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Opinion - Death clocks are ghoulish, whatever you think about billionaires in subs (12ft.io)

submitted 1 year ago by Los@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] rs5th@lemmy.scottlabs.io 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US military spends 2 trillion a year. I'd much rather see those resources go into rescue operations than the opposite. Poor people in a boat should absolutely get access to the same resources, and the crime here is not that billionaires did, but that the migrants didn't.

[–] CrimsonOnoscopy@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

These weren't people on the job, or people doing anything remotely necessary. This was a joy trip for spoiled richies, and I don't see any justification for spending societal effort on it.

Not to mention rescue was most likely doomed from the start considering how far beyond the depth of any successful rescue, ever, that this was.