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[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 63 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Coincidentally just as the CIA financed, trained and armed opium warlords and religious zealots to recruit personal armies and set them to burn down thousands of schools all of the country teaching girls in an attempt to eradicate the nascent communist movement and pull their neighbors, the soviet republics, into an unwinnable war of attrition.

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

yeah but that was back then and also that's uhh whataboutism I think

soypoint-1 whataboutism soypoint-2

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 29 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

~~vote~~

edit: skibidi vote

[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 24 points 3 weeks ago

Afghanistan wasn't even really pro-USSR, they were just neutral in the cold war and that was enough for the US to start weekly deliveries of grenade launchers to what we now know as Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 48 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The republicans are just about to turn into the Taliban, forcing a dystopian theocratic hellscape on you and stripping you of all your rights.

What should you do about it? Well, obviously you should vote for the people who wants a strong republican party and want to put republicans in their cabinet so they can get "good ideas" from them.

These people are not going to do anything to stop the republicans or to break their institutional power out to handle the socio-economic ills driving support for the republicans. But somehow voting for them is all you have to do to stop the republican Taliban.

[–] Sulvor@hexbear.net 28 points 3 weeks ago

I’ve used this argument on my lib friends plenty of times.

You bait them with “Trump is an evil christofascist, right?” or something of that sort, then follow it up with illegal-to-say

They usually just get really dismissive and holier than thou but it’s still fun.

[–] red_stapler@hexbear.net 47 points 3 weeks ago

de-dice-1 de-dice-1

[Trivial: Failure] Encyclopedia - Your mangled brain is unable to come up with a proper critique of this.

[–] FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net 46 points 3 weeks ago

And which nation of imperialist cousin fuckers armed the Taliban?

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 35 points 3 weeks ago

The state Afghanistan is in today can be directly traced back to American backing of the mujahideen in the Soviet-Afghan war. Afghanistan is just another casualty in the USA's anti-communist crusade of the 20th century. The damage is multi-generational.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 35 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What happened in Iran that made them change?

WHAT HAPPENED MOTHERFUCKER

[–] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Cringe on my part tbh but still works

I'm just so used to seeing this shit about Iran my brain short circuited

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

Pretty sure I've seen this picture ascribed to both countries.

[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 33 points 3 weeks ago

Hun I wonder what was going on in the 70s in Afghanistan thonk

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 24 points 3 weeks ago

I’m guessing that’s a picture of Afghan women in the 70’s in Kabul or another major city in Afghanistan and not a reflection of Afghan women in the sparser population areas

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago

I hate this shit. Like yeah, this might be a picture of three specific woman living in capital. It's in no way representative. Also, NATO deliberately instigated a war in Afghanistan that lead to the current government so like idk what point they think they're making.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago

If Trump is allowed to do Project 1984 then the only porn left will be feet pics and are you really going to pull your tired wiener to some nasty-ass soles?

[–] mbt2402@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago

ironic considering that mr jimothy cartier of the democratic party initiated operation cyclone

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago

Imagine arming a bunch of religious reactionaries in Afghanistan, gloating when the USSR failed to stop them from consolidating power, ruining the lives of 100s of millions of people, having these same reactionaries kill your own citizens, and then ignoring all of this just to make this stupid meme.

[–] GlueBear@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago
[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't that image very much NOT of women in Afghanistan? Some other country, as I recall, but could be confusing it with another similar picture.

[–] JayTreeman@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe, but Afghanistan was a very different place in the 60s and 70s. If your argument is 'that picture isn't technically correct' I think you're missing the point

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not arguing, just trying to remember if I've seen it anywhere before

[–] Thallo@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

They use a similar picture (maybe even the same picture) to make the same argument about Iran before 1979

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

There you go, that's what I was thinking of!

[–] Antiwork@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago
[–] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

Nah they have been doing this since 2015

[–] serenityseeker@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What's the connection between the top text and bottom text?

Just taking two completely unrelated points and throwing them together.

[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They’re saying that Project 2025 will enforce conservative patriarchal dress for women. Like saying, “You don’t think it can happen here? Well it happened to them.”

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

That's right! If America has a government it will destroy the rights of women around the world!

[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago