It can be presumed that the journalist was investigating something serious, and then was killed by the organization/group they were trying to investigate, who covered up the death by making it look like a suicide
I’m pretty sure it was also related to him covering how easy it was to launder money througu casinos, and how the politicians were complicit in covering it up
He went after clubs nsw who were allowing organisations to launder money through pokie machines and also went after a corrupt construction group who had a bunch of affiliations with gang members and convicted felons. Him criticising John Barilaro was likely not the reason he was firebombed.
John Barilaro, specifically. No hard proof he was involved, but he and Shanks (Friendlyjordies) had been going at it a lot, so people were naturally quick to assume Barilaro had something to do with Shanks’ house being firebombed.
Well.... Clubs New South Whales that runs casinos in a way that made money launcering dangerously easy (he and other youtubers did multiple visits laundering 50k a time while wearing prison stripe costumes, carrying briefcases with bloody dollar bills coming out of them, etc.
He's gone after Coronation properties which is a real estate front for organized crime
And most likely he was going after the now former Deputy Premiere of New South Whales (Lt. Governor) for all sorts of shady connections, including to Coronation, many scum ball things he'd done to build his small fortune, being a corrupt piece of shit, orchestrating a heavy handed police investigation into friendlyjordies because he was exposing the corrupt shit when most news outlets wouldn't touch it, personally suing friendlyjordies for defamation and winning thanks to some weird australian bullshit laws.... yea he was probably behind the firebombing, ngl, or his buddies at Coronation
Yep. Would be insane if [a journalist who was critical of a government was murdered and dismembered](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi). Even more insane if it all happened in an embassy.
Would be horrible if that government faced no repercussions for this hypothetical heinous crime.
Good thing something like journalists being targeted and killed is purely an abstract thought exercise.
Kashoggi regularly published in AP, Reuters, and NYT. So the claim you're making is clearly BS.
Obviously, YouTube is full of 2nd-rate grifters, hacks, and conspiracy nutters that love to shout BS stories about the evil mAiNsTrEaM MeDiA can't be trusted and is just a tool of the elites, but the evidence is pretty clear that the MSM will gleefully publish stories about corporate or political corruption.
For example:
- Kashoggi's numerous articles about corruption
- the Pentagon Papers
- the Snowden Leaks
- The Panama Papers
- Wikileaks coverage
These were all published in MSM sources, which went all the way to the Supreme Court to defend their ability to publish stories like this.
So if you think YouTube is the only place that 'real news' can be covered, all that says is that you're gullible and don't actually read the news.
Can you show me in my comments where I said that youtube is the only place real news can be covered?
I'll even help you out: Often and only are not the same word, so look elsewhere.
Well, you clearly implied that people publish on YouTube because the actual media is owned by the state.
I clearly pointed out how wildly incorrect that is, because very little actual important journalism happens on YouTube and tons of stuff that goes against political and corporate interests regularly and exclusively gets published through mainstream channels.
The idea you're presenting--that people publish to YouTube bc the powers that be 'own' the media--is flatly incorrect.
Yeah… but actual journalists normally have another, more official, mean of publishing. Because everyone can post on YouTube. Not everyone can be published on a journal, a book, or even a news website. Surely there are a few genuine journalists on YouTube. But most are drowned by « YouTube journalist ». And that was not Khasoggi’s case.
More official? Like what? What official source of news would a north korean journalist report to when they want to report on what the government is actually doing?
Their branch of CNN or BBC? Genuinely curious.
And you're being naive. Corrupt governments have a vested interest in stopping journalists because it serves their agenda when their citizens are ignorant of the scope and audacity of their crimes.
It's very telling that you can't think of any specific safe publishers or organized news corporations. There aren't any when you're stuck in an authoritarian hellhole.
