Comment on Hypothetically, if you are a witness or whistleblower who's adversary was a very big corporation (such as boeing), what measures could you take to prevent yourself from being "suicided"?

• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  directly and firmly state that, for the record, you are not suicidal and that if you should die, it was absolutely not suicide.

  He did exactly what was suggested here. It was ignored and dismissed in all mainstream coverage of his death, and you are also dismissing it as a lie. It’s naive to think that such a narrative wouldn’t also be applied to anyone else trying to defend themselves in this way, of course it would be.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I watched a documentary about the guy which turned out to be mostly about the bizarre lies he told. He was a fucking nutcase, devoid of reasons of ever consider believing his horseshit. And he liked fucking underage women so much he fled countries that didn’t let him do that. Insane scumbags don’t make my sympathy list but apparently you’re looking for opps to defend them so congrats

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    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m arguing that saying you won’t kill yourself and are likely to be assassinated is not a foolproof method, not defending Mcafee

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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And I’m saying that him literally lying dozens of times publicly destroyed his credibility, not “the media”. The documentary does a great job of treating him fairly but most things he said ended up being baseless or false.

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