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    • floppybutton@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      Interestingly this is how it started out here. You bought fire insurance and were protected by a fire company. I want to say it was one of Franklin’s things that established the first public fire company in Philadelphia, but this is a forum so if I’m wrong I know I’ll be corrected!

      We still have a lot of groups, at least in the northeast, that refer to themselves as companies, though it’s used more like an army company or battalion and less like a for-profit endeavor.

  • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 day ago

    I went to a firefighter’s wedding a year or two ago. There was part where we all took a bus from the venue to the reception. One of them started a “fuck Joe Biden” chant on the bus.

    Thoughts and prayers assholes.

  • kmartburrito@lemmy.world
    41·
    2 days ago

    I know a firefighter who is a captain in California of a station, he’s the biggest hardcore trump fanatic and incredibly racist. Have the day you deserve, my dude!

    • flandish@lemmy.world
      25·
      2 days ago

      I make it my secondary goals when hanging around the station (am firefighter) to chime in and knock down any pro trump (heck pro state) rhetoric pretty quickly. It’s worked on a few so far.

      • kmartburrito@lemmy.world
        13·
        2 days ago

        I really appreciate you. It’s really hard in a professional setting to speak up against your colleagues. Thank you for your courage to stand your ground and call out hatred when you see it.

  • Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 days ago

    Damn, he must think he’s pretty clearly entrenched and in the clear for full throttle fascism if he’s already blatantly turning on some of his core supporters and charismatic rescue fauna.

    But, he’s also the only president I’ve ever heard of who forced members of the military to face paycheck uncertainty (US Coast Guard, Government shutdown of 2018-19). And yet plenty of those guys and gals STILL supported him during and after 🙄