Someone at Fyre is destined to be promoted to head marketer of the Corporation of the United States of America.
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Oh absolutely, I’ve had super dodgy experiences in the Bahamas, but these people were told they’d be on a safe “private island”, so it sounds like they expected the fest to keep things safe. Oops!
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owned by Pablo Escobar, no less.
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FTA
That night Ja Rule gave a toast. “To living like movie stars, partying like rock stars, and fucking like porn stars.” If Ja Rule is punished for anything perhaps it should be that.
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What makes it worse is that’s not even an ‘original’ terrible quote.
It’s in the lyrics of at least two different rap songs.
O_o
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Huh. I’m the opposite.
Stuck in a place I don’t know without a credit card or anything, the first thing I’d do is find the closest well-run hotel and have them call my credit card company to book a room, calm down with a drink, then deal with passports, etc.
Sandals would work as well as anything for that.
(I’ve actually done this in Spain)
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Some of my favorite reactionary memes on Instagram right now…
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He was wealthy to the point that he owned islands in five seas, one of which had an airfield that easily coped with multi engine jets, built half the infrastructure of post WW2 Italy, he owned banks that themselves owned banks and his daughter married a medium Prince. Born in Corsica just as WW2 ended, he made his first fortune in Southern Italy, running his family firm.
Being shot to death on the bog in the middle of the night? That sort of came with the territory, people thought at the time.
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What kind of lousy private island even has natives?[/quote]
We have one (and by “we” I mean Larry Ellison):
There’s also Niihau, but that one isn’t owned by a seeker of sycophants.
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So… Are they going to do it again next year?
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What kind of lousy private island even has natives?
[/quote]This American Life had an episode last month with ~20 minutes about one such island in Hawai’i. Apparently the island’s owners get to arbitrarily impose a lot of petty dictatorial rules over the natives.
I’m not sure how anyone could find another person being mugged funny. It seems that everyone is assuming that just because these kids have some money they are somehow not good people and deserve to be treated like this. Talk about stereotyping and dehumanizing folks.
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Have you considered the possibility this was a performance art piece designed to give trust fund kids a taste of life as a refugee. Sure you live on a tropical island, and may have had some things going for you, but in a moment you can find yourself living in a tent, being robbed, fending for your safety and desperately seeking help from strangers, and those abroad.
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Has anyone seen what the Exuma press is saying? Cuz it aint good.
http://m.tribune242.com/news/2017/apr/28/tribune-comment-fyre-festival-organisers-showed-di/
If I can wax philosophical about youth for a moment. As the CEO if Fyre is only 25. This is what I expect from people his age, youth, millennials, whatever you want to call them. They do this. Have a grand idea and try to do it all by themselves. And seem to have no idea that a there are professionals or expects that do this shit for a living. I see this time and time again at the university. And it makes me scratch my head. They seem to just not be aware that entire industries exist. Its mind boggling.
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You must have been a great deal less arrogant youngster than I was. I started out knowing everything at 16 and have been knowing less ever since.
At 25 I might not have been quite so catastrophically arrogant, but that’s probably because I wasn’t that ambitious, either.
Honestly, part of the joy of youth is not being aware of all the limitations by which you’re chained to a rather more prosaic reality. Of course, often it produces catastrophes for you. Occasionally (like this one), it produces catastrophes for everyone else.
But if young people understood just exactly what we were getting into when they tried something, we’d still be living in the caves (pace those people who followed young people out of the caves and directly into the saber-tooth tigers :-).)
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I think this story’s got great potential, but it’s a little underdeveloped, as screenplays go.
Okay, you’ve got the beautiful, young, privileged trust fund kids going to what’s promised to be a great time, luxury, stars, music, sex, and then things start to go wrong, the tents, the food, they get mugged, they get stranded, that’s all good.
But then what?
I’ll tell you what, after the power goes out, they hear strange sounds from the water. Then, out of the surf emerges a group of giant alien monsters, who pluck the young scions from their half-assembled yurts and devour them, one by one.
The aliens were behind this all along, you see.
“Mmm, fantastic,” they say, munching the bones of another Instagram Influencer.
“Oh, they’re a delicacy!”
“Not a whole lot of meat, but as they’ve never worked a day in their lives, they’re quite tender.”
“They’ve been fed mineral spirits and Dom Perignon for years, you know. That adds a lot of flavor…”
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Trying hard to summon empathy for people with $12,000 of disposable income. Still trying… Moving on to the next post.
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It’s less about them doing dumb shit and more about them treating the rest of the world like their personal playground. if someone had died or been seriously brutalized, I might feel different. But they lost some stuff and they had to eat shitty food… welcome to the rest of humanities lives, assholes.
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