• @empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    Not the pilots (or crews) fault that the shipping company puts so little effort into maintenance or quality standards that their shit literally stalls and dies in port

    • ivanafterall
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      While that wouldn’t be entirely inaccurate, it was really on Meemaw for getting in too deep with the Sinaloa cartel and not having a good exit strategy.

  • Scrubbles
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    263 months ago

    Conservatives are now learning that global trade involves the rest of the globe

    • waka
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      43 months ago

      Are you implying they’ll remember their own actions? Doubt it.

    • velox_vulnus
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      A brige in Baltimore collapses because of a ship colliding, with most of it’s crew being Indians and Sri Lankans. Conservatives, being the barbaric creatures that lack brain-cell, called it a terrorist attack. The hate against Indians skyrocketed on social media, especially Twitter and Reddit.

      There were a lot of AI generated memes with boats leaving behind a trail of shit, brown people with shit in their hands, and a brown dude being held by a bunch of white dudes wearing a hazmat suit cuz he was being gestured to shit in the toilet and not the street.

      And a lot of paj**t and p*ki slurs, as well as lot of conspiracy theory about how these immigrants want to rape and genocide the whites in America.

      • @Pulptastic@midwest.social
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        153 months ago

        News outlets made it worse. I read three articles and all three suggestively mentioned the Indian crew but none mentioned non-Indian captains.

        They also mentioned the SOS call and power failure so I assumed it was a maintenance problem, not necessarily a people problem.

  • MacN'Cheezus
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    13 months ago

    Local doesn’t mean white. Baltimore is a white minority city, with whites making up scarcely more than 30% of the population.