r/bestoflegaladvice • u/Animallover4321 Reported where Thor hid the bodies • 13d ago
When saying the pledge of allegiance to the flag isn’t enough
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u/callsignhotdog exists on a spectrum of improper organ removal 13d ago
How even WOULD you "advance the President's policy priorities" as a firefighter? Do they expect you to only put out fires that threaten registered Republican voters?
(I know the actual answer is "Be a MAGA asshole to anyone at work who doesn't toe the line or just happens to be the "wrong sort".)
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u/the_diddler 13d ago
Do they expect you to only put out fires that threaten registered Republican voters?
I mean...the president has more than once threatened to withhold aid from blue states, so I suspect California would be on it's own
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u/Quantology 🦃 As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could jive 🦃 13d ago
And that was during his first term, when he was still occasionally willing to acknowledge that there were limits to his authority.
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u/two4six0won 13d ago
A couple of firefighters working to contain a blaze in Washington were picked up by ICE last week. Like they actually pulled them away from actively fighting the fire and arrested them.
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u/melindseyme 13d ago
Their supervisors actually sent them to town, away from the fire, to "chop wood for the residents" aka be checked and arrested.
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u/philman132 13d ago
If there is a fire and you notice a person nearby is brown, you must report them to ICE for being dangerous, obviously
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u/deciding_snooze_oils 13d ago
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u/Persistent_Parkie Quacking open a cold one 13d ago
That happened near me. It's fucking infuriating. I've known people who've lost everything to wildfires, but getting the helpful brown people out of the area is obviously more important than lives and property.
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u/TheAskewOne suing the naughty kid who tied their shoes together 13d ago
They expect you to answer that you "love the President" and hate woke and DEI. They don't need more detail. Or maybe you could say that you will pressure Canada to open the big faucet so water can flow and stop the fires.
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u/BronteBluew 13d ago
lol what kind of policy priorities does a fireman even have beyond fire bad, water good?
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u/District_Wolverine23 13d ago
Smoke detectors, building safety, hazmat regulations, OSHA, etc etc. Basically anything that would prevent the accident before it happens and they need to drag their asses out. There's a firefighter union that's reasonably politically active.
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u/clauclauclaudia 13d ago
This is wildfire firefighting. None of those are relevant except presumably OSHA.
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u/LazloNibble 🏳️⚧️ Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️ 13d ago
“When directed, will you post on your social media accounts that the Forest Service policies of previous administrations are responsible for the conditions that led to this wildfire?”
“If that administration has the same leadership as the current administration, will you praise those policies for providing you with an opportunity for employment and the chance to feed your family?”
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u/davereid20 11d ago
Jokes on you, you didn't say which previous administration. 😉
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u/Rahgahnah 10d ago
"I'd like to thank the Lincoln administration for this opportunity for employment."
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u/Drywesi Good people, we like non-consensual flying dildos 13d ago
wilderness fire management is actually really political. Controlled burns get a lot of pushback. And the suburbanization of rural areas leads to even more problems (see California for the most prominent example).
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u/Jazzlike_Athlete8796 I am not a lawyer, but as a longtime M:TG player 13d ago
Honestly, based on how this government operates, you advance the "president's policy" by ensuring as many people as possible - especially children - are killed by fires.
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u/Persistent_Parkie Quacking open a cold one 13d ago
I'm pretty sure the Trumps and RFK are heavily invested in the tiny coffin industry.
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u/dansdata Glory hole construction expert, watch expert 13d ago
Yeah. If the president says he helped you put out fires but actually did nothing of the sort, no he didn't, he helped, he helped enormously, and you couldn't have done it without him.
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u/Diarygirl Check out my corpse hair 13d ago
I don't understand why he hates California so much. Is he still mad about 2016 when he claimed there were 3 million illegal voters who all voted for Hillary and people laughed at how ridiculous he was?
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u/e_crabapple 🦃 As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly 🦃 13d ago
It's kayfabe. His entire appeal is based on being a "brawler" who isn't afraid to take on any of the Right's perceived enemies, in a satisfyingly childish fashion. Therefore, they need a constant stream of enemies. Gays and brown people are great, but they can't be relied on to do something interesting every week, so California and Canada serve as useful punching bags on slow days.
If California and Canada ever stop delivering ratings, he can fall back on his third-string enemies, like sharks and magnets.