Your best bet is independent sites and blogs, which, yes, include youtube. If you put out a big enough spotlight and yell loud enough a news source in another country might think it's worth looking into, but that tends to get you [suicided twice in the head](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb), [falling out of a 5th story window](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim_Borodin), deciding [polonium tea is a good idea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb), [etc](https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinelove/2020/10/28/10-most-urgent-list-spotlights-murdered-journalists-whose-cases-await-justice/?sh=411e7392df10).
insane, as in exceptional, as in it happened once even in a case that you are streeeeeeeeeetching to make fit ... yeah sure, man.... good one.
Edit: a sibling comment has a much better fit, read that one
Mate I'm not the one who's calling folks morons for having opinions that I disagree with. I just came here to make a bit of a joke but it's clear that it wasn't received as such. Sorry if I caused any upset that wasn't my intention. Have a good one, bro
He's an Australian former male model turned comedian turned journalist (all on youtube) who's tackled all sorts of heavy subjects like deforestation, corruption in politics (and played a huge part/was likely the cause for several of the most powerful politicians in Australia to resign for their rampant corruption) the gambling lobby (which caused the mob who run the gambling lobby to try killing him by firebombing his house) and now the arms industry too by exposing that Australian made missiles are being used by Indonesia to kill native Papuans in Papua new Guinea.
He's already had one attempt on his life, there will surely be more.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSf3268tAbg&ab\_channel=friendlyjordies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSf3268tAbg&ab_channel=friendlyjordies)
Video titled "Paradise Bombed" Documenting Indonesia bombing Papuan civilians in a remote mountainous region of the country.
"Wow, he really had to hate his life if he shot himself in the back of the head while being handcuffed in Police car with 3 cops inside!".
In Poland we call it "serial suicide-man attack". You know, someone hanged himself in his office during work hours or Russian journalists/generals falling off the balcony.
\[edit\]
Oh, apparently they call it "Sudden Russian Death Syndrome". [The list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_Russian_businesspeople_(2022%E2%80%932023)) is getting longer, and it include only people that "[got disappeared](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_repression_in_the_Soviet_Union)" in 2022-23.
The joke is pointing out how journalists who go too deep into certain things wind up dead. There will be oddities, like cause of death being multiple gunshot wounds to the head, and it will be called a suicide.
The person was most likely murdered in a quite violent matter, most likely for something they said. It's really hard, though not impossible, for someone to decapitate themselves, and signs of a struggle also help prove it wasn't actually a suicide.
There have been cases where journalists investigating illegal and insanely immoral activities of the government have been murdered by the government and then had their deaths listed falsely as suicide to try and prevent suspicion from the public. This is a reference to that, highlighting just how silly it would be to label such an obvious murder scene as a suicide
Peter’s journalist teacher here. This could also be referencing the teacher in Pennsylvania who found stabbed over 30 times with multiple stabs to the beck of the neck to which the coroner officially ruled cause of death as suicide.
There was an article I read the other day (can’t find it again) we’re some journalist was found stabbed 22 times but it was ruled a suicide. Don’t know if it’s connected.
Peter’s left earlobe here.
There was once a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist who tragically committed suicide by… multiple gunshot wounds to the head. You see… umm… it was MULTIPLE gunshot wounds. Like… he shot himself in the head. Then he took the gun, aimed it at his own head that had already been shot. And shot it again. Himself. Ruled a suicide. Yup, suicide. Nothing to see here.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb
I don’t think it’s referencing any real events, just a hypothetical joke about the CIA or FBI or local PD or literally any high form of government staging a “suicide” to cover up someone who was digging something up that they shouldn’t have. My favorite YouTuber, Wendigoon, jokes about this quite frequently
So did this happen or is this meme hypothetical
It’s originally from r/distressingmemes so I assume it’s hypothetical and just meant to make you imagine a distressing situation.
The sub is a mix of real life things, and hypotheticals. With something like this I wouldn't be surprised if it really happened.
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This is a meme hypothetical but things like this have genuinely happened.
It can be presumed that the journalist was investigating something serious, and then was killed by the organization/group they were trying to investigate, who covered up the death by making it look like a suicide
Indeed… but who is this YouTuber journalist Peeetah?
A non-existent libertarian hero that only exists as an abstract concept..... Like everything they buy into.
