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[–] [email protected] 219 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

jesus christ they’re dumb

[–] [email protected] 122 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does everyone big country have to go through that phase?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

People like this don’t think it was wrong

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 119 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks 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...

[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Normal country

Normal things are done in it.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Via the Gulf of Mexico.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Transatlantic towards Panama?

We Europeans didn't ban those words.

Transcontinental would work though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

-- some dogenerate, propably.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago

This is just a book burning.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why can’t they just rename it Enola Straight?

Though Enola sounds pretty ethnic.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Enola Sad and Straight

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The fuck ???

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yes that's why it's the article.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

They won't, they will be reviewed by a human being at some point and reinstated, they've been flagged by an automated program.

It's the Scunthorpe problem all over again.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That automated program flagged at least tens of thousands of historical photos, most of which aren't as silly as 'haha plane gay' but of actual people (some of whom are still very much alive) in a blatant attempt to literally whitewash American history. Like, they've flagged the photos of literal Medal of Honor recipients because their skin tone is darker than eggshell, this is objectively horrifying. The loss of even one of those files is completely disrespectful on a number of levels

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm sure everything is going to turn out A- ok with this whole thing. 👍👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, it most definitely won't. Just not for the reason everyone is saying.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder if this is an example of malicious compliance.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

So censorship 🤣

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Sucking on more toes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks 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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