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[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 day ago

Don't mess with firefighters or emergency medical personnel.

[–] TammyTobacco@sh.itjust.works 67 points 1 day ago (3 children)

People need to start murdering ICE agents.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 day ago

Nice to see this opinion out in the open

I don't get what so controversial about saying that Nazis should be killed. that shouldn't be a controversial statement. that should be the default belief of every person and company.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 34 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They are undeniably a domestic enemy and a clear and present threat to the public good. "Murder" is not an appropriate term for it.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 5 points 19 hours ago

"He who saves his Country does not violate any Law"

-Napoleon

Also Trump

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 12 points 1 day ago

Eradication. They are a pestilence, like locusts.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago

Self defense

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

:-/

You leading this charge from the front or taking up command in the rear?

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

sounds like firefighters across the country should just go on a general strike. let it burn

yeah lots of innocent people will die. maybe that's what it takes for america to get their shit together, seeing as how nothing significant enough has happened yet

although I'd be happy just to see selective non-response of fires in republican areas/buildings

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

I love firefighter strikes. Tear gas cannisters are no match for a firehose

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So they don't want people to work on farms and in hospitality anymore for fear of being arrested.

And now firefighters, for fucks sake? Are they mad?

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These are people who do not believe there will ever be consequences for their actions.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

For trump that has been true his whole life. So are they wrong to think that?

I hope so but I'm very worried

[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The three steps needed now:

  1. Defund the police
  2. Destroy ICE
  3. Support and fund firefighters
[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 19 hours ago

I think we can just combine the first two steps. Perhaps switch the first words in their order.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 68 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Be a real shame if Federal buildings in Washington started to catch fire and fire departments refused to attend.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Jenkins, grab my coat, we're doing another 1812 and setting their fucking palace on fire!"

[–] Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Canadian Militia Intensifies

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 99 points 1 day ago

Federal policy under President Joe Biden’s administration stated that without “exigent circumstances” agents would not conduct their operations at natural disaster or emergency sites. Whether that policy remains in place, however, remains unclear.

C'mon. What do you think?

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Are all these ICE agents planning to die in the next 3 years? The next president is likely to unseal all these records and prosecute them for their crimes.

That's way more likely than someone in power facing accountability at least. History show that.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Are all these ICE agents planning to die in the next 3 years?

A lot of these guys have little to no formal education and both ears full of AM Talk Radio every day. They're being offered six figures to do the kind of thuggish brutality they were eager to engage in for free under prior administrations.

The next president is likely to unseal all these records and prosecute them for their crimes.

Kinda like they prosecuted a third of the J6ers? Lightly and in a manner that made them into celebrity martyrs rather than pariahs?

FFS, Jake Lang is running for Congress.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The reprehensible behavior of the entire MAGA administration is a clear demonstration that they don't expect there to be a "next" president.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

The reprehensible behavior of the entire MAGA administration is a clear demonstration that they don't expect there to be a "next" president.

And if people plan on waiting 3 years to do anything about the current adminstration there won't be.

[–] Guidy@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

It’s like jan 6 when everyone recorded themselves for posterity, they plan on showing it to their grandchildren one day. They’re not sorry. And those fucks got away with it then, soooooo….

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago

You think these fucks are keeping records?

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And none of the Nazis, on their way out to a wildfire zone to do a random ID check on firefighters (it wasn't even targeted) had it bubble up in their smooth brains that maybe they were the baddies.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

and the ones that did were proud of it

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

Less than 200 Nazis were executed by the Nuremberg trials. It would be awesome if every member of ICE and friends danced at the end of a rope, but I am doubtful.

[–] SoloCritical@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Plot twist: The Agents started the fire.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 104 points 1 day ago
[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think if you are working for the federal government and not actively sabotaging them you are at least complicit.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Depends on what you do.

Working at a VA hospital and providing medical care to veterans. Probably doesn't count.

Working at the NPS trying to keep a park running and its resources protected. Probably doesn't count.

I think the difference is employees that are trying to continue their civic duties versus those trying to further often illegal executive orders.

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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No one ever says Fuck the Firefighters.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Well, there's that one time: https://youtu.be/7JkrJUAg8aI

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 63 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like a bunch of cops must be fed to the inferno.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel like it's an eventuality that during a forest fire, misinformed hunters will just be firing rifles at firefighters trying to save their land.

checks notes

Wait... That already happened?

[–] AlfredoJohn@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

The article reads more that someone who was upset they got rejected when applying to become a firefighter broke started a fire on purpose to lure out the fire department and then just shot them up when they arrived and committed suicide before capture. Its just a completely fucking wild ride that story.

[–] 60d@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 day ago

Your tax dollars at work.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If anyone here is a firefighter: refuse to respond to fire incidents at ICE or CBP facilities

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Eh, not the detention centers please. A whole lot of innocent people there who don't have the option to just make an orderly exit. Fuck their offices and vehicles though.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Fuck their offices and vehicles though

Cue up the queue of comments: "not like that!"

edit: very nsfw

[–] manxu@piefed.social 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, this sounds race-based, as border patrol is the agency doing the arresting.

[–] discosnails@lemmy.wtf 8 points 1 day ago

I've worked with a ton of these guys, they're most often on H2A visas from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala... And some of the companies that contract them are... Not diligent about paperwork. Sucks for the guys. And beyond that, forestry work and wildland firefighting will absolutely grind to a halt without them in the west and southeast. Absolutely kneecapping all efforts to reduce fuels and replant burns/clear-cuts. There's an argument to be made that the use of these crews is essentially forced labor anyway (pretty crazy economic gradient from here to their home countries) but all the guys I worked with were stoked to have the job and returned year after year. Anyhow I was definitely waiting for this to happen, and it's going to result in more dysfunction in the forest industry.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i would turn the hose on them.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, no one's ever going to be just perfectly ready to go when suddenly their mundane work day gets interrupted by Nazis, but I think a bunch of firefighters getting one of their comrades kidnapped would be a situation where you could get a bit wild and suffer few long term consequences. "CBP arrests squad of firefighters in an active wildfire zone for interfering with them kidnapping one of their members" is the sort of thing that gets attention and dropped charges.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just realized Washington is the only state named after a president. How isn't Trump jealous? I think they should grant Washington D.C. statehood and call the new state Trump.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 2 points 20 hours ago

~~Greenland~~ Trumpland

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