Summary
As California battles its worst wildfire, consuming 28,000 acres and killing five, MAGA figures, including Trump and Elon Musk, blame DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) initiatives instead of climate change.
Trump attacked Gov. Gavin Newsom over false claims about water policies, while right-wing media targeted Kristin Crowley, LA’s first LGBTQ fire chief, for prioritizing DEI.
Musk amplified conspiracy theories, and MAGA commentators linked DEI to the state’s firefighting challenges.
Critics dismissed these claims, citing unprecedented fire strain, climate change, and misinformation.
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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.
Including all the many, many wonderful things they will say are bad
To be fair, there are a lot of people who somehow find a way to blame Trump for every bad thing.
Trump is responsible for a lot of bad things.
Hard to argue against facts and truth, yet MAGA finds a way.
Right, but not ALL of them.
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.
You forgot:
5b. Profit.
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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.
I blame MAGA for being morons.
This is just gossipy stuff for a distraction, who cares?
I heard CANADIANS were fighting the fires!
We have to keep in practice in the off season.
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”
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.
If those trees had been white, they wouldn’t have burned.
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?
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.
Obviously a DEI fire.
Blaming this on that is something a terrorist does.
