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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.

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[–] Embargo@lemm.ee 75 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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?

[–] don@lemm.ee 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] tacofox@lemm.ee 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We’re waiting til they make the first move and inevitably enact martial law. No one wants to be the reason/scape goat to take the bait.

[–] Embargo@lemm.ee 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why would they need to enact martial law? They're already doing the things.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

There is some suggestion that Trump may declare martial law on April 20th, which is when Hegseth and Noem's advisory committee is due to recommend to Trump whether he should invoke the Insurrection Act. Coincidentally, perhaps, it is also Adolf Hitler's birthday (perhaps one reason for Elon Musk's fondness for 420 references).

https://medium.com/@aletheisthenes/on-april-20th-2025-the-united-states-will-cross-the-point-of-no-return-0aecac04cfc3

https://www.newsweek.com/insurrection-act-explained-trump-admin-deciding-whether-invoke-1807-law-2041626

[–] SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 days ago

Just a reminder since this seems relevant: The abuser's Waiting Game includes consistently rescheduling plans.

Hey this was bad, but wait a few weeks and then something really bad happens. You just wait Then all the others around you will finally see.

From someone who's been around for a few years: No this specific bad thing will not happen. No those around you won't see for themselves.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I saw a billboard about April 5 being ‘day of action’ that had him on it. Is that anything relevant or-?

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day 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.

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.