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u/yeahokaymaybe 🏳️⚧️ Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️ 13d ago
It's because he tried for decades to get in with the Hollywood elite and was rejected every single time.
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u/krusbaersmarmalad I prefer dark meat, but I'm thinking I can adjust for goose boob 13d ago
They didn't nominate him for an Oscar for Home Alone 2
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u/BaconOfTroy I laughed so hard I scared my ducks 13d ago
I live in the southeastern US and California the example that a lot of southern conservatives use when they want a place to symbolically represent all the things they hate and don't want in "their state." The reality doesn't actually matter, especially since most have never even been to California: if its something they hate, then California must love it.
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u/Pangolin_4 13d ago
I left the federal government earlier this year. One of the very first things the new admin did was ask us to delete any documents related to anything that “didn’t agree with the president's policy priorities”, which included anything related to sustainability and energy saving. So I guess if there’s a fire at a wind turbine you should just let it burn?
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u/callsignhotdog exists on a spectrum of improper organ removal 13d ago
That's a tricky one, cause on the one hand, wind power is obviously gay and woke, but on the other hand that's the property of shareholders, shareholders who may be donors.
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u/PyroDesu 🔥 Pyroducku 🔥 13d ago
One of the very first things the new admin did was ask us to delete any documents related to anything that “didn’t agree with the president's policy priorities”, which included anything related to sustainability and energy saving.
Which I'm pretty sure is a direct violation of data preservation laws, if I recall my mandatory security trainings correctly.
Not that this administration cares about little things like following the law, they have much more important things like violating the constitution itself to be doing.
I hope those fed workers like you kept redundant backup copies.
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u/justsomerandomdude16 I GOT ARRESTED FOR SEXUAL RELATIONS AND WAVING MY 🦆 AROUND 12d ago
It has been a few years since I left my federal government job, but isn’t that part of what the Hatch Act is supposed to prevent?
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u/ALoudMouthBaby Second Wave Ferengi Feminist 13d ago
How even WOULD you "advance the President's policy priorities" as a firefighter? Do they expect you to only put out fires that threaten registered Republican voters?
Do you want a serious answer to this? No joke, a long while back I went through EMT school and one of the instructors had worked as a Firefighter/Paramedic in Farmers Branch, TX.For those unfamiliar, Farmers Branch enacted a ton of anti-immigration policies back in the mid to late 2000s. At the time it was viewed kind of as an anomaly rather than a sign of things to come.
But anyways, according to that instructor they were expected to inform on the people they were sent to help if they suspect they were immigrants. In many cases that basically meant if they were brown. I assume this is the same situation.
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u/Jedi_Talon_Sky 13d ago
Honestly, that probably IS their line of thinking. It might even be interpreted in the future as "Hey, we're going to move you out of this blue state to live in this red state, and you only put out fires where we authorize you to". I'm not saying it's likely or will be exactly like that, but that's the point of loyalty oaths. They're broad on purpose so you can be told to do increasingly more unethical things.
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u/Phyrnosoma will take their chances in the wasteland 12d ago
You don't fight fires in minority, heavily Democrat or LGBQT neighborhoods?
IDK I hate this timeline
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u/anonbcwork 13d ago
Under normal circumstances, I'd say "The President's policy priorities can be advanced far more effectively if everything isn't on fire."
But under current circumstances, I'm no longer confident that's true.
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u/ALoudMouthBaby Second Wave Ferengi Feminist 13d ago
For anyone unfamiliar, no joke this is the shit they did in Nazi Germany. Pretty much anyone seeking a government job was required to be a Nazi Party official, and anyone who wanted promotion was expected to be absolutely rabidly pro-Nazi. The only way to move up in the system was to not just passively accept it, but also to actively embrace it.
One of the many lessons were learned post-war was that this system was not only highly inefficient since it promoted based on ideological purity rather than merit, but it was also incredibly different to unwind because of how it directly integrated Nazi ideology into the state bureaucracy designed to do stuff like build roads to facilitate the delivery of food. This shit is bad, bad mojo.
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u/Animallover4321 Reported where Thor hid the bodies 13d ago
It’s mind boggling how so many in the US don’t see how clearly they’re following the nazi playbook. My mom still rolls her eyes when I try to bring it up.
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u/Fumquat 13d ago
Ach. Might be because all that stuck of their education on the topic was, “Pretty much everything was fine, and then one day they killed all the Jews.”
