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Leaked Memo Reveals Insane Ban on Words Agriculture Department Can Say (newrepublic.com)
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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 81 points 10 months 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?

[-] don@lemm.ee 22 points 10 months 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.

[-] tacofox@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago

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 17 points 10 months ago

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

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[-] dephyre@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

This is double-plus-ungood.

[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 24 points 10 months ago

Can't even say clean water? Guess we need to water our crops with sewage than.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Brawndo.

[-] datendefekt@feddit.org 14 points 10 months ago

The obvious choice is Brawndo (R) - its got what plants crave!

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

"Please only drink clean sewage."

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 18 points 10 months ago

A new leadership that was going to remove big government and stop telling people what they can or can't do

[-] tacofox@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago
  • stop telling the corporations what they can and can’t do *
[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

In America, that’s the only kind of people acknowledged.

[-] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago

Why can't they just use them anyway? Like, who the fuck cares, there's no rule of law anymore anyway.

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

Not having the rule of law means you can get black bagged for disobedience.

[-] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

This is only "baffling" if you're a total fucking moron who hasn't been paying attention.

[-] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

So, what words are allowed? Are there any agricultural terms left for the agriculture department to use?

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Just need to find synonyms or some other coded language or simply spell it out. Work around these stupid rules.

[-] Infinite@lemmy.zip 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
  • Non-white
  • Differently equal
  • Non-man-woman / etc
  • Sexually spicy

It's fun and easy!

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

- clean drinking sewage
- carbon in-air-ification
- ultra-fine Barbie vitamins
- farts
- gay-o-thermal (not that it means the same as geothermal, it's just that it's not on the list & I would try to work it into my publications somehow)

[-] tacofox@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Gonna unalive the poo-stink aqua

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago

Where are all the freedom of speech nutjobs?

[-] credo@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

This headline is making my head hurt.

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