Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man?

kttnpunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• mysoulishome@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yep, exactly my confusion…this makes it ok to take joy at what happened? I think the perception is wrong but even if not…it’s fucked up.

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  • Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When leftists say eat the rich they don’t mean it in a nice way.

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    • mysoulishome@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Are burning man people rich? Not being a smartass, I’m just trying to understand the perception.

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      • Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Higher up you were talking about a travel writer marrying a doctor. Those motherfuckers are rich.

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      • DLSchichtl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Some yes, some no. There is definitely a large swath of tech bros and influencers, but there are also plenty of working-class people there too. My burner group is just a bunch of kink folks from every income bracket, having a good time. It is very art and music heavy, so normally it is a lot of fun seeing the art and mutant vehicles, then hitting up whatever music happened to be nearby. I prefer smaller regional burns, but there is still something to be said about doing Burning Man. It’s on a whole different scale.

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      • roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Generally, they're not. I'd say it's an inclusive crowd that likes to backbite each other. I don't particularly love burners, but this level of distain is ridiculous.

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Nuance is a dead concept to an online leftist.

        Catch em at a bar and they’re nearly better versions of themselves.

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      • Bootheal0179@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t take joy in suffering of anyone. My only experience of the Burning man festival is on the hilarious episode of “Malcom in the Middle.” Also, rain in the desert is often a mixed blessing

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  • Ertebolle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think - correctly or incorrectly - a lot of people perceive the typical Burning Man attendee nowadays as being a rich and/or famous person who is somewhere between indifferent to + amused by the suffering of other people less fortunate than they. And - again, not saying this is correct - they perceive this as being more of an annoying/inconvenient/uncomfortable thing (lots of wallowing in filth, but only 1 death AFAIK) than an actual tragedy; totally different order of magnitude from what just happened in Florida, for example.

    So it's less serious than an actual disaster, and affects much more deserving people; if, heaven forbid, a bomb went off and hundreds of people died it would be a very different story, and certainly in that case I don't think any decent person would laugh about it, but a bunch of rich assholes stuck in the mud playing "Survivor" for a week is much more farce than tragedy.

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