• @dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3431 year ago

    I never thought I’d see the day when a respectable blue chip company like Boeing is publicly outed as ordering an assassination. They fucked up royally. The timing of it all is too eyebrow raising not to be noticed by the entirety of the airplane-using world. Top down criminal investigation. Now.

    • @exanime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1021 year ago

      well your first mistake was thinking Boeing was a respectable corporation (that ship sailed in 1997 when they dropped the “engineering first” priority in lieu of “business first”)…

      your second mistake is thinking any corporation is respectable ;-)

    • @Nobody@lemmy.world
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      571 year ago

      Boeing is a major part of the military industrial complex. They own the politicians in both parties, the regulators, and the courts. Laws don’t apply to them.

      • BarqsHasBite
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        1 year ago

        If you’re the government, you want your military planes to work. It’s in their interests to have whistleblowers. (Now there’s lots of steps that are problems in realizing that.)

        • @Gabu@lemmy.world
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          161 year ago

          No. If you’re the state you want shit to work. If you’re part of the government, you just want to get your bribes.

        • wanderingmagus
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          41 year ago

          I mean there may simply have been internal reports already, just highly classified to avoid “embarrassing” the nation and not accessible or known to the general public.

          • @Kalysta@lemmy.world
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            31 year ago

            I feel like “risk of door blowing off mid flight” or “25% of oxygen masks don’t work” is something the public is entitled to know about

            • wanderingmagus
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              21 year ago

              Didn’t say they weren’t entitled to know about it, just the reasoning that might’ve gone through the government’s collective heads when not disclosing or looking the other way on Boeing doing an Epstien.

          • @MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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            31 year ago

            “Look, it turns out if you flip this switch on the Fa-18 and forget to turn it off after 1 to 5 minutes tops, your chances of ‘uncontrollably inverting and ejecting at high speed straight into the freaking ground’ go up tenfold. We’ve provided the USAF with a 1 hour iPad training about being touchy with the defrost function.”

            –Boeing, probably

      • @skulblaka@startrek.website
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        181 year ago

        If they can’t deliver a product that stays in one piece when not even being shot at, they aren’t about to stay a part of that MIC for long.

        • @Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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          11 year ago

          The MIC has very little to do with making high-quality military equipment and much more to do with kickbacks and local jobs. Boeing and the other prime contractors are massively inefficient and often performing make-work jobs that no one in the military wants (like making more tanks).

    • @ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I never thought I’d see the day when a respectable blue chip company like Boeing is publicly outed as ordering an assassination.

      Why does this surprise you that a company, a large company, would order an assassination of someone? This doesn’t surprise me in the slightest.

    • @EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
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      101 year ago

      At the end of which some low level schmuck will be thrown under the bus and they will be fined a few million dollars grand total for all this shit.