Last week, a fishing boat packed with about 750 men, women and children capsized off the coast of Greece, with hundreds believed to have died

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    1 year ago

    I believe the point here is that a lot of media attention was directed to the titanic story with a lot of discussion how to rescue the victims. All while in the last couple of years there have been multiple cases of ships with refugees drowning in the Mediterranean Sea with next to no media coverage.

    Millionaires doing wacky shit just seems to be way more interesting then refugees drowning.

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      1 year ago

      Thanks but I understand the point. My point is, why is Obama telling me? My ability to affect the fates of the migrant refugees is the same as my ability affect the fates of the billionaires: zero.

      If I could choose to save one migrant life or one billionaire from that sub, I’ll pick the migrant life, every time, now matter how you phrase the question. I still think the submarine story is more interesting, in part because it makes me feel less hopeless to think about it.

      And that’s always how it goes with scolding people for what they watch. Tell the news networks. Tell the people who own the news networks. Use your influence to pass laws, Obama. Don’t scold me, what am I supposed to do.

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        The news networks only do whatever gets them more eyeballs. If they see that submarine coverage will do that, then that’s what they do.