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[-] socsa@piefed.social 114 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I actually had "an entire country fails the Bechdel test" on my 2024 bingo card.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 95 points 4 weeks ago

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...

[-] tpihkal@lemmy.world 34 points 4 weeks ago

I don't know about you but I think that Hitler fellow sounds like a bad egg.

[-] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago
[-] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Some say his policies are sketch.

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

He's like the opposite of based

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago

Well, he did kill himself. Though it would have been nice if he’d thought to do that sooner.

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[-] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 weeks ago

The UK newspaper the Daily Mail had a headline titled 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts!'. Are you telling me the Daily Mail lies?

[-] konalt@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

The more I hear about this Hitler guy, I tell ya

[-] leisesprecher@feddit.org 15 points 4 weeks ago
[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

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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[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 43 points 3 weeks ago

Project 2025 energy.

[-] KaiReeve@lemmy.world 38 points 3 weeks ago

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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[-] atro_city@fedia.io 29 points 4 weeks ago

“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.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 55 points 4 weeks ago

So, now we WANT America to perpetually occupy Afghanistan?

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 39 points 4 weeks ago

I think everyone wanted Afghanistan to not give up immediately and surrender to the Taliban. Fighting spirit like Ukraine.

[-] dance_ninja@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 weeks ago

we wanted them not to occupy it in the first place.

i think everyone is at loss on how to fix it now.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 13 points 4 weeks ago

Yes, that's the only option. It's always occupation or no occupation. No other options exist. /s

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[-] bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

And now the other countries are trying to do similar to us lol.

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[-] deathbird@mander.xyz 11 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 7 points 3 weeks ago

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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[-] Intergalactic@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago

Controversial statement: We shouldn’t have left.

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago

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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[-] HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 26 points 3 weeks ago

How long until they run of of ideas and just ban all women entirely

[-] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 26 points 4 weeks ago

...And how... pray tell... do they... plan to enforce this?

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago

U.S. conservatives furiously taking notes...

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[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 17 points 4 weeks ago

Seems like something I would expect from the Taliban.

[-] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 17 points 4 weeks ago

Do we have a credible source?

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[-] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] Jumpingspiderman@reddthat.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

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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[-] shasta@lemm.ee 11 points 3 weeks ago

Predicting in 20 years, all afghani women have super deep voices because they only ever hear men speak

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

Guys, guys - settle down, Pooty Poot just took them off the terrorist list, they’re fiiiiine.

It’s probably just a joke, bro!

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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