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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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[–] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 117 points 8 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] Ersatz86@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[–] slowwooderrunsdeep@lemmy.world 13 points 8 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.

[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

He looks like he just realized he forgot to wipe.

[–] Icalasari@kbin.social 5 points 8 months ago

He looks like a depressed human Dumbo. Dem ears!

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 4 points 8 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.

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[–] TheJims@lemmy.world 51 points 8 months ago

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

[–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 34 points 8 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.

[–] ShortBoweledClown@lemmy.one 33 points 8 months 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 22 points 8 months 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 8 months ago

Exactly who I had in mind

[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Meal team six lead the way!

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[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 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/

[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Have you seen the proud boys training video? That's top notch training right there. Lol

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[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 27 points 8 months 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 29 points 8 months 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

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lmao and the guy still won. What a world.

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[–] LilDumpy@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months 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 4 points 8 months 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 8 months 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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[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.social 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] oyo@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

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

[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

I wish our military was Marxist and woke 😄

[–] seth@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] RidgeDweller@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For real, straight up looks like a ghoul in that photo

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

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

[–] TheJims@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] eguidarelli@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hate eats away not only on the soul but on the flesh.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I honestly believe this to be true. I don't know how, but you can see it even in photos.

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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 15 points 8 months 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.

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[–] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 12 points 8 months 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 6 points 8 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.

[–] snownyte@kbin.social 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Okay, congressman. YOU join, then.

[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months 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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[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 12 points 8 months ago

Conservatives when they realise that heterosexual white men dying in war means there will be less heterosexual white men 🤯

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

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

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

So can we talk about the infamous draft dodger Donald Bonespurs…or no…this is different because hypocrisy?

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 7 points 8 months ago

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

[–] whatupwiththat@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

they're called deplorable for a reason

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[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 6 points 8 months 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.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months 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.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Even his combover is trying to escape from this guy.

[–] kindenough@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago

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

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