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[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 218 points 1 month ago (2 children)

jesus christ they’re dumb

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 120 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They know exactly what they're doing, it's a "purification," not entirely dissimilar to the same that happened in the 1930s in Germany.

[–] Alterforlett@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago

I think most people realise. It's still really fucking dumb

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, no, they're dumb as a bag of bricks. Dumbest Nazis of all time. AI just makes them dumber.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Nononono! They're super-smart! Even when everything they do looks exactly what an incredibly stupid person would do that's just because they're playing 1000D chess! They've thought of everything so we should all just give up and accept their rule.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does everyone big country have to go through that phase?

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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

not at all. trying to eliminate gay people from history, and also a nice convenient moment to sweep some war crimes under the rug

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People like this don’t think it was wrong

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

they're not who they're manufacturing consent from. it's the ~55% of people who apparently listen to nothing but spotify and watch nothing but entertainment

[–] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 119 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Also apparently any photo of any Black or woman service member.

Because they didn't consider the possibility that women and Black service members did noteworthy things based on their actual merit.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 87 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Images of historically significant military achievements or personnel, such as the Tuskegee Airmen and the first female Marine Corps infantry graduates, have been flagged for removal."

Wow. That's pretty blatant.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

The Tuskegee airmen thing pisses me off so much. Like brick-throwing shit-burning degree of angry.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Including a Hispanic Marine who received a Medal of Honor for jumping on a grenade to save his comrades. Medal given in 1946, the infamous period of DEI...

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 86 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Normal country

Normal things are done in it.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m fine. We’re fine. We’re all fine here. How are you?

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago

"It was a lousy conversation anyway. Chewie, we're gonna have company!"

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago
[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 70 points 1 month ago (5 children)

If they do this then they should at least be consistent and remove every mention of the words Straight, Bi, Pan and Trans as well

Taking your Biplane for a transatlantic flight, straight to the Panama canal? That's a paddlin

[–] ours@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Via the Gulf of Mexico.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bicycles are banned. Cars are no longer allowed to have transmissions either.

Tran-sport in general is banned. So is all Bi-ology.

[–] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Transatlantic towards Panama?

We Europeans didn't ban those words.

Transcontinental would work though

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I wonder how the fascies will say: "I need a new frying pan"

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[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 61 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I was really hoping this was a case of intentional malicious compliance to draw attention to the stupidity of this new policy. No such luck.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

find /mnt/gubarmentfiles/ -name "*gay*" -exec rm {} \;

-- some dogenerate, propably.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 month ago

I don't believe that they're even that capable. Probably really on LLMs to write every script for them and don't know whether or not it actually works.

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 1 month ago

So the snowflakes have reached the banning words stage now, have they?

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The Enola Gay is still mildly radioactive, so I can’t help but think “Hot gays in your area ready to bang”

[–] lalala@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

This is just a book burning.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

They're also removing pictures of a Medal of Honor recipient from World War 2. His crime? Being Hispanic. Because being Hispanic and being awarded the MoH posthumously is obviously DEI. From that infamous time of DEI awards, 1946.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why can’t they just rename it Enola Straight?

Though Enola sounds pretty ethnic.

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[–] philthi@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just did whatever the opposite of eating the onion is. I assumed this was the onion.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Shat the onion"? Naah that doesn't too right either.

[–] philthi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 points 1 month ago

Enola Sad and Straight

[–] borokov@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The fuck ???

It's the name of pilot's mother: Enola Gay Tibbets !!! It has nothing to do with LGBTQRSTwhatever !!!

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

Yes that's why it's the article.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 11 points 1 month ago

This is just the right kind of absurd for our current government circus. I believe the headline completely without even reading the article.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder if this is an example of malicious compliance.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Have a yabba dabba do time, a dabba do time...

So sad what they did to the mother who raised a good Little Boy

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What are you doing this weekend, Trump? Something gay, no doubt?

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Sucking on more toes.

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[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

So censorship 🤣

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Jesus, they're going through and "purifying" all the different government archives. This is gonna do irreparable harm to our knowledge of history. Utterly vile

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