Their deaths haven’t been confirmed yet. And if they are, the bodies are still warm!

  • @Munrock
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    When the Titanic went down 100 years ago the bourgeoisie leveraged their privilege to escape on lifeboats while the working class were locked in the ship to die as it sank to the bottom of the ocean.

    Now the bourgeoisie leverage their privilege to lock themselves in a tube and sink to the bottom of the same spot of the ocean, and die there.

    Can’t make this shit up.

    • @SpaceDogsOP
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      It’s incredibly ironic that a bunch of rich folks spent life changing money to gawk at the sight of a pauper’s grave just to add to the body count.

  • deweydecibel
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    That would be the same channel that aired the Emoji Movie during the Queen’s funeral.

  • @Hive68
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    Imagine the EU going to the same lengths to save refugees

    • @SpaceDogsOP
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      The Greek coast guard literally watching as a ship of refugees capsizes

    • Mitchacho74
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      Yeah I saw something saying if there was power problems, they most likely froze to death long before their oxygen would be used up

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        That’s a somewhat romantic death being able to cuddle up to your partner in a confined space, waiting for either the cold or the great deep to take you. The lamentations and misery of the other families the sound track to the last time you will ever see your partner. There’s something oddly beautifully macabre.

        It’s hot

        • WithoutFurtherDelay
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          These are billionaires, they probably don’t know what love is

          • @toomanyjoints69
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            How do you feel about Xi Jingping being a billionaire? I’ve been thinking about that a lot and it makes me sad.

            • PeeOnYou [he/him]
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              he is? that would be awfully hypocritical if true. what’s your source?

              • @toomanyjoints69
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                Idk. I heard it claimed but I thought if i mentioned here someone would write me a novel on why I was wrong. I really want to learn more. I’m sad. :(

  • Makan ☭ CPUSA
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    “omg they aren’t even dead yet”

    I lol’d.

  • @ewe@lemmy.world
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    The only issue I have with this is that they call it a “documentary.” It’s a special or deep dive, sure. Documentary is a stretch.

  • @bleepingblorp
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    Hopefully this spectacle encourages more billionaires to get inside more fragile and poorly made tubes…

    • @SpaceDogsOP
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      Yup, as of today their air supply is completely depleted.

  • @toomanyjoints69
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    Rofl. I’m so glad that these rich people get to suffocate. They each paid 200000 to board that coffin!

  • Sens
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    What I don’t get it why are people obsessed with the Titanic, plenty of shipwrecks but why is the Titantic the big one? Is it because it’s so far down or is it because of the ship itself?

      • @Munrock
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        Yeah the unsinkable thing is a big part of the mythos. The wreck of the Titanic stands as a testament to humanity’s hubris; its creators were so arrogantly confident in the technology they were using that they cut back on basic safety features and precautions. It’s also what makes the Titan stand as a testament to humanity’s ability to repeat the mistakes of the past even when the consequences of the past are staring you in the face.

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        Yeah I guess it’s a rich persons folly to visit it, tons of titanic enthusiasts who can’t pay can’t visit it though, don’t get it but whatever.

        One thing I do think about it maybe the obsession stems from that the wreck location was only discovered in the 1980s, prior to that it was mostly a mystery.

        It’s just a ship that sank 112 years ago and didn’t have enough lifeboats, yeah people died but at this point no one on this earth had a direct connection to them.

        Not that many lessons were learnt by it either, considering 737max happened.

        • @mauveOkra
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          Wait what does 737max have to do with the Titanic

          • Sens
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            Inadequate planning and design for customers safety in both cases

    • @SpaceDogsOP
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      Probably because of the movie

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      As someone who has a slightly unhealthy obsession with shipwrecks and ships in general, it’s mostly because compared to most ship disasters, the Titanic has much more information publically available and has a greater presence in modern culture, resulting in more books movies and other things being made on it than compared to something like literally any lake freighter accident which is much more horrific and much more unsurvivable than the Titanic. The general public however does have more familiarity to the Titanic because of the type of people who went down on it. The Titanic claimed the lives of people such as John Jacob Astor who was the 12th rich person in the world when he died, if I recall correctly, while the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald , for instance were all working class sailors from the Great Lakes.

      • Sens
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        Great explanation, thank you for this information!

  • Yoldark
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    I got ads to visit the titanic wreck by submarine…

    • PeeOnYou [he/him]
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      Surprised they weren’t ads to visit the wreck of the submarine visiting the wreck of the Titanic

      • Yoldark
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        Theu weren’t declared dead yet but i guess it will be added on the next tours.