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A Lot Of People Who Need To Be In Therapy Are Pretty Sure They Know Why LA Is On Fire
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A Lot Of People Who Need To Be In Therapy Are Pretty Sure They Know Why LA Is On Fire

Lesbians, reservoirs, climate change! Oh my!

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Jan 14, 2025
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A still from a little film called BACKDRAFT.

Last week, some horrible fires started in LA. As they swept through the city, a lot of conservatives said, “The lesbians are at it again,” and then one of them went on the Wikipedia page for the Los Angeles Fire Department, pushed COMMAND+F on their keyboard, typed “lesbian,” got a match, and said, “Oh you know actually there really is a lesbian involved here, so we don’t have to just mean it in a metaphorical sense,” and the others said, “even better!”

Whenever there is a catastrophic event in the news, people think, “I wonder if there is any way I can benefit from this,” and since most people lack the ambition, creativity, or resources to do something interesting with that thought, they settle for “it confirms my political beliefs.”

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