Preston de Guise 🏳️‍🌈✍🏼

I have every sympathy for the people in that damned submarine.

But I can't help but to compare the level of fixated attention they are receiving from governments and media to the utter indifference shown to asylum seekers making hazardous sea crossings - in their hundreds - and think it all boils down to skin colour and bank balance.

Jun 22, 2023 at 4:55amWeb
Show threadStressed Out Maikel 🇪🇺Jun 22, 2023
@backupbear it disgusts me to be honest. Every toot I read about them.
Show threadRiaResistsJun 22, 2023
@backupbear
You’re right.
I’m thinking the same thing.
And spending that much $$ on stupid indulgence.
Most billionaires we hear about are very strange & just…..gross.
Out of touch w reality which is how I’d be if I had a lot of money.
It’s gross that people don’t seem to think things over, consider other factors, they dont know or more likely dont care.
Show threadDidactylosJun 22, 2023
@backupbear @Npars01 I do think you have captured the right way to respond to this
Show thread(in)coherenceJun 22, 2023
@backupbear
I don't have any sympathy for the "people" in that submarine. Just a bunch of rich kids being idiots and facing the consequences of their actions.
Show threadTheriacJun 22, 2023
@backupbear
the thing for me is every time I hear their story being brought up, there this voice in the back of my head that muses on the fact these people are exactly the kind of people that object to paying for services they don't use.
Show threadSteven ReedJun 22, 2023
@backupbear that's a lot of it, I'm sure. But I think also it's that it's "unusual", and it's an ongoing, edge-of-your seat drama (for another few hours, at least)
Show threadAlexander The 1stJun 22, 2023

@backupbear As much as this doesn't seem to come up in social media discussion about it, I wonder if the naming of the vehicle had a factor to it ( https://mstdn.ca/@AT1ST/110584692130876165 ).

The submarine was called the Titan and looked for the Titanic, and the refugee boat was called the Andriana.

Maybe tie to boat to ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriana_Babali ) - and see if that gets further coverage that way.

Alexander The 1st (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] So I've heard a bit about the Titanic submarine crash - but it took me a while to realize the submarine was *named* the "Titan"...which kind of felt like it was tempting fate. I presume the migrant ship that was capsized* by the coast guard did not name their ship something that tempted fate in an ironic way.

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Show threadBruce PrestonJun 22, 2023
@backupbear In many ways it's worse than that: the key is _novelty_. A bunch of wealthy white tourists drowning is unusual; a mass of migrants drowning is quodtidian.