#migrant boat

[nocomforthere]

Just realized the last time I posted this much in a day was when Andrew Tate was diagnosed with lung cancer. Nothing like tragedies happening to people you don’t care about (talking about the dumbasses in the submersible, not the migrant boat) to get you posting and reposting lmao

#andrew tate #titanic submersible #migrant boat #pakistan floods

[thoughtlessarse]

The Federal Police were able to determine the victims’ origin thanks to their documentation and belongings, and are now trying to identify the bodies Nine decomposed bodies were found Saturday on a boat that drifted to the coast of Brazil. On Tuesday, Brazil’s Federal Police reported in a statement that signs indicate that “the victims were migrants from the African continent, from the region of Mauritania and Mali.” The boat was located by fishermen off the coast of the Brazilian state of Pará, on the other side of the Atlantic, 2,600 miles from the Mauritanian coast. After towing the boat ashore to the municipality of Bragança, Brazilian police officers inspected it on Monday and, thanks to the documentation and belongings found with the bodies, were able to identify its origin. It is likely that the boat is one of the many that make the dangerous journey to Europe. Many set sail from Mauritania towards Spain’s Canary Islands, where there has been a surge in migrant boats. So far this year, more than 14,000 African migrants have arrived in the Spanish archipelago via this route — six times more than in the same period in 2023.

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#brazil #mauritania #mali #migrant boat #adrift at sea #dead migrants

[thestateofardadreaming]

#Immigration #Crossing the chanel #migrant boat

[bandofchimeras]

take care: in the post about the Hellenistic coast guard letting hundreds of migrant people die, there lots of disgusting comments from Europeans about being "closed" or spreading xenophobic propaganda.

yeah I bet the countries your country invaded and colonized wished they could close. stop hiding behind the cowardice of nationalism you nasty lice.

idk another strike against romanticizing Europe as somehow socially progressive when they're just liberal in a selfish, white supremacist way

#europe #migrant boat

[hicginewsagency]

Egyptian village mourns after migrant boat sinks

The last time Sabah Abd Rabu Hussein heard from her son, Yahia Saleh, he was planning to board a migrant vessel from conflict-ridden Libya to Europe. Bags with bodies were pictured in a coast guard vessel before at the port in Kalamata, Greece on June 14, 2023, after a boat sank- courtesy photo That was two weeks ago. The Egyptian housewife said on Sunday that she had begged him not to go but…

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#Migrant boat

[qupritsuvwix]

#migrant boat #boat sinking #lebanon #tragedy

[lyesander]

Not crazy about people writing off the Titan submersible incident as some schadenfreudic buzzstory they can rag on for a handful of internet funny points. I get the frustration, I really do. At least three of the passengers had to shell out $250,000 a ticket for a glorified deep sea Disney ride. The CEO of OceanGate is a capitalist wackjob who has been complaining about and bypassing safety regulations for years, despite multiple warnings, and now the retrieval is taking up time and resources from multiple countries that could have been put to better use. But one of the crew members on board was also the nineteen year old son of another passenger. I doubt his involvement extended much beyond “I’m going on a fun trip with my dad.” Another was an unaffiliated researcher who joined the expedition to collect environmental samples for DNA analysis. Not everyone on board was a high-rolling corporate yuppie. (And even if they were, it’s still a pretty objectively horrific way to die.) Instead of memes, I’d rather see this prompt a discussion on the ethics and potential regulation of scientific tourism.

The above also doesn’t change the fact that this is dragging media attention away from more pressing issues, such as the sinking of the Andriana. I guess “THE TITANIC CLAIMS ANOTHER FIVE VICTIMS” is a more colorful headline than “the EU’s xenophobic migration policies have led to the deaths of hundreds of migrants seeking asylum in Italy, and an active cover up is now taking place, headed by Greek authorities.” Seeing all this energy be funneled towards dragging this tiny capsule out of the Atlantic when up to five hundred refugees - mostly women and children - were locked in the hull of a ship and left to suffer the exact same fate, while Coast Guard vessels looked on and did nothing (or even had an active role in the capsize after a botched attempt to tow it, according to some testimonies), illustrates the sway money and race have in what we pay attention to. It’s a gruesome example of inequity in action.

