it’s so fucking telling, how this oceangate thing is all that’s being talked about these past three days.
meanwhile, boats carrying dozens, hundreds of people sink every week on the Mediterranean and nobody even spares a thought. the far right all throughout Europe not-so-secretly spewing “we should sink them all” and “if we could just bomb them back to where they came from” rhetoric, like these people aren’t fleeing from countries whose instability is a direct result of colonialism and neo-imperialism and on top of that, Europe jailing people and ngo’s who try to do something
meanwhile, how much is the coordinated effort to save a handful of billionaires going to cost?
I do hope, against hope, that they find them, alive and well, but jesus fucking christ, the glaring disregard for human life when it’s not a white wealthy westerner drives me up the fucking wall.
it’s horrific. awful way to die. either you’re trapped with no chance of being found, air running out, everyone around you suffocating, or the hull is broken and you get turned to jelly by the crushing ocean depths. ik they’re billionaires so it’s very contentious for me. generally i prefer no one dies horrifically. like just as a fellow human being on earth. but i dont think the ultra rich ever extend that mindset to others. climate refugees. and just everything. it feels like something a greek god would do to punish them.
it has a certain swagful je ne sais quoi if removed from the human suffering which billionaires have to do philosophically to maintain their positions. very haunting. the hubris of it all. old jalopy metal tube steered by a mad catz controller. to go look at the titanic. which is nothing but a rusted out metal wreck full of fish and silt. btw. the grandiosity of it is completely unrecognizable. one has to wonder what compels ppl to even look at it in the first place. like the prestige of seeing some filthy grown over shell? crazy thing to die for. very textually rich… bad way to die as a human being. great way to die as a narrative about human greed and folly i guess. good job. mission accomplished?
It sucks that people are treating the Reddit blackout as a joke or assuming it’s impotent rage over a minor decision bc it’s Reddit when like. No, a tech company shutting down access to their API by forcing third-party devs to pay completely unreasonable fees ($12,000 per 50 million API requests, which to the largest third party clients would be tens of millions of dollars) and in the process destroying both accessibility apps and moderation tools is Bad Actually
