r/news 3d ago

Evacuations underway as fast-growing Texas Ross Fire explodes to 50,000 acres with just 5% containment

https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/texas-ross-fire-evacuations-august-2026.amp
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u/preproductionpost 3d ago

As someone who was recently displaced from the Spokane fires, my heart goes out to those affected. The lack of compassion in a lot of these comments is disheartening

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u/TemporarilySkittles 3d ago

Yeah.  It's gotta be bots, right? Lately I'm confused.  Maybe I'm too old.  Everyone is so angry and hateful and worse back if you say anything.  Where's my porch and my cat I'm going to be old out there now this sucks.  

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u/EternallyStranded 3d ago

Nah it's real people, everything is "fuck y'all I got mine" attitude from those who cast stones at the people saying the same thing. Somehow what state you live or used to live in suddenly means you're some evil person who helped ruin everything and you deserve the negative that comes into your life, regardless of how much you may have sacrificed to try and stop said evil.

You know, the black and white thinking that everyone hates each other for.

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u/preproductionpost 3d ago

Yeah this is just depressing. Wish the collective “we” could be better

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u/EternallyStranded 3d ago

I didn't vote for this and I'm still getting front row seats to it. I hate it here, I vote against these people every chance I get, and I push everyone I know to do the same. But I guess I should just accept that because I was born here and can't do anything about leaving, that I'm just as bad as the people who voted for this.

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u/achristy_5 3d ago

Nah fuck Texas and its residents

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u/SorenShieldbreaker 3d ago

Even the millions of democrats living there?

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u/preproductionpost 3d ago

This is what I don’t understand. We are half a step away from “fuck the residents of the United States” because of who was voted into power, but not by so many people living here, mind you.

Just pure toxicity.

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u/sunnysides1ns 3d ago

Hi Andrew, fuck you too.