I had compared what happened to the Titan to the Kursk incident, but the Andriana doesn’t have the luxury of being a freak accident. Over 25,000 migrants have disappeared or drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean since 2014, with over 2,000 deaths taking place in 2022 alone. Those are staggering numbers. Protests have broken out across Greece over the past week in the wake of the tragedy, advocating for migration reform.

While these sorts of mass casualty events tend to leave us feeling disheartened and helpless, there are ways to help. Below is a link to SOS Humanity’s donation page. Reputable search and rescue organizations such as SOS Humanity or SOS Mediterranée built their mission statements around helping migrants like the ones on board the Andriana. Donate if you can, spread the word if you can’t.

#lye speaks #titan submersible #messenia migrant boat disaster

[thesmegalodon]

i don’t really give a fuck about a billionaire. 400-750 people were on this boat and they’ve only found 104 survivors. the greek coast guard did not help them and the government is trying to cover it up.

#greece #greek boat accident #migrants

[hussyknee]

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#media criticism #centrists #satire #current events #Oceangate #Titanic #eat the rich #asylum seekers #immigration #global South #titan submersible #greece migrant boat disaster #capitalism #CW: drowning #news cycle #New York times #knee of huss #best of Twitter

[socialist-microwave-laser]

since my post talking about attention on the oceangate situation vs greece's coast guard killing hundreds of migrants broke containment and now people are pissing on the poor, i want to make something clear:

you personally are not responsible for this wide-scale disparity in attention. this situation has become a very vivid illustration of hegemonic media outlets not valuing events that don't happen in the us, canada, great britain, etc; global devaluation of black and brown migrants and refugees; the idea that anything an arm of The State™️ does must be moral and just (as long as it's a Good State™️); etc

unless you, person reading this, are like. ceo of cnn or whoever had the power in the eu to decide not to investigate this whole situation, you are not responsible for this. this is a horrible, horrible situation, and part of what makes the system we are currently under so unjust is that it forces us to be bystanders in inhumane tragedies such as this. don't let anyone make you feel guilty for something you have no control over, it helps no one

#i know this will not get the same amount of attention as the other post. but if just some people see this #it'll be better than no people #i acknowledge i could have worded that other post better but inwas genuinely just not expecting to be apparently the top post on this #situation rn #oceangate #the titanic #titanic #anarchist #eat the rich #xenophobia #racism #leftism #leftist #anti capitalism #anticapitalist #greece #greece migrant boat disaster

[mtlupy]

The top 1% of human society could easily solve climate change and world hunger, but instead they hoard their money and go on damned trips to the Titanic. This is why we need to eat the rich. They don't care about us, so we shouldn't give a fuck about them. 🤷

#eat the rich #fuck billionaires #we can do more #what about the migrants #greek migrant boat #pakistan #egypt #syria #palestine #afganistan #social justice

[sudamaniparva]

gotta admit, the media blackout on the migrant ship crisis in favor of five billionaires who agreed to go on a death coffin to the bottom of the ocean is expected, but still terrifying.

it's just listening to the CEO casually dismiss safety regulations, and stepping over the blood drenched in those regulations. we have regulations because people died for those regulations. and while i feel zero sympathy for a man who brought himself down, he should have never been allowed too. just as that migrant ship should have been tied properly and brought to shore.

#the titan #titanic #the submarine #submarine #oceangate #greek migrant boat #refugees #war #classism

[feckcops]

The migrant shipwreck near Greece is a horrible tragedy – but it wasn’t an accident

“The Greek coast guard’s conflicting account states that the vessel was first spotted by Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, at midday on Tuesday, June 13. It claims that once it achieved contact, those on board repeatedly stated that ‘the boat was not in danger, they wanted no help other than food and water, and that they wished to continue on to Italy.’ The coast guard states that at 1:40 a.m., the boat ceased moving, and at 2:04 a.m., a coast guard floating vessel reported that the trawler had capsized.

