It’s more fun to publicly comment on, mock, shame, and laugh about a bunch of idiots that died doing something stupid than reflect on the driving forces behind a boat with 700 people on it capsizing in the Mediterranean.
It’s a result of compassion fatigue. When the first dead migrant children washed up on the Greek coast on people were appalled and transfixed. But the next month there were more dead bodies, and then more. Eventually people stop caring.
I’m old enough to remember “Live Aid”. When Bob Geldof got up on stage and said we were going to end world hunger people really believed it was possible. Since then there have been dozens more famines in Ethiopia, and the deaths run to the tens of millions. And now no-one mentions them.
Only things that entertain us are things we care about. As the world’s sorrows and tragedies grow by the day, everything from climate change to mass shootings of toddlers, we’re numb. The one thing that helped is that it was rich people, we all (except republicans apparently) want to eat the rich, and these guys said sure we’ll just go drown, they’re pretty much allies. Gotta celebrate that.
we all (except republicans apparently) want to eat the rich
The dude in the headline sure seems upset about the “eat the rich” attitude, and however hard it is to see a practical difference, I am pretty sure he is not one of those Republican ghouls you are referring to. Perhaps you should reconsider how narrow the circle you are drawing is.
Who is this Obama dude? The only Obama I know used to bomb civilians, so this must be some other guy
he the drone pro… even droned a wedding
As he should call it out. The number of dead is wild in that migrant boat tragedy. 5 people are not better than 500.
Even if those 5 people happen to be uber-rich.
Idiots drown. The technical term for it is called evolution.
It applies equally to gummyboat migrants and billionaire make-shift submarine passengers. One should not discriminate in their compassion for fools. We should be equally glad about them meeting their proper evolutionary fate.
Economic migrants / illegal immigrants… fact!
Nobody forced them on the boat…and nobody wanted them to drown…
People who die during the commission of a crime aren’t sympathetic figures.
The right to seek refuge is protected by international law.
You seek refuge remotely, through the proper bureaucratic channels, and only go if you are granted refuge. You don’t invade. The latter is a crime. This is non-negotiable.
#1 No, this “invasion” is what we call “asylum”
#2 Even if it weren’t a legal right under international law (which it is), murder is bad, borders are bad, and depicting this as “invasion” tells me all I need to know about you.
“Borders are bad”
Oh my god. 😂
Fucking crazy fools these days.
If favouring humans to arbitrary imaginary lines in the ground is crazy, I guess I’m completely unhinged. I have no intention of conceding that the murder of over 700 people was somehow ethical, and anyone who thinks it was is a sort of crazy I’d never be able to be.
Violating a sovereign country’s borders is by definition an invasion. I already stated the one and only legal way to seek refuge. There is no debate to be had here.
You sound like a sociopath. Even if you can argue black and white whether this was a crime or not, can you argue it’s a crime worthy of death?
Who did they kill? Who did they hurt?
No one, it’s not worth arguing with that fool. They don’t understand reality other than how to mimic catchy sayings like “derntakin’ our jerbs” with out consideration they gave up those jobs because “I’m too good to do that kinda work”
If you check their post history, firebreathingbunny appears to be here just to spew fake garbage. ^^
And who killed them? Not the countries they are trying to flee to. The people who killed them are the ones who packed them into leaky boats or crammed them into airtight containers, to profit from their misery.
That is proven wrong so many times by history it’s not even funny. That’s just an uneducated take.
Hey Obama, where are those migrants coming, from war-torn Syria? Did you happen to do anything in Syria while you were the commander-in-chief of the US Armed forces?
