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fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer
https://twitter.com/ReutersPakistan/status/1414601134652551172?s=20

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genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

Mullah Omar...welcome to the #resistance.

Red and Black
Sep 5, 2011

Do Chinese people call that style of dress a "Mao suit"? A quick google seems to suggest they call it 中山装 or Zhongshan suit.

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

Red and Black posted:

Do Chinese people call that style of dress a "Mao suit"? A quick google seems to suggest they call it 中山装 or Zhongshan suit.

中山 refers to sun yat sen btw (most of the time you see those characters or the word zhongshan). every city in china has a street named after the guy

fart simpson has issued a correction as of 16:14 on Jul 12, 2021

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

sürgünden selamlar
yıkıcılar ulusuna
americans call it a mao suit because they're pigshit ignorant

Red and Black
Sep 5, 2011

fart simpson posted:

中山 refers to sun yat sen btw

Huh, that's interesting

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

Zedhe Khoja posted:

thankyou for reminding us that the taliban is bad
not enough people say it and im glad you were brave enough to say it when others won't

I don't want qcs getting the idea that this thread loves the Taliban

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

Zedhe Khoja posted:

americans call it a mao suit because they're pigshit ignorant

nah it’s a mao suit

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

indigi posted:

nah it’s a mao suit

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

Grapplejack posted:

Reminder to the thread that the hardcore religious theocracy that regularly does ethnic cleansing is actually bad

which one, the taliban or the usarmy

Junkozeyne
Feb 13, 2012

Grapplejack posted:

Reminder to the thread that the hardcore religious theocracy that regularly does ethnic cleansing is actually bad even if they strike a deal with china for investment or whatever

NATO should start an international mission to bring them freedom and democracy to change their evil ways

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020


The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > CIA-SPAM > [Eurasia] China Tibetan camp shutting down mining operation is why I believe their commitment to socialism

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011


calling this symbolic seems to imply that he either didnt really command anything or that hes still wielding power in secret

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/CNN/status/1414434387236724737

F Stop Fitzgerald
Dec 12, 2010

"symbolic end of war" is a hell of a euphemism for losing

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

finally an english language article i can use to efficiently demonstrate that south koreas covid rules are overly convoluted nonsense that appear to be specifically designed to annoy people

https://mobile.twitter.com/joshjonsmith/status/1414539183159271427

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010


The CPC has studied the west and learned the lesson of Obama's tan suit well.

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
A specific color of zhongshan suit can be referred to as "Mao suit". I got to agree that color is Mao.

Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot

Grapplejack posted:

Reminder to the thread that the hardcore religious theocracy that regularly does ethnic cleansing is actually bad even if they strike a deal with china for investment or whatever

is this supposed to be some wild take or something?

we know its bad but yknow whats also bad? invading the country in the name of regime change and bombing whole entire families out of existence for over two decades

note: NATO are not the good guys while invading afghanistan HTH bud

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Grapplejack posted:

Reminder to the thread that the hardcore religious theocracy that regularly does ethnic cleansing is actually bad even if they strike a deal with china for investment or whatever

?????

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

Agrajag posted:

note: NATO are not the good guys while invading afghanistan HTH bud

is this supposed to be some wild take or something?

Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot

stephenthinkpad posted:

A specific color of zhongshan suit can be referred to as "Mao suit". I got to agree that color is Mao.

y dont you mao on deez nutz?

got eeem

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Grapplejack posted:

Reminder to the thread that the hardcore religious theocracy that regularly does ethnic cleansing is actually bad even if they strike a deal with china for investment or whatever

Joe Biden ended the trade war?

Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot

indigi posted:

is this supposed to be some wild take or something?

considering people in media can actually get cancelled for it, yeah

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

https://twitter.com/keats_tours/status/1410624811026485257?s=20

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011

Grapplejack posted:

Reminder to the thread that the hardcore religious theocracy that regularly does ethnic cleansing is actually bad even if they strike a deal with china for investment or whatever

this is so important.

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
we had a shot at a non fundamentalist secular afghanistan in the 80s but based america saw to it that it didn't happen by messing up their pots and pans

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

the cold war program to arm the taliban didn't end until 1994

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Grapplejack posted:

I don't want qcs getting the idea that this thread loves the Taliban

but qcs threads are the only arena where we get to argue with the cowards

Not So Fast
Dec 27, 2007


Grapplejack posted:

I don't want qcs getting the idea that this thread loves the Taliban

allahu akbar, death to america

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

Tbh I'm mostly just waiting to see when the Saudis extend recognition / support to the gov, because Iran has been sort of conciliatory towards the Afghani Taliban since the US withdrawal was announced but that will change very quickly if the Saudis start sending them money

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

i love the taliban

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
*extremely Jen Kirkman voice*

AnimeIsTrash posted:

i love the taliban

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

Grapplejack posted:

Tbh I'm mostly just waiting to see when the Saudis extend recognition / support to the gov, because Iran has been sort of conciliatory towards the Afghani Taliban since the US withdrawal was announced but that will change very quickly if the Saudis start sending them money

Do we know if they have any kind of working relation with the Saudis? Seems to me bribes from US contractors to get safely from one place to another as well as captured equipment is more than enough to fund the level of insurgency the Taliban were running.

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

genericnick posted:

Do we know if they have any kind of working relation with the Saudis? Seems to me bribes from US contractors to get safely from one place to another as well as captured equipment is more than enough to fund the level of insurgency the Taliban were running.

The Saudis were one of the first countries to recognize them as the official government in that brief period pre-2002 invasion and have a history of sending them money / arms. They stopped recently because of conflicts with qatar and US pressure mounting but I can see that starting up again with the withdrawal and Qatar relations thawing out

The various Saudi royal families love throwing money at extremist sunni groups too tbh so

Junkozeyne
Feb 13, 2012
There was an article I read about the end of the Afghanistan occupation, arguing it failed because NATO was just too ambitious in its goal to civilise the savages.

Also it recapped the start of the mission as retaliation for 9/11 while managing to never mention Saudi Arabia. Reading it you would be forgiven to think bin Laden was Taliban.

The fourth pillar of democracy baby!!!

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Grapplejack posted:

Tbh I'm mostly just waiting to see when the Saudis extend recognition / support to the gov, because Iran has been sort of conciliatory towards the Afghani Taliban since the US withdrawal was announced but that will change very quickly if the Saudis start sending them money

Are the Taliban directly descended from the mujahideen and if so does this make Taliban Afghanistan a Saudi colony or at least a Saudi creation

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

i do not love the taliban as such but i do love that they defeated and humiliated the great satan, the united states of america

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

The Taliban sucks but an end to constant warfare and China investing in Afganistan's national infrastructure will do more for the country than decades of trying to get rid of the Taliban did.

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Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

Lol god remember when they did like a small amount of research and they basically pinpointed the exact Saudi prince that bankrolled 9/11 but they were an ally and bush wanted to invade Iraq so that got very quietly hidden away

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