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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

There really needs to be some sort of general intelligence, emotional intelligence and common sense testing before someone can become a presidential candidate.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

The Enola Gay crew members are rolling in their graves. Krasnov and his crew of thugs are bunch of fucking morons.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Yeah it’s really disturbing how many people seem to be ignoring or not aware of that part

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Case in point: Jim Jordan, Thomas Massie, Michael Shellenberger, et. al: https://tdefender.substack.com/p/alamo-moment-congress-holds-hearing-government-censorship

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

fascism is solipsistic. or aspirationally so, at least. to them it works. to them it matters.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I heard someone say that next they’ll ban Transatlantic flights

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Good thing nobody really uses transistor radios any more.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

trans AND foreigners? and who refers to the ocean other than woke environmentalists?

edit: and flying? sounds kinda gay.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All public transport is in danger of getting shut down I reckon..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Make Americans Walk to Work (Again?)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

We won't have to walk to work. We'll live in little huts on the plantation where we work off our debts.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Stupid people cause more evil than evil people

https://youtu.be/53ZaXpIn2fg

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

https://youtu.be/53ZaXpIn2fg

Same link without the tracker ;)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"SLAMMED" I say! "SLAMMED!"

What is this open mic night? FFS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 168 points 1 week ago (4 children)

“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!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

They're deleting Medal of Honor recipients. Famously DEI position that...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Who's going to convict them? The DOJ?

I think we just need Player 2.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Sounds like the perfect job for AI

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fellas, is instantly vaporizing 60,000 people gay?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Only if you don't say "no homo" first.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Maj. Kong: I'm about to horse around with the gayist shit hits bomb release again.

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