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zoom_zip wrote

fucking fire department, taking away my autonomy to die in a house fire

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lettuceLeafer OP wrote

fucking fire department forcing squatters to watch their houses burn down and fucking fire department charging poor people thousands of dollars for a glorified uber. Maybe extorting the poor and vulnerable is bad and purposefully letting homes burn bc the cops told you to let it burn is bad actually.

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zoom_zip wrote

i'm getting the impression a lot of the responses here are US-centric because fire and ambulance services elsewhere are not so ingrained with the capitalist system

maybe i'm wrong?

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moonlune wrote

Ambulances in the US are private companies.

We're getting more and more private ambulances here too (EU, it's probably similar for other EU countries). They don't turn on their siren & lights most of the time, and are glorified taxis for people without life threatening medical conditions, are over-costed and siphon money from private insurances (maybe public money too but idk).

That wouldn't be much of a problem, but they're cannibalizing our regular free ambulances that end up understaffed & overworked. I feel like they'll disappear in a few years.

Fucking EU copying broken USA infrastructures :(

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zoom_zip wrote

equally i only have a european perspective on this, i guess we are lucky that our healthcare is free or subsidised. i had to call an ambulance for my kid a year or so ago and i am grateful for the paramedics that came and gave her the treatment she needed with no charge.

they might be tied to the state re: funding, but there’s no way you can equate fire-fighters or paramedics to cops (which was done elsewhere in the thread), unless i am massively missing something or unless there is something about the way US fire-fighters and paramedics operate that is not pervasive elsewhere?

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lettuceLeafer OP wrote

honestly I feel like firefighters are kinda like cops in there are a small amount of people who argue cops or firefighters have helped people. Though the regular work of firefighters and cops is very negative. Tho firefighters get more of a pass since they are significantly less shitty and do a larger amount of helpful stuff. Tho they still really suck overall.

For instance just bc someones counsin once removed was dealing with an abusive ex and the police department watched her home for a couple days so she felt safe in her home its still safe to want to abolish the police despite the cousin once removed having a positive experience with the police. This same critique applies to firefighters and medical proffesionals but the logic is different for many anarchists which is a bit weird but kinda makes sense since people arent nearly as motivated to abolish the firedepartment

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moonlune wrote (edited )

I would if I could but for now I just buy their calendars.

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kin wrote

In some places the firefighters are actually gendarmerie with different uniforms, so ACAB...

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Passive_Nihlist wrote

Fuck the fire department, and the paramedics.

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Passive_Nihlist wrote

Please do not sexualize my hatred for the medical industry.

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Passive_Nihlist wrote

Personally I do not really care about the suffering of state actors, whether it's as obvious as the police or more subtle like parents. Yes everyone suffers due to Leviathan, including the cops, politicians and capitalists but that dies not make me sympathetic to their complacency in these systems of domination. If a paramedic does their job out of a sense of care, it is just as heinous to me as those who do it just for money or even those who would like the power.

You say it makes more sense to attack the establishment, I do not see how paramedics aren't part of the "establishment". The state is not just lifeless institutions but also those inside them who do the work of reproducing everyday life.

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Passive_Nihlist wrote

Yeah

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Passive_Nihlist wrote

What is ideological about my stance?

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Passive_Nihlist wrote

This does not answer my question. What about the analysis I have outlined, of how institutions are upheld by the humans within them, do you disagree with?

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lettuceLeafer OP wrote

while I agree I think there is some problem with conflating being the receiving end of sex to be a negative thing prob rooted in misogyny and homophobia. So not seeing being fucked as an insult is prob for the best. Tho I def get why you are upset. I should have just used alternative wording tho I couldn't figure out how to make the same joke without saying fuck the fire department.

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Passive_Nihlist wrote

Personally I find your analysis lacking to say the least but my comment was not directed at your use of fuck, it was directed at the person who responded to my comment saying kinky.

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lettuceLeafer OP wrote

I know. I was trying to be a centrist validating your feelings but saying the person who commented was also kinda doing a thing I like. I am really towing the middle ground lol

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Passive_Nihlist wrote

I hate people who try to appease others instead of stating their actual opinions.

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lettuceLeafer OP wrote

that is my actual opinion tho.

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Passive_Nihlist wrote

Then I guess I don't understand what you were getting at with your comment about centrism. The phrase "validating your feelimgs" made me think you are not saying what you'd like to say, especially since your comment started with "I know" I assume in response to my staying of disagreement with it. So is your original comment the stance you stand by then or do you have some other opinion that you could clarify?

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lettuceLeafer OP wrote

Ah I was being tougue in cheek about the centrism part since my actual opinion had me capitulating to both parties.

My opinion is that the fire department sucks and I agree with you that the joke about you having a kink for fire departments and not actually like them is annoying.

In the other hand the concept that being fucked is bad Is kinda mysogynistic. So I think not acknowledging being fucked as an insult is a good idea so I also kina like the person replying in an annoying way.

So basically yeah the fire department sucks, it's annoying for people to make a joke rather than taking your feeling seriously sucks but also implying that being the receiving partner in sex is a bad thing is something that should be discouraged. So I agree and disagree with you and the person who responded 2 u

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AnarchoDoom wrote

"...but but they're Workers!"

"Cops and prison guards are Workers too, dimwit."

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AnarchoDoom wrote

What program or function you're using to notify you I just logged in or posted something?

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