elon is reposting videos saying 2 million dollar fire department budget line item for DEI is why california is burning. it’s mental illness init

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i think the larger argument is that an institution suffers when it meaningfully elevates identity over competence

anyone who is saying that minor budget item caused a disaster like this is of course wrong

it’s a scapegoat argument if i ever saw one

i think the spontaneous experience of bureaucracy is memetic sludge like the wokeness debate itself, and i don’t think its restricted to the public sector. i think many places of business operated as racial and cultural insiders clubs, each of their own stripe, since their inception. i don’t doubt DEI is a political dimension within the arena of institutions including the LAFD. and finally i think none of this has anything to do with asking the people who actually fight these fires for the last n decades how they would solve the problem. instead i see lots of people online gleefully confirmation biasing their extremely boring 2025 worldviews onto every situation they perceive. elon has shrewdly co-opted these homosapien tribal behaviors to secure favorable relations with governments worldwide.

the smaller argument or the larger argument