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> I would just add some skepticism to the charges only because the police down there can be corrupt and or inept and subject to bribery and so on. I don't know if there has been an independent international inquiry into the matter. A US federal judge found him culpable for a murder civilly.
A US federal judge finding anything adds no validity to the claim.
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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.
The timing does make me suspicious. I'm generally willing to believe he was "suicided" by some shadowy conspiracy. But if that's what happened, why would they do it on the day his extradition was approved? If our secret ninja assassins wanted to take him out because he Knew Too Much or whatever, they could do that any old time. Why do it on the day his extradition was approved instead of some random day 6 months ago…
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He’s a murderer and fraudster. You do not in fact have to applaud him for anything.
This cancel culture thing where a few negative cancels all the good you could have done is really weird. Voltaire is racist, Washington had slaves, this or that twiteroo said 10 years ago some kind of sorry thing, McAfee killed and frauded. Look it's all kinda true and all kinda irrelevant. People are more than the 10% of the time they sinned. I sure have sinned, and I sure hope you'll still find me valuable as a hum…
Strange... I have an emotional disconnect that prevents me from being sad about conventional things. Death of close family members - depressing, but not acutely sad. I don't know why. Maybe it's because I see most of those coming? This bit of news on the other hand...
I felt a sharp crack in my stony facade. Probably has something to do with the psychology behind valuing what John McAfee stood for, and what his demise means for those things valued.
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…
It's unfortunate that a lot of things we like about people, doesn't really go hand in hand for making good choices otherwise.
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This is true. But he did also do a lot of drugs and he was also weird. See Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas for examples where he was portrayed as Dr. Gonzo.
He did a lot more than that, it's a shame that is what people know him for.
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I doubt anybody in Spain or the US was afraid of what he could say. So no...not just like it at all.
McAfee could easily have had plenty of dirt on ton of powerful people. He would have given up all that info for reducing his sentence in the US. It is not super crazy to think that there would be plenty of people who would have rather see him die vs get extradited to US.
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>Using it only on "bad guys" is a recipe for the government punishing people that disagrees with them. Indeed that's exactly how it is being used if it's true that they throw the book at public figures for making political statements like Wesley Snipes.
Don't you also go to jail if you can't pay them?
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> I would just add some skepticism to the charges only because the police down there can be corrupt and or inept and subject to bribery and so on. I don't know if there has been an independent international inquiry into the matter. A US federal judge found him culpable for a murder civilly.
> A US federal judge found him culpable for a murder civilly False. A US federal judge entered a default judgement against him in a wrongful death suit. Murder is not a civil offense, the standards for civil wrongful death are not remotely the same as murder, and wrongful death liability (even based on a trial and evidence) doesn't indicate that one has even approximately committed murder. And, in any case the judgem…
Hence the word culpable, and not guilty.