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.
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.
That’s very Nazi-esque of them.
… and not very cash money of them.
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.
Blaming Trump for the few things that aren’t his fault vs HIM GETTING AWAY WITH TREASON seems to be the best trade we’ll get.
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.
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.”
Fascism is a disease. It spreads. That’s why Nazi Germany didn’t act alone. They had allies. Canada’s neighbor is flirting with fascism (a far right extremist ideology) and now Canada is getting infected. Parts of Europe too.
That’s why you stamp fascism out with extreme prejudice as soon as it rears its ugly head. America has categorically failed to do so. Hopefully Canada can correct itself.
Fear centers engaged. Brain disabled.
The richest person in the world bought the Speaker’s Corner so that he and the slightly less rich people won’t get the blame for anything because he can nip in the bud any contrasting narrative. Point 2, 3, 4 are esponentially easier.
True.
And the saddest part? The majority of Americans are so feeble and uninformed that they HELPED him do it and idolize him for it.
It’s like a poorly written made for TV movie.
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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.
I heard CANADIANS were fighting the fires!
We have to keep in practice in the off season.
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.
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”
Are they 10% minority though?
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!
The fire chief likes the wrong genitals, that is why the Lord sent a scourge! Logic!
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.
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?
