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"Emmitsburg Mayor Frank Davis voted for Donald Trump in hopes he would cut federal spending. Now Davis hopes those cuts don't include the permanent cancellation of classes at the National Fire Academy, which is part of the town's identity and helps drive its economy. Davis is also a chief at Emmitsburg's firehouse, known as the Vigilant Hose Company."

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5351764/trump-cuts-national-fire-academy-maryland-emmitsburg-fema-federal-spending

Trump killed the Fema training academy. It's not coming back.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

One of the worst things about being a firefighter is how many of my colleagues are republicans.

It makes no sense. You do a job providing services to people for the government and you vote for the folks who tell us that government is unable to do good...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, if you ask firefighters if firefighting should be privatized, you'll usually get a "lmao NO!" And also a "but that's different!" And that's the escape hatch of every conservative ever. They think that everything they believe applies to everything else but themselves. Every other government service except the fire service is corrupt, wasteful, and backwards. They don't believe that the fascists could ever possibly be talking about them, because they know that what they're doing is actually important.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're so right... Firefighting is my volunteer gig. I'm a data processing engineer for astronomy missions for my day job. My boss (comet scientist, astronomy PhD) is one of those guys who's a libertarian that always votes for Republicans. He thinks that funding science should be done by the government, because private industry won't do that, but everything else should be privatized

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Man-o-sphere tells you that buff dudes fighting fires is based, which feeds the egos of a lot of these guys. And then it tells you that you're doing something the Woke DEI Left can't possibly accomplish, so you can recognize them as The Enemies.

Also, a lot of these guys are ex-military, which is an absolute rat's nest of Christian nationalism and reactionary politics.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I met a long time friend while volunteering feeding homeless folks.. 15 years later I had to drop the friend for turning maga. As soon as he unmasked to me, I said a similar thing, "but we met feeding the homeless?"

I'll never understand

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago

You do a job providing services to people for the government and you vote for the folks who tell us that the government they'll form is unable to do good...