Taliban bans women from ‘hearing other women’s voices’

He’s a little sus.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Since when is it the world's responsibility to explain shit to you?

The US invasion strengthened the Taliban and basically killed native resistance to their regime, so the US does bear some responsibility for this.

Uh huh...

Definitely violently too.

Leftists are largely non-religious, rightists are the religious fanatics.

You had me believing you thought in the first half of your comment but then your proved otherwise

It’s that leftists “like Islam”, it’s just that they are generally not broadly xenophobic.

The Telegraph is the British Conservative Party's media wing. I'm not saying this isn't true, but it would come better from someone else.

Which one would that be?

Right. Margaret Atwood based the Handmaid's Tale as a combination of things that have happened somewhere, and she arguably didn't go far enough.