Context: response to https://twitter.com/DeptofDefense/status/1626959842572222465 tweet celebrating training initiatives #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI
Supplementary: #AdvocacyUSRANDCorporation "In an evolving strategic environment, the Armed Forces need to effectively leverage all available advantages, including those stemming from their workforces, to maximise strategic and operational effectiveness. To support this effort, RAND researchers conducted a study to examine the opportunities for leveraging workforce diversity to enhance military effectiveness. ...
The study findings show that there are significant opportunities for leveraging workforce diversity to enhance military effectiveness across a wide spectrum of Defence activity. These opportunities cumulatively position diversity as a strategic enabler for the UK and US Armed Forces." https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1026-1.html And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporation
#MetaphorVersusWestEastRussia i.e. #MetaphorVersusWeaknessStrength #OrgUSFedAFM #TheoryDeclinismDecadence
Supplementary: the tweeter's Twitter masthead image includes a cropped version of the #NoROceaniaAustraliaVicMelbourne #2022_PeaceBeforePieces mural, which has received significant criticism e.g. #NMAUSBSNewsRayaneTamer "Community leader Stefan Romaniw described the artwork's message as a drawing a 'false moral equivalence between the aggressor and the victim'". https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/australias-ukrainian-community-describes-mural-of-soldiers-h/8p3d2v0qx
Addendum: #PhenomnPropagandaUsefulIdiot ? (this is assuming that the Twitter account isn't Russian in the first place).
#OrgUSFedAFMMarkMilley #NoREuropeUkraineKyiv #OrgIntlGroupOfTwentyG20 #OrgClassifPPUASluhaNaroduSNVolodymyrZelenskyy #OrgClassifPPRUSUnitedRussiaSergeyLavrov #HandleYouTubeTrueInFo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RZz4ABCpoc
Context: #NMRURussiaTodayRT (viewed using Tor VPN) "Top US general warns of reality on the ground in Ukraine
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley says Kiev can only hope for a political solution
Ukraine's chances of a near-term military victory over Russia are not high, top US general Mark Milley has cautioned. He noted that despite Kiev's recent advances on the battlefield and the capture of the city of Kherson, Moscow still has a significant combat presence in the country.
Speaking at a news conference at the Pentagon on Wednesday, Milley stated that 'the probability of a Ukrainian military victory defined as kicking the Russians out of all of Ukraine to include what they define or what the claim is Crimea, the probability of that happening anytime soon is not high, militarily.'
The general noted, however, that there was a possibility of a 'political solution' that would see Russia withdraw from territories Ukraine claims as its own, adding that Russia 'is on its back' right now and that Ukraine needs to negotiate from a 'position of strength.'
Milley also reiterated Washington's support for Kiev and vowed to continue for as long as it takes - a statement that was echoed by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who also took part in the press conference.
Russia, meanwhile, says it will continue its military operation until all the goals are met. Moscow says it ordered its forces to enter the country in late February in order to protect the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, which had been under constant attack from Kiev's forces since 2014 when a coup overthrew the nation's elected government.
In October, the Donbass republics as well as the former Ukrainian regions of Kherson and Zaporozhye officially joined the Russian Federation after a referendum. President Vladimir Putin vowed to consider the residents of these regions as Russian citizens 'forever' and promised to protect the territories 'with all [Russia's] strength and resources'" (17 November 2022 17:13). https://www.rt.com/news/566708-ukraine-military-victory-unlikely/
Supplementary: this article (very selectively) references Milley's speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoxCo1mXzEE&t=118s #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheWashingtonPost (16 November 2022). For example, the article conveniently skips over Milley framing statements where he explains that "the probability of Russia achieving its strategic objectives of conquering Ukraine, of overrunning Ukraine, the probability of that happening is close to zero".
Addendum: interestingly, despite their ban, articles such as this one, which seem to originate on Russian state-sponsored media channels, continue to be accessed i.e. #AdvocacyUKInstituteForStrategicDialogueISD "ISD designed a case study approach that looked at RT articles about Ukrainians seeking refuge in Europe. This Dispatch outlines how such articles have found their way to European audiences despite the EU-wide ban on the outlet's content." https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/rt-articles-are-finding-their-way-to-european-audiences-but-how/ As an example, this YT channel links to this site: https://politicsinfocus.com/, which is registered in #NoREuropeNordicIcelandReykjavik and according to a Whois look-up i.e. https://who.is/whois/politicsinfocus.com, was registered on 13 March 2022 (17 days after #NoRRussia's #2022_InvasionOfUkraine on 24 February 2022 and 11 days after the EU imposes a ban on Russian state-controlled media outlets RT and #NMRUSputnikNews on 2 March).
the #FictionalCharacterColonelNathanJessup in #1992_AFewGoodMen played by #IndivActorJackNicholson versus the real person #OrgUSFedAFMMarkMilley #IdentityLGBTQIA #SlurToxicMasculinity
#OrgUSFedAFMMarkMilley #PhenomnWhiteRage #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSJoeBiden #PhenomnWhiteRage #MetaphorCircusClown
Addendum: the image of Joe Biden appears to have been recycled from the #IndivPrivateCitizenStephanieCarter meme of her husband being sworn in as Defense Secretary (in 2015).
