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Ya but that headline is awful.Reading the actual article, that's not what it's saying
The California wildfires could be leaving deeper inequality in their wake
The fires burned through a haven for generations of Black families avoiding discriminatory housing practices. Rebuilding may be out of reach for many.
I meant the fourth about the water supply. You’re deflecting.
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If cost is the problem, then its a crazy concept to me.I think it has to do with costs and transporting bricks. But I might be wrong. Similar to tornado country. When it destroys a small US town, everything is destroyed to the ground where it hits. A brick home should withstand it better.
In Canada, just about every house or business building I've seen are either bricks (homes) or bricks/concrete/glass (businesses). So when there's a fire, its rare it gets far in populated areas.
For some context on various big fires in US/Canada lately, this article tells about LA, Jasper and Fort McMurray.
How the L.A. fires compare to Jasper, Fort McMurray, Alberta wildfires
Despite being relatively smaller, the Los Angeles wildfires are already estimated to have cost more than Alberta's worst fires.edmontonjournal.com
The headline is just common sense. If you have the money to bounce back and contend with prolonged insurance claims it will still be a disaster, but you can recover. If you are already poor and barely getting by, you are at much higher risk for your entire life falling apart. You probably dont have the money to live in a different state for 6-12 months, or a hotel, and your place of work and car are also likely finished. Insurance rates going up as well. It will massively impact the poor to a much greater degree. Most of the movie stars that keep getting shown in news coverage probably own multiple homes.
Again you’re brainwashed by Newsom defense propaganda ignoring the fact that CA stopped water from flowing south due to the Delta Smelt.
Point being its practically guaranteed to increase income inequality. Someone in this disaster with multiple homes, stable income, lawyers, connections just has to make it to the airport to go to their other house. Someone just barely getting by will potentially be kicked down so far they might not ever get back up. Just basic and completely uncontroversial reality. The fact that anyone finds that basic vanilla article to be some woke political hit piece is astounding.
No. That's false.
www.pbs.org
www.abc10.com
Personally I think Fox will also decline eventually. We are still in "post-Trump election" mode.
I think the biggest problem there is the fact that some people lost houses they had for generations. And with the current prices no way they can afford new one. Real state is like investment, and this fire essentially erased 10m+ from the accounts.
No it’s not. Stop relying on ultra liberal propaganda outlets like PBS to feed you ActBlue talking points. There are published studies about how damming up the water for the Delta Smelt affected the water situation in California.
It’s something almost everyone in CA has known for years at this point.
Because you keep posting propaganda that’s false and produced just to try to defend Newsom and pretend that history didn’t actually happen.
The amount of defense you’re providing Newsom is unbelievable for somebody that doesn’t live in California.
Fascinating how Newsom was being ass blasted for his policies leading to this disaster, then he goes on a video call with grandpa and cries about “misinformation” about the fires and suddenly all these bogus fact checks to defend Newsom pop up, isn’t it?
Ya, Altadena is not majority black. If anything it's trending away from black people.All due respect, but why does race matter? A ton of people are losing their lives and livelihood in this, of all different creeds. Just not understanding the emphasis here, I guess.
Also, just to note, Altadena is not majority black, but there are communities inside of it that are. Altadena as a whole is majority white IIRC, not that it matters as I don't think fire has a prejudice.
Edit to add a bit more: Partially because I don't wantDeafTourette to think I am solely trying to call him out or be a jerk and also because I just feel like talking a bit more about it...
Truly heart breaking for all involved, including this story and others that have been shared. Continued prayers for all.
It might be hard for some who have never been to LA to understand, but I was there a little over a year ago standing at the Griffith Observatory and looking around. It is, obliviously at the time, pretty obvious how something like this could take off in the hills easily. It's also hard to fathom how large LA and it's "pockets" as I refer to them are. Every part of the town is almost like a major city elsewhere. So many variables at play here.
By the way, if you put the politics fighting aside and the fact that it's a huge place with quite a few problems, I feel like a lot of people may not know that there are plenty of great, normal people there, regardless of what you hear in the media and social media. Some truly chill people, honestly similar to the east coast coastal mid to south towns, most of the not-celebrity people there are nice and chill. You wouldn't expect it, but it is true for a large portion of the every-day person populace. I have certainly been in worse and unfriendlier places. Lot of people in LA ( and surrounding areas) are willing to talk and help when you are visiting. Not every block is a crap hole, at all.
God bless LA, hope and prayers for defeating this and healing.
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I think it will be another money laundering scheme that will balloon out.
You post if something pushes against misinformation, yet you yourself post misinformation.
Wouldnt be surprised.This is what I'm thinking, too.
