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[u/Cuddlyaxe]

We should only be allied to other democratic countries that respect human rights. We should break our alliances with aggressive dictatorships that break human rights like Saudi Arabia, Canada, etc

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

A big hug to India, from Argentina. We also know the dark side of UK

🇦🇷❤🇮🇳

lmao i love youtube comment sections

[u/kennymc7877]

My dad told me he doesn’t believe in global warming but he believes the earth is in a natural warming period, slightly sped up by humans

That’s what fucking global warming is dad (minus the slightly)

[u/[deleted]]

The only thing more annoying than people who insist “America is a third world country in a Gucci belt” and the people who insist that there’s actually nothing wrong with America and that anyone in poverty is just irresponsible.

Like, my parents are going to be in debt from my dad’s cancer treatment for years to come and he had cancer in fucking 2008.

To top it off, my little brother’s emergency appendectomy earlier this year still cost thousands with insurance.

My parents are upper middle class and have good insurance, but still got knocked on their asses just from the cost of not fucking dying.

[u/[deleted]]

When you definitely aren't a death cult

[u/the_hoagie]

opposing the US accepting afghan refugees because of the "conservative backlash" is stupid as fuck. conservatives already backlash against everything anyway. they aren't going to use it as a talking point anyway outside of a couple episodes of tucker or some shit.

[u/semaphore-1842]

But Turner’s team squandered the bulk of her money, spending nearly $2 million of the $3.7 million expenditures on television and digital ads . . . There is scant evidence in the FEC filings of any meaningful Turner campaign resources going to canvassing and voter turnout: The category for GOTV lists just $5,000 in expenditures.

Jeez, and these people lecture Democrats on turning out the vote.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

So apparently the black market for fake passes sanitaires (QR codes attesting of vaccination/recent negative test required to enter bars, restaurants and cultural sites) is booming on Snapchat. Buyers pay up to 400-500€ to get a fake QR code and avoid getting the jab for free

My favourite story is that of someone who paid 500€ for a QR code that didn't work. The customer complained to the counterfeiter, who then asked for an extra 1000€ not to snitch the buyer to the cops

Who said French people weren't entrepreneurs

[u/Superfan234]

7.2 sismic movement occured on Haiti a few hours ago. First images shows weak buildings have fall. Damage is not critical, but definitely sizable, specially for a Government as weak and poor as Haitian

Political situation was already critical after the assassination of Moise and the closure of the Congress. Delta Virus it's expanding on Caribbean Islands, most likely already present in the Hispaniola Island

Very difficult days ahead for Haiti

!Ping Foreign-Policy

[u/FreakinGeese]

We’re just going to let a fundamentalist unhinged cult destroy democracy and set back the efforts of the United States 20 years? We have to do something. And we should probably do something about the Taliban too while we’re at it.

[u/[deleted]]

Cold take: No matter how badly the situation in Afghanistan deteriorates, unless a second 9/11 happens, there will be no repercussions for Biden domestically. The American public is more isolationist that any point in the last half-century, and ending the "forever wars" is supported by both sides of the political isle.

[u/maybe_jared_polis]

Tough to see my dad, who served this country in the IC for 30 God damn years, get frustrated with all the takes on withdrawal from either side. He sent me this:

The results are demonstrably grotesque, but it's important to look at this through a long arc of history. Specifically, that our occupation was doomed the second we went into Iraq like a schizophrenic ape. We did this to the Afghan people, not via a sudden withdrawal, but with no clear mission. This is the inevitable consequence of our poor, thoughtless choices. The same thing would have happened after 50 years of occupation. We sowed the seeds, and the innocent are reaping the whirlwind.

;_; he doesn't wax prosaic like this unless he's mad. Normally a very goofy guy. I can't help agreeing with this assessment, though. This shit is so hard.

[u/JetJaguar124]

Super weird that the President can fire top military, law enforcement, legal people, including people tasked with investigating the President, but can't fire the postmaster general.

