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[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 195 points 5 days ago (2 children)

jesus christ they’re dumb

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 100 points 5 days 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.

[–] Alterforlett@lemmy.world 38 points 5 days ago

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

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

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.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Does everyone big country have to go through that phase?

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

When nobody stands up to stop the fascists, yes.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 26 points 5 days 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

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

People like this don’t think it was wrong

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 days 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

[–] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 105 points 5 days ago (2 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.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 75 points 5 days 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.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

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

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 46 points 4 days ago (2 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

[–] ours@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

Via the Gulf of Mexico.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

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

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 74 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Normal country

Normal things are done in it.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 7 points 4 days ago

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

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago
[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 55 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 41 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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

-- some dogenerate, propably.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 4 days 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.

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 4 days ago

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

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

Why can’t they just rename it Enola Straight?

Though Enola sounds pretty ethnic.

[–] philthi@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] philthi@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago
[–] lalala@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

This is just a book burning.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 11 points 5 days ago

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

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

I wonder if this is an example of malicious compliance.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

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

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 5 points 4 days ago

This is hilarious.

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

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Sucking on more toes.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

So censorship 🤣