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Recently, the CIA released a video that was pretty shocking, embracing a radical inclusivity in the agency.

It's now known as the woke CIA ad.

I'm a woman of color. I am a mom. I am a cisgender millennial who's been diagnosed with

generalized anxiety disorder. I am intersectional.

I refuse to internalize misguided patriarchal ideas of what a woman can or should be.

My parents left everything they knew and loved to expose me to opportunities they never had.

Because of them, I stand here today a proud proud first-generation Latina and officer at CIA.

Wow. There's a lot to unpack here. First of all, this looks like a parody of what conservatives depict as what the left is.

It's so cartoonishly over the top, it's hard to believe it's real. So what does it all mean?

Has the CIA adopted real progressivism and equality? Of course not. This is a good old-fashioned

sci-op or psychological operation to indoctrinate a new generation of teenagers with the idea

that the CIA is pretty cool. And no, not because the

CIA has been taken over by the left. The political and military establishment know that the

young generation is increasingly turning to radical politics. That means things like anti-racism

and trans equality in conjunction with anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism.

This generation was not indoctrinated by the intense nationalist propaganda of the 9-11 era.

It's a generation that grew up with the end stages of the U.S. empire's senseless bloodbaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It sees the systemic failures of capitalism.

That's a big problem for an organization that needs to plan future wars without much resistance

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