The Western Africa-Atlantic migration route is considered one of the world's deadliest.
At least 30 migrants feared dead in Canary Islands disaster
3 years ago by wave_walnut to c/news
Turkey_Titty_city 6 points 3 years ago
for most human beings your worth is your bank account/assets.
those who have everything are superhuman figures, those who have nothing, are sub-human.
hence we waste millions to save a few rich people, but the immigrants can fuck right off and die, we won't lift a finger or even cherish a thought.
it's incredibly fucked up when you think about it. but vast majority do not think. they simple bootlick and worship at the alter of the wealthy as if they were gods.
MeccAnon 5 points 3 years ago
In Italy we have now compassion fatigue. It is just so overwhelming that we've become desensitized. Thousands of lives are saved, and lost, year on year, and nothing ever changes. The migrant plight has become both a business and a political stance to take advantage of on all sides.
Aside of those poor souls, there are no good guys in this fucked up mess. Do not be surprised, also, if the Titan wreck makes the news and the loss of 1000+ people in the space of a summer doesn't.
Because news are not subsidised anymore and need to run on money, views and paper sales.
A wreck on an iconic wreck site generates views.
The n-th migrant shipwreck does not generate views anymore (compassion fatigue, remember) unless you stick to it the picture of a dead child's body washed ashore.
It's cynical, and I hate it, but it's how it is.
Lightninhopkins 7 points 3 years ago
We gonna scramble coast guards from around the world for this one? No? I see.
AllonzeeLV 4 points 3 years ago
Humans don't care about humans, silly. Only money.
I hope climate change wins.
Turkey_Titty_city 5 points 3 years ago
esp in usa. we'd rather children be murdered by the 100s in their schools than pass any restrictions that might limit firearms sales.
Clairvoidance 6 points 3 years ago
IOM said there were 45 shipwrecks on the route during that period, but acknowledged the figure is "probably underestimated" because data is scarce and incomplete.
DO SOMETHING. STOP LETTING PEOPLE DIE. yeah you saved 24 people, due to a probably diligent search TEN HOURS LATE, MAYBE YOU SHOULD MAKE A TEAM THAT HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO ACT WAY QUICKER ON THESE TYPES OF DISASTERS WHEN YOU KNOW THIS HAPPENS REGULARLY
Morocco and the EU is obviously purposefully negligent on this topic, but I hope there's some group somewhere within the system that's working to change this.
PabloDiscobar 5 points 3 years ago
Did anybody read the article or are you gonna turn this place into reddit? If you upvote and comment rageclick then you will have more rageclick. Is that what you want?
A Spanish rescue service ship, the Guardamar Caliope, was only about an hour's sail from the dinghy on Tuesday evening, Reuters reported, citing Spanish state news agency EFE. The ship did not aid the dinghy because the operation had been taken over by Moroccan officials, which dispatched a patrol boat that arrived on Wednesday morning, 10 hours after it had been spotted by a Spanish rescue plane, Reuters reports.
oohhh, the narrative backfires. What about you talk about Morroco? Where is your rage now?
Clairvoidance 2 points 3 years ago
fuck those officials, what were they doing for 10 hours, what have they been doing since these incidents started? idk kinda easy to be mad still
le_saucisson_masque 4 points 3 years ago
Were they in a submarine ?
go to feed...
go to feed...
There's so much irony in the fact that the world's resources were mobilised to save 5 people while 2 major incidents involving the death of a lot of migrants was happening. First the Greece incident, now this.
save