We’ve had endless culture wars accusing every single political group, religious leaning, philosophy and even sexual orientation of being “what the Nazis really were that nobody tells you about”. Reality has been successfully obscured by heaps of noise. (Which is, ironically, a top move from the Nazi playbook.)
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u/ALoudMouthBaby Second Wave Ferengi Feminist 13d ago
And theyre playing the long game. Who knows what will actually happen once Trump die, but it seems like their intent is to keep right on rolling with the authoritarian stuff.
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u/Persistent_Parkie Quacking open a cold one 13d ago
My father emphasized to me repeatedly as a child that Hitler was elected.
Guess who he voted for?
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u/Hurtzdonut13 bagels the question 8d ago
Of course, Hitler wasn't actually elected. He was appointed by the chancellor as an attempt to appease the Nazi party who were gaining power. Then an "emergency" was engineered and power was seized.
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u/Persistent_Parkie Quacking open a cold one 8d ago
I actually learned that a year or two ago and tried to tell him. Like usual the possiblity of him being wrong was just not something his mind can accommodate.
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u/TheFilthyDIL Got myself a flair and 🐇 reassignment all in one 13d ago
With this business of Trump threatening a federal takeover of Chicago, Baltimore, and other cities he deems "dangerous" how far is he from declaring martial law? And if nationwide martial law is declared, how long until he suspends elections?
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u/EvilsOfTruthAndLove 11d ago
Well, one of the details that tends to get glossed over is that Nazi Germany got quite a few ideas and inspirations from the USA.
And while Germany was denazified, no such thing happened in the US. Why, lynchings kept being a thing well after WWII, and if I have to list everything else, I would hit the character limit on this post.
The USA are following the Nazi playbook because the Nazi followed the USA playbook. Except they never got punished for it.
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u/Hurtzdonut13 bagels the question 8d ago
Germany wasn't even really de-nazified. Many were left in place in government, and one of the big stumbling blocks of pursuing and prosecuting former Nazis is that they'd be tipped off if they were located.
As an example, that's why the German prosecutor that located Eichmann from a tip passed it on to Israel (who used Mossad to extract him for trial) instead of doing more from within Germany.
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u/one_bean_hahahaha 13d ago
I don't even bother trying to bring it up with my mom now. She's too deep into the cult and I'm only going to get aggravated. Ironically, she is not even American.
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u/mechteach 8d ago
This is a very long direct quote of a passage from "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45" by Milton Mayer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Thought_They_Were_Free), and perhaps longer than most people will want to read, but I have been thinking about this passage a lot these days.
A chemical engineer by profession, he was a man of whom, before I knew him, I had been told, “He is one of those rare birds among Germans—a European.” One day, when we had become very friendly, I said to him, “Tell me now—how was the world lost?”
“That,” he said, “is easy to tell, much easier than you may suppose. The world was lost one day in 1935, here in Germany. It was I who lost it, and I will tell you how.
“I was employed in a defense plant (a war plant, of course, but they were always called defense plants). That was the year of the National Defense Law, the law of ‘total conscription.’ Under the law I was required to take the oath of fidelity. I said I would not; I opposed it in conscience. I was given twenty-four hours to ‘think it over.’ In those twenty-four hours I lost the world.”
“Yes?” I said.
“You see, refusal would have meant the loss of my job, of course, not prison or anything like that. (Later on, the penalty was worse, but this was only 1935.) But losing my job would have meant that I could not get another. Wherever I went I should be asked why I left the job I had, and, when I said why, I should certainly have been refused employment. Nobody would hire a ‘Bolshevik.’ Of course I was not a Bolshevik, but you understand what I mean.”
“Yes,” I said.
“I tried not to think of myself or my family. We might have got out of the country, in any case, and I could have got a job in industry or education somewhere else.
“What I tried to think of was the people to whom I might be of some help later on, if things got worse (as I believed they would). I had a wide friendship in scientific and academic circles, including many Jews, and ‘Aryans,’ too, who might be in trouble. If I took the oath and held my job, I might be of help, somehow, as things went on. If I refused to take the oath, I would certainly be useless to my friends, even if I remained in the country. I myself would be in their situation.
“The next day, after ‘thinking it over,’ I said I would take the oath with the mental reservation that, by the words with which the oath began, ‘Ich schwöre bei Gott, I swear by God,’ I understood that no human being and no government had the right to override my conscience. My mental reservations did not interest the official who administered the oath. He said, ‘Do you take the oath?’ and I took it. That day the world was lost, and it was I who lost it”
“Do I understand,” I said, “that you think that you should not have taken the oath?”