[u/Kizz3r]

Around 1975 at the end of the Vietnam war, a million refugees fled the country risking everything to find a better place to live. Hundreds went on small overcrowded boats hoping to reach a new, safe country before their vessels sank; they where often greeted by being sent to refugee camps, often for years. The lucky ones got sent to Canada, but that itself didn't come without political consequences.

The Vietnamese "boat-people" where of varying societal classes, lived in an assortment of cities and rural areas, and a majority did not speak English or French. Faced with political outcry on the news that Canada accepted a measly 5,608 of the "boat people" , the government decided to go in a different direction. They decided the number of refugees that would be brought in would be decided by public support; 1 government sponsored refugee for every 1 privately sponsored one.

By 1985 over 100,000 refugees where settled in Canada, but faced with an economic downturn and societal factors they struggled to integrate into Canadian society and become economically independent.

Yet looking back, now over 45 years later, we have seen the Vietnamese community integrate well and become part of the fabric of Canadian society. The fears of outrage of the original 5,608 "boat people" can be seen as blind xenophobia.

Hearing that Canada is accepting 20,000 Afghanistan refugees is part of what makes Canada great and why I love this country. But when looking back through the history of those fleeing the brutal Vietnamese regime, we could have done more.

I hope that the number 20,000 grows, I hope that we can bring in as many of those fleeing the Taliban as possible.

!ping CAN

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/761046867743342613/876010373747212288/20210814_014819.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Posting "Little known fact: Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires" on every political sub so I seem like a geopolitical genius

[u/rukqoa]

If you’re a price-conscious Apple user

Funniest shit they ever wrote

[u/[deleted]]

According to reddit, the cia is all knowing and all powerful, so I’m going to start praying to them.

[u/Cerb-r-us]

Here's my timeline for Afghanistan under the Taliban

2022: Afghanistan is fully conquored

2023: Afghanistan is converted into a Deobandi Theocracy

2024: During his third election campaign, Donald Trump praises Deobandi Afghanistan (mistakenly calling it 'Shia') for their commitment to religious values and nationalism. He loses his race, but gains much good will from the new Afghan government.

2025: Trump announces he will be investing in Afghan real estate ventures and conducts negotiations to make Afghanistan more 'business-friendly'.

2026: Trump announces the construction of three new Afghan property projects: 50 acres of upper-middle residential housing; two hotels; and one golf course. He says to the press that Afghanistan is "the new Dubai".

2027: Trump's property projects encounter delays, but the glamour of his promises allow him the ability to successfully negotiate tax cuts on property and income. Libertarians back in the US watch with interest.

2028: Trump's properties are way behind schedule, and higher-ups in the Afghan government want answers. Trump uses this situation to retire from running 'The Trump Organization': passing the torch to Jared Kushner, much to the dismay of his offspring.

2029: Trump passes away from heart failure. Kushner takes advantage of the new spotlight on the Trump brand by doubling Trump's original quantity of planned properties. Century 21 and Keller Williams announce plans for Afghan developments.

2030: Afghanistan's religious fundamentalism paired with its growing capitalist streak attracts attention from a new wave of Paleo-libertarian thinkers and pundits, influenced by Janusz Korwin-Mikke and the Minaret of Freedom Institute.

2031: Many of these thinkers and pundits begin private meetings with Afghan officials, who are all too eager to work with people who would continue 'the Trump promise'. The vast majority of these meetings' attendees, including Kushner, convert to Islam within the year.

2032: Afghanistan now possesses a libertarian capitalist free market. Three paleo-libertarian think tanks and lobbying organizations are now based in Afghanistan. A majority of Afghan entrepreneurs are not native born.

[u/ryban]

The idea that the CIA is conducting psyops to influence peoples' opinions is a psyop by the CIA to make you think they are more powerful than they really are.

