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mindsnare t1_j71gygx wrote

Reply to comment by 69Liters in Incredible footage of this Tsunami is mind blowing by HurricaneHarvey7

It's amazing the natural disasters that have happened in the last 20 years that people seem to have just completely forgotten about.

In 2004 an earthquake and Tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed almost a quarter of a million people.

In 2010 300000 people were killed in an earthquake in Haiti. Crickets.

It's absolutely wild. I'm not suggesting we're bad people or anything, or what the reasoning is, but it's pretty mind boggling.

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SarcasticAssClown t1_j71kb7j wrote

Some years ago I was in Banda Aceh, the town on the tip of Sumatra where the 2004 tsunami made first landfall. They have a tsunami museum there, and a generator ship that used to be in the harbor is also maintained as a monument where the tsunami dropped it - some two or three kilometers inland on top of a house. Blew my mind to be honest...

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dis690640450cc t1_j727k9s wrote

Well there were all those Americans posting videos callously saying that this was “pay back for Pearl Harbor”. Because apparently dropping two nuclear bombs on them was not “pay back” enough. I think a lot of this forgetting is caused by a lack of caring or outright disregard.

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kehoeman t1_j721l36 wrote

The 2004 Tsunami was massive news at the time.

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