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Admission by merit only
LAFD Assistant Chief Kristine Larson:
Right, no man has ever been sleeping when a fire breaks out and is unconscious due to smoke inhalation. Or inhales chemicals and loses consciousness.
I'm not so sure it's all TPTB, a lot of it is just Dostevsky's Cake and Sex theory and affluenza.
I keep wondering if Mua'dib was right and it's best to have 13-23 in harsh, rough, primitive conditions so when they emerge into full adulthood, they appreciate.
Also Sex Segregation
Almost reflexively, to a woman the LA officials all blamed climate change, which is a very useful scapegoat that cannot be fined, jailed, sued, or fired. “Climate change” is a deep reservoir for unwanted blame. You just have to get your blame balloon to the brink and push it in before it bursts.
The alert and pronoun-perfect leading ladies of LA all protested that manmade climate change —punishment for our sins against mother earth— has produced a great fire for which there was no possible way to officially prepare or Mayorially imagine.
After all, LA has only experienced a handful of Great Fires in its history, like the La Mesa Fire (1825), the Great Chinatown Fire (1870), the San Pedro Warehouse Fire (1906), the Griffith Park Fire (1933), the Bel-Air Fire (1961), the Baldwin Hills Fire (1963), the Malibu Fires (1993), and the Getty Fire (2019).
Apart from all of those, they’ve never seen anything like this before.
But, like the 100-calorie snack pack, by digging around in the article’s wrapper, some ultra-processed news food finally appeared. The Times quoted a man (shudder), who by all accounts should be a reliable source: Rick Caruso, who twice served as the president of the City’s Department of Water and Power, who ran for mayor, and who is now a major area real estate developer.
To be clear, Rick wasn’t sitting around complaining about the Mayor and the ultra-diverse fire chief. Wait till you see this wildly understated gem of a sentence which should have generated an entire Times article, if not a made-for-TV movie, at least. Caruso wasn’t just waiting around, the Times reported. Instead, get this, “he had a team of private firefighters deployed in Pacific Palisades on Tuesday night, helping to protect a major outdoor retail space he owns, Palisades Village, as well as some nearby homes.”
My gosh. LA, behold the man you should have elected as Mayor.
The Times minimized the most interesting part of its story, which also had the greatest potential metaphorical explanatory power: the rejected mayoral candidate directing his own hastily-assembled private firefighting force to save the neighborhood. But sadly, perhaps creating an even more meta metaphorical explanation, the Times sneered at Rick Caruso’s rousing, all-American, self-reliant story because he wasn’t diverse enough.
why not
The more women's resentments are catered to, the worse the society gets.
Who is the Los Angeles Fire Chief? I wasn’t surprised to learn that she is frequently touted as “the first woman and first openly LGBTQ+ person to hold her post.”
Are being a woman and an openly LGBTQ+ person qualifications for being the Los Angeles fire chief? ...
The entire ridiculous DEI enterprise—which was already showing signs of ill health—may have just died by fire in Los Angeles.
LAFD Assistant Chief Kristine Larson:
Right, no man has ever been sleeping when a fire breaks out and is unconscious due to smoke inhalation. Or inhales chemicals and loses consciousness.
mell says
why not
For the same reason that women do not belong in combat roles. The men will feel compelled to rescue them in a way they would not feel compelled about other firemen. Especially if there are some romantic entanglements. This puts lives at risk.
Ever since the playground, girls feel excluded from boy's games and try to get in. The boys instinctively know that the unity of their group depends on it's being all boys, so the boys make up excuses like "girls have cooties" to keep them out.
I read an interesting quote somewhere on Substack recently, to the effect that women must be unhappy in any functional society. The more women's resentments are catered to, the worse the society gets.
mell says
why not
For the same reason that women do not belong in combat roles. The men will feel compelled to rescue them in a way they would not feel compelled about other firemen. Especially if there are some romantic entanglements. This puts lives at risk.
Ever since the playground, girls feel excluded from boy's games and try to get in. The boys instinctively know that the unity of their group depends on it's being all boys, so the boys make up excuses like "girls have cooties" to keep them out.
I read an interesting quote somewhere on Substack recently, to the effect that women must be unhappy in any functional society. The more women's resentments are catered to, the worse the society gets.
Point of order: girls do in fact have cooties.
Right, no man has ever been sleeping when a fire breaks out and is unconscious due to smoke inhalation. Or inhales chemicals and loses consciousness.