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This. Gonna be grand when he faked his death and paid off a couple prison guards 10+ BTC to escape and shows up elsewhere in a year or two. One can hope, anyway. Plus, he had to get out of eating his own dick. https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/131680121508322509...
Why would one hope for him to escape justice?
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That Thompson quote really resonates with me, thanks for sharing.
Read the whole book, then if you haven't already (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas). Truly excellent.
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If you are rich enough you are eccentric and colorful.
The obvious point you're making is about a double standard -- rich people are unfairly given more slack than others. But an alternative framing amounts to evaluating a method by its results -- basically saying "I don't know why you're behaving that way, but for reasons I don't understand it seems to work for you." That obviously falls apart if you can cleanly separate their wealth/financial success from their behavio…
Like, sure public perception isn't immediately bad when someone is perceived as wealthy
But the immediate and long term consequences are very different whether people went along with it or not
People can have louder and wilder public opinions when they aren't beholden to current/future employment or even advertising dollars
Even convicted people that do not need employment are able to just go back to whatever they were doing. They are not marginalized.
Even before conviction they can pay fines and settlements and make it orders of magnitude more expensive for prosecution to even mount a case
One of his last messages, just a few days ago. It is sad and thoughtful: There is much sorrow in prison, disguised as hostility. The sorrow is plainly visible even in the most angry faces. I'm old and content with food and a bed but for the young prison is a horror - a reflection of the minds of those who conceived them. https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/140301918407478887...
Also this tweet is interesting. https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/131680121508322509... May he rest in peace.
Maybe a few weeks
People arent just able to make a perpetual conspiracy indefinitely in the future, or you dont have to entertain people trying to do that
I wont here
He has increasingly depressing messages in an increasingly dimmed outlook and an increasing time in prison
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> I don’t care if McAffee owed some taxes - leave the guy alone, he's obviously unstable This is ridiculous. Okay so let's leave all the rich people alone who claim they are unstable. McAfee made millions, from what I understand, he paid little taxes on that. That's stupid. I don't care how unstable you are, or how good you are donating your "fair share". You're still not excused from paying your taxes.
Parent poster meant let's not make him look like a loon and hound him relentlessly because of it.
30 years for tax evasion? No wonder he preferred to die. I mean, you’ll get jail time for severe cases of tax evasion in Germany, too, but it’s a couple of years at max and most of the time it’s on probation. How do you justify your draconic punishments in the US which is supposed to be a free country?
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Which poses the question - if you're absolutely sure you're not going to kill yourself, how could you make sure that everybody knows it and believes it? Is there a way?
Put someone in a room and prevent them from sleeping for a few days and I'm pretty sure you could convince anyone to kill themselves. There's no absolute certainty that can ever be provided.
The sad thing is that our government seems to make a point of screwing with kooks. I don’t care if McAffee owed some taxes - leave the guy alone, he’s obviously unstable, has major problems with drug and alcohol addiction and all they can do is try to bring him even lower. Poor guy had major problems even before the “heroes” of the FBI or the IRS or whatever started screwing with him. Let the poor guy ride off into t…
To be fair, you can't really do that because then that lowly waitress who owes, say, 3 grand because her manager reported her tips will say, "Why do rich people get off?" And she'd be right. If you go after anyone, you have to go after everyone in my view. If anything, you should go soft on the low income people rather than the wealthy. But on the federal level, going soft on a famous and wealthy person when you have…
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His body is probably not even cold yet and the conspiracy theories are piling up. On a Twitter thread, replies range from the usual RIPs to people claiming some dubious connection with Epstein, Clinton etc. Not claiming that you are, but I suspect many will use this as proof of something nefarious. Which it might be, but at least I feel that it is unlikely.
It feels like everything now starts with 'it's a conspiracy' for no reason and somehow everyone has to prove it isn't a conspiracy ... or it is assumed to be.