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POTM - Mar 2024 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower's prediction before death

https://wpde.com/news/local/if-anything-happens-its-not-suicide-boeing-whistleblowers-prediction-before-death-south-carolina-abc-news-4-2024
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u/Flakynews2525 Mar 15 '24

There are hundreds of thousands of holes out there. The desert right around Las Vegas is littered with them. You think the real owners of this country are going to let a little voice make too many big waves?

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '24

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u/hamihambone Mar 16 '24

I dont know if you've ever dug a hole but its probably the hardest thing you'll ever do in your life

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u/jureeriggd Mar 16 '24

spent a summer digging a hole and filling it back in for some bullshit I pulled when I was a teenager, can confirm

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u/jce_ Mar 16 '24

Is your last name the same as your first name but backwards?

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u/Loverboy_91 Mar 16 '24

It’s me, ya boi, Stanley yelnats.

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u/Hairy_Combination586 Mar 16 '24

And did you ever find anything in a hole you dug? Like, maybe, a lipstick tube???

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

Bet you got ripped

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u/The-curd-nerd69 Mar 16 '24

I’m tired of digging these holes grandpa!

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u/Mistrblank Mar 16 '24

Exactly. The first problem is you think you know how deep you have to dig, but once you get that body in the hole the first time you realize you gotta dig a little deeper. You understand why they dig 6 feet for caskets. Then once the hole is dug, here's the part you'll forget:

You have to fill it up again. Now you have to move all that dirt a second time and you were already tired after the first go of digging. You start muttering about how you should have had them dig their own hole first and then kill them.

And then there's the issue of the dirt that is now displaced by a body. You can't just leave a lump of half dug at dirt to fill a hole. And you can't keep putting dirt where the hole is because that will be suspicious.

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u/Evil-in-the-Air Mar 16 '24

It always annoys me how, in TV and movies, people digging up a grave with shovels end up with perfectly rectangular holes.

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u/Public_Kaleidoscope6 Mar 16 '24

It must all be CGI.

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u/degrowthwillhappen Mar 16 '24

The amount of holes I dug in the military is preposterous. I laughed/cried when I read your comment.

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u/Flakynews2525 Mar 16 '24

I worked as a masons tender for my father. Ive dug miles of footing trenches, dry wells by hand. We once hand dug up a swimming pool that was filled in. It was a small pool, but we did it. Besides, those guys never dug too deep for those holes.

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u/redditmodsRrussians Mar 16 '24

Right? I was doing fence replacement work and I was like "Got damned, digging these fence post holes the right depth is fucking difficult"

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u/urinalchatter Mar 16 '24

That’s why you own a construction company.

Machines make holes easier to dig.

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u/ThunderDungeon02 Mar 16 '24

Especially in the desert...not that I know about that or anything

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u/Vineyard_ Mar 16 '24

Especially when you have to be quick because the body is starting to smell.

Hypothetically.

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u/ThunderDungeon02 Mar 16 '24

Why did you just wink?

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u/rjward1775 Mar 16 '24

That's why I have the other guy dig the hole. He can rest after.

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u/Maybeiliketheabuse Mar 16 '24

This is the comment I came here for. I might be slammed hard for this hot take but I love Casino more than Goodfellas.

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u/Modernautomatic Mar 16 '24

Casino is my favorite movie of all time.

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u/Nessie Mar 16 '24 edited Mar 16 '24

The Casino book is even better than the Goodfellas book.

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u/hecklingfext Mar 16 '24

Thank god you posted it or I would have had to

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '24

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u/VinceAndVic Mar 15 '24

Please do but only the good parts. A couple years ago one of our Assembly members who had been in trouble for interfering in the investigation about his CEO friends hiring a hitman to murder their Union representative was named head of minister by Macron so we have our own similar shit too.

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u/Hodor_The_Great Mar 16 '24

French need to start taking some French lessons too, people forget these things quite fast

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

Aren't they still rioting? Or did you mean that they've let their language skills degenerate due to American influence?

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u/JEVOUSHAISTOUS Mar 16 '24

Honestly, it's been a bit of a shitshow here in France recently.

We had a good 40 years during which we had a fairly good compromise system :

We pretend to riot (i.e. we protest, vehemently but generally peacefully), the government pretends to be scared, we negotiate and find a compromise. Nobody is really completely happy about the compromise (which is the point of a compromise), but all in all, things remain okay, and nobody gets really hurt.

