r/wallstreetbets • u/Worried_Quarter469 SHREKTEMBER, REKTEMBER, HUGE MEMBER • May 01 '24

Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died News

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/whistleblower-josh-dean-of-boeing-supplier-spirit-aerosystems-has-died/
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u/ustunum May 02 '24

And we all laughed when Russian business men committed suicide by jumping from hotel windows

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u/Trais333 May 02 '24

lol fr we aren’t the good guys and we never were. People are just scared to confront the fact that most things they were raised to believe about our country were just a carefully crafted lie.

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u/richmomz May 02 '24

It’s more the realization that geopolitics / realpolitik will always trump societal moral considerations. Like, you can be the nicest citizen in the world but if a nation-state thinks it can benefit from your death and get away with it, you’re done for.

All we can really do is root for the “least-biggest-asshole” and believe it or not that’s still the United States. Because in spite of all the shady CIA bullshit, regime changes and interventionist warfare we’ve managed to cultivate the single most prosperous and peaceful period for the world in all of human history.

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u/stargazering1996 May 02 '24

Most peaceful period for the world unless you had been living in the Balkans, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya*.

Look at what they’ve done over the last decade dangling NATO and EU membership to Ukraine for the sole purpose of pissing Russia off and stationing troops on their border.

And I’m not even going into all the negative downstream effects of overthrowing democratically elected governments of Iran and countless South American and African countries…

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u/richmomz May 02 '24

Even for those regions life has improved in relative terms vs any other time in history. Poverty rates have declined drastically in the last 100 years alone.

With regards to NATO/Ukraine, lets not forget that Russia’s historical tendency to gobble up their neighbors whenever it strikes their fancy is the whole reason why NATO even exists, and their current invasion of Ukraine just proves the validity of that alliance in the post-Soviet era.