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.”
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.
The Enola Gay crew members are rolling in their graves. Krasnov and his crew of thugs are bunch of fucking morons.
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?
“SLAMMED” I say! “SLAMMED!”
What is this open mic night? FFS.
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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 ;)
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.
The Enola Gay hangs in the Udvar Hazy branch of the Smithsonian, and seeing it in person is the only time I’ve ever been overwhelmed by an artifact. I was grateful that there was a bench right there to sit on, and it occurred to me that probably wasn’t a random placement.
I adore going to the Air and Space museum. I’m usually overwhelmed with wonder by all the space craft because seeing a thing makes it all real and tangible but seeing the Enola Gay was a different kind of overwhelming. Seeing it drives home a true sense of horror for what happened that day and what has been unleashed on the world. But that museum contains more than just artifacts; it contains our cumulative memories and experiences as a country. My last visit was almost two decades ago but I had the most moving experience I’ll probably ever have there. At one point during our tour my husband and I were walking through an exhibit of planes used in the Asia-Pacific theater. We were in this tight little offshoot where there was a single plane in the center of the room and placards along the walls. It was really crowded and noisy but I wanted to read all the placards. As I was reading with my back turned the room almost suddenly got real quiet and thinned out real quick. My husband nudged me to get my attention and as I turned around there was an old man in a wheelchair right in front of the plane. He must have been a veteran because he had his service ball-cap on. Everyone was instinctively giving this man room and a moment of silence as he openly wept while staring at the plane. My husband and I stood there a few moments longer before quietly nodding at his family members in recognition and respect before we too left the room. I’ll never be able to imagine what was going through that man’s mind or what he was re-living in that moment but I’ve been thinking about that experience a lot since last November. I felt respect, empathy, and even a bit of patriotism at the time but lately all I feel is shame that this country has gleefully spit in the face of our veterans and their service today.
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.
There really needs to be some sort of general intelligence, emotional intelligence and common sense testing before someone can become a presidential candidate.
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.
Elon’s crotch gremlin tech kiddies probably think the twin towers were a ride at six flags…
the twin towers were a ride at six flags…
Nah, it’s the second best book and third best movie in the LOTR trilogy
The Lord of the Rings films are already ranked the same as theur position in the trilogy. Fite me.
The Lord of the Rings
filmsbooks are already ranked the same as theur position in the trilogyFixed it for you
Fite me.
No thanks.
New use of crotch gremlins unlocked!
Yeah, cause these folks literally hit control + f and typed in gay. Everything that had the word gay was deleted.
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.
At this rate, the Onion will struggle to compete.
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The Onion should start coming up with headlines like “Trump has quiet evening at home with Melania”. That’d be pretty unbelievable.
Melania Seen Smiling and Hugging Husband
Trump goes to Kiev to give Zielinski his deck of cards. Also no suits party
That would be far too much fiction. The Onion makes people wonder if it is true or not.
The Onion making up more plausible and more believable articles to show people that the world don’t have to be this insane?
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…
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.
To be honest, I’ve had this discussion countless times at this point and I’m just tired of discussing it, especially with americans. It’s a fruitless endeavor.
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.
Absolutely agree with you. I’ve been all over tech and engineering industry, in the arts too.
I now work in a publicly funded university and it’s not happening here. If not here where the hell is it?
We are encouraged to not dismiss people based on race, sex etc by our diversity training but anyone with half a brain doesn’t need that and the others would ignore it as ‘woke’ or some other cop out.
