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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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Post by CRConrad »

Cyberdog wrote: post #111
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...

I have found that "I'll never kill myself. There's always something to live for" is something that is very easy for people who are safe and happy to say, and I pray that these people will always be safe and comfortable enough to not change their mind on this for their own sakes. When you're sitting in a tiny concrete box and looking at the very distinct possibility of spending the rest of your life in such a box, eit…

> I have found that "I'll never kill myself. There's always something to live for" is something that is very easy for people who are safe and happy to say, and I pray that these people will always be safe and comfortable enough to not change their mind on this for their own sakes.

Maybe it helps to remember having said it oneself? I mean, if you are so badly off that you contemplate suicide, then everyone else saying "there's always something to live for" may be easier to write off; like, "what do they know of my life?". But if you've used to say so yourself, then sure, you may now think "so obviously I was wrong then"... But still, you're you, so you do know a thing or three about your life, so you may perhaps still hang back and consider "but wait, maybe I'm wrong now, and not back then?".

Maybe. At least feels like it should have a better chance than other saying it. So, hey, let's all remember to repeat this to ourselves now and then, mmkay?

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

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Post by CRConrad »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #368
bena wrote: post #321

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What he knows is immaterial though. Whatever McAfee would "reveal" would just be his word. Which isn't great. Unless he knows how to obtain evidence of things, what he "knows" is just rambling. Movies have instilled in us this notion that simply knowing something is good enough. It's not. Let's pretend for a second that McAfee knew that certain public figures were, without a doubt, 100%, Satanic pedophile lizard peop…

It's not impossible that his word could provide evidence, he may know where (possibly metaphorical) bodies are buried.

> he may know where (possibly metaphorical) bodies are buried.

Because founding and running an anti-virus company for a while gets you invited to all the big shots' murder rampages...?

Was he ever even a largish campaign contributor, or anything that might have got him hobnobbing with (people that later turned into) The Powers That Be? I've never heard anything such about him; have you?

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

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Post by CRConrad »

read_if_gay_ wrote: post #467
rchaud wrote: post #372

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Edward Snowden has published a book, appeared on every podcast and talked to every media outlet since the 2013 revelations. He's still alive (granted, in Russia, where he'll probably be stuck forever). I seriously doubt a drugged-up 75yo who lived outside the US for much of the past 20 years somehow had a hotter scoop on the US government's doings.

Epstein has to be a suicide too then, because Snowden is still alive?

Lots of bigshots did shit they shouldn't have been doing on Epstein's yacht. Is there any credible report that any such figure did any such thing on McAfee's?

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, the theory most likely to be true remains the null hypothesis: He didn't have diddly-squat on anybody.

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

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Post by Natsu »

BatteryMountain wrote: post #858
Natsu wrote: post #810

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Doesn't that quote seem odd to anyone else? I wouldn't think he had a "boss" any more being a multi-millionaire. He was certainly an odd fellow, but I wonder how much we know about the provenance of these random forum threads.

He is the boss? Referencing himself? Ha

That would be a very crackheaded thing to do, taking pictures to blackmail yourself for having sex with a dog.

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

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Post by romanovcode »

midasuni wrote: post #725
marton78 wrote: post #454

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Well, that military won't pay itself...

Having a US passport entitles citizens to a lot of benefits globally, those benefits have to be paid for. It would seem odd that you can benefit from the US growing up, and once you make it, you can move to the Cayman Islands and not pay for the benefits you have received

If you're talking about visa-free travels around the world than I have to break it to you: European passports are stronger than US. Just FYI.

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

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Post by CRConrad »

hellbannedguy wrote: post #560
Klinky wrote: post #533

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The dude was found liable for two people's deaths, and evaded taxes, like... I dunno. He doesn't seem like that great of a guy. He seems like a self-centered reckless narcissist leaving destruction in his wake.

When was he found guilty for the dead neighbor? Anyways---you don't poison a guy's dogs. (Yea--I know, I'm suspose to be compassionate over rich dead guys. By rich dead guys, I mean the neighbor who was constantly complaining over John's dogs whom was found dead. As far as today, they had no evidence against John.) I liked John. I liked he was different than most rich guys. I painfully remember him stating he doesn't…

> When was he found guilty for the dead neighbor?

> Anyways---you don't poison a guy's dogs.

When was the neighbor found guilty for that?

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

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Post by CRConrad »

symlinkk wrote: post #346
dfsegoat wrote: post #203

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It is a very small community where this happened (San Pedro, BZ). I'm all for due process, but it was basically an open secret. source: my parents live in the town where it happened.

> I’m all for due process, but… Then you’re not for due process

This is HN, not a criminal court. One can be all for due process, and propose one's opinion here that someone is guilty. "Due process" does not apply here.

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

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Post by CRConrad »

anonytrary wrote: post #486
kyleee wrote: post #429

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He probably deserves it for his tech contributions, but unlikely in this day and age due to the sordid nature of his final few decades

We should make a conscious effort to avoid this thinking. It's way too common for people to dismiss a brilliant man because of a few bad deeds or events that happened surrounding him. Genius is rarely accompanied by butterflies and rainbows. If we expect everyone to be perfect, there will be no one left worth respecting.

> It's way too common for people to dismiss a brilliant man because of a few bad deeds

There's a difference between "a few bad deeds" and a few bad decades.

> or events that happened surrounding him.

Yeah, all that stuff just happened to happen around him.

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

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Post by mbrodersen »

3grdlurker wrote: post #738
deterministic wrote: post #724

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Realise that people can be super nice to you and cruel/evil to somebody else. The serial killer living next door might be a great neighbour. That doesn’t change the facts of what he/she is.

This kind of subjectivism is so lacking in nuance, though, that the good parts that one is seeing (and, in many ways, choosing to see) are a mere reduction of the whole truth, and isn’t the whole truth of a person So a serial killer is a good person just because he’s a nice neighbor to you? If you’re hanging out with a friend in your inner circle of elites and that friend is nice to you but is very rude to waiters an…

Nope that’s not my point at all. Quite the opposite.
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