USAF General John E. Hyten, Chief of Staff of the Army James C. McConville, Commandant of the Marine Corps General H. Berger, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael M. Gilday, Chief of Staff of the Air Force Charles Q. Brown Jr., Chief of Space Operations General John W. Raymond, and Chief of the National Guard Bureau General Daniel R. Hokanson. #OrgUSFedAFMDavidBerger
#OrgAFTaliban #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSBarackObama #CatchcryDrainTheSwamp #OrgUSFedDptOfStateAntonyBlinken #OrgUSFedAFMArmyLloydAustin #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyJohnKerry #NoRAfghanistan #MetaphorCircusClown #MetaphorWarfareEnemyThe #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPRonDeSantisRDS #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPDanielScavinoJr #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPMikePompeo #IndivBusinesspersonDonaldTrumpJr
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSJoeBiden
Context: the "AyatollahJoeBiden.ir" link at the bottom-right-hand corner clearly references #BeliefIslamismShiiteAyatollah and #NoREastMiddleIran, which is presumably meant to be interpreted along the lines of 'President Joe Biden is a dictator' or that he sympathetic to #BeliefIslamism, or soft on Iran etc.
#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDwightDEisenhower versus #OrgUSFedAFMMarkMilley i.e. #MetaphorVersusUsThem #MetaphorVersusFailureSuccess
Addendum: what seems implicit in this contrast, is the idea that Eisenhower is #PleaAuthenticity.ic whereas Milley is seemingly, #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated, and therefore inauthentic. #MetaphorVersusDiptych
'Taliban Takeover' #CaricaturistMarianKamensky (15 August 2021) i.e. https://politicalcartoons.com/sku/254537
#IdentityLGBTQIAPrideFlag #OrgUSFedAFMMarkMilley ?
#OrgAFTaliban #MetaphorVersusWeaknessStrength
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticParty #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSBarackObama #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSJoeBiden #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyKamalaHarris #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyNancyPelosi #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyChuckSchumer #NoRAfghanistan #OrgAFTaliban #SlurPaedophilia #OrgUSFedAFMMarkMilley
#OrgUSFedAFMMarkMilley #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSJoeBiden
Context: *Let's talk about the Saigon analogy....*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI7FTx2_lB0&t=205s i.e. 'losing the peace, rather than losing the war' which was 'a political defeat instead of a military one'. #PodcastChBeauOfTheFifthColumnJustinKing #1975_LiberationFallOfSaigon
tweet responding to praise about #OrgUSFedAFMMarkMilley #2020_CapitolSiege
#NMUSMSNBC '124 retired military leaders open letter spreading lies about Biden's 2020 win' https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/11/retired-brass-biden-election-487374 i.e. https://flagofficers4america.com/open-statement #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSJoeBiden #ConspiracyTheoryStolenElectionBigLie
"New study Fondapol The woke ideology by Valent1Pierre. This study aims to analyse the growing influence of this belief system on our Western societies."
#AdvocacyFRFondapolPierreValentin https://www.fondapol.org/etude/lideologie-woke-1-anatomie-du-wokisme/ And https://www.fondapol.org/etude/lideologie-woke-2-face-au-wokisme/ #TheoryModernPost i.e. #TheoryModernPostConservatism #CharacterisationWeaknessVictimismVictimMentality #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI #TauntWokeism #EDUUSEvergreenStateCollegeBretWeinstein #IndivDeceasedGeorgeFloyd #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #IndivSingerEricaWrightAKAErykahBadu / #IndivSingerGeorgiaAnneMuldrow #2008_MasterTeacher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dieo6bp4zQw
#IndivAuthorHelenPluckrose
#WebsiteNewDiscoursesJamesLindsay
#IndivScholarPeterBoghossian
#2018_SokalSquaredHoax i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair And https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/10/30/sokal-squared-hoax-was-put-down-scholars-concerned-racial-issues-opinion (Joel P. Christensen and Matthew A. Sears, 30 October 2018).