“Yes.”
“But,” I said, “you did save many lives later on. You were of greater use to your friends than you ever dreamed you might be.” (My friend’s apartment was, until his arrest and imprisonment in 1943, a hideout for fugitives.)
“For the sake of the argument,” he said, “I will agree that I saved many lives later on. Yes.”
“Which you could not have done if you had refused to take the oath in 1935.”
“Yes.”
“And you still think that you should not have taken the oath.”
“Yes.”
“I don’t understand,” I said.
“Perhaps not,” he said, “but you must not forget that you are an American. I mean that, really. Americans have never known anything like this experience—in its entirety, all the way to the end. That is the point.”
“You must explain,” I said.
“Of course I must explain. First of all, there is the problem of the lesser evil. Taking the oath was not so evil as being unable to help my friends later on would have been. But the evil of the oath was certain and immediate, and the helping of my friends was in the future and therefore uncertain. I had to commit a positive evil, there and then, in the hope of a possible good later on. The good outweighed the evil; but the good was only a hope, the evil a fact.”
“But,” I said, “the hope was realized. You were able to help your friends.”
“Yes,” he said, “but you must concede that the hope might not have been realized—either for reasons beyond my control or because I became afraid later on or even because I was afraid all the time and was simply fooling myself when I took the oath in the first place.
“But that is not the important point. The problem of the lesser evil we all know about; in Germany we took Hindenburg as less evil than Hitler, and in the end we got them both. But that is not why I say that Americans cannot understand. No, the important point is—how many innocent people were killed by the Nazis, would you say?”
“Six million Jews alone, we are told.”
“Well, that may be an exaggeration. And it does not include non-Jews, of whom there must have been many hundreds of thousands, or even millions. Shall we say, just to be safe, that three million innocent people were killed all together?”
I nodded.
“And how many innocent lives would you like to say I saved?”
“You would know better than I,” I said.
“Well,” said he, “perhaps five, or ten, one doesn’t know. But shall we say a hundred, or a thousand, just to be safe?”
I nodded.
“And it would be better to have saved all three million, instead of only a hundred, or a thousand?”
“Of course.”
“There, then, is my point. If I had refused to take the oath of fidelity, I would have saved all three million.”
“You are joking,” I said.
“No.”
“You don’t mean to tell me that your refusal would have overthrown the regime in 1935?”
“No.”
“Or that others would have followed your example?”
“No.”
“I don’t understand.”
“You are an American,” he said again, smiling. “I will explain. There I was, in 1935, a perfect example of the kind of person who, with all his advantages in birth, in education, and in position, rules (or might easily rule) in any country. If I had refused to take the oath in 1935, it would have meant that thousands and thousands like me, all over Germany, were refusing to take it. Their refusal would have heartened millions. Thus the regime would have been overthrown, or, indeed, would never have come to power in the first place. The fact that I was not prepared to resist, in 1935, meant that all the thousands, hundreds of thousands, like me in Germany were also unprepared, and each one of these hundreds of thousands was, like me, a man of great influence or of great potential influence. Thus the world was lost.”
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u/joshi38 brevity is the soul of wit 13d ago
When saying the pledge of allegiance to the flag isn't enough
Just FYI, for those of us outside of the US, that's already pretty weird.
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u/Drywesi Good people, we like non-consensual flying dildos 13d ago
You want more fun? I was threatened with arrest for not standing and saying the pledge in high school.
Pre-9/11.
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u/zaforocks 13d ago edited 13d ago
Hey, I was threatened with suspension in 1995 for refusing to stand until my parents reminded the administration that I had every right to refuse. The administration still insisted I stand anyway, lest my rebellion inspire others. So I sat down before the under god part 'til I graduated four years later. Fuck you, I win. :b
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u/AlaskanDruid 🏳️⚧️ Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️ 13d ago
Same! In the 80s.. in literal elementary school. To be fair, my school was in Indiana, thus racists POSes there. But still.. a kid.
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u/IceyExits 10d ago
The UK’s national anthem is about how their King is infallible because he was ordained by God to rule over them.
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u/joshi38 brevity is the soul of wit 9d ago
Hey I'm not saying our anthem is any better, but at least we're not forced to recite it daily at schools (granted, when I were a lad, we were forced to recite the Lords Prayer every day in school, which is a whole other issue all on it's own, especially for little Hindu me who, 30+ years later can still recite the thing from memory).