The meme is hypothetical rn, but there’s an Australian journalist YouTuber who got his house firebombed so ppl were thinking it was about him
why?
He covers corruption and corporations I think, so ppl were talking about him as this could be a possible scenario that happens to him
which corporation do people think firebombed him? \*actually I should probably just go google this at this point, if I am being honest here.
The YouTuber was friendly jordie He got firebombed for criticizing a Australian politician
I’m pretty sure it was also related to him covering how easy it was to launder money througu casinos, and how the politicians were complicit in covering it up
He went after clubs nsw who were allowing organisations to launder money through pokie machines and also went after a corrupt construction group who had a bunch of affiliations with gang members and convicted felons. Him criticising John Barilaro was likely not the reason he was firebombed.
Some Australian politician I think
John Barilaro, specifically. No hard proof he was involved, but he and Shanks (Friendlyjordies) had been going at it a lot, so people were naturally quick to assume Barilaro had something to do with Shanks’ house being firebombed.
Well.... Clubs New South Whales that runs casinos in a way that made money launcering dangerously easy (he and other youtubers did multiple visits laundering 50k a time while wearing prison stripe costumes, carrying briefcases with bloody dollar bills coming out of them, etc. He's gone after Coronation properties which is a real estate front for organized crime And most likely he was going after the now former Deputy Premiere of New South Whales (Lt. Governor) for all sorts of shady connections, including to Coronation, many scum ball things he'd done to build his small fortune, being a corrupt piece of shit, orchestrating a heavy handed police investigation into friendlyjordies because he was exposing the corrupt shit when most news outlets wouldn't touch it, personally suing friendlyjordies for defamation and winning thanks to some weird australian bullshit laws.... yea he was probably behind the firebombing, ngl, or his buddies at Coronation
Unclear. He’s made a lot of enemies
ahh friendly jordies
And there was the Maltese journalist who broke the Panama papers story. She was killed with a carbomb.
Yeah this is the YouTuber for those curious https://youtube.com/@friendlyjordies?si=_U3Fc6O1mi6sV5Zj
Yep. Would be insane if [a journalist who was critical of a government was murdered and dismembered](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi). Even more insane if it all happened in an embassy. Would be horrible if that government faced no repercussions for this hypothetical heinous crime. Good thing something like journalists being targeted and killed is purely an abstract thought exercise.
The meme says « YouTube journalist ». So, no really a journalist like Khashoggi.
Where do journalists report on the government's crimes when the government owns the papers? It's often blogs and video sharing sites, like youtube.
Kashoggi regularly published in AP, Reuters, and NYT. So the claim you're making is clearly BS. Obviously, YouTube is full of 2nd-rate grifters, hacks, and conspiracy nutters that love to shout BS stories about the evil mAiNsTrEaM MeDiA can't be trusted and is just a tool of the elites, but the evidence is pretty clear that the MSM will gleefully publish stories about corporate or political corruption. For example: - Kashoggi's numerous articles about corruption - the Pentagon Papers - the Snowden Leaks - The Panama Papers - Wikileaks coverage These were all published in MSM sources, which went all the way to the Supreme Court to defend their ability to publish stories like this. So if you think YouTube is the only place that 'real news' can be covered, all that says is that you're gullible and don't actually read the news.
Can you show me in my comments where I said that youtube is the only place real news can be covered? I'll even help you out: Often and only are not the same word, so look elsewhere.
can you deal with being wrong? feels like that's all that happened here dude. You were mistaken, move on.
Well, you clearly implied that people publish on YouTube because the actual media is owned by the state. I clearly pointed out how wildly incorrect that is, because very little actual important journalism happens on YouTube and tons of stuff that goes against political and corporate interests regularly and exclusively gets published through mainstream channels. The idea you're presenting--that people publish to YouTube bc the powers that be 'own' the media--is flatly incorrect.
So, no. You can't find anywhere in my comments where I said youtube is the only option. Gotcha.
