Flying SquidApocalypto indeed.
gibmiserSounds like a future congressman
I’m honestly surprised he hasn’t run for office now that you mention it.
He was born in Peekskill, New York. He could technically be president. Not to give him any ideas...
Once upon a time, I would have told you that would be a pipe dream of his. These days?
What, at the youthful age of 69? Kid needs more experience.
Kid needs more experience.
He’s a wife beater but not a proven rapist (yet)… so ole’ Mel is still a tadpole by US politician standards.
The USA never had nor caused any problems under the presidency of a former actor, after all.
MeatPilotGibson
Rogan
2029
We a ROAD WARRIOR to survive this wasteland.
Joe Rogan would be like the Coma-Doof Warrior. But instead of a guitar shooting flames, he’d have a podcast mic shooting fart gas that he would just yell nonsensical phrases into just make noise. Well Mel Gibson is driving around town with a literal horse injected with ivermectin main lined into his veins as a blood bag.
Rogan
2029
We a ROAD WARRIOR to survive this wasteland.
Joe Rogan would be like the Coma-Doof Warrior. But instead of a guitar shooting flames, he’d have a podcast mic shooting fart gas that he would just yell nonsensical phrases into just make noise. Well Mel Gibson is driving around town with a literal horse injected with ivermectin main lined into his veins as a blood bag.
There still a few years until the apocalypse is really in full swing.
Odds are great that a person set the fire regardless of climate impact. Most sources I see say that climate change is the reason for the fire, and not necessarily pointing out that it’s human influence that starts it. Climate change just helps spread the fire.
First we need to convince dumb motherfuckers to stop setting fires or shooting fireworks in dry seasons. Also (IMO) people who set fires that cause this much damage and loss of life should be executed by being burned at the stake
Please show us these odds.
vaguerantI was curious too. The US National Parks Service states that 85% of wildfires are caused by humans.
RedSeries (she/her)First, there are several fires, it’s not one big one. A video cropped up showing a fire starting at the base of an Edison transmission line tower as the start of the Eaton fire. Whether that’s the cause remains to be seen. The only almost confirmed arson was the Sunset fire (Hollywood Hills).
Even then, So Cal is on a record dry streak at the moment, with something like less than a quarter inch of rain since last May. Then the Santa Ana winds came, with a vengeance (75 mph sustained winds in some areas). When these winds come, humidity drops to near zero. All it takes is a tree knocking into a boulder, setting it loose down a hill, smacking a boulder and creating a spark that ignites already dry brush. We are already in the middle of a La Nina year (little to no precipitation), though the Santa Ana winds happen all the time, caused by high pressure in the Great Basin in northern Nevada with low pressure off the coast. Not staying climate change isn’t a root cause of the intensity of these factors, but So Cal has a history of all these conditions.
Since California is richer than most countries if the world and these fires happen constantly, why don’t they invest more into firefighting?
They have invested a lot, but these are nightmare conditions. Strongest wind storms in a decade, and hasn’t rained in months. Nothing can be bought that can battle 100 mile an hour winds spreading fire faster than a car on a highway.
I hindsight they could’ve maybe done more controlled fires to lessen fire fuel, but that’s an issue of planning and politics.
There is a large patchwork of different firefighting agencies within CA, notably city FDs, county FDs, forest FDs, hotshots, and others. However, when a fire breaks out and gets out of control, departments from all over swarm to help. When the Line fire ripped through my area back in September, we had crews from all over the country.
The problem with these fires is that there are quite a few going at the same time at a time of year where fire fighters are laying low after the fire season, but also too that conditions prohibited flying. On top of which, more firefighters have responded but the amount of damage in the first 24 hours was the most catastrophic, in which there wasn’t time for outside agencies to respond.
The problem with these fires is that there are quite a few going at the same time at a time of year where fire fighters are laying low after the fire seaso
Don’t forget physics! Multiple fires going on at the same time means multiple teams draining the water supply at the same time. There was not enough pressure left to push the water uphill even with auxiliary pumps which allowed the fire to spread.
NielsBohronYou underestimate how much open, undeveloped space there is in CA.
BlackmistThere’s a bit more now.
Literally the definition of a fire sale. Despite the fact that maybe they shouldn’t, the people in these areas have to money to rebuild almost immediately, and they absolutely will. A helping factor here is that the new homes will be built to current code spec, and will likely include improved fire defence measures (concrete siding, metal roofing, etc; a lot of the houses that went up still had wood shingle roofs that have been outlawed in CA for some time).
It’s a bigger state than you think.
JackbyDevWhat’s even the point of this comment?
ZikejiThe impact of fires started by human error is increased due to climate change. Drier vegetation (and being dry in general) making for faster burning and more violent fires.
Odds are great that a person set the fire regardless of climate impact.
I mean, that’s kinda redundant… That’s unless you had previously thought it had been lightning on a clear day, or maybe Bambi with a Zippo.
Unless you are proposing that we have a zero open flame policy in one of the most populated states in America… Then I really don’t see the benefit of blaming any single individual.