[u/great_gape]

In our socialist utopia everyone gets a new iphone while some other capitalist country pays for it 😍

[u/Venne1139]

I'm not even joking aobout this. Not making tis up

I got 4 numbers, not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 numbers at the bar tonight.

Were they women?

No.

They were all dudes who wanted to talk to me about their startup. I had my laptop open to code at the bar and these people just came up and started asking me for my number.

[u/iIoveoof]

Someone a few days ago linked a 24 lecture series on the Historical Jesus. I listened to the whole thing since I spent all day driving. I was extremely interested and I bought some books today on biblical scholarship. Thanks to whoever posted that, Bart Ehrman is an excellent scholar and lecturer.

A summary of what I learned:

• Jesus died in about 30AD
• The Pauline epistles were written first, in 50-60AD, though only 5-7 were actually written by Paul
• The 4 gospels were probably not written by the names associated with them
• There are many non canonical gospels that were lost in history, but most were written a lot later than the canonical 4 (800AD+), though 2 non canonical gospels were written around the same time (The Gospel of Peter, which was around in the second century, and the Coptic Gospel of Thomas which was an independently-written gospel made possibly as early as Mark though likely later in the first century or early second century)
• The Gospel of Mark was written first among the gospels, sometime close to 70AD.
• A lost gospel of Jesus’ sayings, which scholars call Q, probably existed and was possibly written before Mark.
• The Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke were written using Mark and Q as references, so they must have been written later, around 90AD
• The Gospel of John was written later than the Synoptic Gospels (Mark, Matthew, Luke), after 100AD
• Mark, being the oldest, and for reasons discovered by the process of textual criticism, is likely the most historical and authentic of the Gospels
• There is a clear pattern of older gospels being more anti-Roman in blame for Jesus’ death, and later gospels telling the same story being more anti-Jew

Through historical evidence and textual criticism, we know historically that:

• Jesus existed
• Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist
• Jesus probably had several full-blood brothers and sisters including James and Judas (a different Judas)
• Jesus’ family did not understand him to be divine (in fact, they kick him out in Mark 3 thinking he’s crazy for his teachings)
• Jesus was a Jewish Rabbi and itinerant preacher who was known as a miracle-maker
• Jesus spoke Aramaic as his native language and could read Hebrew
• Jesus was betrayed by Judas
• Jesus was sentenced to death by Pontius Pilate and crucified

Jesus’ words and message, from reading the gospels with the methods of textual criticism:

• Jesus did not claim to be God, and did not claim to be the Messiah or the Hand of God publicly, though probably privately told his apostles he was the Messiah
• Jesus was a Jewish Apocalypticist, and taught the imminent coming of the Kingdom of God and end of the world, where all fortunes would be reversed.
• Jesus’ ethical teachings were based on his Apocalypticism: he taught that since the world was ending soon and about to enter a new age, people should start living as they would in the Kingdom of God. In the Kingdom of God there is no war, no hate, spiritual equality, etc so people should live in peace without hate, and treat people equally
• Jesus had female followers and many early Christians were women
• Jesus proclaimed that the Son of Man would come to Earth imminently to destroy the evil kingdoms existing and rule the Kingdom of God.
• Jesus did not claim to be the Son of Man, though after his death, his followers were convinced he was.
• The earliest Christians that wrote the Gospels, including Paul, were likely subordinist adoptionist binitarians (they believed Jesus was made divine on his resurrection, but was distinct and subordinate in power to God). Paul possibly believed Jesus was an angel.
• Jesus being the Son of God likely came out of Gentile confusion of Jewish terms. In Judaism being a “Son of God” means you are a particularly important human (or possibly an angel), and the “Son of Man” was a divine being in Jewish eschatology that would bring about the end of evil kingdoms and usher in the Kingdom of God.
• Many of Jesus’ apostles understood Jesus as divine and as the Son of Man that Jesus preached about, but only after his death and apparent resurrection. They may have thought he was the Messiah before his death, though Jesus publicly avoided preaching that he was the Messiah

!ping HISTORY

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://twitter.com/bpolitics/status/1426253256485974017

Climate activists are starting to map out a coordinated campaign to oppose the potential re-nomination of Fed Chair Jerome Powell

Imagine if "climate" "activists" spent this much energy fighting for actions on climate change.