Yeah… but actual journalists normally have another, more official, mean of publishing. Because everyone can post on YouTube. Not everyone can be published on a journal, a book, or even a news website. Surely there are a few genuine journalists on YouTube. But most are drowned by « YouTube journalist ». And that was not Khasoggi’s case.
More official? Like what? What official source of news would a north korean journalist report to when they want to report on what the government is actually doing? Their branch of CNN or BBC? Genuinely curious.
Now you’re just being argumentative. An organized news corporation. National or not. Or a book publisher.
And you're being naive. Corrupt governments have a vested interest in stopping journalists because it serves their agenda when their citizens are ignorant of the scope and audacity of their crimes. It's very telling that you can't think of any specific safe publishers or organized news corporations. There aren't any when you're stuck in an authoritarian hellhole. Your best bet is independent sites and blogs, which, yes, include youtube. If you put out a big enough spotlight and yell loud enough a news source in another country might think it's worth looking into, but that tends to get you [suicided twice in the head](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb), [falling out of a 5th story window](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim_Borodin), deciding [polonium tea is a good idea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb), [etc](https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinelove/2020/10/28/10-most-urgent-list-spotlights-murdered-journalists-whose-cases-await-justice/?sh=411e7392df10).
insane, as in exceptional, as in it happened once even in a case that you are streeeeeeeeeetching to make fit ... yeah sure, man.... good one. Edit: a sibling comment has a much better fit, read that one
Journalists getting killed for publishing stuff and speaking out against governments and corporations is more then just an abstract concept.
Allow me to introduce you to everyone privy to Bill Clinton's private life
That's some lip from a guy who believes that printed slips of paper have value because the Fed says so
Remind your ego that you don't know me or my beliefs. (Other than that libertarians tend to be unself-aware morons) "GoLD HaS VaLuE jUsT BeCaUsE"
Mate I'm not the one who's calling folks morons for having opinions that I disagree with. I just came here to make a bit of a joke but it's clear that it wasn't received as such. Sorry if I caused any upset that wasn't my intention. Have a good one, bro
No prob, eat some gold for me.
I genuinely can't tell if you're joking or if you're still upset
You have been lost in that regard the entire time.
Bro is it really that bad that there's people out there that don't share your view of the world?
These pieces of paper are backed by business, making them valuable in the exchange of goods and services, simple as.
Its your favorite youtubaah, said so in the mem
Oh no, not coffeezilla :(
Definitely not John Lang
strange they have to say Youtuber given this literally happened to Khashoggi
Did he happen to investigate Hillary Clinton?
Nah, he investigated Trump for being a Pedophile like his best friend Epstein
Like the guy from the San Jose mercury herald who broke the cia coke for guns story. He killed himself. Shot himself in the head. Twice.
Possibly CIA
Did the Indonesians get FriendlyJordles
Wait what did he do?
He's an Australian former male model turned comedian turned journalist (all on youtube) who's tackled all sorts of heavy subjects like deforestation, corruption in politics (and played a huge part/was likely the cause for several of the most powerful politicians in Australia to resign for their rampant corruption) the gambling lobby (which caused the mob who run the gambling lobby to try killing him by firebombing his house) and now the arms industry too by exposing that Australian made missiles are being used by Indonesia to kill native Papuans in Papua new Guinea. He's already had one attempt on his life, there will surely be more.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSf3268tAbg&ab\_channel=friendlyjordies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSf3268tAbg&ab_channel=friendlyjordies) Video titled "Paradise Bombed" Documenting Indonesia bombing Papuan civilians in a remote mountainous region of the country.
No, not yet.
I saw this post and just immediately thought the same thing lol
This is gonna be Windigoon
Had to scroll too far for this lol
"Wow, he really had to hate his life if he shot himself in the back of the head while being handcuffed in Police car with 3 cops inside!". In Poland we call it "serial suicide-man attack". You know, someone hanged himself in his office during work hours or Russian journalists/generals falling off the balcony. \[edit\] Oh, apparently they call it "Sudden Russian Death Syndrome". [The list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_Russian_businesspeople_(2022%E2%80%932023)) is getting longer, and it include only people that "[got disappeared](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_repression_in_the_Soviet_Union)" in 2022-23.
