Titanic submersible es morte (1 Viewer)

[WhoDatPhan78]

The migrant boat's situation and the Titanic submersible's situations are not comparable.

There are conflicting reports, per CNN. Some report that the Greek navy was on the scene attempting to stabilize and tow the migrant vessel after its engine broke down. The Greek Navy and Coast Guard deny those accounts, but concede they had vessels on the scene.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/18/asia/pakistan-deaths-migrant-boat-disaster-greece-intl-hnk/index.html

The public should be ashamed of themselves over what they give attention to.

 

[El Caliente]

The part in this story that I am failing to understand are the social media folks who are happy that evil millionaires might be dead. I have seen about 30-40 tweets rejoicing in how these guys might be dead.

What is the benefit in rejoicing in their death? What’s the benefit in calling them evil?

 

[Madmarsha]

The part in this story that I am failing to understand are the social media folks who are happy that evil millionaires might be dead. I have seen about 30-40 tweets rejoicing in how these guys might be dead.

What is the benefit in rejoicing in their death? What’s the benefit in calling them evil?

 

[Semper]

The part in this story that I am failing to understand are the social media folks who are happy that evil millionaires might be dead. I have seen about 30-40 tweets rejoicing in how these guys might be dead.

What is the benefit in rejoicing in their death? What’s the benefit in calling them evil?

Yeah this I don’t get.

 

[Semper]

The public should be ashamed of themselves over what they give attention to.

We should all be ashamed. Look you’re beating a dead horse here. We argree it’s a tragedy and all that. We have given reason on why this is interesting. I see you posting on this thread but I didn’t see a migrant thread about boats sinking that you started? Ultimately the world is self indulgent sheets if you want to be honest. To exist and be happy we simply need food, water and shelter. Yet here we sit on our phones, in our air conditioned offices, drinking coffee and getting fat while we throw millions of pounds of food away every year while children and countries starve. People in India are dying from a heat wave as well. Over 170 already where something like 10% of the population has working air conditioners I read. Where is the posts on that?

 

[Sun Wukong]

The part in this story that I am failing to understand are the social media folks who are happy that evil millionaires might be dead. I have seen about 30-40 tweets rejoicing in how these guys might be dead.

What is the benefit in rejoicing in their death? What’s the benefit in calling them evil?

There's a lot of performative progressivism on the internet. In its more extreme forms it turns into stuff like that. Then they go back to watching TikTok and feeling like they scored serious points against the man.

 

[SWJJ]

The public should be ashamed of themselves over what they give attention to.

 

[WhoDatPhan78]

We should all be ashamed. Look you’re beating a dead horse here. We argree it’s a tragedy and all that. We have given reason on why this is interesting. I see you posting on this thread but I didn’t see a migrant thread about boats sinking that you started? Ultimately the world is self indulgent sheets if you want to be honest. To exist and be happy we simply need food, water and shelter. Yet here we sit on our phones, in our air conditioned offices, drinking coffee and getting fat while we throw millions of pounds of food away every year while children and countries starve. People in India are dying from a heat wave as well. Over 170 already where something like 10% of the population has working air conditioners I read. Where is the posts on that?

Not sure why you seem to be taking anything I've said personally.

 

[SWJJ]

The part in this story that I am failing to understand are the social media folks who are happy that evil millionaires might be dead. I have seen about 30-40 tweets rejoicing in how these guys might be dead.

What is the benefit in rejoicing in their death? What’s the benefit in calling them evil?

I have a hard time feeling bad for the people in there, but not because they are rich. The CEO is on record being completely nonchalant about safety. They fired a previous employee who told them this was a ticking time bomb. The disclaimer to ride in the thing tells you it has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body and could result in disability or death. The CEO is even on record in a podcast stating that Safety is unnecessary and a waste of money. People are mocking them because of their arrogance and utter foolishness. I don't mean to say these jokes are not distasteful, but there is more to it than making fun of them because they are rich. This is a completely unavoidable tragedy that they wholly brought upon themselves.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

The public should be ashamed of themselves over what they give attention to.

I think ‘attention’ is the correct framing - as a theatre teacher, I’ve been wrestling with this dynamic quite a bit - we are story telling/making creatures
Story draws our attention- we are hard wired for that
Stalin correctly and horrendously said ‘one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic’

Billionaires is an easy, self-contained story with lots of brain chemistry tickles to keep us focused - we get to feel smarter than billionaires while also being envious of them
There’s nothing neat and tidy about immigrants in a boat drowning (or being caged in a Tx border town, or Palestinians being terrorized, or uighurs being killed, et al) - once we acknowledge the ‘story’ we are complicit- it feels like we should do something- and we feel as powerless about those situations as we do climate change
Show we have a choice- acknowledge and feel like impotent **** or see it as a ‘statistic’
Neither are great, but it’s understandable why we don’t give broad social/cultural/political emerging tragedies the same attention we give bite sized stories

 

[Hoodoo]

The part in this story that I am failing to understand are the social media folks who are happy that evil millionaires might be dead. I have seen about 30-40 tweets rejoicing in how these guys might be dead.

What is the benefit in rejoicing in their death? What’s the benefit in calling them evil?

I'm certainly not rejoicing, but it seems to fall in the "play stupid games..." and "some people have more money than they know what to do with" categories. I think that some people see it as them getting what was coming to them due to the percieved excessive behavior and the feeling that most people of wealth treat life like they are morally, socially and physically above the risks that peasants such as ourselves face.

 

[Semper]

Not sure why you seem to be taking anything I've said personally.

I am not taking it personally. I am simply responding to your post. I believe I am even agreeing with you. We suck. People in general suck. The story about this sub is what it is. In a few days we will be obsessed about something else. It will never be malnourished children, it will never be the poor. I hate it to but I am just as guilty.

 

[Semper]

I have a hard time feeling bad for the people in there, but not because they are rich. The CEO is on record being completely nonchalant about safety. They fired a previous employee who told them this was a ticking time bomb. The disclaimer to ride in the thing tells you it has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body and could result in disability or death. The CEO is even on record in a podcast stating that Safety is unnecessary and a waste of money. People are mocking them because of their arrogance and utter foolishness. I don't mean to say these jokes are not distasteful, but there is more to it than making fun of them because they are rich. This is a completely unavoidable tragedy that they wholly brought upon themselves.

Agree. The only person I can feel sympathy for is the 19 year old kid. He is too young to be making decisions like this. When I was 19 I would have done it. I was an idiot. You know that bridge on Interstate 59 that crosses the Pearl River? I have jumped off it. Complete moron move, but I was young, 10ft tall and bullet proof.

 

[Hoodoo]

Agree. The only person I can feel sympathy for is the 19 year old kid. He is too young to be making decisions like this. When I was 19 I would have done it. I was an idiot. You know that bridge on Interstate 59 that crosses the Pearl River? I have jumped off it. Complete moron move, but I was young, 10ft tall and bullet proof.

I used to laugh internally when I was a kid and my parents would ask me that question. "If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?" Well, yes. In fact I have, on multiple occasions.

 

[Semper]

I used to laugh internally when I was a kid and my parents would ask me that question. "If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?" Well, yes. In fact I have, on multiple occasions.

Yeah my friends laughed but never followed me lol.