There’s a link between this kind of reaction and the reaction people have to learning what happened to the Romanovs. Sure, there’s a part of me that feels bad about death in general, but I can never shake the fact that real sorrow is seemingly reserved for the self-appointed main characters of life and history – rich people.
Tons of poor people die every day. Their deaths are often worse, more degrading or agonizing, and typically because of things that rich people have decided for the rest of us, yet often written off as a consequence of personal shortcomings or poor choices.
But now that these rich people have made a plainly stupid and irresponsible choice, I’m suddenly an asshole for marveling at simple cause and effect.
In other boat related news, a migrant boat capsizes killing at least 81 people seeking a better life. Basically no mention when compared to the reaction to the sub.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/21/asia/pakistan-greece-boat-tragedy-kashmir-village-intl-hnk/index.html
The people who defend the Romanovs fucking disgust me. I was ‘friends’ with another russian jew who went to bat for them because of the fucking movie Anastasia. Both their and my families were being slaughtered in state-sanctioned pogroms… how the hell do you get to that fucking point? Even at my most liberal, I always believed the Romanovs deserved everything they got. Every single time someone brings it up I just list the horrific conditions that thrived under the Romanovs making them feel as terrible as possible.
I get not wanting to relish in the death of oppressors, personally I believe an unceremonious is more than sufficient. But defending them???
because of the fucking movie Anastasia.
That fucking movie! It totally blows (Don Bluth’s worst film imo) but seems to have influenced a genuinely shocking number of people’s opinions on the Romanovs.
I just looked it up on wikipedia to make sure I spelled Don Bluth’s name right, and read this:
Anastasia was the first 20th Century Fox animated feature to be produced by its own animation division, 20th Century Fox Animation, through the animation studio Fox Animation Studios. The film premiered at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City on November 14, 1997, and was released in the United States on November 21. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the animation, voice performances, and soundtrack, though it attracted criticism from some historians for its fantastical retelling of the Grand Duchess. Anastasia grossed $140 million worldwide, making it the most profitable film from Bluth and Fox Animation Studios. It received nominations for several awards, including for Best Original Song (“Journey to the Past”)[8] and Best Original Musical or Comedy Score at the 70th Academy Awards.
I am now suspicious that the CIA pushed that shitty movie , I cannot imagine such a turd being that popular or successful organically.
I am now suspicious that the CIA pushed that shitty movie
Dude, of course they do, this isn’t up to suspicion, I’m sure nerds from hexbear.net can link a shitton of articles and documents proving every single “interaction” ie command from the government to Disney/Hollywood/whatever.
Point out that what the Bolsheviks did to the Tsar’s family is what Goblin Slayer did to the goblins.
“Did you support Goblin Slayer because he’s badass? And those goblin babies were just going to grow up to be goblins? Those Romanoffs were going to do the same thing, grow up to be monsters. Best get them while they’re easily gotten.”
Then watch the sputtering and malding start.
billionaire
non-evil
Yeah I feel bad for the kid. But I mean c’mon the waiver even says “yeah you’re going to die, $250k plz”. If I was the kid I’d be like oh fuck no.
Professional diver? wasn’t the pilot also the CEO of the whole OceanGate?
There are no non-evil billionaires. Their very existence is predicated upon mass poverty and death
I don’t know if I’d say that. He seemed like the only normal person on that submarine, but also he’s been diving to the Titanic since 1987 and I’m reading he’s visited the wreckage more than anyone else.
So he should have known better to simply strap into a vessel as unsafe as that one.
Agreed. If you’re laughing at their deaths rather than causing them you need to do some serious introspection and self-crit
