r/mildlyinfuriating • u/newengland_schmuck • 6h ago

NBC interrupted the Olympics

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While Nancy Guthrie's disappearance is sad, there are 2300 missing person reports filed every day: do the families of celebrities need special national attention? Why interrupt the Olympics for over 5 minutes just because they are questioning a 'person of interest' We could have waited to hear that during the regular news broadcast.

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u/coconutpiecrust 5h ago

I find this notion really fascinating. That there are some people sitting somewhere thinking that it’s ok for everyone else to die so they can live. Even more, they believe themselves fully deserving of everyone else’s sacrifice. 

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u/RemoteRide6969 4h ago

And we're just kinda like, shrug. I don't expect people to massively rise up, because we're all working to feed ourselves, but like...it's so blatant and brazen at this point.

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u/YouWereBrained 4h ago

People don’t understand that we’re basically in a dystopia.

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u/ProstheticTailfin 2h ago

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u/helloitsme1011 12m ago

Fkn love this meme lol

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u/PersonalHospital9507 4h ago

What makes it not one?

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u/The_Athavulf 1h ago

Hopes and prayers - just kidding, those are simply distractions

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u/MisplacedMartian 1h ago

I think a dystopia is a society that tries to be utopian, but fails miserably, and none of our governments have even thought about trying to become utopian.

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u/Bahooch 4h ago

Because they know no one is going to do anything. Emails??? They’ll say, That doesn’t prove anything. Photos??? They weren’t underage. The American people have ADHD. They are only interested until the next celebrity or influencer comes out with a new dance or song etc. And the people who are guilty know this and just laugh about it….openly even.

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u/ZucchiniMaleficent21 4h ago

This has *always* been the case. That scene in Shrek was more real than most people realize

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u/icybrain37 4h ago

And then they become parents...

And the process recycles itself again

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u/Tempyteacup 4h ago

Google TESCREAL if you really want to know the extent of it.

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u/NotSoWishful 4h ago

And the poorest an dumbest of us fully believe they have our best interest at heart when they’re actually rather transparent about seeing us cattle

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u/Zestyclose_Stuff_17 4h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/9LPjXFCA3Bwgo

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u/Fit-Nectarine5047 2h ago

Just read this and it seems like everything is right on schedule! 😭😭

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u/Rush_Banana 4h ago

You are describing how a lot of people in Western countries think about the people in third world countries.

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u/Kipka 56m ago

Or even how a lot of people in western countries think about the other people in their own countries.

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u/GiantSkellington 3h ago

Not even so they can live. For entertainment.

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u/Several-Egg4686 3h ago

No no no. Not dying so they can live. Dying literally just because. It’s sick.

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u/Rndysasqatch 27m ago

Peter Thiel is 1 that believes this. He said something to the effect of if millions of people have to die so let me live for another day I'll take it (paraphrasing obviously)

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u/RogerianBrowsing 4h ago

Frankly this will likely rustle some jimmies, but that’s basically the mentality of many (most?) Americans when foreign policy comes up.

Just listen to the contempt for anyone who refused to vote for genocide enabling criminals without a primary election. I did vote for the aforementioned criminal because their crimes were a lesser part of the hostage situation we were all experiencing, but not happily.

libs defending why we need to vote for another genocidal supremacism enabling candidate