submitted for discussion - the "woke" CIA recruiting ads

The CIA's 'Woke' Ad Is An Absurd Psyop That's Melting People's Brains (vice.com)

I'm sure a few of you have seen the new CIA ads. To some they may be legit, and empowering.
To others they may seem cringe-worthy. I think wordforge has enough of a diverse membership to warrant some interesting takes on the subject. Then again it could descend into poo flinging. Discuss!

There’s been a lot of discussion about this.

which threads? In a trans athlete thread for example? I can't recall any posts about these ads.

Sorry, I meant in the IC.

Lanz is a spy?

We're doomed.

ETA: this does explain a lot.

I agree with the article, don't trust the CIA.

I don't trust articles that don't contain photos or links to the fucking ads they're talking about.

So they're hiding the non-humans. Racist ducks.

It's a puke worthy ad.

Why?

The wokeness.

The wokeness? Aren't they that British band that did that song "I Believe In A Thing Called Love" about fifteen years ago? That video totally rocks!

The CIA is one of the places where you absolutely have to have diversity. Native speakers across a wide spectrum of cultures and languages is a huge advantage.

You're gonna need a little more than that.

We definitely need more transgender black women dropping bombs on kids in Yemen.

The Chinese Communist Party is shaking in its boots!

It’s fine they’re going with diversity but it’s definitely a cringe worthy ad and it just feels strange that it’s for a fucking spy agency

Ha, as per Gutfield, Bond now drinks a soy late decaf.

Because racism and sexism are as American as apple pie, so if you hate those, you hate the country.

'Member when the Bushies fired their Arabic translator for being gay?
I 'member.

He should.
Can't bang ladies and kill bad guys with a fatted liver.

It gets me lumped in with people like Malcolm X, MLK, James Baldwin, Emma Goldman, John Brown, and Harriet Tubman, all people who saw the evil and brutality of the system and fought against it, regardless of legality. So I'm absolutely okay with this. I despise the CIA.

The right wing, we'll make up a pretend guy, then convince ourselves that guy is real, and hate his ever-living guts.
Then imagine he has a million clone brothers, and they're all coming to get us.

Anyone else going to point out that the U.S. intelligence community has probably been gutted after four years of Trump?

The President of the United States ignored his own national security teams in favour of tinpot dictators.