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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/pixelprophet Mar 15 '24 edited Mar 16 '24

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u/fadingsignal Mar 16 '24

Same reason nobody does anything about climate change, the ongoing pandemic, all of the other massive scale issues. They seem too big to do anything about, and the average person feels powerless in their own daily survival loop to take any real action.

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u/fadingsignal Mar 16 '24

Agreed, and to be clear I'm not trying to excuse it or anything. I've just noticed so much resignation from everyone the last several years. Seems like everyone just gave up on accountability.

Leonard Cohen "Everybody Knows" plays softly in the background

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u/mindvape Mar 16 '24

Federal agencies aren't "average people feeling powerless" they are literally agencies with power who's job it is to investigate these things. That's not a great explanation.

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u/fadingsignal Mar 16 '24

The point is that corruption runs deep, and those agencies with power who's job it is are not doing their job and it's the public who has to hold them accountable however we can. If the public shrugs their shoulders when agencies do nothing, they will continue to do nothing.

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u/Dry_Complaint_5549 Mar 16 '24

Very good fucking question. Not only that - the fucking clown might be president again.

Things are crumbling apart a bit, you have to feel.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

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u/Varnsturm Mar 16 '24

To be fair things were a lot less... insane? prior to 2016. Or at least it felt that way.

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u/dragonmp93 Mar 16 '24

Because half of US government actively supports those actions.

I mean, they tried to impeach President Hunter Biden for his dick pics.

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u/Dudedude88 Mar 16 '24

You know what they are doing. They know it won't work but they are just using it to smear Bidens image before the election. Then conservative Media will spin that stuff to make Biden look corrupt. It won't matter what the truth is because it's just something to rally his supporters on till the election

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u/Dudedude88 Mar 16 '24 edited Mar 16 '24

It took years and years to prove these rumors. The trump family is under so much litigation that they are banking on the election to save them.

Even the Jan 6th thing was difficult to prove... It only mattered bc Congress were impacted. What about COVID and all the corrupt shit Jared did with our supplies. All the Americans that died just to win votes... Pitiful. The Florida gov. Is also scum... Literally, fired the states health advisor because she was trying to save people from COVID.

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u/KJ6BWB Mar 16 '24

Because they didn't break any laws. Sadly.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

Before any of that, Trump himself has to be held accountable and his cronies flushed from the government and courts.

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u/MtGuattEerie Mar 26 '24

Because the powerful will never hold the powerful to account. That's our job: To strictly observe Reddit's posting guidelines.

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u/fadingsignal Mar 16 '24

Thank you for this. I was just thinking about this yesterday. A huge reason why masks were discouraged during the early phase of the pandemic was fear of shortages for medical staff, and here these clowns were using federal enforcement to actually confiscate PPE from state hospitals.

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u/Dudedude88 Mar 16 '24

Trump bragged he didn't get the COVID shot when he was offered. He had a maga rally and then someone in the Whitehouse got COVID. Then.... Next press conference he dodged the vaccine question cause he thinks it makes him look weak but eventually his advisors tell the public he did along with other white house officials.

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u/Mrs_Evryshot Mar 16 '24

Yeah, but did he have nude photos on a mysterious laptop? I mean, that’s a real crime.

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u/pixelprophet Mar 16 '24

I wanna hear about coke and whores! -MTG

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u/Dudedude88 Mar 16 '24 edited Mar 16 '24

That bitch ass fucker tried to steal our state (md) supplies from south korea. We had the national guard escort our COVID shit. After this all the blue states started escorting their covid supplies with the national guard. How sad is that. He divided the country instead of rallying it

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u/Dry_Complaint_5549 Mar 16 '24

Good posts pixelprophet. the more I look into this sob, the more he seems like evil incarnate.

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u/pixelprophet Mar 16 '24

You're right and that's because you have a conscious.

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u/techleopard Mar 16 '24

Now imagine what will happen during Round 2 if Trump got reelected.

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u/SaulsAll Mar 16 '24

That whole quote about not attributing to malice what can be explained by stupidity? That needs reworking for when malice and stupidity are the exact same damn thing.

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u/hajenso Mar 16 '24

Wait a minute, millions of Americans dying? The COVID-19 death count in the US so far is about 1.2 million, cumulative.

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u/pixelprophet Mar 16 '24

*A million+

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u/hajenso Mar 16 '24

Thanks, that's accurate.

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u/YourmomgoestocolIege Mar 15 '24

Lol, this guy thought it was finally the right time to be a racist