• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        In summary: They were deliberately ignored by Greece because they weren’t rich enough to care about, requiring private charity to step in and with its limited capacity only rescue a fraction while the rest remained ignored by Greece, and drowned.

        I can be grateful for the charity while still disgusted at the lack of action when compared to the outpouring of support for 5 nitwit billionaires in a deathtrap.

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        1 year ago

        Blizzard that the NYT article didn’t mention this at all, almost instead implying that the coast guard did most of the rescuing.

        While it seems the ship saved 100 of the survivors.