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Firefighters are infinitely more based than cops even if some are reactionary. (hexbear.net)

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[-] buh@hexbear.net 78 points 9 months ago

firefighters are reactionary in the same way that nurses tend to be - they hate taxes and "bureaucracy" and in some cases "wokeness" but will be sympathetic to any person they come across in a state of vulnerability, instead of viewing them with suspicion and wanting to subjugate them like cops do

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 45 points 9 months ago

If your politics don't get in the way of my medical care or my fire being put out, during the time I'm having a medical problem or unwelcome fire I really don't care what their politics are. If my home is ablaze and a fascist goes in to put it out good, he's fixing my fire problem for free and risking harm. It's a double win here.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

firefighters are reactionary in the same way that nurses tend to be - they hate taxes and "bureaucracy" and in some cases "wokeness"

What's up with this?

[-] buh@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

I think it's because both firefighting and (some specializations of) nursing pay pretty well so they're materially well off, and they both also attract people from blue collar backgrounds which tend to be culturally conservative (not denigrating them for this, but it is what it is)