Wall Street funded them bro.
Wall Street funded them bro.
They are liberals with paper thin corporate-friendly politics.
That user who suggested we ‘help’ is either malicious or ignorant. Because help doesn’t mean we release the reserves of money we’ve stolen from the Afghans. It means invade them again, whether she means it or not.
The best thing we can do now is let the Afghans be sovereign and no longer interfere (which won’t happen). You can expect nothing good socially from there, as the Americans helped the Taliban defeat local progressive and secular forces in the 70s. All we can hope for is for them to eventually stand up on their own two feet.
Anyone who whines about the plight of Afghan women is either doing propaganda or is misled. Afghan women have children too btw - children that are starving - have Biden release the reserves.
Feels like a geopolitical issue more than a religious issue.
The downvotes are probably because you seem to ‘ignore’ the US role in arming the Taliban.
Rebuilding translates to funding the lavish lifestyles of our puppets. Very colonial.
Those needless military casualties are equally on the hands of our elite and their shares in arms companies.
And think of the Afghan people themselves. They don’t know peace because of us.
Fight your own fights.
Agree with all but this. We did start it. And we’ll learn no lessons.
Sadly Bill Clinton and Tony Blair backed Putin initially. It’s not totally the people’s fault.
We called them streaming services. Calling them stream-ers sounds like the media is trying to make them sound cuddly and non hostile.
Poor kitties!
Yeah I noticed that.
I just checked, there are 40 downvotes (78 upvotes). That’s wierd - I checked other posts and they don’t seem to have anything like that - I saw none in the double digits.
I might just have to keep a separate account for posting politics which is sad but necessary so that my posts/comments are ranked according to utility and not just downvoted by angry nerds. I’ll probably make a post about this somewhere too.
I think some idiots/bots from another instance to do with a political topic did it lol. They’ve done it to a few comments. We haven’t left reddit apparently.
Do you think lemmy admins could see the downvoters and check if they’re using bots?
And UK.
In his own words lol:
To re-iterate PDF is a really, really bad format to use as input. If you absolutely must use PDF, then be prepared for an output ranging anywhere from decent to unusable, depending on the input PDF.
Others are recommending Calibre which I’ll try, even though I share your pessimism. Have you ever tried it?
You should brush up on the history of the Middle East and colonialism, if you’re going to say something like that.
The Ottoman Empire was founded in 1299 according to google, and formally ended in 1922. We’re only a hundred and one years away, about a single lifetime, from this empire, dimwit. And Turkey survives today as a regional power and a useful US ally.
edit: people downvoting me are ineffectual cucks.
You don’t deserve respect when you go out and harass and insult strangers. Being a refugee and insulting your host country is even worse in my opinion. Deport those snakes, they obviously miss home.
To which my point was the threat of deportation discourages them from speaking out about any abuses, or criticising wrongdoing as a normal citizen of the country ought to.
And: I’m concerned at what I see as an over-focus on social liberalism; it muddies the waters for the actual problem of poverty and marginalisation. It’s proven that people become less open to newcomers and ideas when their economic circumstances take a hit - and Europe has a racist tendency of shoving immigrants in poor neighbourhoods to keep them out of sight and poor. So in many cases we’re blaming the victims.
That’s cool. My peice had to said, because the rightwing types were benefitting from the silence or disagreement of people like myself who want no more intervention.