r/Firefighting • u/JohannLandier75 Tennessee FF (Career) • Feb 08 '25

News Federal Hiring Freeze prevents on-boarding of wildland firefighters

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/08/us/firefighters-federal-hiring-freeze/index.html
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u/Cpt_Soban Volunteer Firefighter Australia Feb 09 '25

These fire should have never happened

Yet they did mate lol. A fire department exists as the next stage if a fire starts...

Are you even a FF?

Are you?

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u/synapt PA Volunteer Feb 10 '25

He's claimed before that he is but almost all of his comments that I can recall on this subreddit have been more of movie-firefighting responses than actual firefighting knowledge, and he more often than not pops up mostly in these kind of topics where it political-leaning and likely to turn into shit talking about Trump.

Pretty sure he's just part of Trump's PR team at this point. Why the mods haven't banned him yet I don't really get lol.

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u/HazMatsMan Career Co. Officer Feb 10 '25

We don't ban people based on who they vote for.

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u/synapt PA Volunteer Feb 10 '25

When his entire existence in this subreddit is mostly just him inciting and arguing to the point his overall account comment karma is -100 almost purely from r/firefighting, it feels like he's pretty well past being in compliance with rule #2, at least to me lol.

Specifically when it's almost all oriented only around specific subjects that just happen to be politically oriented. I've seen people warned in the past for simply borderline pure passive aggressive comments, but this guy just seems to get a free pass to say the dumbest and most ignorant stuff seemingly for no intention other than to get a rise out of people.

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u/HazMatsMan Career Co. Officer Feb 10 '25

We can't go solely on karma either, especially when it comes to politics because of the block downvoting that occurs. Someone says they like the wrong politician in the wrong subreddit, and it's an instant -50 karma bomb for them. And as far as "dumb and ignorant" goes, I could pick out dozens of comments (from this post alone) from people on both sides that fit that description.

If people are trolling, report it. That's what the report feature is for, but if you've been flaming them in return, or provoking it, don't complain when your stuff gets blasted too.

If you have evidence of someone engaging in "stolen valor", impersonating a firefighter, etc use the report function or contact the mod team directly via modmail.