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Trump admin slammed as ‘stupidest’ ever after linking WWII plane ‘Enola Gay’ to DEI

www.huffpost.com Trump Admin Slammed As ‘Stupidest’ Ever After Linking WWII Plane ‘Enola Gay’ To DEI

Just to be clear, Enola Gay was the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, not... a member of the LGBTQ+ community.

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."

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Trump admin slammed as ‘stupidest’ ever after linking WWII plane ‘Enola Gay’ to DEI

www.huffpost.com /entry/trump-admin-slammed-as-stupidest-ever-after-linking-wwii-jet-enola-gay-to-dei_n_67cb1032e4b05512c9048b11

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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.
- There really needs to be some sort of general intelligence, emotional intelligence and common sense testing before someone can become a presidential candidate.

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.

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?
  edit: and flying? sounds kinda gay.
- 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?)

“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...
- 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
- Who's going to convict them? The DOJ?
  I think we just need Player 2.

Yeah it’s really disturbing how many people seem to be ignoring or not aware of that part

At this rate, the Onion will struggle to compete.
- The Onion should start coming up with headlines like "Trump has quiet evening at home with Melania". That'd be pretty unbelievable.
  
  That would be far too much fiction. The Onion makes people wonder if it is true or not.
  
  Melania Seen Smiling and Hugging Husband
  
  Trump goes to Kiev to give Zielinski his deck of cards. Also no suits party
- The Onion making up more plausible and more believable articles to show people that the world don’t have to be this insane?
- At this point we can have a game of "guess that onion"
  Is this news header an onion? Take a guess and see whether you're correct!

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.

Ctrl F, "Gay". How the admin makes a naughty list
- This is 100% what actually happened. Plus no oversight of course.
  
  Yeah probably some pimple-faced DOGE kid who never learned about the Enola Gay because their school systems were underfunded and they're too young to remember OMD.
- Back in the mid 90’s I worked on developing an internet search engine long before Google existed. One of the tasks I worked on was a porn filter. Our first attempt failed miserably when we tried filtering on XXX and suddenly everything from Super Bowl 30 to all manner of other content with Roman numerals got flagged…
  This reminds me of just how clueless we were way back then…
  
  It’s a bit worse now because we have “AI” that parses through things, makes crazy different kinds of mistakes and people in power have more faith in its accuracy than they do in the humans whose lives they alter because of it.
  
  Unrelated, but I have always hated how they use roman numerals for Super Bowls. I can convert roman numerals to arabic but I never feel like actually doing so, so whenever I read something about a particular game I never really know which one they're talking about. Even if they used arabic, it still wouldn't be as useful as just knowing what year it was.
  
  Amazing, I'm sure you've got many an interesting story to tell being in the field for that long.

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
  https://youtu.be/53ZaXpIn2fg
  
  https://youtu.be/53ZaXpIn2fg
  Same link without the tracker ;)

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.
- New use of crotch gremlins unlocked!

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.

"SLAMMED" I say! "SLAMMED!"
What is this open mic night? FFS.

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.

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?

Yeah, cause these folks literally hit control + f and typed in gay. Everything that had the word gay was deleted.

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.
  
  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.
  
  Der terk err jerbs!!

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..

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