent crime when it’s done in white-collars and agreed on in a fancy hotel suite.

                  I imagine it looked something like this, except Webb’s character wasn’t there

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          Frankly speaking, whether or not a hitman was hired, Boeing is culpable.

          Organizing a concerted effort to drive someone to suicide is just as illegal as murdering them. End of story.

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            If there’s evidence they organized a concerted effort to drive someone to suicide, definitely. Otherwise they’re just culpable for gross violations of safety that have cost lives of airline passengers.

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          But, in the US, this death is going to draw so much more attention to Boeing.

          Attention sure, nothing will happen to Boeing though. They own too many politicians, and too many powerful people need them to stay where they are. I have no doubt they killed him.

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            Attention sure, nothing will happen to Boeing though.

            There’s more of a chance of something happening now than there was before the whistleblower died.

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          pretty much exclusively white collar criminals.

          Very much so. It would be hard to believe they would do it themselves. However, enrolling the right assistance should not be too difficult for them. They even have access to more options than the average business executive.

          They went to business school, not the military.

          They are not military, but they have plenty of contacts there. Boeing is a big player in the military industry, they certainly know a lot of people in that world, both in government positions and the private sector.

          They don’t have gang or organized crime affiliations.

          Several of them don’t, but organized crime is within reach. Illegal recreational drugs are not uncommon in the business world. Dealers are more often than not connected to the organized crime. Networking in that world is something within business people’s skills.

          Hey, who knows, maybe some of those execs started working many years ago as humble machine gun and bazooka salespeople. And who knows what kind of interesting characters they met during those days. While totally not burying their heads into a mountain of white powder sitting in the middle of the table.

          driving him to suicide is much more likely.

          It is very likely. High stress would have played against him if he was being bullied or threatened. Also, less involved than having them murdered.

          it seems like the damage his death does is much higher than the damage his testimony would have done.

          Depends on what you consider damage here. The testimony could have been perceived as a threat to important business deals (and to bonuses). It is not infrequent to see executives caring only about their profits, even in detriment of the company as a whole.

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            They are not military, but they have plenty of contacts there.

            They may have contracts with generals, but not much in the way with soldiers on the ground. If it were a defence contractor that made small arms, then maybe. But, this is Boeing.

            Illegal recreational drugs are not uncommon in the business world

            Sure… but executives don’t go to the bad parts of town to get them. The guy they’re buying from is most likely someone who can travel in C-Suite circles and not draw attention. Maybe they’re also a member of the golf club and have a legitimate business as a cover. The execs aren’t getting in their Mercedes and cruising down to the ghetto to score. The dealers may have connections to organized crime, but not in a way that is obvious to anyone.

            Hey, who knows, maybe some of those execs started working many years ago as humble machine gun and bazooka salespeople.

            We know, their profiles are public.

            The Boeing CEO, David L. Calhoun:

            After graduating from college, Calhoun was hired by General Electric (GE). He decided to join GE in part because he would be working in Lehigh Valley in eastern Pennsylvania, where he grew up.[3] He worked at GE for 26 years, overseeing transportation, aircraft engines, reinsurance, lighting and other GE units, before being appointed vice chairman and a member of GE’s Board of Directors in 2005.[

            The COO, Stephanie Pope:

            Pope was an Eisenhower Fellow in Brussels and Ireland in 2008 and has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Southwest Missouri State University and a Master of Business Administration from Lindenwood University.

            Pope joined Boeing in 1994 and rose through the ranks to take on senior-level roles at all three of the company’s key businesses.

            The CFO, Brian West:

            West received a bachelor’s degree in finance from Siena College and a Master of Business Administration from the Columbia Business School.

            Previously, West spent 16 years at General Electric, where he served as chief financial officer of GE Aviation and chief financial officer of GE Engine Services.

            The Chair, Supply Chain Operations Council, William A. Ampofo II:

            Ampofo has a bachelor’s degree in finance from Adelphi University and a Master of Business Administration from George Washington University.

            Before joining The Boeing Company in April 2016, Ampofo spent 22 years at United Technologies Corporation (UTC), holding roles of increasing responsibility in finance, information technology, corporate strategy and operations at its corporate headquarters and its Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky and UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS) divisions.

            Just look through their execs and find anybody with even a hint of dirt under their fingernails:

            https://www.boeing.com/company/bios

            It is not infrequent to see executives caring only about their profits, even in detriment of the company as a whole.

            Sure, so they hire PR firms, and private investigators, and call up friendly reporters to try to get them to publish a negative article. They aren’t going to order a hit and make it look like a suicide.

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          While Boeing executives may be criminals, they’re pretty much exclusively white collar criminals. They went to business school, not the military. They come from rich households. They don’t have gang or organized crime affiliations. How would they know anything about hiring hit men?

          Someone has never seen the first RoboCop movie.

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            Ah yes, thank you for proving my point. People who watch too many movies think that real life is like movies.

            What’s next? Getting shot makes you fly backwards through the air? Getting knocked out makes you unconscious for hours, but you wake up with nothing more than a sore head? Silencers go “thwpt” and nobody can hear them from more than a meter away?

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              Ah yes, thank you for proving my point. People who watch too many movies think that real life is like movies.

              What’s next? Getting shot makes you fly backwards through the air? Getting knocked out makes you unconscious for hours, but you wake up with nothing more than a sore head? Silencers go “thwpt” and nobody can hear them from more than a meter away?

              Dude, relax, no need to be rude. It’s just a humorous Internet forum comment, that makes a valid point.

              Or are you trying to tell me that powerful corporations don’t have very strong security departments with connections?

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                Or are you trying to tell me that powerful corporations don’t have very strong security departments with connections?

                They have security departments filled with normal people who the execs couldn’t trust to do something like this (or order something like this) without ratting them out. They don’t order hits. That’s movie stuff, like every grocery bag must have a baguette and greens poking out of it, or turning on your TV at the exact moment a news report starts.

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                  They have security departments filled with normal people who the execs couldn’t trust to do something like this

                  So huge multi-billion corporations wouldn’t hire the best of the best, when it comes to security?

                  That’s movie stuff

                  Life imitates art.

                  Just the bottom line this, we’re not going to agree, but you’d have to be pretty naive to think that those kind of things, with billions of dollars and economies hanging in the balance, doesn’t really happen.

                  Unfortunately.

    • @Katana314@lemmy.world
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      49 months ago

      There’s maybe an absurd theory no one has considered: He worried that the accusations weren’t going to be taken seriously, so he killed himself in a relatively suspicious manner/timing, to make sure public trust in Boeing disappeared.

      • @merc@sh.itjust.works
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        It seems unlikely because there was a lot of interest in the stuff he was testifying about, but it’s possible.