Tasteful or not, I guarantee that whoever put that message on the marquee wasn’t doing so at the behest of some billionaire shareholders at Subway corporate headquarters.
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I don’t think that a company that had a pedophile as their spokesman for years gets to cast stones.
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Come on guys, billionaires are fine people deep down.
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The corporate offices and billionaires in charge had absolutely zero to do with this - it would have been put up by the local franchise manager, who I guarantee you makes a very low salary. If the corporate offices had been responsible, it would have been on glossy posters in the windows of half of the Subways in North America. And yes, they may be tone deaf and lacking in self reflection enough to do that, but usually that sort of thing has to pass by a low paid advertising slave who would have pointed out the potential lawsuits from other rich people. Unless they were really annoyed that day.
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Can one accuse Subway of poor taste? Definitely.
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Somehow though I’m not surprised to see this coming from a Subway rather than a McDonald’s or a Starbucks. The implosion message is like the result of some kind of stochastic process with how the company is managed.
But I might be biased- I can’t stand Subway!
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F-ing Effingham County.
There’s plenty of space between “no sympathy for” and “mocking their deaths”.
Nobody here has any sympathy for billionaires with more money than sense, but we don’t dance on the graves of dead human beings, either. We can still be civilized, respectful and make the world a better place all at the same time.
As for Subway…
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Wow… reading the comments for this post was not a good idea.
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When I was growing up, our family had a toy plush pig we named Effingham.
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I have room for sympathy. Especially for Suleman Dawood, whose desire to bond with his father overrode his fear of going on the trip in the first place.
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Sure. But then mocking the hubris and idiocy of billionaires is actually useful and good in order to fight the literal fortunes they spend on personal PR, including posthumously - just look at all the fluff pieces about the “daring adventurer” (who happened to design a radically unsafe sub and killed four others) sub company owner. Class warfare doesn’t take a break just because some rich people played a particularly stupid game and won the stupidest prize. Is it a shame that people died? Sure, it always is. But for once the ones dying due to the recklessness and stupidity of billionaires are themselves rather than their exploited workers. I see no reason why us random strangers should put any emotion into mourning these people. That’s for their families and loved ones. As long as the world keeps shoving coverage of this down the throats of ordinary people, using that as an opportunity to vent and laugh seems like the only healthy option to me. This is sad in general. Literally every specific circumstance of this makes it less so. Policing the morals of the working class in this way, when capitalists are in no way required to behave in any remotely similar way, is one of the many, many tools of oppression used by capitalists. Please stop doing their dirty work.
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Certainly! I don’t disagree with anything you said there. I think we’re on the same page, because you’re talking about mocking the actions of bad people, which I’m always on board with. Eat the fucking rich.
…except this part. I don’t think anyone who knows me could ever accuse me of promoting the wealthy in any way. Choosing not to celebrate the death of someone is not the same as promoting the bad things they did while alive. Remaining silent on the subject of their deaths does not contribute to their postmortem PR campaigns.
Look through my posts here. I’m first in line to drag their asses for ignoring expertise, drenching themselves in their own hubris, and being weird rich guy fake explorer clichés. I mock the stuff they did while alive, and have even said their bad choices lead to their deaths. That’s not the same as celebrating their deaths, because they were human beings no matter how much I hate everything they represented.
You know what I would celebrate? All those people being in prison for all the illegal shit we know they all did to get that wealthy.
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I don’t think we disagree on much, no, I just don’t view this type of mockery as celebrating their deaths. To me it reads as what we Norwegians would call skadefryd, better known internationally as the German schadenfreude. Not a celebration, but finding a kind of joyful release in mocking the actions of these people having real consequences for once. I get that it’s easily mistaken for celebration though - especially when contrasted with the media reality of performative (or real but depersonalized through dissemination) mourning, which brings with it an expectation that everyone should be sad, and thus makes anyone laughing look like they’re instead celebrating. I’m not especially happy these people are dead (I’d much rather see their fortunes distrubuted fairly to the people they have exploited to accumulate their wealth), but I’m not sad either, and I’m not averse to laughing at the poetic justice of all of this. To me, mockery and poking fun at something like this, even when it’s obviously a tragedy for those close to those who died, isn’t celebratory but simply an act of (ineffectual but satisfying) defiance to the broader system.
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Once again, I agree with everything you wrote here. I think we should stop agreeing so hard at each other. 
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Poor taste and Subway always go together.
Quick reminder that the sea is deadly.
And not only for those who seek a thrill.
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