Kicking off his testimony at the special committee on Tuesday, Calhoun apologized to the families of Boeing crash victims who were present
    • Aceticon@lemmy.world
      2·
      14 days ago

      The total energy of the strong finger wagging that follows this admission will be enough to power a flashlight for 2 milliseconds.

    • barsquid@lemmy.world
      2·
      14 days ago

      These fellows are going to get slammed and blasted by Congress, it might spoil up to a few minutes of their time on the yacht.

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
      1·
      14 days ago

      Do you mean “award them more fat defense contacts??” Cuz that’s what we’re gonna do!

    • TorJansson@lemm.ee
      1·
      14 days ago

      Much too harsh for this gold-domed “too important to really hold to account” CEO. Perhaps a mildly stern, yet askance look (or two, if the crowd rumbles for more)

  • logos@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    15 days ago

    “You have a duty to demand the highest safety standards… and [ensure] that ‘speak up’ in fact means speak up, not shut up, as it is meant all too often.”

    Tell that to Snowden, Assange, Manning etc.

        • Maggoty@lemmy.world
          01·
          14 days ago

          Haha no. He selectively edited Manning’s stuff to frame the US Army long before 2016.

          • novibe@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            14 days ago

            “Frame” the US Army…? Bro the great satan doesn’t need any framing, its sins are dripping from its fangs and claws.

            • Maggoty@lemmy.world
              01·
              14 days ago

              Then why did he edit videos he used to accuse the Army of war crimes? If they don’t need to be framed, why fuck with the evidence?

      • Zannsolo@lemmy.world
        01·
        15 days ago

        Fuck Snowden too, no respect for him running to Russia. If you think it’s your moral obligation to break the law, you should be willing to take the consequences. You can’t run off to an enemy state that does much worse things than what you were willing to break the law to expose. I have zero doubt Snowden is a traitor and gave Russia whatever they wanted. It’s possible he started off well meaning, but I wouldn’t be shocked if he did it for Russia all along. His original intentions don’t matter now either way, he had a high clearance and Russia now knows everything he learned with that clearance beyond even the scope of his “whistleblowing”.

        • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          14 days ago

          Maybe don’t throw your whistleblowers in a jail and let them rot for life, and you will avoid defections to another country.

          Can you blame the guy to not want to die in a dark cell for showing the world that your own government is keeping a lot of tabs on you without your knowledge?

          He tried to go to other countries, but none of them wanted to take him in except Russia because of what he knew.

          So it’s either die in a cell in the US, or live a somewhat free man in Russia.

          The choice is clear.

          So demand that your government do better and get behind the people that shows you how your government fucks you over.

          • Zannsolo@lemmy.world
            01·
            14 days ago

            There would have been a lot of pressure to get him released and would have kept what he revealed talked about and more pressure to end that as well. He’s just a little bitch that wanted to play hero and or a Russian agent.

        • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz
          0·
          14 days ago

          I have noticed that if you say anything bad about snowden on reddit or now the Fediverse, you quickly get down-voted a lot. I am starting to think this is coordinated somehow.

          • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            14 days ago

            Deploy our great bot army!

            For what purpose, Sir?

            Downvote any post on any social media platform that is critical of Snowden!

            As you command, SIr!

          • Syrc@lemmy.world
            1·
            14 days ago

            He’s a whistleblower. Corrupt corpos/countries hate whistleblowers. Reddit/Lemmy users hate corrupt corpos/countries. There.

            It’s as easy as that, no need to bring out conspiracies.

            • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz
              1·
              14 days ago

              You are probably right. It’s just the speed and amount that got me thinking otherwise. Lemmy is a lot more popular then I thought.

  • secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world
    2·
    14 days ago

    People have died due to the greed and corruption of the leadership of Boeing. The people at the top have in fact gotten huge financial rewards by taking actions that were likely to kill people. There is no mechanism in US society to hold these people accountable. Are they going to get put in prison? Nope! Are they going to be PERSONALLY fined? Nope!

    I really dislike how in Chinese society people are not able to criticize the government. I hope one day, everyone everywhere will have free speech. It’s unfortunate to say this, but in China, this would be dealt with severely and and with impact. I am not saying their mechanism is right, but the US has no mechanism at all. We all know nothing will happen, especially because most of the deaths were foreigners. It’s disgusting and makes the US look bad.

    • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      13 days ago

      This is why ancient humans invented mob justice. When the laws don’t work, order still needs to be imposed.

      • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
        2·
        13 days ago

        Exactly this. In ancient Roman times, emperor Caracalla was infamous for having many of his enemies outright killed. One of these was the brother of a soldier who was assigned to his personal guard at the Rhine border regions. When Caracalla got off his horse for a piss, he got a gladius thrusted between his ribs. For all his might and power, he very much brought that on himself.

        Sometimes people like that soldier are the last line of justice in the world.

  • apocalypticat@lemmy.world
    1·
    14 days ago

    David Calhoun apologized to the families of Boeing crash victims, saying the manufacturer was “totally committed” to future saftey improvements, as he began testimony at the committee on Tuesday.

    Cue South Park investment banker BP oil spill apology.

    Also, “saftey”? Seriously, Independent?

  • aTun@lemm.ee
    0·
    14 days ago

    Fine the CEO, not to the company. He has to take responsibility.

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
      1·
      14 days ago

      When poor people put others in danger and/or exploit things for financial benefit, they go to prison.

      Stop giving fines for big companies and actually start putting people in fucking prison.

  • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
    0·
    15 days ago

    How the f do you even start killing people for this? I mean the PR crisis that follows an assassination makes everything way worse doesn’t it?

    • Artyom@lemm.ee
      0·
      15 days ago

      You only kill a whistleblower if you’re confident that they would have said something worse in court. It’s almost guaranteed to be front page news.