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Agricultural Research Service sent out a list of 110 terms that can no longer be used

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 days ago (3 children)

TIL that clean water is “woke”

I better not see any anti-woke types drinking clean water!

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago (1 children)

These people are so ridiculously evil. Banning the phrase clean water is insane.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Hard to believe there are still people willing to pose for a photo with Elon.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It just takes one brave soul with a hidden weapon to pose next to him, and we can be on a better timeline.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I imagine fellow nazis would be quite proud to.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So they can't reference the Clean Water Act?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That sounds like some diversity language to me.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 4 days ago

"Party Of Small Government"

This is fascism, by the way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

What the absolute flying fuck…

[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 days ago (1 children)

God forbid someone mentions ”clean water”.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah man. Nestle owns that word.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Please don't say the "N" word.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So, in other words, we will no longer be able to trust the USDA to safeguard our food supply and companies will be able to bastardize any and all foodstuffs without any kind of oversight whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You can also forget about exporting those.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Yeah, the EU is already pretty wary of US agriculture goods. This is going to absolutely murder the farming export business in the US.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

Step 1 prevent agency from doing it's job

Step 2 shriek about how agency does nothing and must be dismantled

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is some truly 1984 double speak bullshit

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Paper bags for everyone's head! No more problems!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

Fuck these guys, what time is the white house raid?

[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What's interesting is that other then three minor places reporting in this. Not even a comment from the democratic party. Nothing in major news publications. Nothing on CNN that I can find. Nothing on AP or NPR. I'm questioning if this is even real.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago

A lot of the time major publications won't print something like this unless it can be verified. They are probably trying to get confirmation it is real.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Gonna make it hard to talk about home REDACTED loans

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Oh man... i just completed my home microplastic loan application.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh, but that’s ok, because you can always REDACTED using the REDACTED by speaking the REDACTED. That’s the best way to REDACTED REDACTED the REDACTED.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

All I hear is the Nutshack theme

[–] [email protected] 175 points 4 days ago (4 children)

It is long past overdue for torches and pitchforks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, death to progress, bring back the dark ages! 😂

Edit: Why the downvotes, I meant it sarcastically!! Hence the “😂”
I guess it wasn’t obvious.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Actually I feel you, like despite others disagreeing (apparently). We've got better tools for this job.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

To be fair though the Democrats tried to stop dumb shitheads from pushing horse paste on Twitter during a pandemic, so no one's blameless in the censorship game.

(Please don't make me reply clarifying the intent of this statement.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is that fair? One follows scientific consensus and the other defies it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

taps the sign

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Free speech still has limits and distributing false medical information should be restricted.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Genuine question because you absolutelyalready took the time out of your day to clarify the intent with your parenthetical at the end there: is this an ego thing? Like what is it about tone indicators like "/s" that you hate so deeply that you feel the need to go out of your way to create a bespoke, alternate tone indicator which was 10x longer and 100x whiny-er? Where did these feelings come from? Clearly you understand that they're needed, so why do you persist in this nonsense?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't know why because I've never done it before today, but as I was about to post that I imagined someone taking it seriously and I was not in the mood to deal with that today so I cut it off proactively. And I've never liked /s.

[–] [email protected] 122 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Pollution remediation banned terms runoff, membrane filtration, microplastics, water pollution, air pollution, soil pollution, groundwater pollution, pollution remediation, pollution abatement, sediment remediation, contaminants of environmental concern, CEC, PFAS, PFOA, PCB, nonpoint source pollution

What a massive gift to the worst people

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I feel like at some point there will be so much banned that every government document is just going to be like caveman talk about how amazing petroleum and guns are

Gas good and drill good so money good too. All is good if gas is gas. Oil and gas and drilling is great. Guns for army man. Make America great again.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

They could save a lot of ink by just saying the word pollution, but that's not the point

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