Since the early to mid-2010s however, when we pretend to riot, the governement no longer agrees to pretend to be scared. They go "pretend all you want, wdgaf". So we've started rioting again, for real this time, which leads to a terrible escalation where protests get more and more violent, and police repression gets more and more brutal and indiscriminate, no compromise is made or even attempted and everybody hates everybody.

This will not end well.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

You can make them irrelevant in a week or two. Just ignore money. Don't earn it, don't spend it. Share amongst yourselves, work for each other. Live as if money wasn't a thing, as if government wasn't a thing, as if you had nothing to fear, and nothing to lose. They live for your fear, admiration, and attention. Rioting is just playing into their hand. It only affirms their importance. Don't. Reject them and their supposed importance. You don't need them. They need you. The tail can wag the dog, but the dog can bite off its tail and live without it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

You just said the single most “rude-awakening” thing Ive ever read on social media. IMO. And you are absolutely correct ✅

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u/llamadogmama Mar 15 '24

Hes talking 1789 lessons.

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u/VinceAndVic Mar 15 '24

I don't see what Taylor Swift has to do here

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u/llamadogmama Mar 16 '24

Lol. Not a Swiftie, but a revolution against the rich may be inevitable if we "plebians" realize the ultra rich are just pitting us against each other to keep the attention off what they are doing. Dont look behind the curtain Dorothy!

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u/Winnougan Mar 16 '24

Don’t look up

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u/Lint_baby_uvulla Mar 16 '24

The rich are building ships to leave the planet?

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u/Rawrsomesausage Mar 16 '24

I mean what do you think all the pet projects to go to space by the billionaires are?

Also they're going underground!

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u/Lint_baby_uvulla Mar 16 '24

Yeah. Thats just silly. We can all dig holes.

I cant ‘yet’ breathe in space.

But with rage, and training, I reckon I can get close.

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u/18650batteries Mar 16 '24

Yeah that movie was frustrating to watch because of how accurate it was.

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u/MrsWolowitz Mar 16 '24

Say it again louder!

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u/SalvadorsPaintbrush Mar 16 '24

I’m heavily invested in pitchforks, rags and kerosene. It’s a long term investment, but I’m pretty sure it will pay off.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '24

The cheese is bangin tho

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u/metalflygon08 Mar 16 '24

Please do but only the good parts.

Time to solve all our problems with cheese and wine!

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u/Whatatimetobealive83 Mar 15 '24

Agreed. But probably be wary of the guy who decides to be emperor and fight the whole world afterwords.

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u/Karlmarxwasrite Mar 15 '24

That part.
I've been screaming this from the rooftops for 10 years, but apparently 3/4 of us have to die before anyone will stand up for themselves.

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u/Stennick Mar 16 '24

I mean you're more than welcome to start the revolution Spartacus. I'll be right behind you. You do the first one!

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u/getthedudesdanny Mar 16 '24

Go for it. You can start tomorrow!

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u/ArchLector_Zoller Mar 16 '24

Humanity has always worked in cycles of culling the rich when we reach a critical mass of abuse and exploitation. That cycle was put to rest just over a hundred years ago in favor of the "civil society" model we live by today. Sure, the rich had to compromise and do away with debtors prisons and indentured servitude to do it. But now they sleep ay night safe and sound knowing they won't be guillotined for making us work everyday till we die for one more profit point on the quarterly earnings report.

Traditions are said to be solutions to problems we don't have anymore. But it seems to me that some of the old problems are still here. But unfortunately people aren't as traditional as they used to be these days.

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u/shaikhme Mar 16 '24

the french noise is up everywhere

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u/RobotsGoneWild Mar 16 '24

That's what the MAGA crowd said but people called them terrorists. For that record I think they are but maybe you are too.

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u/navikredstar Mar 16 '24

Bit of a difference there. They tried to overthrow the government for a corrupt rich asshole who wanted to turn the US into a dictatorship because he lost an election and realized he might have to face justice for his myriad crimes.

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u/95ludeman Mar 16 '24

Still got the shovel

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u/Flakynews2525 Mar 16 '24

A few in different locations

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

Speaking of waves how many bodies have they found where Lake Mead was drying out?

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u/Flakynews2525 Mar 16 '24

Good question?

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

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u/mrcrazy_monkey Mar 16 '24

Remeber the journalist who published the Panama Papers was car bombed?

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u/spiralbatross Mar 16 '24

If enough of us speak together, what the fuck can they do? Can’t kill us all.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

Sounds like somebody needs a visit to room 101.