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Originally Posted by 81MC
I’m pretty eat the rich but it is incredible how much dehumanization of those in board is going on.
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I'll be honest. I can't muster much sympathy or empathy for these people. I don't have it in me any more to give a crap about every person on the planet, let alone these people who chose to do what they did in a sketchy homemade sub.
I care as much for that billionaire as he likely did for all the people he exploited to get the money he does.
I do care about the people who are living under tarps and makeshift tents near the LRT line I was riding on this morning. That pains me.
I usually don't pile on people suffering like this as I try to be a decent person, but something about this story just encapsulated how I feel about the excesses of the 1% while I struggle. I just don't care right now and am making the tasteless jokes I normally wouldn't.
At worst I'm a hypocrite as I've called out people in the past for making jokes that I feel are really tasteless, so I can at least shut my trap in the future when that happens.