"The rich are good people deep down"
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@RadicalGraffiti
OooOOooOhhh.
touché
I love/hate this for all the best reasons.
Double touché
@RadicalGraffiti the only one I have empathy is for the kid who did not want to go. :(
@marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti He was a 19 year old millionaire.
@kortskalle @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti Doesn't necessarily make him a bad person just for being rich, he got all that money from his dad. He was still a kid.
@7 @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti Legally an adult. LOL I'm probably more of a "bad person" according to people like you, for not having sympathy to spare for the rich.

@kortskalle @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti I hate the rich as much as the next person, but 'legally an adult' and being a kid aren't mutually exclusive. Life's much too confusing to figure out for someone at that age, he still had a LOT more to learn. Could have ended up being a better person than his dad.

I wouldn't call lacking empathy for the rich being a bad person, either. Most rich people are abhorrent. But he didn't get his money by owning slaves in cobalt mines or anything like that, he was just born to a more wealthy family than most. That's not his choice. We can't say whether he was a horrible person or not, because we have no way of knowing what he would have been like the older he got.

I'm not defending the rich here. I'm defending a kid who died because he wanted to make his rich, insensible dad happy.

@7 @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti Fuck off. He was an adult and he was rich.

@kortskalle @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti Guess next time he should just be born into poverty, his fault for choosing his family 🤷‍♀️

And based on your replies here, I wholeheartedly believe that you haven't matured since age nineteen, so I can see your logic. But considering most peoples' brains aren't fully developed until mid twenties, there's a LOT of room for change.

Bottom line, I think it's sad that someone so young died. And I think it's absolutely despicable that the CEO of the company decided that his £250k joyride was more important than safety.

I hope you have a nice rest of your day.

@7 @kortskalle @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti in fact, you are defending the rich. Another option would be to express your sorrow for the children and grown-up refugees that died in the Mediterranean.

@Ibex @7 @kortskalle @RadicalGraffiti you all are so fucked up. Twitter came full force here.

1. He did not want to go.
2. Everyone wants to have money, even me, coming from a low income family.
3. Being poor does not make you evil, your actions do.

I agree on tax the rich to death and all, but just saying he deserved it only for that is insane. Complete apathy.

@Ibex @7 @kortskalle @RadicalGraffiti sorry, being rich does not make you evil.
@7 @kortskalle @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti sure inherited money is always better. Geez. Must be nice to make your money for just waking up in the morning.
@darwinwoodka @7 @kortskalle @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti Way to miss the point. You don't visit racism onto people for being born black/brown/white, why should you visit it onto some teen on a submarine? Your beef is with his dad, not him.

@kortskalle @7 @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti

Feeling apathy for a narcissist is impossible once you learn they're being abusive.

My dad's family has lots of money. I hate all of them. I got a TBI as a teenager, and they delusionally ignored it happened. I was in a coma for 11 days, and my dad went on vacation to Disneyland in CA. How do you forgive that?

My sister stole my inheritance and put my nephews through college in California!

We're from Chicago!

@kortskalle @7 @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti Money changes people. My sister is not different in personality than any of the Trump's! My mother's personality was Trump's. She died in February, and I haven't been emotionally abused since! I'm fifty-five, and my life has finally begun.

@Jefiner68 @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti Oh, I agree. The fact that being rich is even *possible* is bizarre to me, and I've seen firsthand how money changes people.

That being said, I still feel that having empathy for a kid dying (even a rich one) is just as acceptable of an opinion as having zero empathy for someone dying because they're rich and put themselves in that situation.

I won't say either side's wrong. I personally don't care for the CEO or any of the rest who were in that submarine. I just can't quite ignore the loss of somebody at such a young age. The fact that he only did it for his dad is even sadder to me.

@7 @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti

Good point! I was thinking yesterday that I'm becoming apathetic to others' struggles. But that's my listening to a person who has never had to struggle.

(My moms idea of struggling was to not get her way, and my sister is the exact same. I look and sound like mom, my sis got the good looks. But she pays for them, it's nat nature.)

It's all emotional and emotional thinking, isn't wise.

So mostly I think that's how MAGA keeps their base.

@kortskalle @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti Which of those characteristics did he choose?
@BruceHalperin @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti Hahaha! Wtf is wrong with you? He didn't choose them the way you choose to miss the point. But he did choose to go on that "submarine" (LOL!) trip.
@marsaeternum @kortskalle @RadicalGraffiti I’m not the one celebrating the death of an innocent human being
@BruceHalperin @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti lololololololololololololololololololololololololol fuck off
@marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti That was a lie told by his aunt. His own mother said that not only was he excited about it, he bought a rubix cube and contacted Guinness to try and set a world record while he was down there.
@jhooper @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti If that's how terrible you have to be to die, in your eyes, then everyone's dead, including you. It's a fucking low bar. "He was excited." Jesus, listen to yourself.

@Dss @marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti Being excited to pay $250,000 to jump into a submersible built by someone that purposely knows nothing about submersibles, whom advertises his services as "Safety is a waste", just so he could visit an underwater graveyard and play with a rubix cube on the way.

He had to sign a waiver to indicate he understood the risks and that no safety was guaranteed. The CEO sells it on not being certified or rated in any way. There was no need for him to go, it was to gawk at a wreck. The only reason people singled him out for sympathy AT ALL was that they were told he was forced to go against his will, and that was a damn lie.

@jhooper @Dss @RadicalGraffiti holy fuck that was a lie 💀 show me the evidence 💀
Mom of 19-Year-Old ‘Titan’ Victim Says She Gave Him Her Seat on Sub: ‘He Really Wanted to Go’

The mother of 19-year-old 'Titan' submersible victim Suleman Dawood revealed Sunday that she gave him her seat on the doomed vessel — and that he took a Rubik's Cube with him to solve at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean

Peoplemag

@marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti The odd thing about that is that his mother gave up her seat to him because he apparently wanted to go so much, while it was his aunt that says he didn't want to go

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/26/world/christine-dawood-interview-titan-submersible-scli-intl/index.html

I'm more inclined to believe his mother, who was there

@marsaeternum me too Mars. I cried for him because he was just beginning his life! He had a chance.

You know how they say that childhood neglect and abuse change our brain, and our brain doesn't stop growing until nineteen years old?

I think money has the same effect on adult brains. It changes people.

@marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti the mom changed her story. He begged for her spot so he could take a selfie of him solving a Rubik's cube next to the titanic. He was super excited.
@marsaeternum @RadicalGraffiti
Yes. Very sad. Let’s hope his death inspires other young people to tell their parents to eff off when they try to coerce or guilt them into doing dangerous and/or foolish things.
@RadicalGraffiti and this is the rich ... under pressure
@RadicalGraffiti
Switch "The Rich" for any other group of people and it becomes "hate speech."
Why is it ok to hate people based upon the amount of money they have?