Images of “Enola Gay,” the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan are among those targeted by the U.S. military in an initiative to eliminate content related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

They are among a number of photos unrelated to DEI that have been mistakenly flagged, including those from an Army Corps of Engineers dredging project in California, seemingly because an engineer in the image had the last name “Gay.”

    • Hanrahan
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      711 days ago

      Fools electing grifters, a story as old as time :)

      "I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. . - John Stuart Mill

  • @halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    4712 days ago

    Can we sue the government for incompetence? There’s gotta be a judge somewhere that’ll approve standing for it at at this point.

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      12 days ago

      I think there are multiple lawsuits going around targeting various shit the current admin is doing. They even got some preliminary injunctions stopping or cancelling a lot of it (e.g. mass layoffs). However, remember that the final instance is SCOTUS which currently has 3 conservatives, 2 fascists-lite and 4 fascists PRO MAX, and they have already given their fuhrer carte blanche to do any illegal shit without personal consequence, so the odds are not good.

  • @reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml
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    1412 days ago

    It’s hard to tell what stuff is intentional, to flood the news with so much batshit stuff that we start to ignore things and what is genuine incompetence at this point.

  • @0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1112 days ago

    First they came for the…

    wait, what am I even talking about… most people in the US are probably cheering this on having allowed it continue to this level of stupidity.

    So much for the cHeCkS aNd bAlAnCeS and aMeRiCaN vAlUeS

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    211 days ago

    Now we’ll never have a bomber called ‘ur mom gay’ :(