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Jfc, the comments here are disgusting.
As if this is the first time an imperial superpower has intervened so heavily in a country and then backed the fuck up once there was no profit left to be made and left the locals to go fuck themselves.
And yet fuckers whose only knowledge of the situation over there comes from their biased racist google search abilities, and who not only would, without a shadow of a doubt, run and hide and piss themsleves if they ever encountered any situation a tenth as threatening as Afghan people have had to put up with, but probably end up joining the oppressive force because that's what people with tiny fragile egos tend to do - seek ways to abuse others, get to sit here and judge those poor people who are nothing but pawns in a war for profit for "not helping themselves"?!
The fucking audacity of you fuckers is beyond belief.
I'd say go read some fucking history and educate yourselves about the hundreds of examples of how imperial and colonial powers have ravaged and then abandoned people all across the globe, but I honestly don't think it'd help people with their heads so far up their own asses that they actually think their ignorant selves are somehow qualified to pass judgment on these people's lives.
That's clearly a you problem, try removing your head from your ass, that might help
Lmao I bet you think we invaded Iraq to hunt down al-Qaeda too. The billions we poured into defense contractors in Afghanistan just magically went missing right?
If you don't want to get labeled as a fragile tool then maybe don't lash out and attack an Afghans' mild criticism of the US. The US literally invaded and occupied Afghanistan for 20 years yet you all are trying your damnedest to pretend the situation there is someone else's fault all while blaming the victim.
That's incredibly false
From way before 9-11
Before the Invasion
After the invasion.
This has been known for quite some time. Propaganda really is a hell of a drug.
Iraq started to protect the oil fields of the Persian Gulf. Afterwards we stayed to keep it from going into chaos and keep Iran from filling the void.
Did all the defense contractors go under?
No profit from the country itself, we funnelled an insane amount of tax payer money into contractors. Moral superiority mightve got us into Afghanistan bit .only drain from actual government.ent services is what kept us there so long.
Yeah for real. Hilarious to see a bunch of neckbeards talking tough about how a lady in Afghanistan should shut up and fight a civil war against the Taliban, who the US couldn't beat even after 20 years. How dare she point out that the US utterly failed her country after invading it.
Incredibly pathetic
Threads like this just remind that the fediverse existed for over a year before reddit shit the bed, and was populated mostly be far right extremists who had been IP banned from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and pretty much every other social media.
The idea of the fediverse is great, but the fact is you can never really permanently ban anyone from it.
So in a lot of ways it's also the gutter the worst get washed into. And they're usually the most active
If you really think the fediverse was ever "populated mostly by far-right extremists" you have zero clue what you're talking about and zero credibility.
Less than a year ago Lemmy was mostly communist meme threads and a few years before that Mastodon was just a FOSS community hangout.
I have to admit seeing the comments in here made me realise I need to load kbin on desktop so I can use its function where we make notes on users.
That or figure out how to run the kbin enhancement suite.
I just block anyone who says anything remotely Right-wing.
No time for racists, capitalists, and fascists.
I guess I could do that. Still new to the fediverse. I hardly ever blocked on old social media because I hate seeing arguments where I only see one side.
They're mostly a bunch of neo-colonists that believe in western exceptionalism and won't spend any time learning about the country the west occupied for over 20 years, let alone the complicated dynamics of the country.
I mean legit half the comments are variants of "We need to civilize the savages".
Reminds me of all the crocodile tears against leaving Afghanistan in the first place "Think of the women!" they cried, well what happened when the country was dealing with a famine (which of course impacted millions of Afghani women) and the US stole half of Afghani assets at a time they desperately needed it? crickets.
Propaganda is a hell of a drug.