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Summary
Federal employees at multiple agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from email signatures by Friday, following executive orders signed by Donald Trump to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.
Agencies including the CDC, Department of Transportation, and Department of Energy issued directives citing the new policy.
Some employees expressed frustration, with one CDC worker calling it unprecedented.
The Office of Personnel Management also instructed agencies to disable pronoun prompts in email systems, marking another step in Trump’s broader rollback of DEI initiatives.
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Oh, thank god they’re focusing on the important things… /s
Any day now and those egg prices will come crashing down.
Eggs are basically free as soon as they get rid of these egg stealing tranny’s. At least i assume that’s the problem
Trump is working to lower egg prices by reducing demand for them, which is why he’s now trying to kill or deport a significant fraction of the American population.
Fuck pronouns, I just use names.
And when you don’t know their name?
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Actually you bring up an interesting point. No one generally has an issue with ‘I’. I suppose that’s because no one has gone batshit enough to try and convince people they don’t exist. What’s the opposite of I?
You. Also a pronoun.
No. I am that I am. The opposite of I is non existence. You are not the opposite of me.
You may not be my opposite, but the word ‘you’ is the opposite of the word ‘I’.
Why? By what reasoning?
Let’s say it’s the two of us. Between the two of us, we can use ‘I’ and ‘you’ and they might be opposites in that the opposite of ‘I’ is ‘not me’. But if we added a third person, then we got ‘I’ ‘you’ ‘him’ and now both ‘you’ and ‘him’ are both ‘not me’. So what logic makes ‘you’ the opposite of ‘I’?
Most pronouns have counterparts that I was using as my reasoning for identifying opposites. He/she, us/them, you/I.
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Gronk smash!
That’ll bring down the cost of living fs
The party of Freezed Peach! Can’t you just smell the freedom?
Also, I’m sure it’s THIS that will give us cheap groceries.
The time has come for all federal employees to cease using pronouns entirely in communications. Here is a list of English pronouns to stop using.
Also pretty much any noun can be used as a form of neo pronoun, so to be safe all Federal employees should only use verbs.
First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language.
Next they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.
All who?
Wait, fuck
I’m sure they’re doing something else awful behind the scenes and this is just a distraction for that.
Please use my full, christian, and satanic name when referring to me.
Comply but include unicode: ♀ ♂ ⚧
Trump likely doesn’t know what an email signature is, let alone would have thought of this. This and things like it are the work of the real powers within trump’s orbit. They get this stuff done while everyone is distracted with the diarreah leaking from trump’s mouth.
He doesn’t know how government works, he doesn’t know what tariffs do, he’s just the loudmouth sock puppet doing what some other evil assholes are telling him to do
Same as it ever was.
I’d say this is the distraction for the real damage.
Probably Elon’s henchmen taking over OPM, or something else that hasn’t bubbled up yet.
So much for ending emails with a simple “thank you” at the end. Damn offensive pronouns.
Maybe they’ll finally pick something important to work on tomorrow. Probably not, but maybe. We still have other issues right? I heard a couple of planes fell out of the sky and eggs are $10 and the ice caps are gonna melt.
This is so they can build in an excuse to fire everyone in IT.
I think everyone here knew Trump would be doing a lot of stupid evil shit during his second term, but is anyone else surprised at the sheer magnitude of stupidity coming from the white house these past ten days?
Fuck no. Project 2025 was about making the shitshow far more efficient this time around.
They had PLANS. They published them. Now that donvict is in there, they plan on getting as much rammed through as possible. It’s doubtful stuff like this matters very much other than as ragebait for their stupid base. The REAL agenda is the kind of looting and pillaging Felon plans on carrying out with his purchase of donvict…
there’s one advantage to Project 2025 being published. It catalogs the stuff for this year to undo, once (if ever) republicans get booted.
But it’s not stupidity. I mean, I agree, it’s all stupid (as in: there are more important issues), but they’re not stupid. They planned all this. It’s exactly what they wanted and it’s definitely not ‘stupid’ - It’s insidious and malicious and cruel, but not stupid. This sounds like a dumb, tiny thing to do, I mean, it’s just about words in an e-mail signature, right? It’s not that big a deal? But a lot of things they’re doing are -in a vacuum- not that big a deal. However, if you add it all up, it’s all part of the wider persecution entire groups of people are falling victim to. In this case it’s just another way to silence a minority and their allies.
Plus, don’t forget: they’ll use anyone who doesn’t comply with the ‘stupid’ little stuff as an excuse for punishments and retaliation and even worse legislation.
Not stupid. Not ignorant. Not dumb. Incredibly fucking evil. And we should treat it like that. Don’t minimize any of it, however insignificant it may seem. Put in context this is another drop in what will become a fucking ocean of suffering.
Edit: grammar.
It’s a gish gallop of petty insecurity, coming out so fast and furious that it takes people off guard.
Two years from now, when Trump doesn’t have any more low-hanging fruit to pick at, this will seem quaint. But by then, we’re going to see the real damage these opening days inflicted on civil society. It won’t be “lolz, haha, guess we’ll be using a lot of proper nouns going forward” and a lot more “fuck, another airline accident that you can only learn about on Rednote and the forums of Pornhub, because every major journalist has been doing wall-to-wall coverage of the Trial of the Transgender Eleven caught providing underground abortion drugs to serially raped immigrant middle schoolers held in the prison camps of the hurricane blasted ruins of Miami.”
‘Gish gallop’ is the perfect descriptor for this onslaught of every hour insanity we’re going through.
Bannon called it flooding the zone with shit. Some keep on saying “flooding the zone” is a donvict strategy, but he got it from Bannon, most likely.
Also: Karl Rove famously had his quote, which is basically the same thing - basically putting on a pedestal those that take bold actions and lie constantly in the process:
“That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
Bannon saying to “flood the zone with shit” is far shorter, but basically the same thing.
Ah… I feel like in times past I would have read that hypothetical and laughed at how ridiculous it is.
Anything to distract from the plane crash they caused and plans to indefinitely hold citizens and people who missed a court date in an expanded Cuban military black site the public never wanted built on the first place
Is this so he can attack the dwarves?
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This should be what people do.
