• Hegar@kbin.social
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    5 months ago

    Boeing is an important part of our military industrial base and thus an important part of the broader structure of US power.

    That’s why they’re allowed to kill whistleblowers without repercussion.

    • Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 months ago

      When you fuck as much stiff as Boeing has you are going to get a lot of whistle blowers, statistically some of them will die, it would be suspicious if none of them died.

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      5 months ago

      I wouldn’t doubt the psychopathy of Boeings leadership — their execs and management have already murdered hundreds of people, and dozens of them should be serving life in prison — but dying of MRSA after 2 weeks of pneumonia sure sounds like a legitimate coincidence. The first whistleblowers death not so much.

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        Why do you think this? Is it that you believe that it’s not possible that someone would be able to give someone a pneumonia+MRSA case?

        Or are you in the camp that doesn’t believe anyone with a financial interest in Boeing would be willing to have someone killed to suppress future whistle blowers?

        E: sorry, it sounds like you do believe the first one was a murder

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    Being whistleblower and being involved in such legal proceedings sucks and I can imagine that one might give up (like Barnett in March) or that it takes a huge toll on your body (like Dean now). But then again … two such incidents around the same company … reminds me a bit too much of russian windows.

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      Apart of that definition being outdated: Which major CEO isn’t? It’s more like a basic requirement for the job :-(

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      Modern commercial success requires that one thinks of people as things. Things that produce labour or things that produce revenue.

      The easier it is for one to think of people as things the better executive one makes.

      Naturally thinking of people as things is psychopathy

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      5 months ago

      Yeah Boeing out there giving people pneumonia and then a MRSA secondary infection. Couldn’t have happened naturally that’s unheard of! Nobody has ever had complications after pneumonia so young.

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        5 months ago

        Honestly, not that hard.

        Easier than building a new modern airplane, as Boing Boing has shown.

        Edit: I’m keeping that typo lol

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          Your typo took me way back. There was a game called “Wall Street Kid” for the NES where you could “invest” in companies in the stock market, with the hopes to make it big. Many of the companies in it were a play on words of other companies. Boeing’s was “Boing Boing”. Thanks for the nostalgia today, though I wish it would have arrived on a more optimistic post.

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        5 months ago

        Yeah people in Russia are always just fallin’ out of windows too - silly people!

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    5 months ago

    I, for one, will make sure I never step foot in a Boeing commercial airplane, and I will tell the tale about how Boeing kills whistle blowers to my kid’s kid’s kids