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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago

Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

www.bbc.com

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Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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Prior to his death, whistleblower John Barnett was testifying against Boeing over concerns about standards.
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  • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    It said the 62-year-old had died from a “self-inflicted” wound on 9 March and police were investigating.

    bruh-moment

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I have information that will lead to the arrest of Boeing 737-Max

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Pete did him in like he did in all those dogs. Now the door plugs on all Max Jets will implode at 30k feet.

      • idkmybffjoeysteel [he/him]@hexbear.netBanned
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        it’s not a bug it’s a feature

  • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Suicide, by two gunshot wounds to the back of the head while sitting in his truck. Tragic.

    • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      yeonmi-park Political executions are staged to look like suicides.

    • appel@whiskers.bim.boats
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      Wait, two? How do you shoot yourself twice in the head?

      • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        Usually by being any form of civil rights organizer that challenges the status quo, but pissing off a multi-billion dollar defense contractor will work in a pinch.

      • footfaults [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb

  • supafuzz [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    feels like these things are getting way less subtle lately

    • KimJongFun [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Remember when they killed the guy who testified in that case about a cop murdering a dude in his own home by shooting him in the fucking mouth? Pepperidge Farms remembers

      • emizeko [they/them]@hexbear.net
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        I remember this but not enough to find it. drop a link?

        • KimJongFun [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          This cnn article.

          Witnesses flagged down Dallas police officers around 10:30 p.m. local time Friday and directed them to Brown, who was lying in the parking lot of his apartment complex with multiple gunshot wounds to his lower body, police said.

          Brown was taken Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he died from his injuries. He was positively identified by the medical examiner Sunday, police said.

          Witnesses told police they heard several gunshots and saw a silver, four-door sedan speed away from the parking lot.

          But there are no detailed descriptions of the suspect.

          Brown “was ambushed at his apartment complex as he got out of his car and (was) shot at close range,” attorney Lee Merritt wrote in a Facebook post Saturday night. Merritt represents the Jean family.

          He said at the time a medical examiner told him Brown had been shot in the mouth and chest.

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      Removed by mod

  • companero [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Thinking about how everyone and their mother jumped to say Navalny was murdered despite there being literally zero evidence other than vaguely suspicious circumstances and questionable motivation.

    In this case there is both clear motivation and painfully suspicious timing.

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      Also, a corpse with a gunshot wound…

      Navalny’s death appears to have been natural or at least a very subtle method

      • ForkBombRaja [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Capitalist innovation.png

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netBanned
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      Thinking about how everyone and their mother jumped to say Navalny was murdered despite there being literally zero evidence other than vaguely suspicious circumstances and questionable motivation.

      Well he should’ve been

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    Damn why did Putin push him out of a window?!

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      libs will surely jerk themselves raw over this guy killed for corporate interests just like they did for the other guy recently killed for corporate interests (russian)

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        Navalny was the pro-corporate interest candidate. He wasn’t killed for corporate interests, if he was killed it was for treason and betraying the state and people

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          And notably, not even Ukraine is entertaining speculation that he was murdered.

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    It said the 62-year-old had died from a “self-inflicted” wound on 9 March and police were investigating.

    Even BBC is skeptical enough to use scare quotes.

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      Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in Ankh-Morpork, but there were a lot of suicides. Walking in the night-time alleyways of The Shades was suicide. Asking for a short in a dwarf bar was suicide. Saying “Got rocks in your head?” to a troll was suicide. You could commit suicide very easily, if you weren’t careful.

      Add ‘whistleblowing’ to this list.

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        Was just thinking of this lol.

  • GladimirLenin [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    In Bad Country, people get murdered for speaking out against the government corporations.

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      Aka the real government

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        Lets be honest. the US government is like 5 or 6 corporations in a trenchcoat.

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          obviously an-caps are dipshits but how do they not realize that this fact entirely destroys their entire political platform? the government is bad because it gets in the way of corporations! my friend, this government is corporations.

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            Corporations exist only because of crony capitalism, in an ancap society it’s nothing but small business owners and entrepreneurs, is their unironic answer.

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              well, I’m sure none of those small businesses will grow faster and absorb the others leading to centralization and monopoly, so everything’s fine.

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                They wouldn’t because it would violate the NAP. They’ll only grow up to a certain point and stop long before a monopoly, because reasons.

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              they’re very silly.

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            ‘Monopolies only happen due to government intervention. They totally do not happen in a system where a bunch of rich people compete for the market and the winners get to have an advantage in further competition while the losers get to be pushed out. This totally does not lead to merging of companies and accumulation of capital in a few hands’.

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            Those are cronies, real Capitalism has never been tried.

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      Welcome to the corporate oligarchy of unmerica

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    We don’t have news anymore, just propaganda that is blatantly obvious as a flex on the powerless

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    That’s crazy. All this bullshit is very obviously because Boeing is cutting corners. If you work in aerospace manufacturing and you make/check something out of spec and a plane goes down for it and they tie it back to you, there’s a good chance you’re gonna do time for it. Big incentive to not fuck around on the job. These executives don’t even live in the same world as the rest of us they’re just gonna kill this guy without a second thought and they’re gonna do it so sloppily it’s like they’re not even trying to hide it.

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      they’re gonna do it so sloppily it’s like they’re not even trying to hide it.

      It being sloppy works as a way to warn other potential whistleblowers, while maintaining plausible deniability

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    he shouldn’t have violated boeing’s NAP ancap-good

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    Free country btw

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    There will be no investigation of Boeing executives or major share holders.

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    Whistleblower for what?

    Making flights more fun and exciting by having doors that fall off mid-flight? ancaptain

    How is that a problem? it sounds like good clean gilded age fun to me!

    porky-happy wheeeeeee!

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    So anyway I just got my 737-Max stickers in the mail and I don’t know if this makes them more or less tasteful. Good time to put one on my car or bad time?

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