• @[email protected]
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    161 year ago

    The memes are in general not “funny” per se, but the situation sure is. Are you implying otherwise?

    • @[email protected]
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      -71 year ago

      Like, funny “haha”? Or weird funny?

      People died; it’s about as comical as migrants drowning in the Mediterranean.

      • interolivary
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        131 year ago

        Billionaires died of hubris, oh no. The kid I might feel bad about but the rest not so much. Drowning migrants are desperate poor people looking for a better future, I don’t see how those are in any way comparable except for happening at sea

        • @[email protected]
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          -11 year ago

          I see this popping up a lot.

          “Billionaire died”, “rich guy croaked” “wealthy person perished”

          It’s as if some people are so caught up in a class war they forget that we’re all flesh and bone. At 4km below the surface it doesn’t really matter how you got there or what’s in your wallet, you’re totally helpless.

          I’m not a very empathetic person in general, so I find it odd that i feel the need to explain this.

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            At 4km below the surface it doesn’t really matter how you got there or what’s in your wallet, you’re totally helpless.

            Especially if you’re like Mr. CEO who was so full of himself that he thought basic security practices were for losers. Yes, I get it, people died, but you can’t tell me I have to feel bad about rich people dying doing what they loved: being money-grabbing self-centered idiots who will skimp on something like life saving measures to save a bit of money

            • @[email protected]
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              31 year ago

              There you go again, qualifying their personhood.

              I’m not saying anyone should feel bad for them, but like I’ve said, the merciless mocking that’s been going on this week is in poor taste.

              These people all have families, presumably have friends. Now their loved ones have to try to grieve in a sea of media attention and playground insults. It’s indecent.

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                21 year ago

                I’m not qualifying their personhood, I’m just not wringing my hands over how it’s so so sad that they died

                • @Esjee
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                  -31 year ago

                  ITT: people being jealous of richer people

                  • TheMonkeyLord
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                    01 year ago

                    Nah, at least to me it isn’t a matter of wealth at all. Every single inch of this submersible looked like pure sketch, there were so many massive red flags and anyone with an ounce of sense would have been right to veer a hundred miles away from.

                    It’s hard to feel sympathetic for the fools that paid to be on the damn thing when it was smelling of death before it hit the water.

      • @Monkeyhog
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        11 year ago

        People die all the time, sometimes they die funny.

    • @[email protected]
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      -171 year ago

      Like, funny “haha”? Or weird funny?

      People died; it’s about as comical as migrants drowning in the Mediterranean.

      • @[email protected]
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        191 year ago

        People died because of their hubristic and needlessly extravagant hobby: visiting the wreck of a vessel that famously killed people because of hubris and needless extravagance. Sure I’m not laughing out loud or celebrating their death, but you must admit there’s at least a wry irony here.

        • @[email protected]
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          -81 year ago

          People frequently die climbing Everest, but we don’t pillary them for ever having tried it.

          What you do in your own home is your business, but posting memes publicly for anyone (including the family of the deceased) to see is in poor taste

          • @[email protected]
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            71 year ago

            Oh no we all think everest ascent is stupid too. Absolutely it’s in poor taste. Is this your first time on the Internet?

          • @[email protected]
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            71 year ago

            Actually, I call Everest the realist Tourist Trap for that reason. The cost of my hobbies cant pay for life saving medical treatments.