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HootinNHollerin , (edited ) to news in Second Boeing whistleblower dies in less than two months

Weird to link to a publisher from the other side of the planet of where it happened when there’s plenty closer

JoshuaFalken ,

I can’t imagine the news that must enter your sphere. Only lemonade stands and yard sales from the neighbourhood?

HootinNHollerin , (edited )

Wichita Kansas is where Spirit is. New Zealand is about as far as it gets from there. Reporters in New Zealand are just regurgitating what they read from more local sources. Being well informed requires good journalism and that requires access to sources so ya I stand by my statement to seek out more local articles

homesweethomeMrL ,

No time like the present! Link us up, newsman!

HootinNHollerin ,
homesweethomeMrL ,

Cool.

Smoogs , to news in Second Boeing whistleblower dies in less than two months

It’s gotta be the same trolls that visit every Boeing thread claiming accidents are the fault of the airport not the manufacturer. They are fucking relentless.

theherk ,

I read this whole comment thread but somehow missed that one? What prompted this?

Smoogs ,

Any post with the name ‘boeing’ usually comes with the ‘actually’ bots. Just give this one some time for them to recalibrate

theherk ,

Probably, but I can’t help but feel you are what you accuse here, leveling an accusation at a target which doesn’t exist yet.

Smoogs ,

Ok Boeing.

theherk ,

Fuck Boeing, but your comment was still a nonsense hammer in search of a nail, and what you said would come never came.

Smoogs ,

Selective reading.

theherk ,

I reread all the comments. Please link to the specific one.

Smoogs ,

Please don’t post bad faith trolling.

theherk ,

I actually did reread them, and I don’t believe I’m trolling. I am genuinely curious if you believe a comment here did as you claimed and if so which one? Please be specific.

EdibleFriend ,
@EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

But you spoke as if its already happening. in fact your post reads as if you are replying to someone? Honestly if anyone is coming off as a bot its you dude. I, of course, don’t think you are but…your post makes absolutely no sense in the current context.

Smoogs ,

Lol and yet 65 ppl got it.

EdibleFriend ,
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No it’s just that you spoke out against Boeing and people upvoted you despite the lack of context.

Smoogs ,

That’s a lot of prediction for someone demanding facts.

PaupersSerenade ,
@PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works avatar

Those people are just clarifying headlines that give no idea how long the plane was in service. If they’ve been in service for over a decade it stands to reason that the maintenance on the plane might have been faulty. OFC Boeing should be investigated due to the door plug blow-out, and have previously demonstrated their willingness to cut corners with the Max debacle. That doesn’t mean every incident is their direct fault, and Airbus can suffer similar incidents but not be reported on.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Mmmm . . . Botty

PaupersSerenade ,
@PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works avatar

You’re calling me a bot for adding context?

Strykker ,

Apparently not wanting to burn Boeing to the ground regardless of who was in the wrong is a sign of being a bot

homesweethomeMrL ,

Er, no - because the crashes weren’t the topic. It was just very sudden-left-turn which felt bot-like. Agreed about the Boeing crashes, they’re just different from the deaths of the Boeing whistleblowers.

PaupersSerenade ,
@PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works avatar

I was responding to someone who specifically brought up the crashes…

It’s gotta be the same trolls that visit every Boeing thread claiming accidents are the fault of the airport not the manufacturer. They are fucking relentless.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Yeah I saw that. They said “The trolls talk about the crashes” and then you were talking about the crashes. Which, y’know, is kind of funny.

PaupersSerenade ,
@PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works avatar

I guess it is kinda funny, considering the person I quoted did bring it up. Have a great day mate, I’m done with this circuitous convo

Strykker ,

First off fuck Boeing. Second off. When a part falls off of a 30 year old plane it’s typically because the airline that owns it fucked up in the maintenance of the plane, sometimes it’s the manufacturer not stating a correct procedure, or having the stated intervals too long, but just as many aviation accidents have been caused by fuckups during maintenance.

Aux ,

Or sometimes manufacturers simply send a wrong manual which doesn’t apply to your aircraft at all. And it turns out you have to order one from across the ocean because the whole continent got the wrong manuals. Don’t ask how I know.

Smoogs ,

And there it is.

Jax ,

What?

Who are you even talking about?

fukurthumz420 , to news in Second Boeing whistleblower dies in less than two months

@Dasus Man, if Boeing had only sung or used nonviolent resistance, I’ll bet these whistleblowers would have backed down as witnesses.

Also, tankman is dead. He got ran over by a tank. He really showed them.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

He did not. There are lesser known photos showing him leaving the street. I think a lot of people haven’t seen those.

