• plinky [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    It said the 62-year-old had died from a "self-inflicted" wound on 9 March and police were investigating.

    bruh-moment

    • KimJongFun [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      Remember when they killed the guy who testified in that case about a cop murdering a dude in his own home by shooting him in the fucking mouth? Pepperidge Farms remembers

        • KimJongFun [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          This cnn article.

          Witnesses flagged down Dallas police officers around 10:30 p.m. local time Friday and directed them to Brown, who was lying in the parking lot of his apartment complex with multiple gunshot wounds to his lower body, police said.

          Brown was taken Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he died from his injuries. He was positively identified by the medical examiner Sunday, police said.

          Witnesses told police they heard several gunshots and saw a silver, four-door sedan speed away from the parking lot.

          But there are no detailed descriptions of the suspect.

          Brown “was ambushed at his apartment complex as he got out of his car and (was) shot at close range,” attorney Lee Merritt wrote in a Facebook post Saturday night. Merritt represents the Jean family.

          He said at the time a medical examiner told him Brown had been shot in the mouth and chest.

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      libs will surely jerk themselves raw over this guy killed for corporate interests just like they did for the other guy recently killed for corporate interests (russian)

      • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        Navalny was the pro-corporate interest candidate. He wasn’t killed for corporate interests, if he was killed it was for treason and betraying the state and people

        • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          And notably, not even Ukraine is entertaining speculation that he was murdered.

  • companero [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    Thinking about how everyone and their mother jumped to say Navalny was murdered despite there being literally zero evidence other than vaguely suspicious circumstances and questionable motivation.

    In this case there is both clear motivation and painfully suspicious timing.

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      Also, a corpse with a gunshot wound…

      Navalny’s death appears to have been natural or at least a very subtle method

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      4 months ago

      Thinking about how everyone and their mother jumped to say Navalny was murdered despite there being literally zero evidence other than vaguely suspicious circumstances and questionable motivation.

      Well he should’ve been

  • disposable_cracker [he/him, he/him]
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    4 months ago

    It said the 62-year-old had died from a "self-inflicted" wound on 9 March and police were investigating.

    Even BBC is skeptical enough to use scare quotes.

    • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in Ankh-Morpork, but there were a lot of suicides. Walking in the night-time alleyways of The Shades was suicide. Asking for a short in a dwarf bar was suicide. Saying “Got rocks in your head?” to a troll was suicide. You could commit suicide very easily, if you weren’t careful.

      Add 'whistleblowing' to this list.

        • nemoTheCatfish [he/him, comrade/them]
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          4 months ago

          obviously an-caps are dipshits but how do they not realize that this fact entirely destroys their entire political platform? the government is bad because it gets in the way of corporations! my friend, this government is corporations.

          • Greenleaf [he/him]
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            4 months ago

            Corporations exist only because of crony capitalism, in an ancap society it’s nothing but small business owners and entrepreneurs, is their unironic answer.

            • emizeko [they/them]
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              4 months ago

              well, I'm sure none of those small businesses will grow faster and absorb the others leading to centralization and monopoly, so everything's fine.

              • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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                4 months ago

                They wouldn't because it would violate the NAP. They'll only grow up to a certain point and stop long before a monopoly, because reasons.

          • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]
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            4 months ago

            'Monopolies only happen due to government intervention. They totally do not happen in a system where a bunch of rich people compete for the market and the winners get to have an advantage in further competition while the losers get to be pushed out. This totally does not lead to merging of companies and accumulation of capital in a few hands'.

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    We don't have news anymore, just propaganda that is blatantly obvious as a flex on the powerless

  • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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    4 months ago

    That’s crazy. All this bullshit is very obviously because Boeing is cutting corners. If you work in aerospace manufacturing and you make/check something out of spec and a plane goes down for it and they tie it back to you, there’s a good chance you’re gonna do time for it. Big incentive to not fuck around on the job. These executives don’t even live in the same world as the rest of us they’re just gonna kill this guy without a second thought and they’re gonna do it so sloppily it’s like they’re not even trying to hide it.

    • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      they’re gonna do it so sloppily it’s like they’re not even trying to hide it.

      It being sloppy works as a way to warn other potential whistleblowers, while maintaining plausible deniability

  • HexbearGPT [comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    Whistleblower for what?

    Making flights more fun and exciting by having doors that fall off mid-flight? ancaptain

    How is that a problem? it sounds like good clean gilded age fun to me!

    porky-happy wheeeeeee!

    • space_comrade [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      They don't give a shit, they know this isn't going to make headlines, nobody gives a shit.

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 months ago

      Have you seen the lib responses to this? They can be as blatant as they want and the libs will still insist that nothing suspicious happened.