I actually had “an entire country fails the Bechdel test” on my 2024 bingo card.
I mean…yeah. They ARE waging an all out war on women. It’s the literal taliban. What did you expect?
Oh, hold on, I’m getting a telegram from 1939. It appears as if a Jewish woman in Germany is having a disagreement of opinions with one “Adolph Hitler”. Seems this Hitler fellow isn’t a fan of the Jews…
I don’t know about you but I think that Hitler fellow sounds like a bad egg.
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.
Project 2025 energy.
It feels like the Taliban is just passing more and more ridiculous subjugation laws to try and get the west to attack them again so that they can go back to riding camels and shooting AKs with their ‘brothers’ instead of enduring the hell of office work and family life that is modern society.
“The world has abandoned us,” she added. “They left us to the Taliban, and whatever happens to us now is a result of Western government policies.”
Hear hear.
I think everyone wanted Afghanistan to not give up immediately and surrender to the Taliban. Fighting spirit like Ukraine.
Almost 20 years of military training and equipment and they did nothing. I get there was probably family on the other side, but the military basically gave up on the dreams of the Afghan women.
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.
Do you see that collapse coming now that the Taliban have total control? Because that was the situation before the US invaded. We should have smashed Al Qaeda and then left, telling them that from now on, we’ll leave you alone as long as you leave us alone.
Since when is it the world’s responsibility to save you from your superstitions?
