• Empricorn@feddit.nl
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    You can “save” a bunch of money by not paying the Fire Department. It’ll look great on a budget, and then you can enjoy the beautiful skyline of your city burning!

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      Oh hey, I think we did that in 2017 with our pandemic response team. I hear there have been no negative consequences

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          That’s true! I just looked for the website and there’s nothing! Yay!!! I was worried something like 1.2 million Americans were dead because of it, but apparently not!

          (Satire. The CDC website still exists. For now…)

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        There is a degree to which wild fires could be solved “just” by ramping up land management significantly to remove invasive species, remove dead growth and overgrowth, etc.

        The wildfires have been so bad primarily because of invasive species changing what grows where and breaking down natural fire protections, combined with climate change and reduced natural wildfires creating higher fire risk conditions

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          My understanding is they also introduced Australian trees that drop huge amounts of combustible material to contribute to fires because they thrive in those conditions

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    I wish there was enough time to sit each of these troglodytes down and teach them the world from kindergarten and up. It clearly didn’t take the first time.

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    Why not one trillion? I mean shit, we’re gonna need 4.5 trillion to offset the giveaway to the billionaires. 100 billion is rookie numbers.

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    Watch, they’ll cut everything and then they’ll somehow blame the dems for mistreating Veterans, causing huge epidemics, planes falling out of the skies, children dying, instigating genocides, and wars

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    If your premise is “The government does nothing beneficial” then cutting it makes sense 100% of the time. I wish Elon would take some time to check out Chesterton’s fence. I’ll deliberately not link that here to frustrate readers.