Summary
The Trump administration is facing backlash after reports that the Defense Department flagged over 26,000 images for deletion due to alleged connections to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
Among them are photos of trailblazing pilots, including the Tuskegee Airmen and Col. Jeannie Leavitt.
Most controversially, an image of the WWII aircraft Enola Gay was flagged, seemingly because its name includes the word “gay.”
The revelation has sparked mockery online, with critics calling this “the STUPIDEST administration in American history.”
trump also railed about millions of dollars of research money being spent on making mice transgender, because he (and his minions) don’t understand what “transgenic mice” are.
My 12 year old overheard me making fun of “trump has no clue what transgenic means cause he barely has a 3rd grade education” and my son said asked why the ninja turtles would be bad. And you know what, he’s essentially correct.
A 12 year old has a better concept of what transgenic means than the President Dumbfuck Shitstain.
The Enola Gay crew members are rolling in their graves. Krasnov and his crew of thugs are bunch of fucking morons.
I know I’m late to stopping the damage that’s already occurred, but I have plenty of hard disk space on my server. Anybody know where I can download a backup of these sites so we have another copy in the world? Even better, if I could mirror a backup from before the Fourth Reich moved in.
Yeah it’s really disturbing how many people seem to be ignoring or not aware of that part
Ctrl + F - “Gay”
I dislike DEI as well, but this ain’t it chief.
I’d love to hear a coherent reason backed by facts and evidence about why DEI is bad?
Whenever someone tells me they don’t like DEI and I ask why, it’s always some unhinged spiel about women and immigrants taking their jobs.
Der terk err jerbs!!
I absolutely think this new DEI hobbyhorse is just for the Magats to get to be racist pieces of shit but if I had to construct a coherent point against the concept of DEI hiring it might go:
It’s obviously true that certain groups don’t have the advantages of others: the primary indicator of financial success is social-economic background. As such this is a long term vs short term decision. If we (an institution) want the best performance now we should hire in a meritocratic manner. If we want to raise our performance in the future we should apply DEI principles. This will inspire underrepresented groups into the field and this increase our pool of great minds. Given time this can be one of many tools to raise the maximum number of our potential workforce to their highest performance. However we want best performance now so we disregard that stuff in favour of performance now.
But I don’t think it’s as black and white as that.
I just don’t buy it. I’ve worked at plenty of companies and I never saw it work that way. Sure, I’ve seen “we have to interview more candidates” or “we need to write our job applications to be more inclusive”, but I never saw “we need to hire the lessor candidate because they’re x”.
In my experience when someone is whining that they lost a possible job to a “DEI hire”, they’re usually just butthurt that someone was better than them.
Most of these people no longer understand the difference between facts and opinions.
From the standpoint where they’re equal, it should be possible to rewrite history to fit the opinion. But of course, reality doesn’t work that way.
Case in point: Jim Jordan, Thomas Massie, Michael Shellenberger, et. al: https://tdefender.substack.com/p/alamo-moment-congress-holds-hearing-government-censorship
fascism is solipsistic. or aspirationally so, at least. to them it works. to them it matters.
I heard someone say that next they’ll ban Transatlantic flights
Good thing nobody really uses transistor radios any more.
trans AND foreigners? and who refers to the ocean other than woke environmentalists?
Good idea! Trump is all in for isolation, and given the track record of the last 6+ weeks … so please do ban transatlantic travel for the USA. As off today is just fine.
All public transport is in danger of getting shut down I reckon…
Make Americans Walk to Work (Again?)
We won’t have to walk to work. We’ll live in little huts on the plantation where we work off our debts.
Whole lot of damage can be done by stupid people, especially if they are young and given a permission structure to break shit. For reference, see the Nazi Youth, the Red Guards, etc…
Not sure who is actually heading this up, but I would not be surprised if it was handed off to some eager beaver teenagers because a whole lot of idiots think that kids understand tech better than others (which is of course just very stupid in itself, but I suspect it’s an Inception of idiocy with this bunch, so if they adopted that counterfactual view, too, it would not be surprising).
Stupid people cause more evil than evil people
Same link without the tracker ;)
“SLAMMED” I say! “SLAMMED!”
What is this open mic night? FFS.
So, how many in the government are called Gaylord? Will they be detained and forced to give up their name? Mandatory change to Petey?
I guess there’s also a Gaylord street and monument here and there?
“MOST controversially”???
They’re deleting the Tuskegee Airmen! An all-black Army fighter and bomber group!
They are literally calling them “DEI” when they’re from a time where they couldn’t share water fountains with white people.
That Big Ball’s regex he pulled from a Twitch extension tutorial on setting up automod highlighting found the word “Gay” an no one reviewed the context is certainly one of the dumbest things, but cmon it’s hardly the fucking worst shit they’re doing.
They are literally deleting our history in front of us. Fuck these guys, may they be tried, convicted, and sentenced to death!
That Big Ball’s regex he pulled from a Twitch extension tutorial on setting up automod highlighting found the word “Gay” an no one reviewed the context is certainly one of the dumbest things, but cmon it’s hardly the fucking worst shit they’re doing.
It shows how their laziness and incompetence is going to destroy everything.
They’re deleting Medal of Honor recipients. Famously DEI position that…
Who’s going to convict them? The DOJ?
I think we just need Player 2.
Down the memory hole it goes.
This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs – to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.
Orwell, 1984
Sounds like the perfect job for AI
Fellas, is instantly vaporizing 60,000 people gay?
Only if you don’t say “no homo” first.
Maj. Kong: I’m about to horse around with the gayist shit hits bomb release again.
Not to argue with the article headline, but the stupidest line was crossed long ago. The administration is just padding their stupidity score at this point.
Nothing says DEI like killing a hundred thousand nonwhite foreign people to force their government to change their religion to better align with the preferences of rich and powerful white Americans…
Yeah, cause these folks literally hit control + f and typed in gay. Everything that had the word gay was deleted.
