'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower's prediction before death - eviltoast
  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    8 months ago

    Ah yes, thank you for proving my point. People who watch too many movies think that real life is like movies.

    What’s next? Getting shot makes you fly backwards through the air? Getting knocked out makes you unconscious for hours, but you wake up with nothing more than a sore head? Silencers go “thwpt” and nobody can hear them from more than a meter away?

    Dude, relax, no need to be rude. It’s just a humorous Internet forum comment, that makes a valid point.

    Or are you trying to tell me that powerful corporations don’t have very strong security departments with connections?

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      8 months ago

      Or are you trying to tell me that powerful corporations don’t have very strong security departments with connections?

      They have security departments filled with normal people who the execs couldn’t trust to do something like this (or order something like this) without ratting them out. They don’t order hits. That’s movie stuff, like every grocery bag must have a baguette and greens poking out of it, or turning on your TV at the exact moment a news report starts.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        8 months ago

        They have security departments filled with normal people who the execs couldn’t trust to do something like this

        So huge multi-billion corporations wouldn’t hire the best of the best, when it comes to security?

        That’s movie stuff

        Life imitates art.

        Just the bottom line this, we’re not going to agree, but you’d have to be pretty naive to think that those kind of things, with billions of dollars and economies hanging in the balance, doesn’t really happen.

        Unfortunately.

        • merc@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          8 months ago

          Life imitates art in some ways, but people getting shot in the shoulder still have fucked up shoulders and often die, no matter how much movies want you to believe that it’s a wound you can just shrug off.

          Similarly, executives make business decisions that result in thousands of people dying. But, executives in multi-billion dollar companies don’t contract out to hitmen to murder people who hurt their companies. That’s just movie stuff, and you’re naive to think it happens in reality.

          • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            8 months ago

            But, executives in multi-billion dollar companies don’t contract out to hitmen to murder people who hurt their companies.

            And you know this how?

            • merc@sh.itjust.works
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              8 months ago

              Common sense? The lack of historical precedent? The fact I can watch movies and be aware that they don’t represent reality?

              • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                8 months ago

                But, executives in multi-billion dollar companies don’t contract out to hitmen to murder people who hurt their companies.

                And you know this how?

                Common sense? The lack of historical precedent? The fact I can watch movies and be aware that they don’t represent reality?

                So you pulled it out of your ass.

                Have a nice day.

                • merc@sh.itjust.works
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  8 months ago

                  I made a decision based on reality. I didn’t decide someone had hired a hitman to kill a whistleblower because it seemed realistic to me based on watching too many movies. Believing that is also “pulling it out of your ass”, but without any basis in actual reality.