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John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

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Re: John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

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virgulino wrote: post #51
devoutsalsa wrote: post #13

I choose to remember him like this: "How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus" => https://youtu.be/bKgf5PaBzyg

"But the strangest part of knowing McAfee was the time he wanted me to help start an AIDS-free sex club. I still remember how excited he was about his new, brilliant idea. Membership required a fee and an AIDS test. If the test came back negative, you were given a membership card, which you could then take to organized member parties, have lots of casual sex, and not worry about catching the virus." - My adventures w…

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Re: John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

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Post by colordrops »

okamiueru wrote: post #22
bethecloud wrote: post #8

From McAffee in 2019, "Getting subtle messages from U.S. officials saying, in effect: "We're coming for you McAfee! We're going to kill yourself". I got a tattoo today just in case. If I suicide myself, I didn't. I was whackd. Check my right arm. " https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/120086428376625152...

As cynical as it might seem, there is an alternative possibility: in spite of getting a tattoo saying he would not kill himself, and in spite of posting a tweet saying he would not kill himself, he went ahead and killed himself.

It is indeed an alternative possiblity, but the possiblity that he was murdered should not be discounted. Murdering those that challenge authority has been happening since the dawn of history and nothing has fundamentally changed. Well other than needing to make it look like a suicide since modern society likes to believe it's enlightened.

Re: John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

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Post by babypuncher »

fridif wrote: post #30
okamiueru wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As cynical as it might seem, there is an alternative possibility: in spite of getting a tattoo saying he would not kill himself, and in spite of posting a tweet saying he would not kill himself, he went ahead and killed himself.

The better questions are, did he deserve to be imprisoned and did he deserve to die?

Whether or not someone deserves to die doesn't seem like much of a question when the cause of death is intentionally self-inflicted.

Re: John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

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Post by notyourwork »

sva_ wrote: post #23

What a strange life he lived. I'm not going to make a value judgement about whether or not he was a 'good' person, but I do applaud the fact that he dared to deviate from the norm. "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." -- Hunter S Thompson RIP

That Thompson quote really resonates with me, thanks for sharing.

Re: John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

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Post by willis936 »

okamiueru wrote: post #22
bethecloud wrote: post #8

From McAffee in 2019, "Getting subtle messages from U.S. officials saying, in effect: "We're coming for you McAfee! We're going to kill yourself". I got a tattoo today just in case. If I suicide myself, I didn't. I was whackd. Check my right arm. " https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/120086428376625152...

As cynical as it might seem, there is an alternative possibility: in spite of getting a tattoo saying he would not kill himself, and in spite of posting a tweet saying he would not kill himself, he went ahead and killed himself.

An unstable personality that hates the US saying the US government would stage a suicide is much more likely to actually kill themselves than your regular run-of-the-mill evil billionaire with powerful enemies saying nothing about how they will die.

I don't think Mcafee really thought things through enough to come to this conclusion.

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Post by prvc »

joshmn wrote: post #70
alphabetting wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Gringo documentary was damning.

IMDB[0] for those wondering. [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6071534/

The existence itself of that movie demonstrates that many parties had it in for him.

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Post by ceejayoz »

bethecloud wrote: post #8

From McAffee in 2019, "Getting subtle messages from U.S. officials saying, in effect: "We're coming for you McAfee! We're going to kill yourself". I got a tattoo today just in case. If I suicide myself, I didn't. I was whackd. Check my right arm. " https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/120086428376625152...

He said he'd eat his dick on live TV if Bitcoin didn't hit $500k by last year (https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/887012614131372032, https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/887039604846714881, https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/887024683379544065) so the track record on predictions... isn't great.

Re: John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

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Post by 867-5309 »

jbverschoor wrote: post #18
bethecloud wrote: post #8

From McAffee in 2019, "Getting subtle messages from U.S. officials saying, in effect: "We're coming for you McAfee! We're going to kill yourself". I got a tattoo today just in case. If I suicide myself, I didn't. I was whackd. Check my right arm. " https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/120086428376625152...

Tweet from last week: "My friends evaporated through fear of association. I have nothing. Yet, I regret nothing."

a great quote -- thanks for this

Re: John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

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Post by tiernano »

dntrkv wrote: post #60
fridif wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The better questions are, did he deserve to be imprisoned and did he deserve to die?

> did he deserve to be imprisoned I mean, that's kinda what happens when you don't pay your taxes and run from the government. He would've gotten a trial if he didn't commit suicide. > did he deserve to die No, I don't think anyone deserves to die. But, the most likely case here is he did kill himself, in which case, it's kinda on him.

> No, I don't think anyone deserves to die.

technically, everyone dies... the question should be, did he deserve to be killed, if he was (not saying he was) or did he deserve to think that was his only way out?

Re: John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

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Post by colordrops »

nullsmack wrote: post #83
TheAdamAndChe wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Though it is also highly notable that he publicly posted "I'm not going to kill myself, and if I do then I was probably assassinated" before his death.

And then he killed himself to set off moronic conspiracy theories as a final FU to the USA.

Which is more believable, that he was murdered, or that he killed himself to troll people?
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