I've got no love for billionaires, and obviously this story overshadowing the migrant boat sinking in Greece is infuriating, but I'm really not a fan of the glee so many people on social media are expressing at the deaths of these five people.

Also, on another note, I seriously cannot get over the fact that the late CEO of the company, Stockton Rush, has the absolute perfect team name for a minor league football team from central California.

[–] Elroy_Berdahl 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree, a lot of people in threads in the fediverse are taking way too much pleasure in 5 people dying. I get not being a fan of billionaires - no one should be - but not everyone aboard was a billionaire, and even if they were it's just so incredibly callous to take joy in people dying in an accident. Have a base level of empathy for crying out loud.

Part of the reason I loved moving to Lemmy from reddit was getting away from reddit's toxicity, I hope we don't bring it with us.

[–] seesaw@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Complaining about non-existing things is a new phenomenon on the internet I guess. I haven't seen a single person cheering about the billionaires' death but I've seen dozens of people complaining about people cheering about their deaths.

It's like those upvoted comments in reddit threads where people say "number of comments in this thread about XX is disgusting" and you look for those comments and cannot find any.

[–] Elroy_Berdahl 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's just one from this thread. In other news threads the top two comments were people saying "good riddance" or something similar. I'd screenshot those for you as well but I now can't find the threads in my feed because the feed updated and they got pushed down to god knows where.

[–] seesaw@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean if you specifically look for it you can of course find them, you can find people cheering for dead puppies and kittens too, there are maniacs everywhere. Thing is it's far from being an overall attitude, it's really really minority.

[–] Elroy_Berdahl 1 points 1 year ago

I only went back to specifically look for them because you said they didn't exist. Previously I wasn't looking for them, they were just there as per my example. Additionally, 'lots' is relative and doesn't necessarily mean majority.

Regardless, this is largely semantics as the point is that there are people taking joy in it and I find that sad.

[–] hardypart@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

This is indeed an annoying reddit / internet thing. It's nothing but shit stirring.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You were the kid who just casually glanced around when asked to look for something, weren't you?

[–] ToastyWaffles@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think worrying about people making fun of some rich ass billionaires dying for doing something stupid, is the last hill you should choose to die on. These people made their riches and wealth by exploiting normal people like you and me.

You don't have to actively root for their deaths, but I'm certainly not shedding any tears for them experiencing the consequences of their own actions.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You don't have to actively root for their deaths, but I'm certainly not shedding any tears for them experiencing the consequences of their own actions.

That's... What he said? Lol

"I've got no love for billionaires... but the glee people have for their deaths..."

Let's leave the "if you have any scrutiny whatsoever it must mean you're on the opposite side of everything I stand for" bullshit on reddit where it belongs and actually read what people are saying.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't say I'm dying on any hill here, only saying there are very few people whose deaths should be celebrated, and these are not those people.