• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Or are you trying to tell me that powerful corporations don’t have very strong security departments with connections?

    They have security departments filled with normal people who the execs couldn’t trust to do something like this (or order something like this) without ratting them out. They don’t order hits. That’s movie stuff, like every grocery bag must have a baguette and greens poking out of it, or turning on your TV at the exact moment a news report starts.

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      8 months ago

      They have security departments filled with normal people who the execs couldn’t trust to do something like this

      So huge multi-billion corporations wouldn’t hire the best of the best, when it comes to security?

      That’s movie stuff

      Life imitates art.

      Just the bottom line this, we’re not going to agree, but you’d have to be pretty naive to think that those kind of things, with billions of dollars and economies hanging in the balance, doesn’t really happen.

      Unfortunately.

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        Life imitates art in some ways, but people getting shot in the shoulder still have fucked up shoulders and often die, no matter how much movies want you to believe that it’s a wound you can just shrug off.

        Similarly, executives make business decisions that result in thousands of people dying. But, executives in multi-billion dollar companies don’t contract out to hitmen to murder people who hurt their companies. That’s just movie stuff, and you’re naive to think it happens in reality.

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          8 months ago

          But, executives in multi-billion dollar companies don’t contract out to hitmen to murder people who hurt their companies.

          And you know this how?

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            8 months ago

            Common sense? The lack of historical precedent? The fact I can watch movies and be aware that they don’t represent reality?

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              But, executives in multi-billion dollar companies don’t contract out to hitmen to murder people who hurt their companies.

              And you know this how?

              Common sense? The lack of historical precedent? The fact I can watch movies and be aware that they don’t represent reality?

              So you pulled it out of your ass.

              Have a nice day.

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                I made a decision based on reality. I didn’t decide someone had hired a hitman to kill a whistleblower because it seemed realistic to me based on watching too many movies. Believing that is also “pulling it out of your ass”, but without any basis in actual reality.