The fire chief likes the wrong genitals, that is why the fire is so big! Logic!
Dei is reason for:
Global hunger, micro plastics, long lines at the voting booths, the lies about there being long lines at the voting booths, shoes not being comfortable, electronics not lasting very long, cars breaking down, bad bridges, pot holes, bad drivers, long wait times at the doctor, sun burns, fat people, diabetics, no cure for cancer, bad singers on singing shows, ….
Really? We have prisoners fighting the fires, and arguably they are a very diverse group of minority and white people, more likely a lot of minorities thanks to our legal system and poverty. Perhaps we should make sure this diverse group avoids republican voter’s property so they won’t be offended? They can wait for the all-white fire crews to get to them. Eventually. Maybe. If there are any all-white crews.
"all-straight-non-millenial-white-guy fire crews"
If Musk and Trump were actually as smart as they think they are they would have kept their mouths shut. There was obvious mismanagement by the state and local government to allow this to happen but that’s going to get buried in a pile of right wing conspiracy theories. The only people who are going to lose in this situation are LA residents.
Can you clarify the obvious mismanagement? It doesn't seem obvious to me
They cut the fire department budget to give to the LAPD
Is there documentation of this?
Los Angeles reduced its fire department budget by $17.6 million (2%) for the 2024-25 fiscal year, while increasing the LAPD's budget by $126 million. This decision has drawn criticism amid devastating wildfires, with concerns that the cuts hindered emergency preparedness and response capabilities[1][2][9]. Mayor Karen Bass defended the budget, citing firefighter raises and equipment investments, but critics argue the reductions impacted core operations like training and brush clearance[1][8]. The LAPD now receives 15% of the city’s budget, compared to 6% for the fire department[2].
Citations: [1] A month before fires, L.A. fire chief warned budget cuts were hampering emergency response https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-wildfires-los-angeles-fire-chief-budget-cuts/ [2] LA Budgeted Money For Cop Jobs While Cutting Fire Department Positions. Now the City Is Burning. https://theintercept.com/2025/01/08/la-police-budget-palisades-fires/ [3] Los Angeles mayor slashed fire budget last year, prioritized homeless population https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/los-angeles-mayor-slashed-fire-budget-prioritized-homeless [4] LAPD Budget Approved: $2.14 Billion Spending Plan for 2025-26 https://svanc.com/2024/11/27/lapd-budget-approved-2-14-billion-spending-plan-for-2025-26/ [5] Los Angeles cut $17.5M from fire department budget months before deadly fires https://abc11.com/post/los-angeles-cut-175m-fire-department-budget-months-before-palisades-signed-mayor-karen-bass/15782731/ [6] A Closer Look at Mayor Bass and the Budget Cuts to the L.A. Fire Department https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/us/la-fire-department-budget-bass.html [7] Los Angeles cut $17.5M from fire department budget months before ... https://6abc.com/post/los-angeles-cut-175m-fire-department-budget-months-before-palisades-signed-mayor-karen-bass/15782731/ [8] Did Mayor Karen Bass really cut the fire department budget? The answer gets tricky https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-10/how-much-did-the-l-a-fire-department-really-cut-its-budget [9] Yes, Los Angeles cut $17.6 million from the fire department’s budget https://www.krem.com/article/news/verify/money-verify/yes-los-angeles-cut-176-million-from-the-lafd-fire-departments-budget/536-4b902910-08f5-42d5-bc5e-bdfad1cb0560 [10] Los Angeles Fire Chief: City Failed Residents with Fire Department ... https://www.nationalreview.com/news/los-angeles-fire-chief-city-failed-residents-with-fire-department-budget-cuts/ [11] Los Angeles Democrats Cut Fire Department Funding while ... https://www.leftvoice.org/los-angeles-democrats-cut-fire-department-funding-while-boosting-police-budgets/
Don't look up
LA destroyed by woke firestorms.
There is no bad thing in the world that the right-wing can't and won't blame on a group of people they hate for simply existing.
That's very Nazi-esque of them.
… and not very cash money of them.
Including all the many, many wonderful things they will say are bad
Conservative Playbook:
Find something. Anything. Literally anything. Doesn't matter if it's real or not.
Whine and complain.
Convince the other absolute dumbest members of society that the people they also don't like are the root cause of the thing, whatever it is, real or not.
Gain control through these fear/ignorance tactics.
Do absolutely, positively nothing, at all, for the average American while in power.
Rinse and repeat.
I would change step 5: Do things that make life actively worse for the average American while in power. Convince the morons that it was somehow the other parties fault.
Canada is at step 4.5: push the incumbent non-conservative out of office so that can be used in election attack ads later: "cool hair guy ran away."
Fascism is a disease. It spreads. That's why Nazi Germany didn't act alone. They had allies. Canada's neighbor is flirting with fascism (a far right extremist ideology) and now Canada is getting infected. Parts of Europe too.
