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- yuekit3
WTF???
- This is so disturbing and surrealyuekit
- fuckGuyFawkes
- Timeline********
- this shouldn't be in the politics thread... this should be out on the front page for everyone to see (as it would seem some of your are just seeing this now?!)PonyBoy
- there's a video out the window of a guy stuck in the landing gear as they fly, body flopping around in the air....shapesalad
- link********
- Bluejam2
Worth a rewatch ... Bitter Lake by Adam Curtis (2015)
... an excerpt
- yuekit2
One thing that stands out in all this is the disconnect between America's self-appointed role in the world vs. the total lack of engagement/interest from actual Americans.
Watching the Taliban give a press conference the other day was like watching Skeletor or some comic book villain be interviewed. After 20 years of occupation I don't think most people have any conception of who they are beyond just these generic bad guys who had some association with 9-11.
Just like with Iraq, there is no explanation by the media that this is a state made up of warring tribal groups and that the Taliban actually represent the majority ethnicity, which might help explain their staying power. And how many were aware that Taliban had already taken over significant parts of the country years ago, and that the US-backed side was slowly losing the war?
When you read an article like this one from the Washington Post, which is based on secret government documents, the fact that the whole enterprise collapsed so quickly is less surprising. Apparently even back in 2002, Donald Rumsfeld was declaring it a failure.
But the rest of the media (since no one reads long newspaper articles), wasn't really explaining this to anyone.
- Taliban are Afghanistan, to win a war against them you have to partially kill them all, so this war is no sense.********
- Truemonospaced
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https://webcache.goo…Salarrue - Taliban are absolutely not Afghanistan. That's one of the stupidest armchair takes I've seen in the past few days.garbage
- About half of the tribes polled a decade about were half in favor of Taliban rule. The same tribes were polled 2 years ago and that percentage was about 13%.garbage
- https://asiafoundati…garbage
- They are fractured lingustically, ethnically, religiously in a thousand different ways. If you've just started paying attention, best let the adults speak.garbage
- Also 2002 was the only time I've agreed with Rumsfeld. The real reason we stayed was poppy, and then after the smartphone boom we stayed for lithium.garbage
- I always assumed there must be some ulterior motive behind the Iraq and Afghanistan wars...but after reading that Washington Post article and seeingyuekit
- how quickly the USA abandoned Afghanistan, seems like whole thing was just a giant grift or ponzi scheme.yuekit
- We weren't even there to exploit the natural resources, it was a totally pointless war that funneled money to military contractors and corrupt politicians.yuekit
- The CIA definitely had their hand in the poppy fields, but if you want to look deeper it's any iteration of Blackwater / Academi.garbage
- https://www.buzzfeed…garbage
- Taliban are Afghanistan, to win a war against them you have to partially kill them all, so this war is no sense.
- neverscared3
George W. Bush Spends Sleepless Night Wondering If He To Blame For Long-Term Collapse Of Texas Rangers
- PhanLo0
M E L T E D M A T E
- nb4
Bush: 6 years in Afghanistan
Obama: 8 years in Afghanistan
Trump: 4 years in Afghanistan
Biden: 0.6 years in Afghanistan- cool numbers, guysarahfailin
- Biden was Ridin with with Thanks Obama though. the guys been in politics since 1903PhanLo
- That’s Numberwang!!scarabin
- Lol at you if you think BIDEN was influencing policy as VPnb
- He must have done something, couldn’t be sniffing wee girls hair all the time.PhanLo
- Have you even met Biden!nb
- Can I get a with with??FNP14
- scarabin1
Let’s just take it. Obviously it’s run by idiots. Add it to Europe or something to replace Britain.
Seriously, it’d be over in a week
- it's only 0.4% of the worlds population, nuke it and the 99.96% will be better off?shapesalad
- Have you seen who runs Britain?PhanLo
- Turn the place into a solar farm that’ll supply the rest of the world with clean, renewable energy. It’ll pay for itself. Thank you for coming to my ted talkscarabin
- Drop a bunch of nintendo switches and the war would grind to a halt.monospaced
- nintendo switches?! they have real guns and can play Call of Duty IRLgrafician
- Yes Nintendos. Something to distract them.monospaced
- Ah yes, wow, that would really help with those evacuation efforts, brilliant thinking monospaced!grafician
- Nintendo is haramdorf
- shaipsahlad does seem to have an enormous erection for causing harm to people from the Middle East and North Africa.face_melter
- Yes it would help. Nintendos would keep them busy, fighting would stop and they would start playing Mario kart together. Win win.monospaced
- Meanwhile evacuation would be eased on many levels, because any opposition would be bush trying to top Tetris scores. Simple. Done.monospaced
- LOL
@mono haven't you left enough billions there? https://nypost.com/2…grafician - I’m talking about Nintendos not weapons. So they okay nintendo instead of shoot each other. It’s simple really and guaranteed to work.monospaced
- Then Britain or Europe can have it or just add it. Do try to keep up. Thank you.monospaced
- scarabin0
Is this real?
