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Rep. Paul Gosar blamed the drop in white recruits on the army’s supposed “woke Marxist ideologies.”

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[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 78 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Incentives for joining the military target lower income communities.

The military is continually sent into one unpopular conflict after another since at least Vietnam (right around the time the report noticed a drop in white enlistment).

Legislators pass and / or preserve policies that create barriers preventing non-whites from accumulatimg wealth.

Hmmm ... I wonder if there is a connection.

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[–] TheJims@lemmy.world 53 points 2 years ago

Says the guy who never served in the military. What a pathetic asshole.

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 51 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fuming that they aren't getting enough trained and radicalized militants for the second coup attempt they have planned?

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

they are afraid the military won't take their side in a coup/civil war.

[–] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good; I'm tired of being the only side afraid.

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[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Check the white supremacists militia. I'm sure he'll find the far-right white men there.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Y'all mean the Gravy Seals on their mobility scooters?

[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Meal team six lead the way!

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[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They might be a little bit untrained tho (aside from shooting stationary shit down a firing range). However what they lack in skills and condition, they make up for in gear... 😅

Late edit: video link from this source https://www.reddit.com/r/BoomersBeingFools/comments/1acfvr1/maga_dumbfucks_practice_shooting_democrats_in_the/

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[–] ShortBoweledClown@lemmy.one 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's seems it's always the politicians without any military experience that say shit like this. I wonder why

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Remember Tuberville's stunt denying promotions to military members over some supposed woke stuff? Bunch of idiots

[–] ShortBoweledClown@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago

Exactly who I had in mind

[–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago

nigga goes on to call it a crisis of spirit.

Listen dipshit, if you think your spirit is telling you to kill people, maybe you've confused it with your stupid shitty ego which everyone agrees needs to get fucked and go die.

[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s a bit sad that people like this exist. It’s so much worse when there are enough of them to elect this kind of idiot.

[–] aew360@lemm.ee 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You know you’re a piece of shit when your siblings all star in a political ad… for the person you’re running against. They all said that they’re brother is a piece of shit and he still somehow won reelection

[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

I wish our military was Marxist and woke 😄

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.social 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

if the military is a Marxist institution, why do they keep expanding the defense budget?

[–] oyo@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Because it doesn't go to the military. It goes to the MIC.

[–] LilDumpy@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

From the Military.com reporting that the Vice article references:

"Another Army official pointed to partisan attacks from conservative lawmakers and media, which has an overwhelmingly white audience. Those groups have used the military as a partisan cudgel against the Biden administration, lambasting the services for being "woke," or so preoccupied with liberal values that they have abandoned their warfighting priorities. In most cases, those attacks have zeroed in on the services being more inclusive for women, service members from racial minority groups and LGBTQ+ troops."

[–] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can only imagine how well a recruit would do if they joined with the goal of owning the libs and ending the woke agenda.

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[–] mazigoth@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wish we could take all these shit talking politicians and draft them into active duty. They'd find out real fucking quick who the weak ones truly are, if they even survive long enough for their two brain cells to make that connection.

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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would pay good cash money to see Paul Gosar fight a randomly selected minority drawn from the woke Marxist US military.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Preferably one of the combat arms trades.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Damn he has aged horribly, like one of those "not even once" ads.

[–] TheJims@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] eguidarelli@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Omg that’s a dramatic change! He looks like a ghoul in the article compared to this pic

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Yea, but 2016, that's like 30 years ago.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Me: "Oh, that's a big ageist... oh no, they weren't kidding. What happened?"

[–] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Negative emotions age you prematurely, in a real medical way not a mumbo jumbo pseudo-science way.

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[–] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Far-right commentators quickly pounced on those findings, and claimed they were “proof” that the armed forces had become overrun by “Marxists” who are forcing “wokeness” on its ranks—and, as a result, alienating prospective white recruits.

I may be reading this wrong, but the way that's worded would mean that anti-wokeness is white supremacy. I mean, I get that, that's what they've been quietly running on, but I hadn't noticed them swapping over to just flat out admitting something along the lines of "let's admit we're here for a race war".

[–] DrPop@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

The best parody of real life is reality. It's crazy just how I'm your face they are and still not enough people care to oust them.

[–] snownyte@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Okay, congressman. YOU join, then.

[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Right!? They could have just as easily titled this article "White man who never served in the military complains about white men not serving in the military"

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

When those conservative white men are cowards who don't care for their country...

[–] whatupwiththat@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

they're called deplorable for a reason

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[–] SteefLem@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

What about ya’ll-kayda

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Why should they? I know it's not all white people, for for certain segments, "their president" say it's stupid to join the army.

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 7 points 2 years ago

I figure it has something to do with the lower class wanting access to an education so they serve in order to pay for school.

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 years ago

is the politician aware that the military is like one of the most socialist parts of the government functionally?

[–] Unlocalhost@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How about the upward mobility of white people and their middle class standards valuing education. I guess being middle class or higher is woke?

[–] Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I have begun to interpret the unironic use of "woke" as the implied sound of crying pitifully into your cornflakes about anybody other than people who look like you while accompanied by either a sad trombone or a descending slide whistle.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Going with the comb-forward bangs, really? It's a bold choice.

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[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't see any military service here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gosar is it missing or what?

Although now I found this article https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2023/09/25/rep-paul-gosar-says-joint-chiefs-of-staff-chair-should-be-hung/70962006007/ where he says the joint Chiefs of staff should be hanged.

[–] kindenough@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

He should shove that "wokeness" up his ass, Gavin McGuiness style.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Even his combover is trying to escape from this guy.

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