DEI or DIE

People should start filming and livestreaming all this shit asap
- Haha internet goes [Error 404]
  (Shoutout to Briar, an app that lets you communicate without the internet, very useful for an organized group of protesters)
  
  Isn't that basically what signal already does or is there something I should know about signal?
  
  have used briar. it works and will be a vital tool. get your peeps to install and have it at the ready.
- ACLU has an app for police encounters that sends it directly to them for if the cop tries to delete from your phone
  
  Unfortunately that app is for an old version of Android and I can't actually download it on my phone. It has a lot of negative reviews saying it keeps crashing or freezing which sucks because I'd really like an app like that that works.
  
  Doesn't the citizen app do that as well?
  Wikipedia
- I truly believe that anyone that believes that it's already happening will have their beliefs cemented, the people that reject any notion of fascism will reject it, and the people that are on the fence are too old or too dumb to actually make an informed decision
- Nah. All we need to believe is some text on a picture. It's all true!
  
  My friends in gov are experiencing this stuff. Emails telling them to report all DEI contracts or face consequences. Shits real.
  
  Yea it's not like the leader of the fascist party just did two back to back Nazi salutes whilst the magat filth cheered him on.
  
  Did you bother to look into these claims at all? Or, are you doing practically the exact same thing you’re claiming the OP is doing; assuming?
  There’s that worthless centrist logical superiority, doing what it always does. Nothing.

Yeah, that's why the whole Trump program to "Report any suspected DEI hires" is so scary.
It's straight up a call to report any ~~jews~~ transpeople to the secret police.
Though I wonder what they would have done if they found any "DEI Material", especially since it's hard to quantify.
Where I work we have instructions on the walls to legal immigrants warning them that discrimination is illegal and what their supervisor is and is not allowed to do. The rules apply to everyone, but the way they're written it sounds like they're ESPECIALLY there to make sure folks from out of town don't get lied to about what the laborforce is REALLY like.
Would that count as DEI? I don't know, I'd assume so because it makes reference to people who aren't male or white and that's all "DEI" seems to mean.
- It doesn't actually qualify as DEI, but it's not like definitions have ever mattered. Trump got rid of the (first female) commandant of the USCG, presumably because she's a woman, or maybe because she went after sex offenders. To my knowledge, she wasn't a DEI hire or anything. She earned that position, as much as anyone has.
  
  And even if she was a DEI hire she probably would have qualifications for the job because the point of DEI is to hire diverse similarly qualified workers. Trump pretends that DEI just means anyone who is not a white male is a DEI hire
- They added the A letter for "Accomodations", so the disabled is also getting this treatment.
  
  Accomodations? That's not good

People still have no idea how bad it's going to get. People are still acting like this is just normal bad, a unfortunate moment in our otherwise decent system and society. This is not the reality. Things are going to get bad. This isn't doomerism, this is reality.
Please, take the necessary steps to secure and provide for you and your loved ones, and genuinely consider developing some kind of exit strategy. Do not downplay this until it's too late; be prepared before the sky turns red.
- One of the biggest lies of my life is hearing, "never again". It's happening again and nobody is stopping it. Everyone is asleep at the wheel.
  
  "never again" = "never again, to us"
- Got nowhere to go.

Yeah, America is a overtly fascist nation now.
- Always was. 🔫
  
  For the younger generation, yeah, probably, for us older folks, we still remember a time when America at least kept the veneer that we were better than Nazis.
- Now even sporting a GeStaPo (Geheime Staats-Polizei or Secret Federal Police). They were the ones who rounded up the "enemies of the state" in Nazi Germany.

In the words of the late great David Lynch, "Fix your hearts, or die"

No no that's just the Ministry of Truth
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
- GOD IS POWER.

They’re literally going to schools and going “Papers, please”.
Ring any bells?

Is it illegal to disobey an executive order? It's not a law so what happens if one refuses to comply?
- Executive orders have the force of law, until courts shut it down.
  So its not illegal as long as the court side with you in the end (but you might still get fired if you are a government employee that disobeyed orders)
  looks at the composition of the supreme court
  ohh... right... 😖
  
  Executive orders have less force than federal law.
- It's not illegal, but most government employees work for the executive branch, so you can theoretically be fired for not obeying the chief executive (president). Just like someone at a company can be fired for disobeying the CEO, unless there is actually a law protecting the specific behavior.

Yeah, I got an email in my gov address encouraging me to disclose any DEI stuff within the next ten days without any penalties or face penalties of it's discovered after that.
- It's important to resist this in any way you can. One of the strengths of democracy is that because so many people are part of government, it requires a lot of people to participate in making dictatorship work. It can happen, as in Russia or North Korea, but it isn't supposed to be easy.
  The first step I'd suggest is to establish private communication with others in your department so you can coordinate a response without your supervisors knowing. A mass walkout/general strike in the case of firings should be a consideration.

What is VA?
- Probably Veterans Administration, a federal agency that would be expected to comply with the executive orders.
- Veterans Administration

I love democracy
« Palpatine

Original source (reddit)
They're talking about the federal Veterans Administration, in case that's unclear.
Edit: I've also confirmed with a federal employee I know that this is happening at the SBA as well, this is probably happening throughout the federal government.

There are women and people of color in the Trump administration. I think people need to start reporting him for his DEI hiring.

What does a "VA police officer" do? Or look like?
- Basically the federal version of the hospital security guard. They look like regular cops but with a fed badge.

What's a VA?
- Veterans administration, hospital for military vets
  
  I'm glad you answered that; I thought it was referring to a policeman employed by the state of Virginia.

become staufenberg
- Maybe become Stauffenberg sooner than Stauffenberg did. He actively served the Nazis for quite a while until he finally snapped out of it and he discovered his conscience only after Germany was about to lose
- Just more successful and less killed by Nazis

Too much acronyms for me.
- I think it's the Opus Dei, some kind of hard line catholic group from the Vatican.
  
  Oh God... For a second I thought this was an answer to my post about recognising a bird!

The military and VA already promote shitbags, liars, and asskissers of all colors anyway. What's the difference

Hey am I crazy or an asshole because I want people to be judged on the content of their character not the color of their skin?
- No one is hiring on the content of anyone's character. I get the sentiment here but it doesn't work. No one is stopping them from hiring two people aside from greed. Stop blaming the worker and start blaming the employer that had to be forced to even look at people outside of straight white men.
  
  A company that didn't hire the best employees would suffer and fail. Their competition would hire these people then put them out of business. Go capitalism and the indivisible hand?
- The point of DEI stuff is basically when you have multiple equally qualified people, you choose the one that brings more diversity to your work force. Diversity is very useful. People from different backgrounds will come up with different solutions to problems. You may get a solution that wouldn't have been thought of otherwise.
  DEI is usually not hiring under-qualified people. That'd be stupid.
  (I'm a straight white man. I'm not saying this from a position of benefiting from it.)
- You can want it all you like, but history has shown that that only works on paper.
  Maybe someday that'll no longer be the case, but that day isn't today.
  
  So you don't have a dream.
- Without DEI, racist employers will only hire white men, just like they did before DEI was implemented to force fair treatment of minorities. Obviously.
  
  There are 8 black fortune 500 CEOs. Obviously the "policy" isn't working. But hey at least you feel good about it. For those of you who like math that is .016 or 1.6%
- Assholes to saints in every color.

- Just asking questions are you?
  So you honestly think you sound enlightened or something??
  Do you seriously not realize how completely disingenuous you sound???
  Oh, that's right, this information didn't spew from one of the approved talking heads on the screen, so it must be false!!! How did I not see that?!?
  Yuck.
- Dude, it's a political meme...chill.