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I would blow Dane Cook posted:What's the appeal of the Taliban for its members? Seems like a quite unpleasant group to throw your lot in with. i once read that if you tried to settle a legal dispute using the government, you would spend years and years in litigation, having to pay bribes all the way, and may never even get a resolution for something as simple as a property disagreement between neighbors. whereas the taliban would give a ruling after a few days i'm sure there's more to it than that but it's an interesting reason that someone who isn't even interested in other taliban stuff would go to them for normal government functions
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ELTON JOHN posted:i once read that if you tried to settle a legal dispute using the government, you would spend years and years in litigation, having to pay bribes all the way, and may never even get a resolution for something as simple as a property disagreement between neighbors. whereas the taliban would give a ruling after a few days this is also why ISIS swept thru the middle east so hard, i'm reasonably sure
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The Atomic Man-Boy posted:I hope our special forces make it home OK, so when social order starts to break down at home they can form death squads and canoe my neighbors at 2am. boomerang effect baby awooo!!!!
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:What's the appeal of the Taliban for its members? Seems like a quite unpleasant group to throw your lot in with. Darth Walrus posted:As mentioned, human rights cover many different topics. The Taliban are much less likely to rape little boys (bacha bazi was and is a powerful recruitment tool), bomb your entire village into dust, or send the psychotic death squads of the Zero Units through your region (when the news refers to 'Afghan special forces' as the core of the national army, that's who they're talking about). The occupation government ruled more through a monopoly on violence than any serious attempt to establish goodwill and sustainable livelihoods, which is why they're evaporating so fast. The Taliban may be rear end in a top hat fundamentalists, but they could at least make a more credible promise of peace, security, and stable governance.
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:whomp https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1426490812725088259?s=19 Looks like that didn't go as planned. Also looks like Ghani's not resigning and pointlessly dragging the war out for a few more days.
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PawParole posted:Common sense Lib in a not-racist tone: Look at all these dumbasses rejecting our gift of glorious freedum
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ELTON JOHN posted:i once read that if you tried to settle a legal dispute using the government, you would spend years and years in litigation, having to pay bribes all the way, and may never even get a resolution for something as simple as a property disagreement between neighbors. whereas the taliban would give a ruling after a few days I also read another motivation in a contested area was you had to deal with shakedowns "protection money" payments from both the Taliban and corrupt government officials. Most people ended up preferring the above just to avoid being caught in a military crossfire and also "protection money" shakedowns both opposing factions. The funny COV19 Story (Taliban took it seriously) also showed how the the central government was clueless how to successfully run day to day administration in areas they marginally controlled. I'm also lolling how the GOP is making the classic "Weak on Terror" PR Spin even though the whole Afghanistan mess was done by W back in the day to improve his polling.
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etalian posted:The funny COV19 Story (Taliban took it seriously) also showed how the the central government was clueless how to successfully run day to day administration in areas they marginally controlled. The Taliban are putting their civil administration into place very quickly. https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1426449628472430593?s=19 https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1426444849662894084?s=19 https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1426440224436113410?s=19 https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1426433491500142595?s=19 https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1426329495544467456?s=19
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OhFunny posted:The Taliban are putting their civil administration into place very quickly. Lmao using the game plan straight from Mao's book on how to win a asymmetric war against a seemingly "stronger" central government. One of the main root causes for why the supposedly 300k strong central government military fell apart in little under a month is they couldn't even get the basics like logistics right (regular pay, supplies and new equipment). I can't imagine a government with this level of competency would be any better on the civil administration side. etalian has issued a correction as of 12:34 on Aug 14, 2021 |
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CSPAM when another US military adventure ends in a complete failure https://twitter.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1426131780533358592
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also the taliban are loving terrible, they're hardline religious puritans who sincerely and deeply hate women and idolatry. they're saudi arabia if saudi arabia was a scrappy upstart rather than an insanely wealthy petrostate
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:wait, the taliban aren’t the bad guys? Well maybe it's more like the joy of when a team back by millions of dollars / Can't Lose (NY Yankees) ends up choking in the post-season etalian has issued a correction as of 13:08 on Aug 14, 2021 |
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https://www.npr.org/2021/08/14/1027375958/taliban-afghanistan-takeover-the-world-humanitarian-china-pakistan Liberal Pravda mad that the US failed another military adventure / nation building attempt. lol quote:1. Afghanistan will become a human rights problem
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my lib friends think we should have given female intellectuals weapons to push back
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Taliban is just a bunch of bros trying to have a good time and going hard for the hood Honestly, if I could go back in time, I would be illiterate in a heartbeat so the ladies of Afghanistan being banished from schooling is nbd imo
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Wonder how long until the rest of central government do the classic cash grab / swiss bank account and flee to Dubai game plan...
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Relin posted:my lib friends think we should have given female intellectuals weapons to push back when the maoists rose up in Oman they turned their women's education centers into bootcamps welcome your friend into the tankie fold
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Taliban seem to be at the gates of Mazar E Sharif which is Dostums main stronghold https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1426526038960508930?s=20 Also LOL poor CIA:- https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1426535107406569481?s=20 Al-Saqr has issued a correction as of 14:28 on Aug 14, 2021 |
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etalian posted:lmao at any country that willingly signed up to invade Iraq/Afghanistan along with the USA. The only way Canada is staying out of a USA war is if it ends up in a war with USA.
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Lostconfused posted:The only way Canada is staying out of a USA war is if it ends up in a war with USA. I reminder all the cheesy reasoning from countries like the UK, we were just supporting our ally (that made things up!)
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:wait, the taliban aren’t the bad guys? quote:The revolutionary character of a national movement under the conditions of imperialist oppression does not necessarily presuppose the existence of proletarian elements in the movement, the existence of a revolutionary or a republican programme of the movement, the existence of a democratic basis of the movement. The struggle that the Emir of Afghanistan is waging for the independence of Afghanistan is objectively a revolutionary struggle, despite the monarchist views of the Emir and his associates, for it weakens, disintegrates and undermines imperialism
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I was sincerely hoping these freaks would fight to the death. Shame on the Talibs for allowing them to surrender.
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hmm so you don’t have to fire the entire civil service and municipal workers after an invasion? probably should have told someone that after iraq fell
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OhFunny posted:https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1426490812725088259?s=19 if anyone deserves to face the Taliban's justice system, it's the CIA collaborators
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V. Illych L. posted:turns out that free-market self-interest is not a very good ideological base for setting up a functioning state yea the talibans lil slice of islam is a nightmare but its still a more useful religion for pulling together a functional state than the wests money-worship, self-worship or celebrity idolatry religions.
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I’m just really sad for all the horrible poo poo that’s going to be allowed to happen in Afghanistan again with us gone and nobody to stop it There’s going to be weddings and funerals, people gathering without any regard to the fact that they shouldn’t be gathering Hopefully we keep the drones on patrol so that it doesn’t get out of hand
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Atrocious Joe posted:if anyone deserves to face the Taliban's justice system, it's the CIA collaborators If I never killed for the CIA how would real victims like me pay for muh college
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From one month ago, today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebPzXv_AsWQ
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The only shame about this is more Americans didn't die in Afghanistan
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:wait, the taliban aren’t the bad guys? everyone's the bad guys, the Taliban are just the more competent bad guys
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lol that 99% of americans will place the blame on the people who decided 20 years was long enough and not on the people who had 20 years to build up Afghanistan and spent that time leeching their economy and bankrolling death squads
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Sad Billionaire posted:i am aware that many of these are the same people dont @ me I genuinely wonder what George W Bush thinks about the Taliban winning in the end but something tells me he genuinely doesnt give a poo poo one way or another.
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