It's obviously conspiracy-brained but I still 100% believe most of these "suicides" are carried out by the IDF and that they monitor people's digital activities and off people who seem like they might turn into whistleblowers.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 48 points 5 days ago (1 children)

AFAIK the Navy SEAL who turned communist after being deployed was murdered by his fellow SEALs and they called it a suicide. If I remember right, part of his journal was recovered by his family and what he wrote was how he tried to blow the whistle on war crimes but his COs ignored it.

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm curious if you are referring to Pat Tillman or someone else?

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ah yeah that's who I was thinking of.

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

No problem, thanks! I just wanted to confirm because I would have liked to learn about any other similar cases.

[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 35 points 5 days ago

That seems way more likely than they suddenly grew a conscience and yet also couldn't be bother to try to right their wrongs at all (other than the suicide).

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

While I'm sure some of these have legitimately been suicides (committing blatant mass murder of civilians can fuck up even the most evil minds), I have zero doubt that a good portion of them have been taken down from within and covered up.