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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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."

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

I wish our military was Marxist and woke 😄

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

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

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".

Okay, congressman. YOU join, then.

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

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

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

What about ya’ll-kayda

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

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.

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.

they're called deplorable for a reason

How about the upward mobility of white people and their middle class standards valuing education. I guess being middle class or higher is woke?