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context: The main “woke” object of GOP scorn in the Pentagon budget is training instituted after the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021 to discourage violent extremism and promote diversity. >
  
  Oh snap he is calling the gravy seals and meal team six! What a time to be alive! >
  
  The right does not support, or even like, the troops. If they did, they wouldn't call them suckers and losers, or trash gold star families and POWs. >
  
  Same way spin the bottle targets anything. >
  
  What the fuck is “Wokeism”? >
  
  It means anything suggesting that conservative society isn't perfect. >
  
  This a great time to remind everyone that Congress typically adds billions of dollars more to the DoD budget than what the Pentagon asks. 
  Also a good time to remind people that the military integrated before the rest of society. So it’s always been “woke.” >
  
  The point is that when Republicans say they want to cut the defense budget, what they really mean is that they don’t. “Cut woke defense programs” is code for, “We’re only pretending,” and the tipoff is that the politicians who say it resolutely won’t explain, item by item, how much would be saved. >
  
  The war on wokeism is just straight up racism, sexism, and homophobia. It needs to be called what it is. >
  
  I don't know why they're conflating the far rights war on wokeism with the far rights efforts to promote the zero taxes agenda.