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https://twitter.com/MichaelSocolow/status/1424782043175608322 lmaoooo
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Aug 9, 2021 22:49
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a disciplined guerilla force manages to enact more effective public policies than the thoroughly corrupt central government propped up by massive foreign aid you say? now where have i heard that one before
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Aug 9, 2021 22:52
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Honestly seeing this makes my gen-z rear end understand why so many older leftists are pretty optimistic after Sanders. If this was the state of the Left 20 years ago then today must seem like a miracle.
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Aug 10, 2021 00:19
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ToxicAcne posted:Honestly seeing this makes my gen-z rear end understand why so many older leftists are pretty optimistic after Sanders. If this was the state of the Left 20 years ago then today must seem like a miracle. the 90s were dire for the left. we had trot pamphlets and dennis kucinich. the discourse today is pretty radically different
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Well yeah, that was the era when the End of History didn't look like a pipe dream.ToxicAcne posted:Honestly seeing this makes my gen-z rear end understand why so many older leftists are pretty optimistic after Sanders. If this was the state of the Left 20 years ago then today must seem like a miracle. Just follow this account https://twitter.com/DubyaEraLeft/status/1376308119618248704 https://twitter.com/DubyaEraLeft/status/1400225721277030400 https://twitter.com/DubyaEraLeft/status/1421244214818476036
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Aug 10, 2021 02:04
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that's a great twitter account but pale compared to the testament of 2003 leftism and web design that was http://www.111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.com/
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Aug 10, 2021 03:32
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ToxicAcne posted:Honestly seeing this makes my gen-z rear end understand why so many older leftists are pretty optimistic after Sanders. If this was the state of the Left 20 years ago then today must seem like a miracle. the 90s were the absolute nadir of the Western left (no wonder given what happened in the ussr). Only now that we are discussing about and organizing very primary poo poo that were absolute guarantees in the 50s and 60s. Only now we see a lot of younger people going "you know what, this union thing sounds like a very good idea", and we still need many more for the basics
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Aug 10, 2021 04:15
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Aug 10, 2021 04:18
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ugh the your base memes are all turning 21 around this time, i remember the song stitching them together was like fall 2000
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Aug 10, 2021 04:30
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It just struck me that a lot of these Taliban guys in the photos where they've taken American vehicles and equipment are younger than the war. Their entire memory, they've never known a time when America wasn't trying to kill them. Until now.
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Aug 10, 2021 20:58
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Animal-Mother posted:It just struck me that a lot of these Taliban guys in the photos where they've taken American vehicles and equipment are younger than the war. Their entire memory, they've never known a time when America wasn't trying to kill them. Until now. it must be a very "liberating" feeling!
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Aug 11, 2021 05:17
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Biden just said the US still supports the Afghan government army with air strikes and poo poo so technically the US is still trying to kill them.
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Aug 11, 2021 08:19
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It’s supremely funny that the taliban of all people owned America super hard.
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Aug 11, 2021 08:41
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Orange Devil posted:Biden just said the US still supports the Afghan government army with air strikes and poo poo so technically the US is still trying to kill them. Wonder where they plan to fly from?
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Aug 11, 2021 08:47
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https://twitter.com/joshua_landis/status/1425207683267846156?s=19 one of the biggest Tajik warlords just defected "The Taliban are exhausted, they'll take a peace deal." The Taliban gave up nothing in the eventual deal signed with the US, and cleared the way for their final victory. . "They'll be limited to the Pashtun south, it'll be a long ethnic civil war." Pre-emptive strike on the north with the subversion of Tajik and Uzbek groups and relatively little fighting. . "They can take remote rural areas, but cities are another matter." Repeated practice over the years in taking cities and absorbing the lessons learned, coupled with a preparatory sieges to exhaust the defenders and then sharp, decisive assaults on multiple cities at once. . "The commandos plus airpower are a combination the Taliban have no answer for." Extremely high operations tempo with attacks against more locations than the commandos can respond to, and the dissolution of the supporting ANA and ANP the commandos need to give their operations any lasting effect. Plus targeted assassination campaign on the tiny pool of pilots.
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Aug 11, 2021 08:56
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it's also incredibly funny/sad that the Taliban surrendered in the beginning of the war and laid their arms down, but they got arrested and shipped to Gitmo anyway because Rumsfield didn't want a war that was too "easy"
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Aug 11, 2021 08:58
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genericnick posted:Wonder where they plan to fly from? afaik they're flying from Bahrain, which is a several hour flight each way and there's only a handful of strikes each day now.
