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

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and allegedly a rapist

At least one of those rape accusations was made on camera, by Allison Adonizio. It's not a fuzzy Twitter rumor thing. She accuses him of drugging and raping her.

Not saying it did or didn't happen but plenty of people has been accused not only on Twitter but also on TV for things they never did.

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Hard to beat "a colorful life until seventy five". Looking forward to the facts, the movie. I don't want to judge. A person can be many things. A hero. A myth. A criminal. I mean, hyphthetically speaking. Many dimensions. But I guess in "our" society, one is judged after a single thing. One dimension. An open ended movie where you have to make up your own mind would be great. RIP

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Good or bad, what a sad ending to a colorful life. The guy was troubled and had many shortcomings, but he was colorful and also achieved success and arguably was one of the seminal figures in the nascent AV industry. Sad to see his fall from grace and into a world of extravagance, deceit and cheating (taxes) and, if allegations true, even worse; then to end it on the floor of a jail -all by his own hands.

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.

Guilty until proven innocent?

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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.

This is a thread about John McAfee, after all.

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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

You win this comment section, there could not be a more appropriate quote for this news.

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

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There was a ruling today approving his extradition to the US. US officials were about to get him and he was facing extremely serious charges. That's a really important bit of context to keep in mind before jumping to ideas that some shadowy "they" had him killed.

Unless McAfee has dirt on you, and getting extradited to the US with serious crimes against him means a high likelihood of him turning state's witness.

He’s not exactly going to appear credible in court.

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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.

True but it is also possible that he was assisnated. People get assisnate all the time for political reasons.

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

Sloshed is a weird word. It means drunk but if you go through etymology, it started at slush and moved to slosh which was to splash around in slush. Then somewhere along the lines, 'slosh' meant to pour without care and make a mess. That turned into pour alcohol carelessly and become a mess.

I always thought the association was directly from "splashing around", as in "you're so drunk that it's like you've been swimming in the stuff."

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a ruling today approving his extradition to the US. US officials were about to get him and he was facing extremely serious charges. That's a really important bit of context to keep in mind before jumping to ideas that some shadowy "they" had him killed.

I have hard time believing this, either that he died or his motive. Tax evasion has one of the most lenient punishments of white collar crimes.

Paying taxes is even less painful and he didn’t do that.
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