I’m sure the Chinese government disposed of him if they were able to identify him. But as far as I know he’s never been identified. I hope not. Brave motherfucker.

fukurthumz420 ,

i can’t cite a source, but i was under the impression he was widely believed to have been run over by the tanks.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

I’ve seen the pictures on Reddit, years ago. After blocking the tank for a while, he walked off the street going left. He was not run over by the tanks in that column at least.

gedaliyah ,
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I think that’s’ one of those “Mandela effect” things. It never happened, but a lot of people believe it did. Our brains take a lot of shortcuts.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Sound like an ambulance blocker apologist

Dasus ,

This guy got so angry at being called out for not having been in the military (as I’m in the reserves and still a conditional pacifist by conviction) and only being able to come up with inane violence fantasies that he had to tag me in another thread.

Go read the original conversation here. Guess he had to try to make a new one, due to getting downvoted quite hard in the actual one for the admittedly silly things he said. :/

Go buff your Walmart pistols, that’ll make you feel safer.

Your refusal to read history doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

en.wikipedia.org/…/History_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago…

en.wikipedia.org/…/Women's_suffrage_in_the_United…

en.wikipedia.org/…/Passive_Resistance_(Hungary)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1st_Movement

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_Egyptian_revolution

en.wikipedia.org/…/Non-cooperation_movement_(1919…

en.wikipedia.org/…/Norwegian_resistance_movement

en.wikipedia.org/…/Internal_resistance_to_aparthe…

en.wikipedia.org/…/Hawaii_Democratic_Revolution_o…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement

en.wikipedia.org/…/Opposition_to_United_States_in…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larzac

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Power_Revolution

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_Revolution

en.wikipedia.org/…/Women_of_Liberia_Mass_Action_f…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otpor

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Revolution

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Egyptian_revolution

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_revolution

fukurthumz420 ,

you know what? you’ve inspired me. believe it or not, i am a person who can change their mind. i’m going to play devil’s advocate here and take up the opposite position to what you propose, not because i want to prove i’m right but because you’ve taken the time to back up your argument with cited examples. i appreciate that. should we start a new thread somewhere? i’m new to lemmy so i’m not exactly sure where the right place would be. i have a lot to do today, so i won’t be able to counter you quickly.

let me just say that i’m not angry (well… i’m angry, but not at you). i recognize that we’re on the same side and i don’t want to disparage a fellow comrade. i respect the fact that you’ve had military training, and if i can prove you wrong, i hope that you would take a second look at the value you provide to the cause.

we’ll discuss this more, hopefully.

KillingTimeItself ,

i think this is probably one of the few times i’ve seen people start random beef with internet strangers, and i am fucking here for it to be honest.

afraid_of_zombies , to news in Second Boeing whistleblower dies in less than two months

Chilling with Jimmy Hoffa and Epstein now.

Smoogs ,

Ew. No one should be chilling with Epstein.

nondescripthandle ,

They should be roasting with him because he should be deep in the pits of Dantes Hell.

Schadrach ,

The 9th circle in the Inferno was a frozen lake. Though I’d expect Weinstein and Epstein to end up on the ring dedicated to the lustful rather than down on the 9th with the traitors.

Smoogs ,

Well wherever you want to put him, I would not put a whistle blower anywhere in the vicinity of a shitbag like him

KillingTimeItself ,

hey, if you’re chilling with epstein we would know whether or not he killed himself at the very least.

Can’t deny that portion of it.

Wogi ,

He killed himself.

Was the situation around his suicide orchestrated to give him the best possible chance of killing himself? Maybe. Even that might be giving too much credit to the people who would have the motive to do so.

He was a guilty pedophile, he knew he was a guilty pedophile, and the easiest way out for him was by wrapping a prison bedsheet around his neck.

Give me a solution to his death simpler than he wanted to die, and the people guarding him weren’t very good at their jobs, and I’ll buy it.

KillingTimeItself ,

Give me a solution to his death simpler than he wanted to die, and the people guarding him weren’t very good at their jobs, and I’ll buy it.

the fact that someone who isn’t supposed to be capable of committing suicide, manages to commit suicide. Is a pretty damn good argument as for why it’s not entirely up to them, especially in the scenario that they have no legal autonomy over themselves anymore.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that a billionaire running a pedo trafficking ring when left alone for about 23 seconds is going to immediately kill themselves.

Wogi ,

People commit suicide in prison all the time.

KillingTimeItself ,

yeah, but the whole point of suicide watch is that you aren’t supposed to

Wogi ,

And yet it happens.

KillingTimeItself ,

yeah, weird. Huh?

inb4_FoundTheVegan , to news in Second Boeing whistleblower dies in less than two months
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It’s important to remember that Boeing isn’t JUST a plane company, but a government contractor that does a massive amount of rocket work for the armed forces.

