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

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Post by watwut »

pdimitar wrote: post #52

Never followed his story but the translated article on NyPost only mentions his cryptocurrency pump and dump scheme. Which naturally leads me to the question, why was McAffee pursued for this all the way to Europe but Elon Musk isn't even investigated while millions watched him do the same? I am not loading this politically at all. I am not from the US and I am mostly apathetic to celebrities. But I am genuinely curi…

Because Elon Musk is significantly more sane and did not actually done very same thing. Having enough sanity to keep you schemes just on the safer side help. He is also not accused of rape and murder both of which make law enforcement look more closely on you in general.

Also, Musk is rich and powerful right now. That alone makes it harder to go after him as he will pay for better justice. McAffee is not that powerful.

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Post by ibejoeb »

ceejayoz wrote: post #223
throwkeep wrote: post #58

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October, 2020 I am content in here. I have friends. The food is good. All is well. Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine. https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/131680121508322509...

April, 2021 https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/138634987054662041... > I have been imprisoned in Catalonia nearly 7 months. I speak no Catalan and little Spanish so human contact is limited. There are no entertainments - no escape from loneliness, from emptiness, from myself. > This has been the most trying period of my life. Turns out prison sucks after a while. As for the food, he changed his tune on that, t…

Yeah, and also he was a pretty damn good troll. No doubt he had a backup plan, and this was probably it.

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Post by DFHippie »

svloop wrote: post #161
nullsmack wrote: post #83

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

Do you realize you are ditching a conspiracy with a conspiracy?

Which raises an interesting question: can a conspiracy consist of a single person? How about if that person speaks to himself?

More to your point -- replacing one weakly substantiated theory with another -- there are still degrees of plausibility among unsubstantiated theories.

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Post by boomboomsubban »

dntrkv wrote: post #36
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...

Why would anyone want him dead? I don't think anyone cared about him that much.

If people had reason to kill him, it would likely be that he knew scandalous information. The public wouldn't really know that people cared about him or what that information was.

I have no idea if McAfee had such knowledge, but "I don't know any reason why someone would kill him" doesn't mean much.

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Post by engineeringwoke »

stingraycharles wrote: post #233
belltaco wrote: post #217

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Taking hard drugs can lead to deviant behavior, so I am not sure if people should be applauded for it.

That seems to imply that he lived a deviant life because he took drugs, rather than the other way around. This is precisely the type of judgement that the parent wanted to avoid. :)

Drugs destroyed his life, and it wasn't glorious. I'm not sure what else there is to say

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Post by ozten »

bennyp101 wrote: post #45
gkoberger wrote: post #25

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I mean, he very likely killed his neighbor in 2012... so I feel like "colorful" undermines how much of a monster he's been for over a decade.

I mean, is that 100% true?

Even without being found guilty of murder... if you watch that documentary he hires very unsavory characters to be his armed guards 24x7.

You are one of the richest people on the planet and you choose to be an armed bully on a small island with a lot of poverty to exploit.

He could literally have any lifestyle he wanted.

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Post by casi18 »

motohagiography wrote: post #187

I didn't know him at all, but felt there was something I recognized and understood about what he was saying. If you must burn, burn bright. It looked like a great ride. This video of him playing piano is what I think he wanted people to know: https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/136205988701080781...

thanks for that video. i found myself so quick to judge, though i know very little about him. but seeing someone play music makes them human again. it seems he did burn bright. some people cant help but push up against the edges of existence. rip.

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Post by oh_sigh »

dnh44 wrote: post #101
bennyp101 wrote: post #45

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I mean, is that 100% true?

If I remember the story correctly the neighbour killed his dogs. That’s a pretty strong motive.

Actually, John killed his own dogs after he believed they were poisoned by his neighbor. Were they really poisoned, or was that just one of his psychotic delusions(like his claim that Belizean officials were out to kill him but killed Faull by mistake)?

We'll never know. But we do know that his dogs were allowed to run free in a giant pack and attacked at least 6 people (probably more, but they may be locals and not ex-pats/tourists whose claims are more likely to be reported on)

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Post by IntrepidWorm »

llacb47 wrote: post #178
Scoundreller wrote: post #95

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Your sketchy looking link which I mistakenly clicked on instead of copy and pasting into my VM is b0rk. Says "This item has exceeded its view limit!"

works for me

Rebuilt that link for ya, friend. Cheers!

http://www.5z8.info/racist-message-board_u1s1lj_-----TAKE.TW...

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Post by bena »

quenix wrote: post #206
Scoundreller wrote: post #95

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Your sketchy looking link which I mistakenly clicked on instead of copy and pasting into my VM is b0rk. Says "This item has exceeded its view limit!"

You run a VM just to inspect "sketchy-looking links"? That sounds like paranoid behavior, if I'm being honest.

A healthy paranoia if you grew up with the internet.

When a link can compromise an entire machine, having a machine you can literally throw away with no consequence is nice.

Hell, I'd wager to say that containers wouldn't be a thing if it weren't for this kind of behavior. Looking for ways to build up and destroy VMs even faster.

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