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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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 6 days 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] 27 points 6 days ago

This is just a book burning.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

Enola Sad and Straight

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days 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 6 days ago

Yes that's why it's the article.

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 219 points 1 week ago (2 children)

jesus christ they’re dumb

[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 week ago (4 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 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days 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.

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[–] [email protected] 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

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

People like this don’t think it was wrong

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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days 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] 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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Normal country

Normal things are done in it.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Transatlantic towards Panama?

We Europeans didn't ban those words.

Transcontinental would work though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

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

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

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

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

Via the Gulf of Mexico.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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

-- some dogenerate, propably.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

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

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

Why can’t they just rename it Enola Straight?

Though Enola sounds pretty ethnic.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 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.

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

I wonder if this is an example of malicious compliance.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

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

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