I actually had "an entire country fails the Bechdel test" on my 2024 bingo card.
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2024
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I mean.....yeah. They ARE waging an all out war on women. It's the literal taliban. What did you expect?
Oh, hold on, I'm getting a telegram from 1939. It appears as if a Jewish woman in Germany is having a disagreement of opinions with one "Adolph Hitler". Seems this Hitler fellow isn't a fan of the Jews...
I don't know about you but I think that Hitler fellow sounds like a bad egg.
He’s a little sus.
Some say his policies are sketch.
He's like the opposite of based
Well, he did kill himself. Though it would have been nice if he’d thought to do that sooner.
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The UK newspaper the Daily Mail had a headline titled 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts!'. Are you telling me the Daily Mail lies?
The more I hear about this Hitler guy, I tell ya
*Adolf.
Wait, really? That's an even dumber name that I thought it was already! Normally I'd feel bad for spelling a persons name wrong...but it's literally hitler. Excuse me while I feel no sympathy for insulting one of the biggest facists in history.
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Project 2025 energy.
It feels like the Taliban is just passing more and more ridiculous subjugation laws to try and get the west to attack them again so that they can go back to riding camels and shooting AKs with their 'brothers' instead of enduring the hell of office work and family life that is modern society.
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“The world has abandoned us,” she added. “They left us to the Taliban, and whatever happens to us now is a result of Western government policies.”
Hear hear.
So, now we WANT America to perpetually occupy Afghanistan?
I think everyone wanted Afghanistan to not give up immediately and surrender to the Taliban. Fighting spirit like Ukraine.
Almost 20 years of military training and equipment and they did nothing. I get there was probably family on the other side, but the military basically gave up on the dreams of the Afghan women.
We should (the west as this is not just on the states) have armed and trained the women and not the failsons.
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we wanted them not to occupy it in the first place.
i think everyone is at loss on how to fix it now.
Yes, that's the only option. It's always occupation or no occupation. No other options exist. /s
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Well, there’s also that bit where we funded fundamentalists during the cold war to try and fuck with the soviets, and the imperialism we and the soviets did that led to radicalization. A problem that we exacerbated which bit us back in the ass a few decades later.
And now the other countries are trying to do similar to us lol.
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I wish the US had spent its efforts and resources towards completely eliminating the Taliban as an institution and ideology rather than kind of shoveling money around to opportunists with no skills for organizing people or maintaining loyalty. I think what happened instead was that the US was afraid of sparking a new movement that would eventually operate outside of its control so it funded what it thought it could control: rich assholes.
And now the religious fascists are back in charge. Wheee.
American occupation actually strengthened the Taliban compared to before the US came, so America does bear some responsibility for this. Left to their own devices, the Taliban would've likely collapsed under their own weight, but now it's likely they'll stick around for while because of Chinese support.
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Controversial statement: We shouldn’t have left.
I agree. I protested the war when it started, but it did start, and it did continue, and Trump's move to free all those Taliban prisoners and basically give the country to them was one tmof the most shameful things America has done in a long time. But Trump loves fascists and the Taliban are fascists.
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How long until they run of of ideas and just ban all women entirely
...And how... pray tell... do they... plan to enforce this?
Seems like something I would expect from the Taliban.
I see this as just another step towards the extremes of ridiculousness that is fundamentalist Islamic religion. Imagine being so disconnected from existence, and being so hypnotised by words, that you would subjugate those in your culture who, through their natural virtue, embody the positive characteristics of the very god they describe and worship such as love, compassion, acceptance, understanding, yeilding, giving etc.
If only this sort of dangerous nonsense were the purview of just fundie Muslims. Fundie Christians would and will do the same things should they gain absolute power.
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Predicting in 20 years, all afghani women have super deep voices because they only ever hear men speak
Is the government over there closeted homosexuals or what?
They seem to fit the bill pretty well based off the R politicians getting doxxed on Grindr.
Guys, guys - settle down, Pooty Poot just took them off the terrorist list, they’re fiiiiine.
It’s probably just a joke, bro!
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