Social media seems to be laughing its ass off about this tragedy, is it because the folks at burning man are perceived as frivolous hippies or something? Everyone I’ve ever met who was a regular burning man attendee has been a solid human being with strong morals, personally and financially responsible, a career. Upstanding members of society for sure. I guess all some people know is the sensationalized drugs and sex. A person died. This is a tragedy for an event that brings positivity into the world. Kind of annoyed.

  • @[email protected]
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    Some of the worst people I’ve worked with are “burners”.

    There’s apparently a private jet at burning man this year that was taking off and landing constantly so that people could fuck on the jet - it’s fall of Rome style excess in a broken world where most people’s basic needs are not met on an enormous scale.

    Your statement is fairly tone deaf to the basic objective reality of the “party”, OP. The frustrated people at the bottom are feeling a bit of catharsis in the money burning factory closing for a day while they starve and watch.

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      411 year ago

      So like “let’s fly on private jets to a nice swiss resort to discuss climate change”

    • Richard
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      -781 year ago

      So you think it’s okay to laugh at people dying?

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        291 year ago

        Hot take: fundamentally, yes. The simple fact that people are dying does not render something unfunny.

        That said, no one has died yet (well, one person, but that was ruled unrelated to the flooding).

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        281 year ago

        Did you miss all the memes about the billionaire dying in the submarine a couple months back? People like laughing at dark humor.

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        61 year ago

        If someone falls asleep inside the giant puppet and they burn him alive with everyone gathered around, I’m sorry but that’s just very funny. Dark, but funny.