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[-] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago

totally rational that an outspoken critic would kill themself before completing their deposition

[-] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago

I know that if I'd dedicated my retirement to doing a thing, then I'd kill myself right as the thing was finally seeming to be gotten done

[-] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago

CIA promotes the most convoluted conspiracy theories quite openly like everything China, Russia and especially DPRK and it sticks. It's just the typical liberal hypocrisy and Americans being the most propagandised people on Earth in action.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

North Korea has a secret army of femme fatales across the globe to seduce people and then poison them with neurotoxin they wear on a hairpin because they claimed that Kim didn't shoot an 18 in a round of golf - obvious

Corporations who have repeatedly been shown to be willing to sacrifice human lives for profit killed somebody for profit - well now you might as well be wearing a tinfoil hat

[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

It's like when somebody trys to tell me about how the illuminati are meeting in smokey back rooms to make secret deals to fuck over the rest of the population and make deals with the devil and I'm like "they broadcast those meetings live on cnbc and release transcripts after and the idea they sold their soul to the devil is to get you to not try to hold them accountable in this life because they told you they'd be punished in the next"

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Man I was reading the other one you posted when the page refreshed and I got this

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Do you know where I am likely to find this army of femme fatales? You know, so I can be careful to avoid them

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[-] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago

"Welp gentlemen this has been a productive day, we have almost finished my life's work. Time to go shoot my brains out in a motel parking lot, making all the work be worthless. Good evening"

screm-a I am begging smug redditor debatelords to please just fucking once actually THINK. This is terminal "both-sides" brain

[-] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago

(CW: Suicide) Even if we were to assume it was a suicide, it'd be because of the stress from having to deal with Boeing. It's safe to say they killed him regardless of who pulled the trigger.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Have done maintenance work on Boeing aircraft before. This tracks.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago

Remember when Yevgeny Prigozhin was playing a friendly round of paintball with live guns and grenades onboard his private jet? That explanation definitely requires fewer assumptions than an assassination.

[-] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago

Occram's razor tells me he was murdered. OP is just a lib suffering from cognitive dissonance.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Seriously thentwo options are:

  1. This person who clearly had the motive means and opportunity to report illegal things at Boeing knowing it would risk his employment got the chance to do that but instead killed himself halfway through doing that without any indication of why.

  2. The giant corporation killed somebody who threatened their profits.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago

No the rational and simple answer is to believe that a multi-billion dollar company that doesn't give a shit about safety standards would ever deign to do a thing that has happened so often before. The rational and simple answer is that a man who has dedicated his retirement to this very thing would kill himself with a gun in a truck in a watched parking lot on the third day of depositions.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

Very cool "War Takes". Defense contrator Boeing thanks you for your service im-doing-my-part

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Occam's razor for this event is very obviously that he was murdered though?

Like, that's literally the first thought 99% of people have had. It is the most obvious explanation. If you're applying Occam's Razor here then you're surely supporting that position.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

The thing about Occam's razor is that what seems to be the simplest explanation depends entirely on how you subjectively frame the issue in question. If you think of it as "a guy killed himself" vs "a powerful and widespread conspiracy of Boeing and the cops conspired to kill him, make it look like a suicide, and covered up all evidence" then the suicide option seems "simpler"

But if you frame it correctly as "a whistleblower who was about to testify against a billion dollar company decided that right then would be a great time to suddenly and without warning commit suicide" vs "he got got" the latter is clearly simpler.

Simplicity is not really an objective measure of anything.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, these things are always for crazy people to believe, except when US enemies are concerned, then it's totally not a conspiracy.

Funny that

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Occam's razor says the Russians killed him with the Havana syndrome raygun because he was going to post a picture of Xi Jinping as Winnie the Pooh

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

I think its the other way around. The simplest explanation is immediately discarded by liberal media because most of the time it's the truth and it reveals the material reality.

Recent examples:

who blew up the nordstream pipeline? certainly not the US that explicitly said they would destroy it if russia ever did something against ukraine and had a material benefit destroying it, must've been the russians themselves to make the US look bad even though it was against their material interests!

how did hamas pull the october 7 operation? certainly these savages couldn't pull it off, israel is invincible! they must've purposefully let it happen to finally get rid of palestinians!

liberals increasingly engage in these mental acrobatics to justify their crumbling worldview full of contradictions.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Yeah "Boeing whistleblower killed in retaliation" is a pretty simple reality, shit happens to whistleblowers all the time and it's not irrational to assume that as a null hypothesis until proven wrong. It's like assuming that the IOF is lying when they say something.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I mean, i dunno. I was indirectly related to a Boeing project manager for a while - and let me tell you - I could very easily believe that someone at Boeing just having that much of a stick up their ass about the whole situation is one of the simpler explanations here.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

War Takes was invited on WTYP by Liam Anderson, and after watching the episode with him in it, I was immediately enamored with how shitty and neoliberal his twitter account was. A banner image that features a US tank with a socdem rose on it next to his fursona, and endless tropes like "if you think a CIA did a coup in bolivia, you are denying the wholesome agency of the people who overthrew the authoritarian for having 4 terms" and "the online tankies whine about azov because they love vladolf putler."

side note: occam's razor is useful for things like "does the earth revolve around the sun or vice versa?" not messy political situations.

i mean look at this shit outright justifying what NATO did to yugoslavia:

EDIT: Chronically bad takes

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

He was on WTYP and associates with Liam? Why am I not surprised lol. Can't stand that guy.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Eh, if Occam's Razor wasnt a thing they would just come up with another BS excuse to uphold the status quo

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As opposed to anybody critical of Putin dying. That's always a conspiracy/assassination because duh obviously. Occam's razor means the things I'm conditioned to believe are more simple and likely to be true, dumb dumb

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I believe Boeing, as a long standing military industrial complex major player, used their dog (the Federal Government) to whack the guy

Can't prove it, but that's what I believe

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