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

  • @Ashyr
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    1535 months ago

    What a great photo. It’s like someone distilled bigotry into it’s purest form and then fashioned a human from it.

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      645 months ago

      He looks like an extra from Ozark, like he owns the car dealership that doesn’t sell to minorities and he also has 20 kidnapped immigrants chained in his basement manufacturing heroin for him.

      • @[email protected]
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        15 months ago

        Hey! Not all of us Appalachian hicks are like that. Some of us clawed our way out and never ever visit their birthplace.

    • @[email protected]
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      5 months ago

      Ol’ Sourpuss looks like he lost his job at the urinalysis lab for sampling the wares

      • @[email protected]
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        15 months ago

        Not far off from the truth, although both Trump and DeSantis may not like the association with Disney, even if they’re both villains who spend most of their time in Florida.

        • @[email protected]
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          55 months ago

          I still can’t believe DeSantis has me rooting for the evil mega corporation in a legal battle.

    • @[email protected]
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      145 months ago

      He looks like he manages a very old but sprawling manor on an ocean view cliff, all alone, yet chooses to sleep in the pantry for unspecified reasons, and late at night he touches the suits of armor inappropriately.

    • @[email protected]
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      75 months ago

      He looks like they programmed a robot to hate itself and everyone around it, then put it inside an ill-fitting skin suit.

      • @[email protected]
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        55 months ago

        He looks like the bad guy of the evil corporation whose name you can’t remember in a movie whose main plot involves a super cyberborg doing stuff. Just get that guy a large table for him to monologue at the head of to a bunch of other people who wear suits. Like flies to honey some weightlifter type will bust in heavily armed.

    • @[email protected]
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      75 months ago

      He looks like if you put a $5000 Savile Row hand-tailored suit on him it would instantly grow two sizes too large and a racist Chick tract would appear in the pocket.

  • @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    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.

    • @gravitas_deficiency
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      125 months ago

      This can be used against him:

      Wait, let me get that right - you’re basically saying you want more white people to be poor…? I’m not sure your “base” is going to like that.

  • @[email protected]
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    565 months ago

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

    • Uranium3006
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      385 months ago

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

      • ALQ
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        165 months ago

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

        • @Captainvaqina
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          65 months ago

          Fear is a major part of a conservative’s entire waking life.

          That’s how they’re trained.

  • @[email protected]
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    455 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    405 months 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    395 months ago

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

    • FenrirIII
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      265 months ago

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

  • The Dark Lord ☑️
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    335 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      305 months ago

      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

      • edric
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        115 months ago

        Lmao and the guy still won. What a world.

        • @[email protected]
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          25 months ago

          At a certain point I can’t even be mad at him but mad at his constituents. They deserve what they get.

  • @[email protected]
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    295 months ago

    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.”

    • @[email protected]
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      55 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        15 months ago

        Hmm I wonder who would win. An ideolog with poorly thought out ideas working alone whose only weapon is his word or the ability of the US armed forces, largest employer on earth, to not embrace change.

    • @[email protected]
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      45 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        35 months ago

        Maybe Heinlein was on to something. In the book the only way to be President was to have a career in both the main divisions of their military and the only way to hold any office was to hold a position in at least one.

        I say this as a person who never served. So this wouldn’t even really benefit me directly. Indirectly I would know that the people who rule us had at least once in their life not only do something for someone else but had a shit time of it

  • ElcaineVolta
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    265 months ago

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

  • mozz
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    185 months ago

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

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    This dickhead never spent time in the army, so he ought to keep his shitspewer shut about its recruiting policies. Last year he even said General Milley should be executed. Gosar is an absolute snake. So much so, that most of his siblings endorse or campaign for his opponents.

  • IHeartBadCode
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    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”.

    • @[email protected]
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      65 months 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.