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JHB

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23. How far into argle-bargle-land do you have to be to accuse the AFA of "wokeness"?
Thu Sep 22, 2022, 11:30 PM
Sep 2022

Answer: The usual horseshit-swallowing amount.

Does woke mean black now among these racists? Walleye Sep 2022 #1
I'm sure they include all minorities (women too) FakeNoose Sep 2022 #14
They make up a thing, make up an offensive word for it, and then start a war against the non thing Walleye Sep 2022 #16
OK, so it's a stand-in for "Antifa" or any other meaningless thing they go on about? FakeNoose Sep 2022 #18
Yep. Straw man Walleye Sep 2022 #19
"Woke" The Euphemism For People Who Don't Quite Have The Nerve To Say "Uppity" nt smb Sep 2022 #33
Good explanation, now I get it Walleye Sep 2022 #35
Woke means everything and everyone they don't like durablend Sep 2022 #39
wokeisem? will someone please explain that to me and use that in a scentance so AllaN01Bear Sep 2022 #2
Here's your scentance: "Wokeism is a made up, BS word and doesn't exist in dictionaries." AZLD4Candidate Sep 2022 #27
From Dictionary.com Klondike Kat Sep 2022 #31
Democrats should own the word "WOKE", even though we never invented it. LiberalLovinLug Sep 2022 #40
that would be Conjuay Sep 2022 #41
Let me phrase this gently lonely bird Sep 2022 #3
Fuck You Lamborn, Lay down and be a good Nazi. Good boy. Evolve Dammit Sep 2022 #4
The Putin/GOP is destroying everything else in the US, I guess the military is up next. Irish_Dem Sep 2022 #5
The US military is and always has been COL Mustard Sep 2022 #6
I'm a veteran too Skittles Sep 2022 #9
Yep, and Lamborn is transparent in using it as a proxy for diversity and inclusion William Seger Sep 2022 #10
they know they cannot say to the cult I AM RACIST AND PROUD OF IT Skittles Sep 2022 #12
Like using "virtue signaling" and "social justice warrior" to sneer ... William Seger Sep 2022 #15
I still can't get over Trump calling James a peekaboo Walleye Sep 2022 #17
Absolutely!!! K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t RKP5637 Sep 2022 #11
Dumb-born is the one who threatened to fire staffers who wore masks AT THE DEPTHS of Covid crisis peppertree Sep 2022 #7
"undermined public confidence by millions of Americans in our Armed Forces" vlyons Sep 2022 #8
The response from Lt Gen Clark odins folly Sep 2022 #13
So the lump is outraged about DEI? funny, we did not hear a peep out of the niyad Sep 2022 #20
To a Republican, "wokeism" means... LudwigPastorius Sep 2022 #21
Go shove your "wokeness" up your Fox addicted ass, Lamborn. Initech Sep 2022 #22
How far into argle-bargle-land do you have to be to accuse the AFA of "wokeness"? JHB Sep 2022 #23
The AFA is an extremely conservative/evangelical influenced place. Far more than other keopeli Sep 2022 #24
Is he referring to the institution that's lousy with anti-Semitic Christian nationalists? Hekate Sep 2022 #25
amazing, is it not? And there was not a peep out of him at the time. niyad Sep 2022 #34
Lamborn is drawing on an empty hand attacking the AF Academy over this using such obvious falsehoods Ford_Prefect Sep 2022 #26
Blast from the past (late '60's) sarge43 Sep 2022 #28
The Air Force Academy is woke? That place is super conservative... SKKY Sep 2022 #29
Do they want our military to be asleep? IronLionZion Sep 2022 #30
This guy Florida Bull Sep 2022 #32
I think he was not only protesting racial diversity (which shows his racism), but also gender LaMouffette Sep 2022 #36
Woke vs Unwoke czarjak Sep 2022 #37
They were fine when Christian zealots were running the place. CanonRay Sep 2022 #38
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