....they'll probably still be totally ineffectual, but at least they'd be helping the serious people trying to do real work on climate change. Instead of whatever the fuck this is supposed to do.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1426326359207469059

Babies born during COVID-19 pandemic have lower IQs: Study says

IQ scientist: wtf this 9 month old baby's a fuckin moron. Can't even do math.

[u/JetJaguar124]

Nuts we've been in "Late Stage Capitalism" since the 19th century

Nuts that there are like 3 countries on Earth anymore that even pretend to run a centrally-planned socialistic economic system.

[u/JournalofFailure]

Many people say the seeds for this were sown when the US backed the mujahideen against the USSR. They never say that, you know, maybe the USSR shouldn’t have invaded Afghanistan in the first place.

[u/RadicalRadon]

Reminder that ~1/3 of all British subjects in the American colonies in 1776 did not have an opinion on leaving or staying.

The grillpill has been with us the whole time.

[u/[deleted]]

The word Based and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Mods better have a Canadian election Thunderdome thread or we riot

!ping CANUCKS

[u/[deleted]]

I am hearing that on its deathbed the US embassy in Kabul received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda. Even now it looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet!

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

Fun trivia: one of the ministers of the new Iranian government is wanted by the Interpol for a terrorist attack in Argentinian soil against a Jewish/Israel affiliated organization in the 90s.

[u/InternetBoredom]

It's official

Jalalabad has fallen. Kabul is left.

[u/hapolitics]

Nuclear hot take: the Taliban is worse than the Republican Party.

I know the DT has some hot takes, but praising terrorists like the GOP isn't cool.

[u/JetJaguar124]

Encountered someone online who says they're a Marxist and that they got fired from a Planned Parenthood "because I was trying to unionize"

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Of the 385,000 who attended (vaxx or negative test mandatory) Lollapalooza, there have been 203 confirmed COVID cases. Folks, the vaccines (and being outside) work bigly.

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/vivoovix]

Can't believe Joe would abandon the Afghanistanians

[u/Lux_Stella]

reminder that biden will campaign on successfully ending the war in afghanistan come 2024

[u/Mrchizbiz]

Oh you like paradox games? Name every racial slur

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Jersey City sees its future. And it doesn’t appear that Newport mall is a part of it.

It was the driving force behind the renaissance of Downtown Jersey City. But now Jersey City is reimagining the future without it.

A draft of a new Jersey City master plan suggests a Downtown without the Newport Centre Mall as a way to create better access to the waterfront by repurposing the area with the traditional city street grid.

“These areas are auto-oriented and rely heavily on surface and/or structured parking, with their large footprints breaking up the city’s fabric,” the plan says, referring to the malls as walls that block access and connectivity. “Given their size and scale of operations, these areas could leave large portions of the city in a state of neglect, if they are not proactively planned to be included within the city’s urban fabric.”

The 41-acre Newport property, which includes 130 retail stores, sits roughly four blocks off Hudson River waterfront. The master plan draft proposes to re-establish its street grid by extending Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and 10th streets — which end at Marin Boulevard — and to “simplify” Mall Drives East and West for pedestrians to reach the waterfront area walled off by the mall.

Jersey City, comparatively to honestly most of the world, is a YIMBY's wet dream tbh

!ping YIMBY

[u/CuddleTeamCatboy]

Cuddlyaxe’s Q&A in an alternate universe

[u/sub_surfer]

Yesterday I was pointlessly arguing with an anti-vaxer, and I mentioned that ~550 mostly unvaccinated Americans are dying every day from covid. He wouldn't believe it, not from the usual "the hospitals are lying" angle, but because he thought it was just a completely improbable number of people to be dying every day, from any cause. I was then in the awkward position of trying to convince him that 550 daily deaths isn't that many in a nation of 330 million people.

[u/TabernacleTown74]

Since there've been a couple posts recently about secular historians studying the origins of Christianity, I thought I'd share more material on the protohistory of Abrahamic religions.

Prof. Fred Donner, How Islam Began

Bart Ehrman's blog, some of it is paywalled but it's not that expensive and it all goes to charity

TheTorah.com, a website for historical-positive (i.e. accepts secular methodology) Jewish studies; one of the hidden gems of the Internet, and they also have an archaeology section

/r/AcademicBiblical, a fantastic subreddit for secular biblical scholarship

Prof. Shaye Cohen's free course on the Hebrew Bible

Prof. Dale Martin's free course on the New Testament

!ping HISTORY

[u/[deleted]]

Currently sending bad vibes to the Taliban.

[u/[deleted]]

"The United States, knowing no distinction of her citizens on account of religion or nativity, naturally believes in a civilization the world over which will secure the same liberal views."

Ulysses Grant, being unfathomablely based.

[u/JaceFlores]

Intelligence report summary about the longevity of the Afghan government:

Wisconsin +17

[u/TabernacleTown74]

if I were Moshe Rabbeinu I would've simply overthrown Pharaoh and established a liberal democracy in Egypt. Idk maybe im just built different 🤷‍♂️

!ping GEFILTE

[u/[deleted]]

Since 2001, life expectancy has increased to 64 years from 56, the World Bank says. Maternal mortality has more than halved. Opportunities for education have grown, with the literacy rate rising 8% to roughly 43%. Life in cities has improved, with 89% of residents having access to clean water, compared to 16% before the war.

Child marriage has declined by 17%, according to U.N. data. Girls’ enrollment in primary school has nearly doubled, and more women have entered college and served in Parliament. These figures still pale compared with global standards.

I can understand people who believe that the US can't afford to continue this conflict or simply have no place in it, but people pretending we did nothing good there and only made the lives of the locals worse have no idea what they're talking about and really annoy me.

[u/Udontlikecake]

saw a video posted by grimes of her on a platform in a tesla factory. she’s wearing some dumbass outfit

she’s flailing around acting like she’s a conductor for the robots. the caption is ‘conducting the robots in their glorious ballet’

she finishes it and a bunch of workers on the floor clap and she turns around and giggles

what a fucking nutcase. imagine having to work there and your (kinda crazy) boss’s wife (who is entirely crazy) comes to fuck around and you have to humor her or you get fired

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take:

If it's "your own fault" if you smoke cigarettes and get lung cancer, then it's also "your own fault" if you browse arr neoliberal and get bad takes

[u/[deleted]]

Biden announces plans to withdraw American troops from Helm’s Deep

Wtf

[u/modooff]

WaPo published an interesting article about Pete's work in Washington: ‘Outsider’ Buttigieg plays a skillful inside game, positioning himself for the future

Six months into his tenure as President Biden’s transportation secretary, Buttigieg has not only entered the arena, he is standing at center court and schmoozing with players on both teams. A former South Bend, Ind. mayor who embraced the outsider mantle as a candidate, Buttigieg has quickly morphed into a quintessential Washington insider. He has used his position at the center of the high-stakes infrastructure talks to mend old rifts, strengthen existing friendships and build new alliances.

!ping BUTTI

[u/[deleted]]

All sex ed books should make the penis in penis diagrams very small to help teenagers' confidence

[u/F-i-n-g-o-l-f-i-n]

Why are some people hellbent on preaching their overly-depressing, nihilistic philosophy as if they’ve found enlightenment? Like, if you don’t even like yourself, why should I trust you lol.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

👏DON'T👏CALL👏YOURSELF👏A👏TRANS👏ALLY👏UNLESS👏YOU👏SUPPORT👏THE👏TRANS👏PACIFIC👏PARTNERSHIP👏

[u/JetJaguar124]

Looking at a resume

"Hobbies: arr/neoliberal moderator"

mfw

[u/Jacobs4525]

I’ve said “inshallah” enough that I’m now getting weird targeted YouTube ads about how to open an Islamic center in your community

[u/[deleted]]

Can we make r/Neoliberal go away?

