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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

If this was in Russia imagine how the news would present it

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

Heroic democratic whistleblower who blew the whistle on the major oligarch controlled airlines found dead under suspicious circumstances, Radio Free Europe interviewed Henrich McNazi of the Nazi Institute how Putin would mastermind such an assassination.

[–] 420stalin69@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Im the Democratic west, the government doesn’t kill dissidents because real power exists in corporations.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Also imagine how the jackal reporters in the West would react if any of the shit that happened to Boeing recently happened to the Chinese Comac C919?

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago

Murdering whistle blowers only happens in the corruption region of Russia otherwise it's sparkling "he shot himself 300 times in the back of the head in a truck that was on fire".

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Listen, he just shot himself in the head in his own truck during a break in the deposition

Barnett 'was supposed to do day three of his deposition here in Charleston on his AIR21 case [on Saturday],' referring to a federal law that provides whistleblowers protection in the aviation industry. 'John had been back and forth for quite some time getting prepared,' he continued, providing a timeline of what transpired in the days before Barnett's death.

This is a drum Barnett had been beating for a long time...recently to address issues that Boeing's 737 Max aircraft had been experiencing lately.

Just an apparently loud critic of a megacorporation turning up dead, nothing to see here

[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

What if his head just did that?

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Fucking no way lmao, RIP to a real one for real though

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

oh come the fuck on

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

God, aomeone should've seen the warning signs that he would stuff himself into a suitcase and then hurl himself off an overpass like this

Check in your your comrades:/

[–] hungrybread@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a mess of an article, so much repetition that really just made such a mess of this repetitive article.

If the quality of the bbc's output is this low then I don't understand the surprise people have when hearing tiktok is a major news source. At least a tiktok would get edited.

Does anyone know of anything labor unions do to keep whistle-blowers safe? Seems like an obvious service for a union to provide but my search didn't turn up anything labor union related.

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Some of the more militant old unions still keep clandestine de facto militias, but in general no, they dont since you need goons with guns to protect them

[–] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Just as the FAA finds multiple failings on the part of Boeing and its supply chain. I’m sure the whistleblower who raised these concerns would be ~~delighted~~ devastated to hear that, and would probably want to end his own life and this definitely isn’t Boeing taking revenge at the mounting evidence against them and simultaneously deleting witnesses.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Watch how this gets gently swept under the rug.

[–] darkmode@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

I just marathoned the octopus on netflix and a lot of it felt quite silly then I load up the internet and read this story and remember that a lot of it is not very silly goofy

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

makes me think of the Octopus Murders where the investigative reporter was found dead in a hotel room bathtub but ruled a suicide

weird, I didn't know the whistleblower would still fly on a Boeing