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.
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Conservative Playbook:
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Find something. Anything. Literally anything. Doesn't matter if it's real or not.
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Whine and complain.
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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.
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Gain control through these fear/ignorance tactics.
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Do absolutely, positively nothing, at all, for the average American while in power.
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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."
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Fear centers engaged. Brain disabled.
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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.
I blame MAGA for being morons.
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.
That's quite the stretch but I also didn't expect a brain worm to be nominated for secretary of health
LA destroyed by woke firestorms.
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.
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.
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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.
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, ….
The fire chief likes the wrong genitals, that is why the fire is so big! Logic!
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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?
If those trees had been white, they wouldn't have burned.
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.
- Musk blames DEI
- DEI is corporare scapegoat for capitalism
- Therefore Musk blames capitalism
How did this happen?
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
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.
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I blame DEI for making the fragile minded folks associated with maga have such terrible distressing thoughts about not being the single group of people who matter. Reality bubbles are such delicate things after all.
I think I am going to stop using the term MAGA and just call them what they are idiots. So the title will read for me, “Idiots are Blaming DEI for the California Wildfires“
Don't look up
Maybe it will happen in some red state too in the future, to prove them wrong.
Blaming this on that is something a terrorist does.
DEI is the reason the mayor took millions from the fire department and gave it to the police department while letting private fire fighting companies use the public fire hydrant system.
To fight DEI, we need to defund the police and ban private fire fighting.
Obviously a DEI fire.
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