That's why you stamp fascism out with extreme prejudice as soon as it rears its ugly head. America has categorically failed to do so. Hopefully Canada can correct itself.
Fear centers engaged. Brain disabled.
That's quite the stretch but I also didn't expect a brain worm to be nominated for secretary of health
Hey, WIRED and the rest of the corporate news excuse for journalism, look at this. This? This is bullshit. Don’t report on it.
Specifically don’t repeat it uncritically. Especially in the headline.
This is your first and only warning of this pathetic and incompetent administration.
Tell em, dude.
It's been driving me nuts watching these corporate news clowns keep repeating/amplifying this kind of bullshit.
Corporate news isn't about reporting. It's about clicks. They will always be biased to clickbaity, sensationalist shit.
It isn't fixable without changing the system within which the media operates.
while right-wing media targeted Kristin Crowley, LA's first LGBTQ fire chief, for prioritizing DEI
"Chief Crowley, people are trapped because others abandoned their cars on the highway! How can we get through to them if the roads are blocked??"
"Give me a moment, damnit! I'm checking our response team ratios. We should probably let Eyeless Joe drive the truck, that feels a lot more inclusive."
What on earth do these people think is happening? And if you believe the fire departments are incompetent due to diversity, volunteer to fill out the ranks. Think of it as an unpaid internship, you know how much they love watching people suffer for free.
They're taking advantage of the tragedy to tie negative emotions to their political boogieman of the month. They're all aware of what they're doing, they're all in on it
Literally every fucking time. If it wasn't DEI it would be Newsom or whatever else he can use to his benefit.
I get that part from the side of the people spinning the narrative. It's the ones believing and repeating it that truly confound me. Like, spend 3 seconds imagining how DEI propagates fires and then ask why the people you elected would say something that stupid.
It's an epistemic immune system. Every event that could challenge US conservative beliefs and value gets instantly reinterpreted as PROOF of those values.
School shooting? Shooter was secretly trans Domestic terror? Terrorist secretly an immigrant Climate disaster? False flag by eco-terrorists and elites.Under-regulated corporation fucks up? It's DEI. Global pandemic? Actually the sick people were well and the vaccinated people are dying.
When a person sees events that conflict with their worldview, that can create cognitive dissonance, the uncomfortable mental disturbance that can be an opportunity for growth, learning and personal development.
That's when the right-wing social mediasphere and broader demi-media kick in. Instead of resolving cognitive dissonance by re-evaluating beliefs, people can wait for an X Blue Tick or Tim Pool or whoever to tell them why their old beliefs were right and they didn't see what they thought they saw.
They support their team and don't give a flying fuck about honesty, factual reality, or fair play. End of.
An alarming amount of people don't go beyond first thoughts. They don't follow through with executive functions.
If those trees had been white, they wouldn't have burned.
The damn Mexicans
If you don't want Mexican firefighters send them to Canada and I'll buy them a beer to greet their arrival. They've come up several times now to help with our wildfire season and are damn hard workers.
That's sick. I have the inner child in me that loved firefighters.
I blame MAGA for being morons.
Blaming this on that is something a terrorist does.
This is just gossipy stuff for a distraction, who cares?
Because when a white man hosting CNN implies that non-white people are less capable just by virtue of being non-white men it's not only incredibly racist it's appalling and deserves punishment. Adults can handle some bullshit but every child who hears that they are less intelligent, less capable, more lazy or whatever the latest white supremacist argument is, they internalize that shit. I fully believed women were inferior to men in intellect and less deserving of many things because that's what I grew up hearing at home, from my father, to his 2 daughters. I still feel undeserving of my job. I can't wait for him to die painfully so the conservatives lose a vote. There's no fixing him, and now his son parrots the same talking points. He has never worked a job in his life, yet moans about immigrants in the country.
I heard CANADIANS were fighting the fires!
Already seen some of this shit being thrown weekend here on Lemmy (and heavily downvoted, thankfully). Idiocy that the reason for the fire damage was because the fire chief was a lesbian.
Last I checked, sexual orientation doesn't impact organizational skills, expertise, out knowledge. And I doubt she got to that position purely out of sympathy/political correctness, despite what the bigots claim.
It's true. Diversity, equality, and inclusion gives conservatives the same right to a voice as anyone else, which is why climate change is doing us all in.
Thank you. I try to do this myself as much as I can and it’s nice to scroll down and find someone’s taken the time. Seriously, does everyone commenting have a Wired subscription? /s
This sort of thing just massively highlights for me how much discourse happens purely around a headline while the actual article goes unread.
Sure. Because a drought and hurricane force winds had nothing to do with it. Fucking willfully ignorant, mean, shitty, asshats. Goddammit. Its just gonna get worse and worse, isnt it?
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