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Military to remove 'Enola Gay' photos for violating DEI rules (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 2 months ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/nottheonion@lemmy.ml

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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 84 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What the fuck are we doing

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

6 braincells collectively right?

[–] Sammy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Laughing all the way to Hell, my friend

[–] mukt@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

At least we have a good sense of humour.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months 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

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 58 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth 31 points 2 months ago

Maybe he's dyslexic and read Elon a gay

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months 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 10 points 2 months ago

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

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 37 points 2 months ago

Thats gay.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 2 months ago

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

[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months 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.

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months 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 7 points 2 months ago

Alberta says it best

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

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