“International legal experts have noted that even if those on board the trawler said they did not want to be rescued, the coast guard had the obligation to independently evaluate if it was seaworthy and intervene if it was not. Photos of the trawler show that it was clearly overpacked, those on board did not appear to be wearing life vests, and the vessel was not flying any flag …

“These tragedies are no accident, but a product of political choices. Over the past decade, the EU has reduced access to asylum and made arriving on the continent ever more difficult — increasing policing and surveillance along its borders, erecting and expanding walls, and illegally pushing back thousands of people …

“There are years of evidence that Greece and Frontex regularly engage in and cooperate on illegal pushbacks — pushing migrants back over the border despite their right to seek asylum. In recent years, these pushbacks have been stepped up, both on the country’s northern land border and at sea. Those caught on the northern border are usually beaten, robbed of their phones and all their valuables, often stripped naked, and put in boats on the river Évros. People who arrive on Greek islands are usually gathered up, put on rubber boats, and abandoned at sea. Boats intercepted in the Aegean Sea are often damaged or have their engines removed, or else the Hellenic Coast Guard will simply tow them back to Turkish waters.”

#migrant shipwreck #boat crossings #migrant crisis #refugee crisis #migrants #refugees #asylum seekers #asylum #immigrants #immigration #humanitarian crisis #fortress europe #greek coast guard #frontex #greece #european union #eu #europe

[onthehighwaytomel]

I don't care if people on the left (which I consider myself to be) disagree with me about this: yes, billionaires absolutely suck, but I wouldn't wish this kind of death on anyone, and it's just not something I feel comfortable making or seeing jokes about. (Even for people the world would undeniably be a better place without, death via implosion under the sea that's anticipated for hours and hours and hours beforehand is a particularly horrifying way to do it.)

Were they shitty, tactless, exploitative people? Yes. Should they have just fucking stayed on dry land instead? Yes. Did they deserve to die like this? No. (Especially not the 19 year old, who was scared to go, but went because he didn't want to disappoint his dad.)

The closest one to "deserving it" is the Oceangate CEO, who ignored (and then fired) the whistle-blower who flagged the safety problems, and skirted regulations and inspections for the sake of "innovation." That is despicable. It's gross negligence, and gambling with people's lives to cosplay as the coolest ocean scientist and save a few bucks.

A gamble he lost for himself, and unfortunately others. Others who had to have been convinced that it WAS safe, and had been successfully tested to withstand those depths. Do you think if they knew the complete truth, they would have gotten on? They were lied to. They could not give genuine informed consent.

Yeah, the fact that we live in a world where the top 0.1% seek experiences like going to the Titanic and up into space just because they don't know how else to spend their hoards of stolen cash, or what else can actually thrill them anymore, is fucked up. But everyone deserves to know the truth when it comes to their safety, and make their decisions from that place. Everyone.

I understand that empathy has been reduced because of their systemic lack of empathy for us; like, I do get WHY people are reacting like this. And if Muskrat crashes his Tesla tomorrow, I'm not gonna shed any tears about it. But the method of death was horrific and cruel and terrifying. And I just can't find it funny, no matter who it happens to.

This was a tragedy--an avoidable, morally complex one, but a tragedy involving human beings nonetheless.

I'm not crying, but I'm certainly not laughing.

#personal #text #oceangate #titan #titan submersible #titanic #seeing all these jokes everywhere...while some are admittedly clever...is a little uncomfortable #they might have dehumanized us...but we don't have to completely dehumanize ourselves #like I'm glad ronald reagan's dead. but i still wouldn't wish dying like this on him #and yes i heard about the boat with the migrants. they should have gotten just as much help + attention + coordinated effort to be saved #the contrast and what it says about our priorities and values as a society are not lost on me. it's fucked up... #...how they were + historically have been treated. their situation is not funny. AND neither is this one #long post #current events

[bjornkram]

The thing that keeps coming back to me about this whole submersible shit is that the Titanic is a lower class immigrant gravesite. Out of 1514 who died 123 of them were first class. The rest were immigrants and lower class people who got purposefully locked under the deck or were denied onto the lifeboats. The titanic was a classist tragedy made worse by the fact that no one seems to treat it like that. And now 500+ immigrants are missing or dead. And no one seems to be talking about that because little boy billionaires are dying at the bottom of the ocean bc they wanted to see the world's most inaccessible paupers grave.

#idk it just feels like were prioritizing rescuing 5 guys who are by all means in one of the most unreachable places #all the while we know where the migrant fishing boat sank and the EU went down to take pictures of it #and there seems to be no talk of recovery for any of them even though the boat is completely accessible. #grumbles #im not saying you cant be interested in the titanic. if being a titanic head was a crime id be in jail. just like. recognize the classism