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

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨mysoulishome@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

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.

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Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Because we live in a society devoid of empathy.

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Rayspekt@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Maybe also because there were protesters blockading the road towards it because of climate change and festival goers were furious about it, so this is kinda ironic

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MonsieurHedge@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Rich fuck yuppies deserve every iota of suffering that can be visited upon them, up to and surpassing death.

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- mysoulishome@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Wow.
  
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- PrettyBlackDress@lemdit.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I was gunna customize one special for you. But just like your life, it’s not worth the effort.
  
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NathanielThomas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The only Freude left In life is Schadenfreude

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Silverseren@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
More just schadenfreude, I expect, since Burning Man has long seemed dumb and idiotic to many. So something dumb and idiotic like this happening to them feels appropriate.

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- mysoulishome@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yes… I guess I am used to finding places on the internet that value nuance. There is no nuance to that perception. I guess there isn’t much when it comes to burning man. Hippies are dumb, rich hippies are dumber, so bad things happening to them is hilarious.
  
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  - PostmodernPythia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I love poor hippies. I hate when rich people pretend to be something they’re not and expect us to play along.
    
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  - Elevator7009@kbin.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’ve never liked that at all.
    
    I’m not exactly rich, but compared to some starving people in third-world countries yes I am.
    
    I hate to think that because of that, I must be stupid and deserve every bad thing that happened to me. After all, I’m just an overprivileged first-worlder, therefore I purposely tried to step on everyone to get my way. Because you suffered in ways that I never have, I must suffer like that and you get to laugh at the “rich person” flailing and generally being miserable.
    
    This is why I stick to /sub. To avoid this kind of kbin post. And I somehow find these posts anyway (didn’t even seek out stuff outside of /sub, not sure how I landed here, going to find out how it happened so it won’t happen again) and get angry.
    
    Lovely outrage bait. Never change, internet.
    
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obinice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Boomers and authoritarian fascists don’t like to see people enjoying themselves, so watching people at a festival of joy, equality and happiness suffer is basically their favourite thing to do.

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scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Hating burners is a perpetual pastime. I’ve never understood it. If you don’t want to go, don’t go. Folks form their own weird ideas about what Burning Man “means” and then bat down that straw man with misperceptions about what actually happens there.

As a many time attendee, I’m concerned for the safety of everyone out there.

However I am also hoping that this might help lead to smaller events in the future. When I began attending, it was 12-15k people. It grew over time until it was 50k people and that really felt too big. Crazy crowds. Unsafe density of people whizzing around by night. And a greater feeling of anonymity / being able to disappear into the crowd definitely led to more irresponsible and shifty behavior by some. Once upon a time it was considered really bad behavior to just stop and piss on the ground but as the festival grew things like that became commonplace and fighting back against them was futile.

Now the festival is 70k people and I’ve stayed away for years over that. It would be great to get it under 50k again. I keep hearing about things like a full day wait during exodus and thinking maybe this will finally cause fewer people to return but it keeps not working. This probably won’t help either.

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BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Lemmy has inherited some of the best parts of reddit… and the worst.

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- Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  This place turned more negative than reddit fast
  
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regalia@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It just rich boomers. I’ve never met anyone under 50 who talked about burning man.

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- I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Did we just collectively decide that gen X are now boomers? Or are we just going to perpetually call everyone over 50 a boomer?
  
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  - regalia@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah everyone over 50 is a boomer now
    
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- SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  what an idiot. your misuse of the term boomer indicates you’re probably around 15.
  
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dipshit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Fuck your burn!

It’s not a tragedy, it’s life on the playa. Every participant knows this. The back of the ticket states that you could die out there. Part of it is survival. Radical self reliance.

These aren’t opinions, these are facts. Radical self reliance is one of the 10 principals of burning man.

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- mysoulishome@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Thanks for the information
  
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nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
These people could have checked a weather forecast and had a lot of advance warning to GTFO. If you go out to the desert without doing anything to ensure your safety, it is mostly your fault if you get screwed. Same reason it’s funny when antivaxxers get measles and when COVID deniers get COVID. Of course it is still sad and the people responsible for spreading those theories should be punished, but it is sort of funny.

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SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Because they love the smell of their own farts?

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Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I found it funny in so far as just the other day, some of those burning man goers were blocked on the road in by climate protestors. The fact it rained and they are stuck there again, due to the climate, is pretty god damn hilarious.

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Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Remember Burning Man 2020-2022 when shit happened?

Remember Fyre festival?

How many times do people have to learn that going out into the middle of nowhere, shit is going to happen?

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neptune@dmv.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I love these posts. Yes everyone on the internet has a short, pithy take. Yes it looks cool to have no empathy.

Obviously everyone has their reasons, but why are we shocked that someone somewhere said something online that seems heartless or at odds with our version of the world?

And then when everyone explains that the event has a stereotype and there is a reason for that stereotype, and OP explains that, well, plenty of nice people participate in that activity, why would strangers on the internet shit on the nice ones too? And it’s like, yeah, this is what the internet does. Things get 2-dimensional.

🙄

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- mysoulishome@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s about right and I think we should do better.
  
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  - neptune@dmv.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The internet could use more empathy, I suppose. Part of navigating it, unfortunately, it understanding that shortcoming.
    
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MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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- TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I don’t think that’s the flex you think it is.
  
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Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You pretty much got it, there are marginalized parts of society you’re allowed to berate, and people who want to feel better about themselves make fun of others the groups they are allowed to even they were allowed to.

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- Sunforged@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Are you claiming tech bros are a marginalized part of society?!
  
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  - Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Are you claiming every attendee at burning Man is a tech bro and that people are specifically only making fun of tech bros?
    
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- mysoulishome@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah I guess hipsters are still fine to laugh at, even when they drown, because driving to the desert to blow of some steam is frivolous. I’m disappointed.
  
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  - PostmodernPythia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Who drowned?
    
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- PostmodernPythia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Oh yeah. The poor, marginalized Burner community…🙄
  
  Ffs.
  
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  - Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Nobody said they were poor. Marginalized? You’re proving it with your comment.
    
    Appreciated.
    
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powerful_peanut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Theres a book/movie that explains this pretty well…It’s called “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”. Online most people are like the Grinch and they believe others are silly/stupid/wrong or immoral for doing fun things. Seeing them suffer instinctively sounds good.

They are likely to be super surprised when the burners return and talk about how it changed their life…After all the best burns are when shit goes sideways.

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deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

tragedy

Is anyone dead?

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- mysoulishome@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yes
  
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  - deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    They are investigating a possible death. You’re out here making it sound like people are suffering. By all accounts, spirits remain high.
    
    apnews.com/…/burning-man-festival-flooding-entran…
    
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lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m just appalled at these comments!

Why does it matter what the festival represents or not?
Why does it matter if you stamd for or against it?

There was a flood, people got hurt, someone even died.
And people are laughing at it?
And ridiculing it‽

Where is the respect?

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- mysoulishome@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  We are just here to show how good and smart we are and how bad and dumb everyone else is
  
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uxia@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
there is a regional burn they have every year in my state, i went for like 6 years straight in the 2010s … my fav part was walking around nekkid lol. i also participated in the fire performance ceremony before the burn. but then they modified the rules to allow children to attend and i haven’t gone since. :<

it only cost $30 and was a great fun and awesome time, as long as you took care of your MOOP!!! (and stay hydrated!)

the big burning man festival from what i understand lost the true spirit a long ass time ago.

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- mysoulishome@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Interesting. What is moop?
  
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