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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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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.

He hadn't been one of the richest people on the planet in more than a decade.

Definitely did not have enough money for literally any lifestyle, especially seeing as it appears he owed a lot of money in back taxes.

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

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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…

> Turns out prison sucks after a while.

Sounds like it sucks at the beginning, too.

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

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> we're supposed to be considered innocent until proven guilty. The legal system should presume innocence. It's completely reasonable for people have lower standards for assuming guilt.

In general yes, but it takes on a different form when the person is an eccentric that has very publicly challenged powerful authorities and has been both the source and target of disinformation campaigns.

I enjoyed following the guy's adventures (if/when it didn't involve killing people), but what on earth might attract powerful authorities that would go as far as killing him in a Western jail? He's not Epstein and mostly posted fantasies and various minor scams.

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

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He clearly lost his mind at some point. Late John McAfee != early John McAfee. Heavy drug abuse and alcoholism looks to have played a role. Giving tons of money to a chronic addict (like he got when he cashed out of his company) can be a death sentence.

Do you have any experience with the stuff you’re making such bold statements about, because I have; and my god did you oversimplify things.

Then perhaps you can provide some clarity rather than alluding to hidden knowledge that you won't show people? Otherwise what the public has to go on would be John McAfee's YT and Twitter.

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

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I feel like a lot of people in this thread are forgetting he likely killed his neighbor in 2012 and has been on the run since. I mean, sure he built some antivirus software a few decades ago, but I don't think he deserves the eulogies he's getting here. He's not tech's Hunter S. Thompson; he's a murderer who spent the last years of his life screwing over people with crypto scams.

Here in America we have something called innocent until proven guilty.

It is absurd to apply that to individual, or even social, judgement. We don't actually pretend to be ignorant and blind of a person's probable or apparent misdeeds if they haven't been proven in a court of law, nor should we. If, for instance, I notice a couple small, expensive items go missing each time my cousin visits, I'm not going to say "oh well, better not tell anyone else he's probably a thief and I'd better keep inviting him over and leaving him unattended, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law after all". That'd be silly, and acting that way to such an absolute adherence to that principle would be downright anti-social. If he's later convicted and my family finds out I'd noticed years ago, but not warned them because he hadn't been convicted yet, and so he stole things from them because I didn't warn them, they'd justly be pissed off at me.

Or, what, are we suddenly not allowed to judge people's apparent behavior & deeds as soon as they're criminal, but free to before that? That doesn't make much sense either. But clearly we can form and share judgements about behavior that's not criminal, and that's fine. If it gets too serious, though, then we have to stop unless a conviction occurs? Huh?

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

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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.

You're saying "likely" as a hedge, when in fact you are instead merely expressing an opinion, without any knowledge of the actual numerical likelihood of such an event having happened.

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

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I met John in an Atlanta airport lounge years ago[1]. I recognized him immediately as I've always admired him, and I decided to go up to him and tell him as much. He invited me to sit down, and told him about when I was a teenager in the 90s learning about tech entrepreneurs at the time, I always thought he was pretty cool and had good ideas. I told him I respected him, and that I was sure he'd lived an incredible li…

When you say he was "sloshed" do you mean he was drunk? Or do you mean he was very pleased with your praise?

the former

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

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Charisma is a helluva drug.

so is MDPV. John was "stuffmonger" on a drug forum here: https://www.bluelight.org/xf/threads/hello-and-an-mdpv-quest... A good summary here: https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/8utitu/john_mcafe...

Funniest stuff I've read in years. Lit up my mood a bit after the bad news.

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

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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.

And if the ladies stories about his hammock usage is true...

So people don't have to look that up, some women claimed he liked seemingly consensual scat. Not really comparable to alleged murder.
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