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submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

And their planes made with scrap parts are still flying around.

Edit: A lot of new .world users showing up with ChatGPT responses about how this was a conspiracy, reminds me of an article i read this week.

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/657978/reddit-ai-experiment-banned

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 minutes ago

Well I certainly won't be purchasing any Boeing products in the near future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

who I do remember is Brock Turner, yes that guy.. the rapist Brock Turner. who now goes by the name of Allen Turner. that guy

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 hours ago

About a week before OOP's post the openAi whistleblower also died mysteriously https://apnews.com/article/openai-whistleblower-suchir-balaji-death-283e70b31d34ebb71b62e73aafb56a7d

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

There was a police investigation.

They just didn't investigate Boeing about it because the police investigation determined they weren't involved.

If you truly believe there should be investigations, you have to accept when the results of the investigations don't match your expectations. That's why we have investigations.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The military industrial company a person was whistleblowing against wasn't investigated in the mysterious death of that person.

Yeah that's called not doing a proper investigation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 minutes ago

I need to step in here with a major correction, John Barnett was not Whistleblowing. That's not what the court case was about at all.

No, the court case was for the wrongful termination, which was a result of his whistleblowing.

This is an important distinction, because the whistleblowing was done. John Barnett had nothing more to offer authorities, because he had already turned over all the evidence he collected. That particular case was a done deal years ago.

John Barnett then sued Boeing over his wrongful termination, and some apparent black balling. (i.e. retaliatory rumormongering to prevent John from working in aerospace).

John lost the lawsuit. He then appealed that decision, and it wasn't going well.

This is the situation that led to his suicide. Boeing 100% drove a man to kill himself. But no, they didn't fucking hire some guy to go kill John Barnett, that would be fucking stupid.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Law enforcement would never lie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Well of course not, they exist to protect and serve!

!... the interests of the pedophilic corporate elite, that is.!<

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

So what now we like conspiracy theories when they suit us?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Chat,

Did the Boeing whistleblower who deliberately told his family and friends that he wasn't suicidal commit suicide?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/business/boeing-john-barnett-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Dk8.yNQ6.TlGz67jKE6MN

His own family filed a lawsuit against Boeing that they were responsible for his death by causing his anxiety and depression. Is this the moral equivalent of murder? Probably. Is it the same as pulling the trigger? No. Why not? Because truth, and clarity in speech matter.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What about tha other one a few weeks off from that one?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

How are we supposed to keep track of all these Boeing whistleblowers suiciding themselves all over the place?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Let alone the ones they just maim.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Do you actually know anyone suicidal? They usually don't tell people. They often don't know themselves. They changed their mind. They're depressed. They're anxious. They're not well. They die suddenly. Everyone is surprised. That is how it goes.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

How often do suicidal people reach out to a bunch of their friends and family just to specifically tell them they are NOT going to commit suicide?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

That didn't happen. One grieving family friend said that he said that. John Oliver would have a field day with you people lol. Boeing has hurt and killed a lot of people. They do this like corporations do - by cutting staff, evading regulation, buying politicians. Boeing is liable for great harm. But focusing on these conspiracies rather than getting to the root of the problem -- that capitalism enables great harm by eroding our society -- isn't helping.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

So Corporations will break any law for profit besides murder?

I trust the guy's family more than the police lol, so do most people

You're really bending over backwards to push this narrative.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 minutes ago

What "narrative"? It's on the Wikipedia page. It's not a narrative, it's what happened. Like... I really don't care that much about this specific case. It's more about the principle, the erosion of truth, the meaninglessness of facts. It's honestly the same type of thinking that makes right wing conspiracists and I don't want to capitulate to it. Focusing on a a salacious and improbable event downplays the real "evils" of capitalism, the smaller but cumulative things: the selfishness, the greed of everyday people and how profit motivated corporations enhance and multiply that. Contrapoints (Natalie Wynn) just did a fantastic video on conspiracies that touches on all three points. I would recommend it to anyone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

These conspiracies come as a direct result of capitalism. Everybody can plainly see when Boeing murders whistleblowers that it is because of money/their image.

Failure to talk about these conspiracies is a failure to point out the specific failures of capitalism.

Also I assume you actually meant conspiracy and not conspiracy theory.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Not telling people is a heck of a lot different from being about to blow the whistle on a major corporation and telling people "if anything happens to me, it's not suicide".

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 hours ago

How did "one family friend named Jennifer who can't believe it" turn into "all his family and friends"

[–] [email protected] 214 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean, fuck Boeing and the death still seems suspicious. But to claim that there was no police investigation is just lying. Suspect a cover-up or frame or whatever if you want, but seems like there was a pretty thorough investigation: https://www.wdbj7.com/2024/05/18/police-release-investigation-report-boeing-whistleblower-death/

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

An unpopular opinion, but I'm not buying a conspiracy either. The guy wanted to hurt Boeing, had just finished testifying and saw the writing on the wall that Boeing was going to walk, and decided to kill himself as a last stab at bringing attention to it. Worked like a charm too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

It’s only unpopular because every time someone dies that’s even tangentially associated with some corporate fuckery the internet instantly calls it an assassination. It’s absolutely stupid, but the hive mind seems to be geared to desperately want everything to be a conspiracy. No better than the conservatives making vaccines a conspiracy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

If only we had the refrence of past experiences to better predict how corporations act in the future.

Chiquita banana hired paramilitary death squads to secure their bananas and they were never punished.

Hell, just a few years ago the US couped Bolivia so Elon could have cheap lithium.

The bigger conspiracy nut theory is ignoring observable reality to make corpos the good guys.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Don’t put words in my mouth.

In no way shape or form do I view corporations as “good guys”. They are greedy, destructive on multiple levels, self-serving, cold, and often straight up evil.

Nobody here has observed shit except a someone died associated with a court case against a corporation. Everything here calling it a conspiracy is conjecture and made up opinion.

The hiring of paramilitary death squads and what banana republics are is a completely different and tragic issue that extends far beyond what a single “hit” on an individual is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Equating whistleblowers being killed to vaccine conspiracies shows how well people have been brainwashed into state obedience. Any narrative goes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Evaluating everything as a conspiracy shows how well people have become incapable of critical thinking and applying cold logic and skepticism to both sides of the equation. Any narrative goes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

In this case there is no benefit of the doubt.

What do you think happened with Epstein?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 31 minutes ago

He was not killed.

He did kill himself.

My suspicion is there were deliberate steps to take him off suicide watch and allow him the unsupervised time and means with which to kill himself. He knew he was fucked and his life was over forever coupled with scores of people wanting him dead, along with being raked over the coals to roll over on rich and powerful people. But apparently that’s not enough for people, they have to manufacture a murder.

But no, he was not murdered.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

CIA: "Mission Accomplished"

[–] [email protected] 110 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

But one ceo gets killed and the polic and fbi go all in

[–] [email protected] 35 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

[You have been banned from Reddit]

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