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[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days 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

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 219 points 1 week ago (2 children)

jesus christ they’re dumb

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 120 points 1 week 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 week ago

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

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

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

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

Does everyone big country have to go through that phase?

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

People like this don’t think it was wrong

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[–] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 120 points 1 week 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 week 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 week ago

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

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week 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 87 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Normal country

Normal things are done in it.

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

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

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago

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

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 71 points 1 week 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

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

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

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

That phrase is an incantation to cause aneurysms in racist grandpas.

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

Via the Gulf of Mexico.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week 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 week ago

Transatlantic towards Panama?

We Europeans didn't ban those words.

Transcontinental would work though

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

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

-- some dogenerate, propably.

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

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

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

This is just a book burning.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week 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 week ago (1 children)

Why can’t they just rename it Enola Straight?

Though Enola sounds pretty ethnic.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Enola sounds pretty close to Ebola... Two reasons to censor this picture!

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

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

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 points 1 week ago

Enola Sad and Straight

[–] borokov@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week 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 6 days ago

Yes that's why it's the article.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 11 points 1 week 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 week ago (1 children)

I wonder if this is an example of malicious compliance.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Likely it's being done this way to overwhelm anf tire out the activists of all kinds ASAP, then the techbros can build their network states.

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

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

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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So sad what they did to the mother who raised a good Little Boy

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

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

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 2 points 6 days ago

Making the gay pay tarrifs.

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

Sucking on more toes.

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