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Why it's probably a real suicide, and why it's arguably worse than an assassination

trenchworms @trenchworms@eldritch.cafe the Boeing whistleblower's death is tragedy but i think its easy to slip into conspiracy-mindedness ("omg Boeing knocked him off like one of their doors") and miss the likelier and honestly more horrible reality. being a whistleblower is a f------ nightmare. the capitalist, corporatist structures of our society are built to make the lives of anyone who stands up against the oligarchs a living f------ hell, especially when it's someone who actually might have something devastating to reveal. there is something deeply, horribly, vastly despair-inducing about being a whistleblower. you can't talk about half of the things in your head to anyone because the last thing you want is to let something slip that hurts the case; but you also don't want to keep things completely silent because you know the press won't give a s--- unless it's juicy. you dont want to drag your loved ones into the mental hell you're in because, even if you aren't paranoid about their lives getting ruined too, you often dont want to burden them with the s--- you know. at every turn, at every junction, justice is delayed because Corporation A filed a legal flim-flam that pushes the hearing out another three months because their lawyer's toenails apparently needed to be verified before entering the courtroom. nothing happens except your finances wilt away and your lawyers remind you that justice is rarely something that happens in these cases and you start questioning yourself in every tiny manner. it is a grim way to live. people sip briefly from that cup and end up institutionalized. the Boeing whistleblower has been drinking from it for years. "Boeing bumped off a whistleblower" is a neat, tidy theory that invents a discrete Bad Dude twirling his moustache. "Society treats whistleblowers so badly they kill themselves before the corporations get a chance to do so" is far more uncomfortable. Mar 12, 2024, 19:22 - Edited Mar 12, 19:30 - 93✶ 112
trenchworms @trenchworms@eldritch.cafe the Boeing whistleblower's death is tragedy but i think its easy to slip into conspiracy-mindedness ("omg Boeing knocked him off like one of their doors") and miss the likelier and honestly more horrible reality. being a whistleblower is a f------ nightmare. the capitalist, corporatist structures of our society are built to make the lives of anyone who stands up against the oligarchs a living f------ hell, especially when it's someone who actually might have something devastating to reveal. there is something deeply, horribly, vastly despair-inducing about being a whistleblower. you can't talk about half of the things in your head to anyone because the last thing you want is to let something slip that hurts the case; but you also don't want to keep things completely silent because you know the press won't give a s--- unless it's juicy. you dont want to drag your loved ones into the mental hell you're in because, even if you aren't paranoid about their lives getting ruined too, you often dont want to burden them with the s--- you know. at every turn, at every junction, justice is delayed because Corporation A filed a legal flim-flam that pushes the hearing out another three months because their lawyer's toenails apparently needed to be verified before entering the courtroom. nothing happens except your finances wilt away and your lawyers remind you that justice is rarely something that happens in these cases and you start questioning yourself in every tiny manner. it is a grim way to live. people sip briefly from that cup and end up institutionalized. the Boeing whistleblower has been drinking from it for years. "Boeing bumped off a whistleblower" is a neat, tidy theory that invents a discrete Bad Dude twirling his moustache. "Society treats whistleblowers so badly they kill themselves before the corporations get a chance to do so" is far more uncomfortable. Mar 12, 2024, 19:22 - Edited Mar 12, 19:30 - 93✶ 112

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