“While the fires that have devastated celebrity neighborhoods near Malibu have caught the world's attention, a similar size blaze in Eaton Canyon, north of Los Angeles, has ravaged Altadena, a racially and economically diverse community”
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I think you need to do some reflecting on the way you choose to speak to people who are reacting to their friends' losing everything. It's ridiculous to lecture people in these circumstances and even stupider in the case of Californians. You sound callous, cruel, and uninformed.
Do you understand that you sound like an uncaring asshole? You want to be right so bad you don’t care about real people suffering in real life. You are no different from the side you hate
Look, you're just being really shitty right now and need to learn to read the room. They were talking about their personal circumstances, people they personally know losing things. Leaping in and yelling about politics is stupid, callous, and pointless choir-preaching.
I'm someone who lived in L.A. for nearly 2 decades, and I remember checking out rental listings in PP and there were NONE that were affordable (though a few places in surrounding neighborhoods, we could do.) So I am definitely IRATE how Altadena is getting ignored, middle class folk!
So tired of the media only focusing on celebrity homes. Of course it’s horrible but like this article points out, the thousands of “ordinary” people that lost their home and will have a much harder time relocating
To be fair, CNN has been giving the neighborhood due respect with continuing live coverage by Anderson Cooper and especially Natasha Chen, who knows the nabe.
Four huge fires raging through neighborhoods at the same time, unable to get air support up related to the high winds and EVERYONE screaming ME ME ME! while the FDs try to establish a fire line to save more people/homes. Absolutely impossible. I personally know 2 who have lost their homes.
This is important to highlight. Post Katrina, there was a huge population displacement. Many people lost everything and could not afford to rebuild/replace everything lost. Starting over somewhere else was more affordable. New Orleans never fully recovered that population size.
It's troubling as hell to see the Palisades fire summed up as "celebrity neighborhoods near Malibu."
It is the more affluent area of the two major fires but thousands of families are getting written off because of a couple dozen assholes that happen to live nearby.
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What the hell were Americans thinking?
2. Most of the people you're shitting on did NOT vote for this,
Most critically:
3. This is an extremely poor analogy.
Read the room, dumbass.
Tick tock
It is the more affluent area of the two major fires but thousands of families are getting written off because of a couple dozen assholes that happen to live nearby.
I've just seen too many jokes this morning and seeing Reuters playing into that narrative is making me want to rip my hair out.