White Nationalist Gavin McInnes Plugs Himself – “To Own The Libs”
- Yeah, Vic Berger did a couple of videos about it.PhanLo
- Consider me pwnednb
- The funny thing about PB is that they're all just such average guys. There's no intellectual superiority, just the presumption of possessing it.mg33
- My impression is that most of those guys are fighting for something as basic as going to TGI Fridays on the weekend and not having to wait long for their drinksmg33
- Deport Gavin McInnes.jonny_quest_lives
- Mental Illnessutopian
- Yeah this is old news. He used to be super liberal (co-founder of Vice), and then he decided a good way to spend his mid-life crisis was to go wingnut racist.garbage
- scarabin3
- there's only steers n' queers in texas....or so my gay friends in Dallas tell me.capn_ron
- "Music will be banned in Afghanistan..."
there's no hell, there's only hell on earthgrafician - Imagine living in a country ruled by pigs that banned music and women...grafician
- @capn, and beers. Beers, steers and queers. Yeee haw!monospaced
- nb2
- nb10
Upvote if you’d like a President under 55
- https://i.imgur.com/…DRIFTMONKEY
- AOCgrafician
- 55 or 75, they all think it's really fucking cool to bomb the shit out of civilians in Far Away Lands in the name of imperialism and freedom.face_melter
- sted0
- colin_s-1
All things considered, this week is a bad look for liberals in the USA.
First you have dipshit journalists who have wholeheartedly ignored the entire second half of the war in Afghanistan (while some were barely alive for the first), now suddenly acting like women and girls over there matter to them. Evidence of the concept of materializing feminism brought into infotainment industry language.
Then you have so many people - a disturbing amount on this forum - praising the deaths of anti-vaxxers.
But the liberals claiming to care about Afghanistan now are weeping crocodile tears, and those who are mocking the Covid dead are abhorrent, for both of these massive crimes against humanity are consequences of the globalist neoliberal agenda.
Any and all who support freedom of speech, capitalism, or the free markets have absolutely no justification for mocking those who would be anti-vaxxers in the US. It's a consequence of capitalism and if you're a liberal you should probably question whether you care more about your economics or your social morality.
Liberals and conservatives each live by a certain line of propaganda. Fascism hasn't bounced back much since trump lost, but the pro-globalist / apathetic libealism couldn't appear more heartless.
- i feel it's all a reaction to still being stunned by 2016 / trying to vindicate 2020, and also educated / sheltered dems realizing they're actually center-rightcolin_s
- & if the majority of america is to feel ok with the forward trajectory it requires shutting out leftist reminders that liberalism is, very much, imperialist bscolin_s
- & part of the plight of the US now is there is no hope in leadership because liberals are empty shirt capitalists who have nothing to actually offercolin_s
- while conservatives have successfully dragged the country far enough to the right they can openly display nazi symbols without fearcolin_s
- but graphic designers make that ad money print print print so hey fuck it allcolin_s
- "You don't hear me tho"palimpsest
- Is there a character limit on QBN now? Why is half your post in the comments?dbloc
- It's more of a comment, really.palimpsest
- LOLzBusterBoy
- Turns out it’s hard to feel sympathy for people prolonging the pandemic and causing the death of thousands. Who knew?scarabin
- Anyone who dies of covid and isn’t vaccinated basically asked for it though. And that irresponsibility can’t be ignored.monospaced
- I also don’t remember Republicans being concerned about these in Afghani people on the regular, that isn’t just a dem thing.monospaced
- Free speech protects my right to talk shit to and about anti vax idiots. You’re flat out wrong on that in every conceivable way.monospaced
- I’m liberal and I care about economics and social morality. Liberals are so into social morality they are actually getting vaccinated and wearing masks.monospaced
- Anyone who refuses to mask or vaccinate can’t claim to care about social morality OR the economy. That defiance is morally corrupt and hurts the economy.monospaced
- All things considered, this is yet another bad week for republicans, but especially for anyone who thought Trump was a good president.monospaced
- You’re in bizarro world Colin.monospaced
- colin_s-1
in US politics the california gubernatorial recall is absolutely hilarious yet again and i am desperately hoping we get some random ass janitor to be in charge of the fifth largest world economy
for those that don't know / haven't seen, all it takes is 50%+1 of voters responding to the recall to oust the current governor, and then whoever has the most votes is automatically interim. doesn't matter who and there's something like 46 candidates. it rules.
- You wouldn't categorize yourself as a 'serious person,' would you?mathinc
- Pretty terrifying. A nut job can take over when most people aren't aware and are too busy to do yet another election just because some whiny bitches made it soformed
- go vote for Kevin.sted
- @math i'm serious in the parts of life that require it. shit like this, where the absurdity of the situation is beyond belief, i'm fine with laughing at.colin_s
