• tal@lemmy.today
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    6 months ago

    If the implication here is that Boeing is assassinating people, I think that that’s pretty ridiculous.

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      6 months ago

      Not just one, but two whistleblowers in two months. And one of them said that if he dies soon, it would be a Boeing assassination a few days before he died.

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        6 months ago

        Someone claiming to be a family friend said that’s what he said, after-the-fact. That part of the whole first whistleblower story is far from rock-solid.

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          John was also in the process of deposition for an appeal to a case he already lost in 2019. If Boeing wanted to kill him they would have before the 2019 trial.

          And by the time he complained in 2017, both 787 and 737 Max that he was spilling details on had been flying for years. The FAA investigated and found a decent chunk of the issues had already been addressed. So it wasn’t even timely information by the time John spoke up.

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        So they… gave him a MRSA lung infection without him noticing? I have never once heard of attempted murder in that way.

        Did you read the article? My first thought on reading the headline was “this is extremely suspicious” and most people probably stopped there and went straight to the comment section. But reading the article I see no sign that this was murder.

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      If you think a company that knowingly put 10s of thousands of people in danger with faulty planes resulting in over 300 deaths, wouldn’t kill two people for exposing said crimes? I have a bridge to nowhere to sale you.

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        Does anybody actually know how the second person died? It was from an hospital acquired MRSA infection. I think it’s insane if people think Boeing somehow managed that to happen.

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            How WOULD you give someone a MRSA infection of the lungs? Inject it into their bloodstream? Aerosolize liquid with the bacteria in it and then discretely waft it towards them in a public place maybe? That’s pretty insane though. The risk to reward just isn’t there. And besides, what’s the point of killing a whistle-blower who’s already blown their whistle, except to “send a message” I guess? And the guy died after being hospitalized for 2 weeks so if he had anything left to say he could still have done it. It’s Boeing. It’s an aerospace company with shitty, greedy executives. It’s not the freaking KGB.

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      6 months ago

      You’re kidding right? Two whistle-blowers just don’t die this quickly.

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      Welcome to Lemmy. Lots of terminally online idiots here. I was hoping this place would be like old Reddit. Turns out it’s just as bad as current Reddit without as many bots.

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        Well, it depends on the Threadiverse community, as it did the subreddit. I mean, /r/conspiracy probably would buy into an assassination campaign conspiracy theory, but the subreddits I subscribed to on Reddit wouldn’t.

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          There’s some truth to that… scrolling the Lemmyverse front page is kinda like scrolling YouTube while not signed into an account- its amazing how dumb most of YT is. It’s honestly a testament to Lemmy being a solid community that it’s even palatable to just consume it unfiltered, although there are still some garbage takes.