cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/4286365
Jesus fucking Christ. I get advocating for less car reliance but cheering the deaths of people just for owning cars is beyond fucked.
Valencia registers about 50 deaths by car accident per year, 1/3 of the deaths that the floods caused in the city. If you look at Spain as a whole, car deaths per year are much, much higher. Depending on how long it takes roads to unblock and cars to be replaced, this may in total be a win for human lives…
The comment was removed but it was there and it had a depressing number of up votes.
It absolutely does. Fucking look at it. You can’t take the dead people out of this photo, you can’t pretend they’re not there.
Its black humor, not cheering the deaths of people. It’s pointing out that we’ve been warning the world for years that exactly this will happen, and now it has in a way that resembles a system correcting itself. There’s no joy in hilighting this, just ironic tragedy and the laughter of the gallows.
The comment is likely gone now but there was someone cheering in the comments.
