• @[email protected]
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      They know exactly what they’re doing, it’s a “purification,” not entirely dissimilar to the same that happened in the 1930s in Germany.

    • The Quuuuuill
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      not at all. trying to eliminate gay people from history, and also a nice convenient moment to sweep some war crimes under the rug

        • The Quuuuuill
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          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
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    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      “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.

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

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    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.

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    find /mnt/gubarmentfiles/ -name “*gay*” -exec rm {} ;

    – some dogenerate, propably.

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

  • @[email protected]
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    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

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    They won’t, they will be reviewed by a human being at some point and reinstated, they’ve been flagged by an automated program.

    It’s the Scunthorpe problem all over again.

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      That automated program flagged at least tens of thousands of historical photos, most of which aren’t as silly as ‘haha plane gay’ but of actual people (some of whom are still very much alive) in a blatant attempt to literally whitewash American history. Like, they’ve flagged the photos of literal Medal of Honor recipients because their skin tone is darker than eggshell, this is objectively horrifying. The loss of even one of those files is completely disrespectful on a number of levels