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They just suffered a sudden death, that's all (files.catbox.moe)

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Arms united meme.

Left arm: The Boeing Corporation

Right Arm: The Kremlin

Both arms clasping: Very obviously murdering someone and calling it a suicide

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Wtf happened at Boeing

Edit: aha, it is about this stuff https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thats some real dystopian shit. Who in their right might would believe he killed himself?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Man, wtf is going on.

[+] [email protected] -13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Realistically, probably just what it looks like. Guy is a decent human being, repeatedly tries to warn boeing of safety issues, gets ignored over and over, plane kills a bunch of people, guy kills himself because he feels responsible and those deaths weigh on his mind.

We don't know it was self inflicted, and I'd argue its still murder either way, but until more details are released there's no need to put his family through even more grief by spinning out conspiracy theories around his death.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad 50 points 5 months ago (1 children)

After years of going after boeing he decided to off himself in a hotel car Park after traveling to a different town for the purpose of giving evidence against boeing?

Not fucking likely

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

with another deposition scheduled for Saturday... don't forget that part. he wasn't even done giving evidence.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why the fuck would he off himself just before I can actually testify against Boeing?? If he hadn’t managed to get the case to court or even after he had testified then I could see it, but this timing is suspicious AF. He could have died naturally and it’s just super bad timing but ain’t no way he killed himself at this point in time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Also even if he was planning on committing suicide he probably wouldn't have done it in a hotel parking lot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

People will tend to look for logic and patterns in the most senseless and chaotic of actions. We have no idea if he suffered from depression, was bipolar, had debts, or some serious health issues. People feel more in control when they can attach some nefarious (read: controlled) cause.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Oh! I thought this was that story about the pilot getting blamed the first time one of their planes nose dived into the ocean. Or was that a different company?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Michael Clayton type shit.

Quit juicing your shitty stock and fix your shitty fucking planes instead.

Boeing used to be synonymous with quality.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking Kill the Mesenger, the Jeremy Renner film about Gary Webb. Good movie

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Haven’t seen it, but now will watch. Thanks for the share. :)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Christ, think how bad the dirt would have to be for the stock prices to risk acting this blatantly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Number must go up! It can NEVER go down!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago