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Since the Los Angeles wildfires broke out on January 7, a strain of online panic has painted the city as functioning a lot like The Purge, the horror movie about a 24-hour period where all crime is legal.

Take a purported conversation that former Tinder executive Brian Norgard relayed in a Twitter/X post that’s been seen over 2.5 million times. “My famous actor neighbor came by today after the looting gangs freaked him out,” he posted, “and whispered in my ear, ‘I guess I am a conservative now.’”

In sharp contrast to the doom and gloom pronouncements, the city has actually been smothered, sometimes even a little overwhelmed, in such acts of goodwill. When I went to drop off other donations at the Snail Farm and Bike Oven—an artists studio and community-run bike workshop, respectively—both were so thoroughly stocked there was hardly room to put anything down. “Please, no more children’s books,” begged a local bookstore, calling off a previous request for donations of reading material for evacuated kids. “Once again having to put a stop to Angelenos bottomless generosity at this time!!!” (As such messages attest, at this point, it is far more useful to send money to affected people; most places have stopped accepting physical donations.)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

The point was that no 6yo ever said that.

[–] FlyingSquid 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

6-year-olds notice things like that. Especially the girls. I know because I had a 6-year-old daughter once. She noticed who was a girl on TV and websites back then more than she does now at 14.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sure 6yos are really spending time thinking about corporate structure and gender roles.

But whatever, this isn't worth an argument. Just a low effort joke about people making shit up on social media.

[–] FlyingSquid 0 points 7 hours ago

She was shown her mom's boss and pointed out that her mom's boss was a girl. She wasn't thinking about corporate structure and gender roles, she was happy that a girl was in charge because she's also a girl.

I get that you have no experience with children but I do.

[–] MothmanDelorian 1 points 5 hours ago

Have you raised any daughters?