No one knows what the word woke means. Even people who use it can't define it. It's just a boogeyman word for things people don't like or want, and even they can't agree on it.

Based General for not even entertaining the idea of knowing what the W word even means.

It's too bad all our journalists are sold out to corpos otherwise they should respond to anyone wanting woke with "what is that? Idk what you are talking about please elaborate".

The first few times I heard "woke" used, it was in the context of people who don't follow the sheep because they aren't asleep. Hence, they have woke up.

How can a military be "woke"? They literally tour the world killing brown poor people.

The word has no meaning any more, and likely never did.

How's not being woke working out for the slowly imploding Russian military?

Woke is rights for minorities, women, the LGBTQ community, non Christians, and workers.

It a code word for hateful bigots.

when you've got an organization filled with high school grads, funded by religious gun nuts, you're not gonna get the brightest people

Absurd on the face of it. But making a cogent point is beside the point here, all they're really doing is sending the message that as soon as they're back in power, the military will be politicized.

Edit: Or possibly given the Russian military treatment; contracts awarded, real units never delivered, and the money all absconded with by craven oligarchs until the only way to prosecute a war is with mercs.

Edit 2: Merc squads padded out with penal legions. We do have plenty of prisoners, after all.

Can you imagine going through everything it takes to become a high ranking officer to then have to answer to these asshats?

These people never change. They complained when they allowed non white people to enlist. They complained when they stop segregating the units. They complained about woman, about inclusivity etc. They just keep moving the goalpost whenever there is progress then, claim the next thing will destroy the military. Just their thinly weiled prejudice.

I love how republicans navigated themselves into a position where the best thing anyone else can do is ignoring them.

No discussion, because it doesn’t lead anywhere.

No listening to them, because they talk about the end of the white race, autism from vaccines or woke stuff.

It’s like living with children, but you at least listen to a child when something bothers them. You don’t care for republicans, conservatives or nazis. It doesn’t matter how they call themselves. At this point, they march together and therefore are the same.

If only they hadn’t the right to vote…things could be easier.

(If you read any kind of 4chan conspiracy theory about leftist communist cannibals from lizard space who want to abolish their right to vote, now you now where it came from.)

Most accurate headline ever, on both counts 😂

I find it hard to believe that the largest and most effective organization designed specifically to kill or otherwise incapacitate whichever opposing forces their set against, isn't woke.

It's pretty obvious that Gen. Milley is wearing a wig, and what do you think he's hiding below that wig? Yep, you guessed it, blue and purple dyed hair.

I guarantee you that after this sham of a hearing, Gen. Milley's entire polycule was laughing at how xe hoodwinked us yet again.

FYI Gen. Milley's preferred pronoun is Xe, so put some respect on that shit.

"Woke" could be taken as the opposite of "denialist".

Wikipedia defines "woke" as "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination", although today it's often extended to other prejudices besides racism.

Thus, "anti-woke" can be taken to mean "in denial about racial (etc.) prejudice and discrimination".

For example, we could say that the Association of German National Jews, the pro-Nazi Jewish group that existed from 1921 to 1935, was an "anti-woke" organization. This group sought to convince German Jews that they could drop their Jewishness and assimilate within a Nazi-dominated Germany.

Why does anyone care what Miley Cyrus has to say about the military?!? I mean, she sits on a wrecking ball naked!!

What?

Oh, nevermind.

— Roseanne Roseannadanna

Not that I'm all stoked on a bloated US military, but the main reason our forces would not be prepared is due to republican fuckery, so to see a general get grilled about it by the GOP proves that irony and self awareness is long dead where those fossils are concerned