There are more people than stock holders that have a vested interest in Boeing.

nondescripthandle ,

Including just about every single person who promised and/or would end up being responsible for conducting an investigation on them. Boeing is basically above the law as long as they pay the fines levyed by the courts that are overwhelmingly on their side.

Buffalox , to news in Second Boeing whistleblower dies in less than two months

At his age it’s pretty normal to die from a stroke, if you are 20 years older.

Thrashy , (edited )
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Looks like the stroke was a complication from a systemic MRSA infection, which would not be my assassination agent of choice if I was trying to kill somebody on purpose, even if I did want it to look like an accident. MRSA only kills about 1 in 4 people infected with it, and many of those are people who are already hospitalized for some other serious illness. It strikes me as a rather low-probability way to kill a healthy adult.

alilbee ,

I really hate it when this sort of thing happens. If you read into this particular death, it looks like a tragic series of unfortunate events and not anything nefarious. The earlier whistleblower death looked truly suspicious and I don’t fault people for that one, but this one just isn’t. Now this family is going to be dealing with a conspiracy and hounded by insane people while trying to grieve their loved one. I wish people could really look into these things instead of just reacting because Boeing has been sketchy lately.

maynarkh ,

The root of the problem is that the general lawlessness and the actual proven conspiracies make everyone rightly paranoid. If the govt didn’t cause the crack epidemic, or didn’t actually try brain control experiments on their own citizens, or didn’t surveil literally everyone, this wouldn’t happen.

alilbee ,

Sure, I’m not assigning any blame in my original comment. I agree with your comment, but I also still think we have a personal responsibility to look into these things and be critical. Conspiracy theories can be a failure of the state and of the individuals.

maynarkh ,

The thing with assigning responsibility is that it does not ever solve anything.

Assigning it to individuals actually does prevent solving issues, since if you assign individual responsibility to a systemic problem, you get to - instead of looking for a root cause - say “people should just be better”. By attributing it to some individual moral quality, you get to avoid the hard questions - like “why is everyone stupid?” or “why is everyone immoral?”, and not realize the environment in which these people live foster the stupidity or immorality, and the only way to solve it would be education or higher standards for leaders.

alilbee ,

I agree with everything you said, genuinely. Ignoring societal factors would be foolish and expecting personal responsibility to be the deciding factor is naive. All that said, to ignore it entirely leaves you with an incomplete view as well. People have the potential to be more than our nature and circumstances dictate us to be.

To address your point directly, I don’t expect anyone to do anything. I do though believe that personal responsibility is a core element of any non-autocratic political system. I will ask for it, because my fellow citizens belong to the same government I do and I have a vested interest in it working. I’ll also be doing what I can to improve those contextual circumstances we mentioned earlier. Expect, though? No, I really don’t.

maynarkh ,

I understand your point, but “a culture of personal responsibility” will still be a societal thing. On a moral level, you can of course assign blame to individual people, but that will not solve the problem, and my point is that a lot of people use personal responsibility to distance themselves from a problem and justify why they aren’t solving it.

What I mean is that it is beneficial to think of personal responsibility when you think of your personal responsibility. You see somebody stealing public funds? You go and be the whistleblower because you are responsible for making society a better, fairer place.

The problem is when people go and see a problem as someone else’s personal responsibility. Simple example, you see a guy throw away some trash on the sidewalk. If you think it’s their personal responsibility to keep our streets clean, and you justify not picking it up after them, the trash will still be there, as long as someone doesn’t pick it up.

The point is, it’s fine to think whatever, but thoughts in themselves won’t solve problems. Thoughts are secondary to actions, and whatever thoughts you have that motivate you making the world better are good, and whatever thoughts push you into apathy, or even stir you to actively make the world worse, are bad. The notion of personal responsibility can be both.

exanime ,

The sad part is that the situation would be the same if this person had died from a shot to the back of the head while tied to a chair

stratoscaster ,

Iirc he has influenza B and MRSA at the same time

PiratePanPan , to news in Second Boeing whistleblower dies in less than two months
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platypus_plumba ,

“It’s done Mr. President.”

archon ,

“Is it done, Yuri?”

“No, Comrade President, it has only begun.”

BlackNo1 , to news in Second Boeing whistleblower dies in less than two months

i waa listening to the dollop (great podcast btw) and they talked about how organized crime in america was just replaced by corporations.

Stern , to news in Second Boeing whistleblower dies in less than two months
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Higher death rate then COVID god damn.

Muscar ,

than*

Smoogs ,
starman2112 ,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

Nobody asked

Sam_Bass , to news in Second Boeing whistleblower dies in less than two months

Must be something in the water

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