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Not the point of the story, but a college professor with three masters and a doctorate was enrolled in the EBT program. I'm sure people will doubt the use of several of his masters degrees, theater arts in particular, but that's still nuts.
Difficult to hold a job with what is apparently untreated mental illness.
But seriously, where does it say he has a theatre arts degree?
Does anyone know more about the mental state that inspires people to commit arson? Drug dealing or murder often have selfish or monetary gains; but what is gained from burning the wildlands? Is it a power thing? Calling all armchair psychologists
A quick skim indicates that arsons all share the common property that they are generally AFU'ed:
Granted I live on the west coast and fires have been very much on my mind in the past few years, but I do wholeheartedly support the most draconian punishments for arsonists who start wild fires. It’s going to have to be a part of our climate changed future to deter criminals.
Do you also support draconian punishments for people and organizations who blocked controlled burns and other wildfire control measures?
Afterwards everybody could get together, drink a cold beer, tell stories, bitch about how hard it is to be an arsonist and the lousy pay, and argue about who is the best arsonist!
Heck, CA needs so many controlled burns that they could create jobs for arsonists, thus preventing them from initiating disasters b/c of their failed "theatre arts" attempts. "Hello, Thompson, Department of Arson. Burn, Baby, Burn! How can I help you?"
This would also alleviate other states' problems as most arsonists would move to CA to get a steady job.
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I have never seen that claim before. My understanding is that lack of wild and controlled burns can be attributed to two factors: 1) Emotion driven environmentalism trumping environmental scientists 2) Political deferral due to the risk of blowback from out of control burns.
The corrupt developers don't like to publicize their corruption. I happen to know this because I know some of the players (and was even offered opportunities to invest in land before the decision to build a new highway was made public).
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> They have names, addresses, This is a phrase I have seen numerous times before on the internet, always in contexts which make clear this is a call to violence.
I don't know who flagged you for saying you've seen that phrase only in worrying contexts before, but your comment seems reasonable enough to me. Maybe they misread what "this" refers to?
Step on toes by making a provocative comment in one thread, and people on this site will follow you into other threads to downvote completely innocuous comments. This site is a joke, as bad as reddit; don't take it too seriously.
Edit: This comment, six minutes old, on a thread that hasn't been on the front page for a day, has already been downvoted. Do you think it was found and downvoted organically by coincidence, or do you think it has something to do with me making a provocative comment in another thread a few minutes ago at about the same time? I think it's the later. Hello, friend from the covid thread, having fun seething at me?