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Every single word of this. CODE RED FOR HUMANITY. 🌎🔥

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Thank you, Jo as always… The fact that they cut the firefighters budget to give it to the cops is just more collapse. And the biggest fuckery is that we’re causing most of this in this country of capitalism and consumerism and flagrant “who gives a fuck about the climate” attitude. xx

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Yes. And the fact that CA is exploiting incarcerated people to fight the fires is sickening (I just popped up a new piece about this).

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I've spent all day thinking on this and it's not entirely accurate for me to say I don't care. I care about the regular families in the less affluent areas that have managed to hang on to the family home and now might lose it. I care a lot about people and their right to feel safe in their lives. I care not as much about how famous and wealthy people feel or their houses. Especially people who don't seem to be able to see others as just as human as themselves. My father lives in SLO and we are VERY estranged, and he and my mother met working in LA. And I have never liked the city. So my personal feelings are just going to be negative in ways that they wouldn't be in other places.

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❤️

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This whole article is spot on. If this isn’t a huge wake-up call to not only take serious action to combat climate change but also to properly fund fire departments rather than allocating that money to the police department (looking at you Karen Bass), I don’t know what is. This is the result of billionaires and the government choosing profits over people time and time again. My heart goes out to all affected by these fires and all of the other devastating effects of climate change around the world.

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Of course California’s firefighters are approximately 30% incarcerated people, so having more cops jail more people means there’s more unpaid labor available to fight the fires… It’s a never ending knot of ethical failure and resource hoarding

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Just wrote about this!!! Thank you for bringing it to our attention.

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exactly, and it was only in november that over 50% of people of voted against ending slavery and indentured servitude for incarcerated people. so incredibly disappointing.

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I'm feeling really shitty about how much I absolutely dgaf about these folks fafo. Am I a bad person? As the fires spread to new zip codes I look at the census info and decide if I care by community. Not really but also kinda really yeah I did that earlier?

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I don’t think you’re a bad person… I think James Wood‘s house burned down and all I could think of was he deserved it for being a shitty person and calling for the death of Palestinians (he let it out on Twitter to “kill them all”) and I’m also angry that people have been denying global warming/climate crisis for decades. I definitely feel bad because it must be terrifying to watch and it’s horrible that people are dying because of it. But maybe now people will pay attention?

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That's basically what I want thinking. I thought a lot about removing that comment because I feel ashamed of myself but I didn't. I can't count the times people have told me to move if I hate the politics here where I am, or when natural disasters hit here.

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Hey Rachel. I understand your feelings. It is tough to be empathetic at times when our collective empathy deficit for things that occur outside the States is as wide as the Grand Canyon. We can only hope that the devastation stops soon, that perhaps this is a TRUE wake up call for people to address ALL that is unjust and violent in our world - including Palestine, Sudan and the Congo!

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