As you read this story abt DOD's attempt to explain away how they took down Jackie Robinson & ongoing waste of chasing such things, keep in mind that 1) WITHOUT CHECKING, DOD said it can't have Trans soldiers bc it costs too much (but is blowing time doing this). 1/n edition.cnn.com/2025/03/20/p... - ThreadSky

emptywheel.bsky.social • 41 days ago

As you read this story abt DOD's attempt to explain away how they took down Jackie Robinson & ongoing waste of chasing such things, keep in mind that 1) WITHOUT CHECKING, DOD said it can't have Trans soldiers bc it costs too much (but is blowing time doing this). 1/n
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/20/politics/pentagon-search-keywords-website-purge/index.html

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eightxeroxedbutts.bsky.social•41 days ago

I mean, what's the hurry anyway?

rkdowner.bsky.social•41 days ago

The sooner they smash all the china, the harder it will be for us to put it back together.

finitewakeups.bsky.social•41 days ago

So “Operation Hide the Truth” (attempt to erase accomplishments of everyone except straight white men) is as much a failure as, well as hiring someone who peaked in high school to head a major government agency. SMH

rkdowner.bsky.social•41 days ago

> Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said… “We want to be very, very clear: History is not DEI. When content is either mistakenly removed – or if it is maliciously removed – we continue to work quickly to restore it.”

It was all maliciously removed. I'll believe you intend to restore it when you do.

moochcalucci.bsky.social•41 days ago

This right here is the best part. Like what exactly does this do to strengthen our military?

awakeneddragon.bsky.social•41 days ago

"All brawn, no brains" is what Whiskey Pete demands. He certainly can't have anyone smarter than him around, nor any references to any smarter, braver, more decent human beings either.

busladybebo.bsky.social•41 days ago

The very definition of a “low bar”…

jeaninespence.bsky.social•41 days ago

They are planning to fight culture wars only, no need for armed conflict because they already gave Putin the keys

survivingyes.bsky.social•41 days ago

Military told to only communicate now in grunts and flag language

missptt.bsky.social•41 days ago

So how drunk was Hegseth during all this?

reauland.bsky.social•41 days ago

B-but ... I thought it was Elon's "algorithms" crawling through the data and identifying things for deletion. Surely they didn't pull people away from other duties to query the db's and make manual deletions ... because that would he wasteful and inefficient ...

dstamos-jetdriver.bsky.social•41 days ago

Nope its just some frat bros with a keyword searcher. DOGE is GIGO. Garbage In Garbage Out.

reauland.bsky.social•41 days ago

Oh gotcha. Fraud then!

mrkillam.bsky.social•41 days ago

Is he drunk?

stayangry.bsky.social•41 days ago

Funny that these assholes do assholery, then when they get called out, they make excuses. Like bros, own it. Why don’t you own it? Do you think you’re fooling anyone? Same with the shit they try in court with the judges. If they have all the power, then why make stuff up? Just say “I have the power”

retiredpatriot.bsky.social•41 days ago

Inside every one of these "bros" lives a raging #coward.

spacely.bsky.social•41 days ago

At least Putin and Xi will be happy the US military is preoccupied with appeasing the whims of professional racists and misogynists.

jimbo75.bsky.social•41 days ago

🍊 Slobs silly tarts Panel of “Yes Sir” men/women .

blodeuweddcrone.bsky.social•41 days ago

📌

zeepetals.bsky.social•41 days ago

So what on Godess’s green earth made it so important to purge historical records that it must be done on the same sort of timeframe as preparing for some sort of military maneuver?

rkdowner.bsky.social•41 days ago

Racism. Misogyny. Overall bigotry.

zeepetals.bsky.social•41 days ago

But again, what was the urgency? They had all the live-long day to get all that done. I guess we should be grateful that they were so slipshod about it there was outrage.

emptywheel.bsky.social•41 days ago

2) Trans soldiers (and their accomplishments) are, like Jackie Robinson, history.

3) When ordered to reinstate improperly fired civilians, DOD said making 16 new badges was a burden.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/14/pete-hegseths-dod-says-it-is-too-fragile-to-make-16-new-badges/

jnklz.bsky.social•41 days ago

It would take too much time away from their campaign of DEIcide, I mean warfighting. Focus!

veracitas.bsky.social•41 days ago

I don't think he plans to take on China at all. That isn't part of the Putin or Trump plan. I expect them to surrender Taiwan, Korea, Japan, while China looks the other way as the US takes the likes of Panama and Greenland.

felinecannon.bsky.social•41 days ago

Wonder how many security badges they’ve made for the DOGE bros.

emptywheel.bsky.social•41 days ago

At least 79

stylemartian444.bsky.social•41 days ago

Does this mean we've reached peak white male fragility?
Who am I kidding? The peak does not exist.

emptywheel.bsky.social•41 days ago

4) The shitty AI that led them to take down Jackie Robinson is the same shitty AI that Elon is using to look for what he falsely claims is fraud.

huffandpuff.bsky.social•41 days ago

exettaharris.bsky.social•41 days ago

And that 💩Al is not worth a hill of teslas!

prr333.bsky.social•41 days ago

Elon Musk, owner of the company that's recalling all its cybertrucks because they put the vehicles together with cheap glue. Which then lock the doors when they crash and catch fire. Swell.

johnmullinax.bsky.social•41 days ago

Even the AI claim is bullshit. Seems more like a "find all" query than anything that should be called "AI."

totoole.bsky.social•41 days ago

100. a fly on the wall of their big "audit investigations" would quickly see what a sham it is. that's why there's 0.00 transparency.

kfanyo.bsky.social•41 days ago

GIGO. Nothing digital is immune, not even AI.

imdumfounded.bsky.social•41 days ago

They can blame it on the shitty AI but we all know they just wanted to get rid of Jackie Robinson because he's not white. Not mistakes were made in their eyes.