This one is making the rounds. LA fire department member. I'm unsure of her position exactly (says Assistant Chief but she may be 3rd in command) Checks all the boxes, out-of-shape and cannot run. Just listen to her words. According to her when in times of an emergency it's good to have someone that looks like you. Personally I'd prefer somebody that can put the fire out efficiently and respond to medical emergency's. Also, when asked if she can remove an adult male from a burning building her reply is that they shouldn't have been in one. Did the Left really believe this was a good idea to put this out there? LAFD Assistant Chief Kristine Larson: "Am I able to carry your husband out of a fire? He got himself in the wrong place." pic.twitter.com/BofTVr6dWP— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 9, 2025
Los Angeles cut funding for their fire department and reallocated their funds to progressive programs, like a “Midnight Stroll Transgender Cafe” and a Gay Men’s Chorus.Everyone involved belongs in prison.— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) January 10, 2025
Holy shit, Trump has a lot to do to save America from this disgrace. It seems California does not want to be saved though.
LOL @ Midnight Stroll I let out a hearty laugh reading that. A good laugh to start the day is always needed.
I find some DEI policies and rhetoric annoying, but the notion that prioritizing diversity when hiring from a pool of otherwise qualified candidates* somehow leads to a decline in the quality of the workforce is right-wing bullshit. *Like the case majority of professions, there are far more people qualified to be firefighters than there are firefighting jobs available.
It's BS when they can't get people to take the job. Going to DIE class is nothing short of brainwashing and has zero to do with how you fight a fire. Spending 1.7 million on a class could have been diverted to solving the water problem and now people have died from this stupid progressive BS.
I was instrumental in my college's not codifying land acknowledgment statements. Well, actually, I was helped a lot by a Blackfoot philosophy professor who agreed with me and called them bullshit. In reality, he gets full credit. Had he not been there, I would have probably been excoriated.
I’m not a huge fan of the programs and I’m not here to defend them. Just saying that the claims they lead to under qualified people getting hired doesn’t track with what I’ve seen. I think the programs are an example of a good intention being turned into virtue-signaling bureaucratic waste.
My employer has thankfully never done that although I’ve cringed through plenty of meetings and conferences which do. And in fairness, my employers DEI office focuses on issues like disability, educational level, and personal experience along with race, gender, sexuality—what people generally think of when DEI comes up. The focus is on the diversity of each person’s experience, which means there’s been a lot more buy-in from skeptical employees. (I work for a county government, so I’ve been in mandatory DEI training with firefighters, among others).
What have you seen? A major city is on fire and they didn't have water for a problem they knew about. They still building stacked highways in San Francisco with earthquakes that are far less frequent than wild fires?
The latter is what annoys me. The rhetoric. And in some personal experiences, people making assumptions using that rhetoric. It's not just DEI, but capital P progressive rhetoric that can't seem to engage in nuance. A couple years ago, I went on a date with someone attending grad school at the University of Michigan. She wasn't from the state. When I mentioned that my mother grew up in Detroit and left when she was in her early 20s, my date right away asked, "White flight?" and I had to bite my tongue from being rude. I had to point out that in the late 70s two guys tried to break into my mom's house and she saw her neighborhood go from nice to pretty sketchy. Also mentioned my dad getting held up at gunpoint in the city in the early 80s along with the Errol Flynns) attack at a concert. (Average White Band, Cobo Hall, 1976, it's brutal.) I think what bugged me is people thinking residents left Detroit purely because of racism when it was more a part of the reason why. Yeah, plenty of people left and wouldn't go to Detroit for racist reasons. But most people left Detroit because it just wasn't a safe place to be. I'm old enough to remember Devil's Night** and how bad the Cass Corridor was***. And so much of that rhetoric seems to gloss over why cities like NYC and Detroit lost population in the 70s and 80s, they just weren't safe places to be. Even my grandparents, who lived in a town bordering Detroit moved further away because their home got broken into so many times. *: Yes, that was a gang and it's a very Detroit name. Detroit's always been about style and flair. **: Buildings used to be set on fire that day and now it's unheard of. ***: Drugs, hookers, and all sorts of bad. Also the home of Creem. Now? It's a neighborhood full of college kids.
You do not hate California's government enough:- CA has the highest poverty rate at 13.2% of any state despite being the 4th largest economy in the world - This poverty, despite the state having an annual budget of ~$297 billion- the most significant state budget in the US-…— Riva (@rivatez) January 9, 2025
The first bullet point is already a straight up lie. Mississipi is the state with highest poverty rate (19%). The south, that is Republican, is the region with highest poverty rate. Texas actually has a slightly higher poverty rate than California. California has the highest number of people in poverty because it simply is the most populous state by a decent margin. Complain about media lies and then spread lies. Really on par.
Apparently everyone in MAGALand does. Unless your a straight white male, you're a DEI pick regardless of your qualifications.
Did it occur to you that if you have fire engines pumping water from every available hydrant such as in this case, it affects the ability of the system to keep up with the demand? Sit down.
Come on. This has to be a prank of some kind. Los Angeles brûle mais leurs pompiers sont inclusifs : pic.twitter.com/cTha7CkcB0— Bouli ☃️ (@bouliboulibouli) January 10, 2025