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Images of "Enola Gay," the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan are among those targeted by the U.S. military in an initiative to eliminate content related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

They are among a number of photos unrelated to DEI that have been mistakenly flagged, including those from an Army Corps of Engineers dredging project in California, seemingly because an engineer in the image had the last name "Gay."

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[–] KeefChief13@lemmy.world 73 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What the fuck are we doing

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Voting fascists with about 6 braincells into office, apparently. 🤷

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

6 braincells collectively right?

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago

Fools electing grifters, a story as old as time :)

"I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. . - John Stuart Mill

[–] Sammy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Laughing all the way to Hell, my friend

[–] mukt@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

At least we have a good sense of humour.

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bet you “Big Balls” saw that and thought it was some liberal’s screen name.

[–] HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth 24 points 1 week ago

Maybe he's dyslexic and read Elon a gay

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can we sue the government for incompetence? There's gotta be a judge somewhere that'll approve standing for it at at this point.

[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

Courts are corrupt. Have to go Article 5 convention to rewrite the Constitution, I think.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think there are multiple lawsuits going around targeting various shit the current admin is doing. They even got some preliminary injunctions stopping or cancelling a lot of it (e.g. mass layoffs). However, remember that the final instance is SCOTUS which currently has 3 conservatives, 2 fascists-lite and 4 fascists PRO MAX, and they have already given their fuhrer carte blanche to do any illegal shit without personal consequence, so the odds are not good.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 30 points 1 week ago
[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

It's hard to tell what stuff is intentional, to flood the news with so much batshit stuff that we start to ignore things and what is genuine incompetence at this point.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 week ago

Hey, it says "gay" right in the name and we all know "gays" are gay. /s

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago

First they came for the…

wait, what am I even talking about… most people in the US are probably cheering this on having allowed it continue to this level of stupidity.

So much for the cHeCkS aNd bAlAnCeS and aMeRiCaN vAlUeS

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago
[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Now we'll never have a bomber called 'ur mom gay' :(