Social media seems to be laughing its ass off about this tragedy, is it because the folks at burning man are perceived as frivolous hippies or something? Everyone I’ve ever met who was a regular burning man attendee has been a solid human being with strong morals, personally and financially responsible, a career. Upstanding members of society for sure. I guess all some people know is the sensationalized drugs and sex. A person died. This is a tragedy for an event that brings positivity into the world. Kind of annoyed.
Because people on the internet are miserable and disgusting creatures who hate their lives and literally anyone doing better them. So they celebrate their tragedy to get a sick sense of self satisfaction
“miserable and disgusting creatures who hate their lives” describes the majority of the Human Race.
🤣 have a little bit of hope though lol
I guess maybe I thought we were past this…or at least most social media has enough sensible people that things like this are properly shouted down…
We may be. Sadly, those sensible people are not on social media.
Try asking any question on !vegan or similarly culty forum. 🤷🏼♂️ This species will always behave like crabs in a fuckin’ bucket. Right up to the very end we all had a hand in.
That’s a good connection. Vegans are also popularly perceived as being condescending douchebags but I think most of them are probably humble, chill people who are doing their thing. I don’t have any evidence of this. People laugh like idiots when studies come out that vegan diets are bad for babies or proven to cause ______ deficiency…ok. I know a Native American guy who owns a bbq place and sells tshirts with a cartoon of Indians sitting around a campfire saying “vegan is ____ tribe’s word for village idiot.” Seems like cheap larry the cable guy laughs and anyone who uses this as an excuse to laugh at suffering is a piece of shit…but you do you, folks.
To put a finer point on it: Larry the Cable Guy is an act that the vast majority of his audience don’t/won’t realize that the joke is, in fact, them. 🤦🏼♂️
People will fool you online using their best behavior as a facade. It’s not until you say something that doesn’t tickle their fancy that their true colors come out.
And I see your true colors Shining through. - Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake
Much older: Cyndi Lauper, 1986, songwriters Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly.
I was misled by a remake.
I know, and i hope it isn’t seen as rude when i make such corrections “at everyone’s service”.
Accuracy is never rude despite fools taking umbrage. You’re cool dude.
Can you really blame them? I can’t.
The fact is that we are living in societies with an increasing wealth gap between the richest and the poorest people. While the rich can afford basically anything, including to fuck around in death trap submarines at the bottom of the sea or peyote orgies in the desert, the average people are finding it hard to afford a house, a family, pets, a car, groceries and basic needs, etc. Everything is a rental, the average person owns very little, some people own nothing at all, and that creates a society where people feel they have been abandoned and have no stake in anything. Meanwhile governments and corporations that influence them are leading us towards a future odd climate catastrophe, AI generated bullshit, and economic collapse.
So is it any surprise the poor majority resents the rich minority? The worse the wealth gap gets, the stronger the resentment grows. And it has been that way throughout human history, leading to example after example of social unrest and violent revolution. A stable and healthy society demands an economy with a strong middle class that can afford the things they need and some of the things they want.
Finally. Someone cleverer than me found a good way to put it. Burning Man fiddles while it’s everything else, ironically, that burns.
Yup, the internet is very much a place to commiserate and where being negative towards anything not in the hivemind is 1000% A-OK. Like ffs, you even see it in this thread - some other poster literally said that rich people deserve more than just death.
I’m angry at how fucked up the system is in the US and how politicians basically became the interference between the ruling class and the working class, but when I see people cheering for the death of rich people like with this and that sub that was going to the Titanic recently, that’s not ok. It’s just as bad, if not worse, than either talking about the underlying issues or doing something about them because they allowed themselves to be ok with the death of another human being that doesn’t contribute to either side of the real issue of corporate entities controlling the US - and since that satiated them, then they don’t feel the need to actually go about change.
Yup. Those kind of people are the scum of the earth