- cross-posted to:
- nottheonion@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- nottheonion@lemmy.world
Summary
The Trump administration is facing backlash after reports that the Defense Department flagged over 26,000 images for deletion due to alleged connections to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
Among them are photos of trailblazing pilots, including the Tuskegee Airmen and Col. Jeannie Leavitt.
Most controversially, an image of the WWII aircraft Enola Gay was flagged, seemingly because its name includes the word “gay.”
The revelation has sparked mockery online, with critics calling this “the STUPIDEST administration in American history.”
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“MOST controversially”???
They’re deleting the Tuskegee Airmen! An all-black Army fighter and bomber group!
They are literally calling them “DEI” when they’re from a time where they couldn’t share water fountains with white people.
That Big Ball’s regex he pulled from a Twitch extension tutorial on setting up automod highlighting found the word “Gay” an no one reviewed the context is certainly one of the dumbest things, but cmon it’s hardly the fucking worst shit they’re doing.
They are literally deleting our history in front of us. Fuck these guys, may they be tried, convicted, and sentenced to death!
Down the memory hole it goes.
This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs – to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.
Orwell, 1984
Sounds like the perfect job for AI
Who’s going to convict them? The DOJ?
I think we just need Player 2.
They’re deleting Medal of Honor recipients. Famously DEI position that…
That Big Ball’s regex he pulled from a Twitch extension tutorial on setting up automod highlighting found the word “Gay” an no one reviewed the context is certainly one of the dumbest things, but cmon it’s hardly the fucking worst shit they’re doing.
It shows how their laziness and incompetence is going to destroy everything.
I heard someone say that next they’ll ban Transatlantic flights
Good thing nobody really uses transistor radios any more.
trans AND foreigners? and who refers to the ocean other than woke environmentalists?
edit: and flying? sounds kinda gay.
Good idea! Trump is all in for isolation, and given the track record of the last 6+ weeks … so please do ban transatlantic travel for the USA. As off today is just fine.
All public transport is in danger of getting shut down I reckon…
Make Americans Walk to Work (Again?)
We won’t have to walk to work. We’ll live in little huts on the plantation where we work off our debts.
Most of these people no longer understand the difference between facts and opinions.
From the standpoint where they’re equal, it should be possible to rewrite history to fit the opinion. But of course, reality doesn’t work that way.
fascism is solipsistic. or aspirationally so, at least. to them it works. to them it matters.
Case in point: Jim Jordan, Thomas Massie, Michael Shellenberger, et. al: https://tdefender.substack.com/p/alamo-moment-congress-holds-hearing-government-censorship
The Enola Gay crew members are rolling in their graves. Krasnov and his crew of thugs are bunch of fucking morons.
trump also railed about millions of dollars of research money being spent on making mice transgender, because he (and his minions) don’t understand what “transgenic mice” are.
My 12 year old overheard me making fun of “trump has no clue what transgenic means cause he barely has a 3rd grade education” and my son said asked why the ninja turtles would be bad. And you know what, he’s essentially correct.
A 12 year old has a better concept of what transgenic means than the President Dumbfuck Shitstain.
There really needs to be some sort of general intelligence, emotional intelligence and common sense testing before someone can become a presidential candidate.
Fellas, is instantly vaporizing 60,000 people gay?
Only if you don’t say “no homo” first.
Maj. Kong: I’m about to horse around with the gayist shit hits bomb release again.
Whole lot of damage can be done by stupid people, especially if they are young and given a permission structure to break shit. For reference, see the Nazi Youth, the Red Guards, etc…
Not sure who is actually heading this up, but I would not be surprised if it was handed off to some eager beaver teenagers because a whole lot of idiots think that kids understand tech better than others (which is of course just very stupid in itself, but I suspect it’s an Inception of idiocy with this bunch, so if they adopted that counterfactual view, too, it would not be surprising).
Stupid people cause more evil than evil people
Same link without the tracker ;)
I know I’m late to stopping the damage that’s already occurred, but I have plenty of hard disk space on my server. Anybody know where I can download a backup of these sites so we have another copy in the world? Even better, if I could mirror a backup from before the Fourth Reich moved in.
Yeah it’s really disturbing how many people seem to be ignoring or not aware of that part
“SLAMMED” I say! “SLAMMED!”
What is this open mic night? FFS.
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Not to argue with the article headline, but the stupidest line was crossed long ago. The administration is just padding their stupidity score at this point.
So, how many in the government are called Gaylord? Will they be detained and forced to give up their name? Mandatory change to Petey?
I guess there’s also a Gaylord street and monument here and there?
Ctrl + F - “Gay”
I dislike DEI as well, but this ain’t it chief.
Nothing says DEI like killing a hundred thousand nonwhite foreign people to force their government to change their religion to better align with the preferences of rich and powerful white Americans…
At this rate, the Onion will struggle to compete.
The Onion should start coming up with headlines like “Trump has quiet evening at home with Melania”. That’d be pretty unbelievable.
Melania Seen Smiling and Hugging Husband
Trump goes to Kiev to give Zielinski his deck of cards. Also no suits party
That would be far too much fiction. The Onion makes people wonder if it is true or not.
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The Onion making up more plausible and more believable articles to show people that the world don’t have to be this insane?
