Time magazine: “we don’t know how yet, but we’re gonna find a way to link the rise of fascism and avocado toast”

    • ZaroniPepperoni@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The largest military in the world occupied their country and gave them billions in equipment to keep it and they let the taliban retake everything in weeks. I don’t think there is going to be any better opportunity then that. It’s obvious that the fighting population already made their choice, and now everyone just has to enjoy it.

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Of course there’s a better opportunity: figuring it out for themselves. Having some rich stranger give you a bunch of stuff is a recipe for failure. Building what you have slowly and steadily is a recipe for success.

        Hopefully we can stay out of their way and stop trying to give them level 50 gear when they’ve level 1 noobs. Best way to guarantee someone stays a noob is to remove them their game and try to place them into your own.

        • ZaroniPepperoni@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I sure hope your right, but we did not just give them stuff and tell them to figure it out, we trained them for 20 years, with the most experienced soldiers in the world. It’s obviously a motivation and culture issue, so maybe after they realize how shit things have gone they may make a change, but I am not holding my breath.

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            1 year ago

            We gave them that training. They didn’t earn it. They didn’t seek it, nothing. And because it wasn’t something that they earned, they squandered it.

            We’re enabling them. We’re not doing the most helpful thing by giving them all this hardware and training. The most helpful thing would be sending them a bunch of LSD microdose pills.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOP
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        1 year ago

        Sure, blame the Afghan civilians after bombing their country back to the stone age and then trying to occupy it for 20 years with said largest military in the world only to pull THAT rug out from under them with a sudden bungled withdrawal.

        It’s not like the West had anything to do with the Taliban taking power in the first place, right? Right?

      • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        That’s like saying that we wanted Trump. He didn’t win the popular vote; we didn’t want him but he was there anyway.

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          1 year ago

          What an absurd comparison.

          Regardless, I didn’t see liberals speaking with their actions and fighting a guerilla war for twenty years against the US Army.

          • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            I’ll rephrase what you said:

            I don’t like that you pointed out something inconvenient so I will dismiss it and redirect the conversation elsewhere.

            • DragonTypeWyvern
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              1 year ago

              Wow that’s some real clown tier shit lmao.

              Redirect the conversation to the Taliban having enough popular support to fight an insurgency against a superpower again?

              You know, what the conversation was before you tried to pretend the electoral college getting a narrow win, working entirely as designed, means a very large percentage of America doesn’t support the fascists?