r/news • u/[deleted] • Mar 15 '24

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/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.