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Aug 11, 2021 09:04
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That's a lot of words to spell "rout"
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Aug 11, 2021 09:11
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PawParole posted:it's also incredibly funny/sad that the Taliban surrendered in the beginning of the war and laid their arms down, but they got arrested and shipped to Gitmo anyway because Rumsfield didn't want a war that was too "easy" It cannot be expressed in words how vile and stupid that entire administration was
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Aug 11, 2021 09:50
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lol massoud
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Animal-Mother posted:It just struck me that a lot of these Taliban guys in the photos where they've taken American vehicles and equipment are younger than the war. Their entire memory, they've never known a time when America wasn't trying to kill them. Until now. I remember reading a surreal story of a US soldier getting killed in 2020 in Afghanistan. He was born in 2002 lol! Milo and POTUS posted:It cannot be expressed in words how vile and stupid that entire administration was Not to mention the whole history how getting a reputation for mistreating captured prisoners just gives the other site a incentive to fight even harder and never surrender.
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Aug 11, 2021 12:12
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the liberal media adored donald Rumsfield
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Aug 11, 2021 12:38
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It would be super loving funny if someone could dig up the forums ‘Afghanistan Invasion’ thread from 2002 so we can get a good giant sniff of what people thought this whole thing would turn out.
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Aug 11, 2021 14:39
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Pistol_Pete posted:afaik they're flying from Bahrain, which is a several hour flight each way and there's only a handful of strikes each day now. from the persian gulf to central asia? hahahahhahahahahhhahahahahahahahahhhhah ahahahahahhahahhahhahahhahahahahahahahah AHAHAHAHAHAHHHA
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Aug 11, 2021 15:23
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the commitment and support to win any war and aid any ally!
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Aug 11, 2021 15:24
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bedpan posted:the liberal media adored donald Rumsfield The whole administration was the untouchables and they knew it.
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Al-Saqr posted:It would be super loving funny if someone could dig up the forums ‘Afghanistan Invasion’ thread from 2002 so we can get a good giant sniff of what people thought this whole thing would turn out. Here you go https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=86316.
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Aug 11, 2021 18:18
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oh my loving god this is a post of posts quote:From what is happening, the Taliban might last less than one week. The Taliban has decided that burning dogs and destroying villiages will make their people much more willing to join the Taliban army. Of course they have not, large numbers of people in Afganistan have already left, or if they have not, are going to the Northern Alliance. I heard on MSNBC that the NA will be moving out in the morning, when the US and Britian will not be attacking, and are supposed to be heading to Kabul. The US and Britian do not want the NA to help though, their weapons are old, and will most likely get in the way. Although right now the NA is being pretty good about it, and are not moving from their positions, they are just listing to the radio about what is happening.
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Aug 11, 2021 18:36
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cross posting this collection of golden posts from the other thread on the fine fellows of 2002:-OhFunny posted:This appears to be the main DnD thread: Its On, US Attacks Kabul....
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Aug 11, 2021 18:39
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Al-Saqr posted:cross posting this collection of golden posts from the other thread on the fine fellows of 2002:- lmao god bless these forums
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Aug 11, 2021 18:48
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yellowcar posted:lmao god bless these forums lol it's like those image memes "How it started, how intended" How it started: The US military is invincible, has technology beyond any nation in the world. It will be nation building success story and monument to the determination of the American people How it ended : Taliban could you please agree to cease fire so we can save face?
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Aug 11, 2021 19:30
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I also loved how alt right prick historians like Victor Davis Hanson bragged how the US would have easy victories in Iraq and Afghanistan due to things like "superior" heavy infantry / western shock combat tactics. In the end it's pretty obvious who had the superior infantry, tactics and strategy to overturn regimes being back backed by billions of dollars in US military aid.
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Aug 11, 2021 19:34
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prior to maybe 3 years ago these forums were a very dark place, where it was treated as accepted wisdom that for example if someone harms your property, you are justified in killing them. many good people were banned for going against this consensus
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i mean they still are, but they were then too
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Also the superior western infantry spent almost the occupation hiding out in their heavily fortified bases. It's not a suprise what this attitude led to similar to how in Vietnam around 85% of the infantry firefights were initiated by Vietcong / NVA. aka the Vietnamese had the initiative / advantage for controlling where, when and why to fight.
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Aug 11, 2021 19:59
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"Get a loving clue. They sell them at the real world store." lmao
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etalian posted:I also loved how alt right prick historians like Victor Davis Hanson bragged how the US would have easy victories in Iraq and Afghanistan due to things like "superior" heavy infantry / western shock combat tactics. Neocon, and he’s a lovely “historian”. He’s been coasting on his only achievement ( battle of leuctra), that he thinks he’s an expert on everything else.
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The virgin US soldier hiding in a colonial fire base vs the Chad Taliban mortar team Also lol at the blurb in this story https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/11/middleeast/afghanistan-taliban-analysis-intl/index.html quote:CNN saw a graphic example of how low morale is among some army units on a visit to the city of Ghazni, three hours from Kabul. A group of soldiers who had been under fire from Taliban snipers simply ran from their base, flagged down a passing car and left. etalian has issued a correction as of 22:31 on Aug 11, 2021 |
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