cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60051791

A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service division revealed Sunday that the agency has banned some key language from its vocabulary, including the words “climate” and “vulnerable,” as well as the phrase “safe drinking water.”

Other baffling entries on the memo’s banned language list are “greenhouse gas emissions,” “methane emissions,” “sustainable construction,” “solar energy,” and “geothermal,” as well as “nuclear energy,” “diesel,” “affordable housing,” “prefabricated housing,” “runoff,” “microplastics,” “water pollution,” “soil pollution,” “groundwater pollution,” “sediment remediation,” “water collection,” “water treatment,” “rural water,” and “clean water,” among dozens of others.

  • Embargo@lemm.ee
    835·
    3 days ago

    Where’s the line, Americans? I know this has been talked about for months now but they’re banning words, erasing people’s identities, dragging people from their houses for saying genocide is bad, imprisoning innocent people in foreign prison camps. Anyone wanna actually do something or are you waiting for a specific trigger?

    • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      We don’t all have the same tipping point. Some of us thought violence was necessary before he was even elected. And those were more rightward leaning folks. I think violence is inevitable at this point. But no one wants to be the first to jump in front of the train.

      And too many of us are still thinking this is a political war rather than a class war. Things are going to have to get much worse before they get better. That’s a truism going way back.

    • don@lemm.ee
      235·
      3 days ago

      Too many are just too comfortable for there to be any taking up of actual arms. The younger generations may not care enough yet, and if hit especially hard, may be too apathetic to do anything. It’s going to take a lot more than what we’ve seen so far for them to do anything… which by the time that rolls around, may be laughably too late.

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      At the start of the presidency, I determined that my personal Rubicon was “Rounding up trans people into camps” (prompted by this video). I expected outrageous deportations, monstrous as they are. But after the line is crossed, I won’t just be protesting.