#IndivPhilosopherMichelFoucault
#IndivPhilosopherJacquesDerrida
#IndivPhilosopherMartinHeidegger
#TheoryRelativismCultural i.e. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/relativism/
#PhenomnColonialism / #TheoryCriticalPostcolonialism #IdentityFirstNations #IndivScholarPierreAndreTaguieff
#PhenomnAgeOfEnlightenment
#PhenomnSkepticismRadical
#IndivScholarKimberleCrenshaw
#TheorySociologyIntersectionality
#IndivScholarMaryPoovey
#OtheringDiscriminationRacismSystemicInstitutional
#IndivPhilosopherJudithButler
#IdentityLGBTQIA
#IndivAuthorDavidHalperin
#TheoryCriticalRaceTheoryCRT ('race' translated as 'breed' here, which I assume is a language/translation discrepancy, rather than semantic one).
"Fox News has mentioned critical breed theory nearly 1,300 times over a three-and-a-half-month period" (23 June 2021). https://www.fr24news.com/a/2021/06/trumpworld-bets-big-on-critical-race-theory.html
#TheoryRacialColourBlindness e.g. https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=41856
#TheoryMarginalisation
#IndivScholarEveKosofskySedgwick
#IndivScholarGayatriChakravortySpivak
#PhenomnUnityStrategicEssentialism i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_essentialism
#IndivActivistHouriaBouteldja
#OrgFRIndigenesDeLaRepubliqueIR
Fahs, B., & Karger, M. (2016). Women's Studies as Virus: Institutional Feminism, Affect, and the Projection of Danger. Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies, 5(1), 929-957. https://doi.org/10.17583/generos.2016.1683
#IndivScholarBradleyCampbell & #IndivScholarJasonManning
#PowerControlMicrofascismMicroaggression
#IndivAuthorDeraldWingSue
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/exeter-university-students-racist-whatsapp-suspended-facebook-law-society-investigation-a8264756.html
#EDUUSBostonUniversityIbramXKendi
#TauntCultureCancel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocqueville_effect
#IndivScholarJonathanHaidt &
#AdvocacyUSFoundationForIndividualRightsAndExpressionFIREGregLukianoff
LUKIANOFF, G., & HAIDT, J. (2018). The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation for Failure.
#IndivScholarStevenHorwitz
#TheoryStockholmSyndrome
#IndivAuthorRobinDiAngelo
#IndivUltracrepidarianAllyHenny
#WebsiteSpikedAndrewDoyleAKATitaniaMcGrath
Supplementary: #IndivScholarDeandreMilesHercules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S06C9fgtbNQ&t=17s
"Woke in its initial inception meant political consciousness for Black people about the histories of anti-Blackness in this [USA] country and globally rather than this kind of more generalised political consciousness that it came to take up. One thing that I think is a very common misunderstanding about woke is the idea that it was derived from this phrase 'stay woke'. Woke itself is a standalone word. It's a word that conforms to the syntactic and phonological, which is to say that the sound system and grammatical principles, of African American English which has its origins in the South. 'Awake' is synonymous with 'woke' right, so one might say, 'I was woke about, let's say 7am'. The idea of 'wakefulness' as a concept referring to political consciousness stretches as far back as 1923, and then we see it going all the way up through the 1980s. Marcus Garvey in 'The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey' in the frame of what we might think of as black nationalist tradition where he says, 'wake up Ethiopia, wake up Africa, let us work towards the one end of a glorious and redeemed and mighty nation', he's talking about political consciousness in the same way as Laurence Fishburne's character at the end of 'School Daze' in the 1980s film. In 1962, a New York Times article by a guy named [William] Melvin Kelley 'If You're Woke You Dig It' writing about cultural appropriation and linguistic appropriation of Black language and culture by white people, specifically. As early as the 1990s or the late 1980s, you see it more attached to the idea of 'political correctness'. This is the point of which white people I would suggest, begin using it reflexively. And so it doesn't now just have the meaning of thinking about anti-Blackness from the perspective of someone who experiences it. More now it refers to this more general sense of awareness, as a marker of general political consciousness attention to such issues as those environmental, feminists, regarding ability and so on. Childish Gambino's song 'Redbone', canonised the phrase 'stay woke' for a popular audience. While Childish Gambino might understand that 'wokeness', at least in its original inception, has a lot to do with our awareness of anti-Black oppression. Listeners to the song from a variety of demographics all over the world aren't abreast of that history and now are using it, the phrase, in a way that destroys its meaning. But it has also been taken up more recently by conservatives. And it became used in a negative or pejorative fashion, right or at least one that is mocking or sarcastic. In fact, it's a well-known and popular tactic of conservatives to pick up and shift the meanings of individual terms, to then weaponize them. Mark Milley and Matt Gaetz arguing about what's woke and what isn't, whether it's good or whether it's bad, where that has nothing to do with the case of the Scottsboro Boys or Emmett Till or Trayvon Martin or Sandra Bland or Rodney King or Ahmaud Arbery or Breonna Taylor or George Floyd. I'm not suggesting that it's necessarily a conscious process, but it's the result of the kind of consumption of Black culture, which has always had a lot of capital purchase in the United States and pop culture globally." (5 August 2021, #WebsiteBrut). https://www.brut.media/us/news/brut-vocab-why-we-say-woke--ccd9916d-c0e0-42a8-98c2-615d05ad8895
#TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift
#TheoryLinguisticsSocioAfricanAmericanVernacularEnglishAAVE
#MetaphorWokeWakefulnessAwake
#IndivActivistMarcusGarvey
#NoRAfricaEastEthiopia
#IndivActorLaurenceFishburne
#1988_SchoolDaze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7iSvkZ0vLQ #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesWilliamMelvinKelley #1962_IfYoureWokeYouDigIt #IndivActorDonaldGloverAKAChildishGambino #2016_Redbone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRJnZsB52Es&t=73s
#OrgUSFedAFMMarkMilley
#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPMattGaetz
#1938_ScottsboroBoys
#IndivDeceasedEmmettTill
#IndivDeceasedTrayvonMartin
#IndivDeceasedSandraBland
#IndivPrivateCitizenRodneyKing
#IndivDeceasedAhmaudArbery
#IndivDeceasedBreonnaTaylor
https://www.okayplayer.com/originals/stay-woke-history-georgia-anne-muldrow-erykah-badu-master-teacher.html
#TheoryCriticalRaceTheoryCRT https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009839021/uncovering-who-is-driving-the-fight-against-critical-race-theory-in-schools?t=1627328036978 #_Focal
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And #WebsiteVoxAjaRomano: "Before 2014, the call to 'stay woke' was, for many people, unheard of. The idea behind it was common within Black communities at that point -- the notion that staying 'woke' and alert to the deceptions of other people was a basic survival tactic. But in 2014, following the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, 'stay woke' suddenly became the cautionary watchword of Black Lives Matter activists on the streets, used in a chilling and specific context : keeping watch for police brutality and unjust police tactics." (9 October 2020). https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy
#IndivDeceasedMichaelBrown
#IndivPoliceDarrenWilson #NoRAmericaNorthUSMissouriStLouisCountyFerguson
#CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #2014_
#IndivIdeologuePaulJosephWatson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srdz4WxG1OI&t=5s #MetaphorVersusPurityAdulteration #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation / #TheoryVictimhoodWhiteThymos and #PhenomnResponsibilityBlamingVictim #TheoryDeclinism #1965_CaliforniaDreamin #TauntLeftist #IdentityLGBTQIA #MetaphorWarfareSocialJusticeWarriorSJW #PhenomnVirusCOVID19 #PleaLawAndOrder #TheoryAffectiveResponseHysteria #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyAlexandriaOcasioCortezAOC #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyJamaalBowman #NoRAmericaNorthUSCaliforniaLosAngelesLA #NoRAmericaNorthUSNewYork #NMUSFOXFNC #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #IndivDeceasedGeorgeFloyd #PhenomnCulturalAppropriation #SymbolFlagUSConfederate #OrgUSFedAFMMarkMilley #PhenomnWhiteRage #SlurWhiteSupremacy #OtheringDiscriminationRacismSystemicInstitutional #IndivComedianJohnOliver #IndivComedianLeslieJones
#OrgUSFedAFMMarkMilley as #1970_Patton i.e. compared for supposed contrast in ability. By #CaricaturistGaryVarvel #PhenomnWhiteRage #TheoryCriticalRaceTheoryCRT
#TauntLeftThe #PoliticsProgressivismSocialLiberalism #IdentityLGBTQIATrans / #IdentityDragQueen ? i.e. #CharacterisationWeaknessUnmanlyEffeminate / #CharacterisationEmasculationIndeterminacyEpicene #NoRAmericaNorthUSNevadaNellisAirForceBase
Note top brower address (and tabs) i.e. #PlatformSMAltTechGab
#OrgUSFedAFMMarkMilley: "I've read Mao Zedong. I've read Karl Marx. I've read Lenin. That doesn't make me a communist," Milley told the House Armed Services Committee. "So what is wrong with understanding ... the country which we are here to defend?"
Contex: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/republicans-joint-chiefs-chairman-critical-race-theory-congress/2021/06/23/84654c34-d451-11eb-9f29-e9e6c9e843c6_story.html
#IndivHistoricalFigureChairmanMaoZedong
#2020_CapitolSiege #IndivHistoricalFigureKarlMarx #IndivHistoricalFigureVladimirLenin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antebellum_South#History #OrgUSFedAFMArmyLloydAustin #OtheringDiscriminationRacismSystemicInstitutional
Context: "Trump tweeted the announcement, saying 'I am pleased to announce my nomination of four-star General Mark Milley, Chief of Staff of the United States Army - as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, replacing General Joe Dunford, who will be retiring. I am thankful to both of these incredible men for their service to our Country!" (8 December 2018) https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-picks-commander-gen-mark-milley-next-top-military-adviser-n945586