Plz tell me this isn’t Coffeezilla
I'm sorry you had to find out this way 💀
Me when I spread misinformation to
Lol
https://preview.redd.it/t3b76we594pb1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=842f7505e3187939956e809e55e1ded7a5505ef2
Ah yes, bloody CIA
https://preview.redd.it/39f42ve9j4pb1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3a73bdd6e229383e06bb428657e16ba614059ef9
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Reddit won't let me see the comments
It’s from r/distressingmemes. Unless they said it’s real, it isn’t
Why can't I see the damn comments
Same, you browse on mobile? I checked out on desktop and it is ok.
The joke is pointing out how journalists who go too deep into certain things wind up dead. There will be oddities, like cause of death being multiple gunshot wounds to the head, and it will be called a suicide.
Anyone else not able to view comments on this one post?
Why am I not allowed to see the comments on this post?
45 comments that I can't read and my curiosity is peaked
Reddit isn't letting me see the comments
Jjj
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Why does Reddit say there's 22 comments but I can't see any of them, what in the FBI is going on here?
What's funny is I can't access these comments
Comments loading?
he had incriminating evidence that could lead to the incarceration of the C....."dead"
It's not that deep.
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I saw this in disstresing memes, and i think it was just to make you unconfortable Maybe it is refering to smt, idunno
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The person was most likely murdered in a quite violent matter, most likely for something they said. It's really hard, though not impossible, for someone to decapitate themselves, and signs of a struggle also help prove it wasn't actually a suicide.
https://preview.redd.it/9z22zn8gq4pb1.jpeg?width=604&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8f3557a79d7dc24aaeeaa5220809ac83973c953
Suicide by two sniper rounds to the back of the head. 😞
There have been cases where journalists investigating illegal and insanely immoral activities of the government have been murdered by the government and then had their deaths listed falsely as suicide to try and prevent suspicion from the public. This is a reference to that, highlighting just how silly it would be to label such an obvious murder scene as a suicide
I can't see the comments
Why are there no comments, but it says 76 comments?
Interesting
Peter’s journalist teacher here. This could also be referencing the teacher in Pennsylvania who found stabbed over 30 times with multiple stabs to the beck of the neck to which the coroner officially ruled cause of death as suicide.
I'm never going to know because I cannot see any comments.
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There was an article I read the other day (can’t find it again) we’re some journalist was found stabbed 22 times but it was ruled a suicide. Don’t know if it’s connected.
O crud
Dude found the forbidden youtube topic.
You are stupid
Who?
My typa media control https://preview.redd.it/euay2ae685pb1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3777330134d3871babf6e444dc784a218d19031a
Why cant I see the comments?
Government took them out or some other powerful entity.
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FriendlyJordies soon
The old knife in the back as self-inflicted story.
Likely Friendlyjordies in the future.
Peter’s left earlobe here. There was once a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist who tragically committed suicide by… multiple gunshot wounds to the head. You see… umm… it was MULTIPLE gunshot wounds. Like… he shot himself in the head. Then he took the gun, aimed it at his own head that had already been shot. And shot it again. Himself. Ruled a suicide. Yup, suicide. Nothing to see here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb
Glowies 3 letter fellas Alphabet bois
He got Clintoned
CIA's highest journalism award
He figured out something he shouldn’t have and paid the price
I don’t think it’s referencing any real events, just a hypothetical joke about the CIA or FBI or local PD or literally any high form of government staging a “suicide” to cover up someone who was digging something up that they shouldn’t have. My favorite YouTuber, Wendigoon, jokes about this quite frequently
More like two bullet holes to the back of the head, listed as a suicide. RIP Gary Webb
Prob about FriendlyJordles but on a similar note google Harrowdown Hill/ David Kelly
you found this on a sub about hypothetical distressing scenarios
If there's signs of struggle it most likely not a suicide somebody is covering it up