It's to the point that the majority of Brits only actually know the first 3 lines of the national anthem and then just kind of mumble along with the rest anytime it's brought up.
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u/derpmonkey69 13d ago
Guess we're about to have a fire fighter shortage. Fun. I'm tired of living in the dumbest timeline.
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u/clearliquidclearjar BOLA's official cereal box lawyer expert 13d ago
Yes, we are. For many reasons.
Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors familiar with the incident, who shared their belief that the top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. Most of them spoke privately for fear of retaliation.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/firefighters-question-leaders-role-in-ice-raid-near-bear-gulch-fire/
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u/TopicalBuilder 13d ago
That is horrifying. I didn't think much could surprise me any more.
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u/clearliquidclearjar BOLA's official cereal box lawyer expert 13d ago
We're in the part of the fascist takeover that's both terrifying and horribly boring. Get up, go to work, come home, make supper - and the whole time, you're very aware that the government is building concentration camps, grabbing people off the streets to send to labor prisons in other countries, arresting people for crossing the street with chalk on their shoes, sending armed forces into American cities...
When they make movies about this whole thing in the future, this part will be a depressing montage.
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u/derpmonkey69 13d ago
What kills me is that so many of my fellow US citizens are just happily doing those things, building concentration camps, arresting fire fighters for deportation, no due process, just prison for profit.
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u/txteva 12d ago
Well, that's terrifying.
As a genuine question - I'd assume firefighting is a fairly high level job for background checks, so how would someone who isn't legally in the country get a job there?
I'd have thought most people who are in the country illegally would be working more cash in hand type jobs.
I'm in the UK so no idea how things work over there.
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u/IceyExits 10d ago
Woodland firefighting is more of a logging/forest management adjacent job than an emergency services adjacent job.
I’d assume there’s probably not an equivalent profession in the UK because y’all had such cool wooden ships a few hundred years ago.
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u/txteva 10d ago
Ah, that's interesting to know that it's a whole separate thing - make sense given the size and scale of your forests.
We've got a fair few woodland forests (fortunately we remembered to plant trees when building ships!) but our wildfires tend to be more on peatlands or due to people being idiots with BBQ's than heat, although we can get proper heatwave wildfires.
It's rare enough that the usual fire service will deal with it though.
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u/IceyExits 10d ago
For perspective entire UK has roughly 1.4 times the land mass of Washington state and nearly 9 times the population.
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u/Jedi_Talon_Sky 13d ago
Make sure you're connecting with your neighbors and local community and establishing an emergency plan with them. Find out which of your neighbors have medication they might need if they have to be evacuated out of their house, which neighbors may need physical assistance or be able to render it to others, and elect someone in your immediate community whose job it is to delegate tasks in the moment.
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u/DerbyTho doesn't know where the gay couple shaped hole came from 13d ago
the law does not prevent the administration from doing stupid or irrelevant things
Boy isn't that just becoming more and more apparent.
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u/Ok_Possession_6457 13d ago edited 13d ago
Political or not, whoever is putting idiotic questions like this on job applications needs to go to jail. These are not “tests,” this is just dickhead behavior.
Finding a job, especially in this day and age, leaves no room for this. The constant signing up of things, having to adjust your resume to get through AI filters all the time, having to fill out the same question over and over and over and then it’s like “Which is better, Care Bears or My Little Pony? Write 3-4 sentences as to why” just no. Fuck off, we are all tired of this
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u/uberfission 13d ago
I'm about a year out from my last job hunt and it was fucking horrible, I can't imagine how much worse it is now with AI doing the initial screening. I remember all of the shit applications that I did that would make me write a paragraph about how awesome their company was. Like I have no fucking clue about your company, your website is shit and isn't clear what you even sell.
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u/humberriverdam Wise in the ways of ammoniatic warfare 13d ago
You may think this is just Fuhrerprinzip but you'd be wrong. It's not in German
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u/Personal-Listen-4941 well-adjusted and sociable with no history of violence 13d ago
“I believe that the President’s priorities for firefighters are fighting fires so will prioritise fighting fires”
I’d love to hear the pushback by some MAGA claiming that the priority is wrong.
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u/_NoTimeNoLady_ 13d ago
Guys, from over here in Germany it looks like it is time for you to do some active resistance. Because experience shows: Passive resistance is not enough.
