• CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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      A month or two ago five rich people died suddenly in a wrinkled chunk of carbon fiber and metal and the world cheered.

      Baby steps.

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          Also something like 800 refugees drowned days before but we instead had to hear nonstop coverage on the handful of rich thrill-seekers (and one of their kids - which is actually terrible) who trusted a cheapskate dipshit Andrew Ryan wannabe who decided to completely disregard decades-long-standardized regulation for stopping head-liquefying amount of pressure at crushing depths of a watery abyss and instead substitute a cheaper lighter material frame for his glorified carnival ride down to gawk at the graves of thousands of poor people who were unable to escape the fate they were forced to suffer under the hubris of yet another rich asshole cheapskate from a hundred years ago.

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          Yes I’m sure the billionaire’s child was invited.

          I’m sure he wasn’t a spoiled shit who demanded his dad also spend a quarter mil on him so he could see the titanic, too.

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      I saw a meme on here recently that said “the difference between me and God is if I saw a child getting raped, I’d step in and save it”

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      This exactly. Religions are stupid. Either a) God doesn’t exist or b) God does exist and is doing nothing about any of the evil people doing absolutely reprehensible shit in society right now.

      Either way, fuck God. If God exists he is no friend of mine.

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      I’d imagine it’s a combination of rich people getting better medical care, both preventatively and when something happens (and bad people who aren’t rich don’t make the news as much and don’t stay in it), coupled with the fact that when something does happen to one of these people, they quickly fade from people’s attention as new villains take their place. For instance, Herman Cain isn’t in people’s thoughts as much these days.