People have been lighting fires in California for thousands of years, the reason they are no longer manageable is because of climate change, and because we refuse to spend the time and money on land management.
people who set fires that cause this much damage and loss of life should be executed by being burned at the stake
And then no one ever made a fire again and everyone clapped…
This would do literally nothing to curtail wildfires in the future. I mean the last big one was started by an electric companies faulty equipment. Are we executing the power grid next?
You want to have a discussion or you want to be a smartass?
Better a smartass than a dumbass.
I don’t really know what you want to discuss with me? Imo the silliness of my response matches the silliness of your original claim.
Anyone who believes society as a whole responds positively to outdated ideas of “justice” like capital punishment should be mocked.
You were the one who said we should execute people on stakes. That’s not really an invitation for a discussion.
Sure it is. Very direct wording and verbiage. So if and when they discover the people that set a fire that killed 25 people so far, what would be an adequate punishment?
Sure it is. Very direct wording and verbiage.
Was my response not direct? I was clearly mocking your assertion by highlighting the illogical nature of your claim.
So if and when they discover the people that set a fire that killed 25 people so far
What leads you to believe that a person committed arson with the intent of killing 25 people?
Or are you claiming that intent has no influence when it comes to the prescription of justice?
Let’s propose a scenario… Your neighbor unbeknownst to you is unsafely storing a dangerous amount of fuel in his yard. You may have occasionally caught a whif of fumes in the air, but hey prob not a big deal. You decide to do a little BBQ or work on your car or whatever, and by chance an ember sparks his fuel and burns down the neighborhood.
Are you or your neighbor to blame? You were the source of the ignition, but it would have never happened unless someone hadn’t been creating an obviously dangerous environment.
what would be an adequate punishment?
What is the purpose of your punishment, and how do you define adequate?
Do you seriously think there is a degree of punishment that will change people’s behavior on a societal scale? If capital punishment was actually effective at curbing negative behavior, wouldn’t we have only had to do it one time?
In the end if the purpose of your punishment is meaningless all you really wanted to begin with is to see someone suffer.
𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍“This is fine.”
"People said that Mel Gibson couldn’t play a Scotsman in Braveheart. But look at him now! An alcoholic racist."
- Frankie Boyle
I’m pretty sure Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson believe that those massive fires are caused by liberal CA government.
Maybe those super secret space laser are real after all.
CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]Actually the line is DEI is what caused the massive fires.
The fire marshall or something was LGBTQ.
Right, so the liberal government…
MonstrosityYeah their strategy seems to be sniping out folks at the top (politically speaking) by singling them out & turning the State propaganda machine on full blast, alienating them & forcing them to defend themselves when no one else has the time or energy because, you know, everything is literally on fire.
Pretty gross & probably a preview of the next (at least) 4 years. I hope it fails.
DEI PURPLE HAIRED LESBIAN FIRE MARSHALL!!!
That’s what my dad told me.
She does not have purple hair and she’s been there for 20+ years, previously holding the position of fire chief. She is well-respected by her peers.
TrickDacyGiven the latest episodes of Knowledge Fight, sounds like your dad listens to Alex Jones.
Nope, but close. He’s a Drudge Report reader and a secret Fox watcher (he’ll never admit it but it’s always the last channel on their TV)
If he won’t admit to Fox viewing, why would he admit to AJ listening?
A lack of tech literacy. It’s not bookmarked (therefore it doesn’t exist to him) and he stopped listening to the radio after Rush Limbaugh went off the air.
If it was obvious he watched Fox even though he “tried” to hide it, why do you think he could keep it secret?
He will defend anyone he likes if I say something shitty about them but he’s never once defended Alex Jones. He never really bought into the extreme conspiracies like false flags or pizza gate, either.
He’s a conflicted man.
Why keep it a secret? Most conservatives are proud to be fucking sheep of Fox.
If it was obvious he watched Fox even though he “tried” to hide it, why do you think he could keep it secret?
He will defend anyone he likes if I say something shitty about them but he’s never once defended Alex Jones. He never really bought into the extreme conspiracies like false flags or pizza gate, either.
He’s a conflicted man.
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Because my mom has a brain and hated Trump before he ran for office. She wasn’t quiet about her opinion and she’d tell at him for watching it.
Woman = DEI
Black = DEI
Queer = DEI
Piercings = DEI
Catholic = believe it or not, also DEI
Queer = DEI
Piercings = DEI
Catholic = believe it or not, also DEI
DEI is the new “political”.
It’s the new term for woke. Just a general purpose catch all term for anything marginally progressive they don’t like.
“DEI MADE THE WATER SYSTEM UNABLE KEEP UP” is such an obviously stupid take. There’s not enough water to put the fires out
Maybe they shouldnt have built a gigantic city in the middle of a desert then. Their history with sourcing water is pretty fucked as well:
Last time I looked they were (seriously) blaming Native Americans for the LA fires.
The house was a non-issue since he was probably being paid enough from the performance to buy a bigger one.
- one of his houses.
Hail old friend!
Mel Gibson is the kind of “Christian” that has a meltdown if anybody dares to point out that Jesus most likely didn’t have blonde hair and blue eyes.
Dude goes to a ‘catholic’ church that he fully funds himself as he’s deeply against Vatican II, and the pope.
AkasazhOr any of the leftist ideas their savior was putting forward.