It's more fun to publicly comment on, mock, shame, and laugh about a bunch of idiots that died doing something stupid than reflect on the driving forces behind a boat with 700 people on it capsizing in the Mediterranean.

Who is this Obama dude? The only Obama I know used to bomb civilians, so this must be some other guy

Interesting. A lot of people joking around really don't know anyone or have any connections or money to put behind migrant rescue. But then, people criticizing the rhetoric usually don't have such resources either.

It is good that he's using his platform to call attention to this, and I'm glad he seems to have evolved his stance on immigrants. However, I would hope a former US President who's Vice President is now President would have made a few phone calls about this before yelling at the layman.

As he should call it out. The number of dead is wild in that migrant boat tragedy. 5 people are not better than 500.

Obama was talking to a Greek audience and called out that people were more interested in the Titan. Had he been speaking to a North American audience he would have likely called out the lack of attention on the Southern border. The reality is that Obama is speaking to the audience.

The other issue is that the Titan is overwhelmingly unique. And that makes it news worthy. Right or wrong, when something is common we stop paying attention. So the problem is not that we were interested in the Titan trajecty, but that we lost interest in the migrant crisis for Europe and the US. The problem is that for most, they don't know. The injustice is not in the fact that billionaires died, but that the uniqueness of how the billionaires died caught our attention.

Spare me when one of the countless butchers for the American Empire has something to say about "tragedy". Maybe take a few million from your endless funds for your Martha's Vineyard parties with dogshit celebrities and pitch in to help instead of giving us a lecture, you sanctimonious, neoliberal prick.

Hey Obama, where are those migrants coming, from war-torn Syria? Did you happen to do anything in Syria while you were the commander-in-chief of the US Armed forces?

dang, I haven't seen Obama since the presidency, man is getting old :(

A Netflix documentary cannot be made from the refugees. There is nothing to dramatise unlike the sub case.

Tbh, all these politicians can kick rocks imo. They don't know what it's like to be down here, and we aren't even down here down here. We're on the internet lol. I'm lucky and privileged af, and i had a shitty go of things. I can't even imagine being propped and puppeted by the machine of suffering and then to have the gall to say some shit like that, like I had some spiritual awakening. Nah. Fuck you, acting like you didn't already know the whole time Lol. I hope your grandchildren lead real fulfilling lives. Seriously I do.

It's kinda crazy

I'm pretty sure it's the media/Twitter that's obsessed. None of my friend groups have mentioned the sub.

That's fucking rich. That many immigrants died every year at the Mexican border while he was president. While it was the lowest in the last 30 years, it's still shitty. Just because your less evil doesn't mean your good.

Economic migrants / illegal immigrants… fact!

Nobody forced them on the boat..and nobody wanted them to drown…

Idiots drown. The technical term for it is called evolution.

It applies equally to gummyboat migrants and billionaire make-shift submarine passengers. One should not discriminate in their compassion for fools. We should be equally glad about them meeting their proper evolutionary fate.

People who die during the commission of a crime aren't sympathetic figures.