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superchuck500 said:
There are 330 million people in the US.

There are an estimated 22 million millionaires in the US.

There is a significant number, perhaps 200,000 decamillionaires in the US - net worth north of $10M - and that’s probably where you get into real wealth in the US.

From what I can find, there appear to be about 10,000 centimillionaires or hectomillionaires in the US - those worth $100M or more. Clearly this is substantial, multi-generational wealth.

There are 770 billionaires. Just a tiny grain of sand (330,000,000 : 770) of the population controlling massive wealth.
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I'm more concerned about immigration, trans people and woke stuff.
 
Saintslfc13 said:
The Navy coming out and saying they heard the implosion hours after they lost contact does not sit well with me at all. If the reason for not saying they suspected that in the first place was to not inform other nations of our deep sea monitoring capabilities then I don't see why they felt the need to go ahead and say it now. They essentially created/allowed 4 days of grim media coverage, not to mention allowed mobilization of rescue efforts rather than recovery/confirmation efforts (assuming they didn't notify any of those parties prior to the public that they suspected they were dead), and in terms of people related to those on board gave them false hope. As it affects me directly it's basically just another case of government/media manipulation, irritating enough on it's own but not something that surprises me, but when I think about how I'd feel if I called anyone on board that thing family or a friend and was basically strung along for 3-4 days I would be very very P'Oed off.
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From what I read, the signal they detected was immediately shared with those leading the search and used to hone in on a search area, but that the sound of the implosion wasn’t determined to be definitive and they continued looking. Should they have done something differently?
 
Despite all the faux outrage from the billionaire simps, Despite the dozens of memes I have seen, despite the hundreds of posts on message boards and social media I have read since this ordeal began, not once have I seen anyone actually celebrate or rejoice in the death of the people on board. Not once have I seen anyone say the "evil" billionaires deserved to die, or any of the other complete bullshirt that I keep seeing the high horse faux moral outrage group.

They are simply ALL parroting the same faux outrage as a way to demonize people who do not share their politics.

Because that's what they do, Demonize the other side.
 
DavidM said:
From what I read, the signal they detected was immediately shared with those leading the search and used to hone in on a search area, but that the sound of the implosion wasn’t determined to be definitive and they continued looking. Should they have done something differently?
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From what I understand, acoustic location in the open deep ocean isn't super precise when you're not looking for something (the Navy wasn't looking for the sub when it imploded). So the sound was definitely not determinative. It's like saying they found a piece of red cloth at the bottom of the waterfall and the hiker was wearing a red hoodie . . . is that bit of evidence enough to conclude the hiker died in the river and the search in the woods should be called off? I don't think that's how search and rescue works.

I'm also seeing a lot of criticism that the ongoing search effort gave the families false hope when the Navy knew of an implosion. Have the families said that? I don't think the content of the communications with the families have been made public. Unless someone knows for sure what the families were and were not told (and why) it seems that's just people popping off about things they don't have enough information to comment on.
 
SWJJ said:
Despite all the faux outrage from the billionaire simps, Despite the dozens of memes I have seen, despite the hundreds of posts on message boards and social media I have read since this ordeal began, not once have I seen anyone actually celebrate or rejoice in the death of the people on board. Not once have I seen anyone say the "evil" billionaires deserved to die, or any of the other complete bullshirt that I keep seeing the high horse faux moral outrage group.

They are simply ALL parroting the same faux outrage as a way to demonize people who do not share their politics.

Because that's what they do, Demonize the other side.
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First link I opened today on twitter:

 
superchuck500 said:
From what I understand, acoustic location in the open deep ocean isn't super precise when you're not looking for something (the Navy wasn't looking for the sub when it imploded). So the sound was definitely not determinative. It's like saying they found a piece of red cloth at the bottom of the waterfall and the hiker was wearing a red hoodie . . . is that bit of evidence enough to conclude the hiker died in the river and the search in the woods should be called off? I don't think that's how search and rescue works.

I'm also seeing a lot of criticism that the ongoing search effort gave the families false hope when the Navy knew of an implosion. Have the families said that? I don't think the content of the communications with the families have been made public. Unless someone knows for sure what the families were and were not told (and why) it seems that's just people popping off about things they don't have enough information to comment on.
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Agreed.

The people making operational decisions didn't have a responsibility to the media and to onlookers. The navy reportedly relayed information it had to those conducting the search, and the searchers made decisions using that information. I would imagine with something like this, responders go in knowing it very likely will turn into a recovery mission even while they maintain hope it's a rescue mission. Not sure much changed for them, either way.
 
Without veering too much into politics, there is a definite degradation of empathy in this society. I'm not sure why people would be shocked that there is little sympathy for billionaires spending absurd amounts of money on a risky venture with someone who a bare amount of diligence would reveal had contempt for safety standards, when we see mocking of the margins of our society all the time.

Kindness, and empathy are in short supply these days. And no, empathy isn't just offering thoughts and prayers when 20 children die in a mass shooting; or saying, wow it really sucks that Bob went bankrupt after getting cancer and losing his home because his insurance was crappy; or saying good job kid for raising money to pay off your classmates school lunch; or so on... It's actually doing something about it. Not standing for people being butt crevasses - but calling them out for it. Not just saying - "well what can we do, that's just the way the world works"... it's actually doing something even if that something makes you a little uncomfortable.

It's like a frog being boiled alive... we've become more and more numb to the amount of suffering around us.
 
SWJJ said:
a self labeled communists with 28 followers' comment on an "anti-lest"ist with 240 followers is the first link you opened on twitter?

Color me unconvinced:

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Some of yall are trying WAY too hard.
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No. That was a comment from the first link I opened. There are other comments in there very similar.

 

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