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Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by Natsu on Thursday June 24, 2021 @01:42AM (#27614330)
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.
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Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by juskrey on Thursday June 24, 2021 @04:07AM (#27615061)
One does not come to a new country out of the blue and become a drug dealer boss
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Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by Natsu on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:57PM (#27622298)
True, but it doesn't sound like he was working for anyone most of the time, he was just making some stuff for personal consumption and/or for the local brothel owner.

So I'm really confused as to why he was working a job or had a boss with all that money when it seemed like he was just experimenting with drugs and hookers.

And even then, how do we know that any of these random forum posts are even legit? It certainly seems possible--he wasn't the most stable individual--but I hate to just blindly trust something I read on an internet forum that gives me no realistic way to validate that any of this is from him.

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Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by BatteryMountain on Thursday June 24, 2021 @04:45AM (#27615246)
He is the boss? Referencing himself? Ha
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Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by Natsu on Friday June 25, 2021 @11:50AM (#27632299)
That would be a very crackheaded thing to do, taking pictures to blackmail yourself for having sex with a dog.
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Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by a0-prw on Saturday June 26, 2021 @04:38AM (#27640224)
He's just messing around. Having fun. It was a joke.
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