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[–] TheFence 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I hate to say it, but a boat-load of illegal migrants capsizing is... normal. It happens so often it's not unusual. And you can't solve it. The crappy situation that forced these migrants to leave on a super sketchy overloaded boat is much harder to solve than, say, banning tourist dives at the Titanic wreck.

[–] masquenox 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bullshit. It's pretty goddamn easy to solve - they could have rescued those people any damn time they felt like it, but they didn't. They literally had a Greek coastal vessel shadowing that ship for hours.

But they will spend billions searching for these five "upstanding members of society" - that they will do.

[–] TheFence 4 points 1 year ago

The root cause of migrants fleeing their countries by any means necessary, like overloading a boat, which happens far too frequently, is not easily solved. You could easily argue that billions are spent on attempting to mitigate migrant issues on a yearly basis too, yet overloaded boats still keep killing dozens of people every year.

[–] dangblingus 8 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure they're called refugees.

[–] stochasticity 1 points 1 year ago

Okay, you say that, but aren't people also being prosecuted for trying to help?