Militant group is ‘waging an all-out war against us’, says one Kabul resident in response to the bizarre rule
  • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
    54·
    7 hours ago

    I actually had “an entire country fails the Bechdel test” on my 2024 bingo card.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    65·
    7 hours ago

    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…

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    297·
    7 hours ago

    “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.

      • bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        1 hour ago

        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.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
        3·
        2 hours ago

        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.

      • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        24·
        6 hours ago

        I think everyone wanted Afghanistan to not give up immediately and surrender to the Taliban. Fighting spirit like Ukraine.

        • dance_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 hours ago

          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.

      • atro_city@fedia.io
        152·
        6 hours ago

        Yes, that’s the only option. It’s always occupation or no occupation. No other options exist. /s

      • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
        10·
        6 hours ago

        we wanted them not to occupy it in the first place.

        i think everyone is at loss on how to fix it now.

      • deathbird@mander.xyzEnglish
        61·
        6 hours ago

        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.

      • HowManyNimons@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        7 hours ago

        The Telegraph is the British Conservative Party’s media wing. I’m not saying this isn’t true, but it would come better from someone else.

          • deathbird@mander.xyzEnglish
            101·
            6 hours ago

            Just because they’re conservative doesn’t mean they’re publishing falsehoods. Just be on the lookout for bias, which you should for all media.

            For example, the oppression of women in Afghanistan is probably being reported on more by conservative sources not because they are against the oppression of women, but because they’re hawks who disagreed with leaving Afghanistan, and there’s probably some anti-muslim sentiment motivating it as well. Likewise liberal media sources are probably ignoring it because leaving Afghanistan the way America did was largely considered to be a disaster which was finalized under a Democratic administration, and for all their talk of caring about women they did basically abandon half the population of an entire nation. It would probably not help their side of the current election cycle to shine light on the catastrophic fallout of one of Biden’s major international policy decisions.

  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    7 hours ago

    Guys, guys - settle down, Pooty Poot just took them off the terrorist list, they’re fiiiiine.

    It’s probably just a joke, bro!