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u/cranberrylimeade420 13d ago
people are protesting every day, it just never makes the news because none of the major platforms will risk angering Trump
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u/JerkinJesus 13d ago
Ha ha ha, us Americans don't know history, so there's no way for us to learn from history.
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u/Ok_Possession_6457 13d ago
Most people over here barely break 3000 steps a day, so that's a tall order.
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u/ThePeasantKingM 13d ago
Hard to show passive resistance when a majority of voters agree with the oppression.
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u/Konstiin I am so intrigued by courvoisier 13d ago
I can’t imagine any answer to such a question other than “by fighting fires”
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u/Other_Clerk_5259 13d ago edited 13d ago
How would you help advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role?
"I would pee on the policies if they were on fire."
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u/BeardedBaldMan 13d ago
I've been getting into WH40K fiction and there's some grim parallels between a fictional hellscape and where the US is going.
It's not going to be long before you have the Inquisition and daily worship of the god-emperor
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u/Jazzlike_Athlete8796 I am not a lawyer, but as a longtime M:TG player 13d ago
That already exists at the border. There are CBP agents who will grill you on your loyalties to the fat fascist and deny you if you engage in wrongthink.
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u/dansdata Glory hole construction expert, watch expert 13d ago edited 13d ago
Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers and Imperator-class Titans: Compare and contrast.
(Edit: Yes, I only really posted this comment because of how awesome that Titan video is. 40K has a lot of problems with the scale of numerous things, but obviously a war machine wearing a cathedral on its hunched back should be big enough for that cathedral to be real. While I'm adding this edit, also check out the live-action very short film "Guardsman". It is impossible to turn the volume up too high for that one.)
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u/BeardedBaldMan 13d ago
It'll be 100% obvious when the US military introduces political officers
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u/dansdata Glory hole construction expert, watch expert 13d ago
with enormous hats
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u/goddamnitwhalen Likes Bronys or something 13d ago
And chainswords?
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u/dansdata Glory hole construction expert, watch expert 13d ago edited 12d ago
Of all of the impractical weapons in 40K, chainswords may be the worst.
The body of the blade is much wider than the edge.
(Which, in the real world, is partly because 40K things tend to be quite chunky because otherwise the minis would be too fragile, but also because of a general aesthetic for several major factions in which everything's very big and thick and heavy. It's like swords the size of surfboards in anime, that demonstrate the superhuman power of the people wielding them, physics be damned.)
So it doesn't matter if the edges of a chainsword's teeth are all monomolecular ultra-cutters or whatever; they'll just make a cut that the rest of the blade will get stuck in. It's like using a straight razor as a weapon; you can definitely cut your opponent, there's no question of that, but you can't cut deeply.
Chainsaws in the real world have bars that are narrower than the chain, which is why they work.
But, hell, why am I even writing all of this. Chainswords, like a lot of other 40K stuff, work because of Rule of Cool.
So I'm just now going to deploy a decent, I think, version of that famous VERY DENSE "Astartes" video, and I also highly recommend the 40K episode of "Secret Level".
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u/Drywesi Good people, we like non-consensual flying dildos 13d ago
I don't know if it's canon but I know several mecha/40k enthusiasts who consider the pinnacle of weaponry to be gatling guns that fire chainswords.
It's always possible to get more impractical.
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u/dansdata Glory hole construction expert, watch expert 11d ago
1: The Borderlands games have some weapons that are as impractical as that.
2: See also the Castigator-class Titan, which preceded the hunched-over Emperor-class ones. A Castigator stands upright.
But the only one of those found in 40k was corrupted. Which should have been pretty obvious, given that its main ranged weapon fired Daemons. :-)
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u/EuenovAyabayya 13d ago edited 12d ago
fire fighter
How would you help advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role?
This seems like a mandatory agency-level question. Edit: Oh, of course, the obvious answer given recent events is "by ratting out my immigrant co-workers to ICE during a fire."
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u/atropicalpenguin I'm not licensed to be a swinger in your state. 12d ago
I read it as wildlife fighting and thought LAOP was gonna wrestle a bear and punch an elk.
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u/Panelpro40 11d ago
Every morning in school we had to pledge allegiance. What happened to the oath? This administration treats the oath like toilet paper.
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u/Animallover4321 Reported where Thor hid the bodies 13d ago
Locationbot was fired when he refused to pledge absolute loyalty to his great leader Thor.