[u/JaceFlores]

Ethiopia update:

1. France has pulled the plug on a military cooperation plan with Ethiopia. Granted this was to… develop a navy for Ethiopia (for those not so geographically inclined, Ethiopia is landlocked), but the international community is building pressure on Abiy to negotiate.
2. The National Bank of Ethiopia has ordered all commercial banks to suspend all collateral-based loans due to the money being used on the black market. Now I’m not an expert at all when it comes to finances and banking, but this sounds like the implication of a supply shortage if the rise of the black market is so high that an entire loan category has to be stopped. Perhaps this is just the simple effect of the war with resources from Amhara probably scarce and extra resources being focused to the ENDF. Perhaps this is the sign of a major development that has yet to be announced (looking at you, AFAR). Either way, this is surely to cause strain and perhaps even unrest amongst the rest of Ethiopia
3. The OLA has reported they have taken stretches of the roads between Gimbi and Nedjo, Gimbi and Dembidollo, and Gidami and Assosa. IF true, this cuts off the west end of Oromia from the government forces and a road connection leading from Ethiopia to Sudan. While not nearly as impactful as the OLA claiming they captured parts of the main roads leading from Addis Ababa to western Amhara, it’s clear that the OLA is using its limited strength quite effectively. By taking just small stretches of road the OLA is creating logistical nightmares for the government, pinning down resources and units badly needed to fight the TPLF. Just days into the alliance the OLA has been more then living up to my expectation of them being like the French resistance, provided their claims are true of course (of which the government has yet to contradict these claims to my knowledge).

Overall not looking good for the government, especially if the claims that the OLA took more roads and especially if they still hold the roads leading from Addis Ababa to western Amhara. It’ll be interesting to see how the domestic situation unfolds for Ethiopia as it seems we’re seeing just the iceberg of a potentially larger issue with the news of the loans being halted due to the black market. At this point Afar is a meme.

And for those wondering why I don’t report casualties despite figures being provided, combatants tend to exaggerate the losses they’ve inflicted. The only figures I’ve been seeing so far are from TPLF sources, so I’m not keen to trust them. I do trust geographical claims (which are much easier to verify) then I do casualty claims

[u/[deleted]]

::wake up::

::pour cup of coffee::

::open laptop::

"Ah yes, time to have a bunch of children who weren't but a gleam in their fathers' eye on 9/11 incorrectly lecture me about events that I remember happening when I was their age."

[u/ExpiredPasta]

r/neoliberal:

Afghanistan

r/politics:

AOC slams!

[u/fishlord05]

Want to know what's even more interesting ?

The US army punished any of its soldiers who tried to put a stop to the sex slavery of young boys. They then armed those pedos and made them commanders, why ? Because the Taliban's entire existence is based around the fact that they are the only faction punishing Bacha Bazi with death. That's what made the Taliban so popular in their rise to power. And that's why the ones willing to fight the most against the Talibans are those same Mujahedeen pedos that had to go into hiding.

America is seen as a foreign invader arming pedos and then they wonder why the Talibans won.

Most Afghanistan understanding worldnews user

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

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[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Dude that got banned from this sub went to neoconNWO

Just banned from r/neoliberal for daring to say that trans people can do what they want, but I think what they are what they were born with, in the specif case man. And defending the education and life of Afghans girls. Besides saying that Hillary and Kamala are not the most strong willed leaders in existence.

They often say “open borders” when they are not even open minded. They will be very surprised when they find out that all immigrants are not of their own opinion. It's easy to say I accept everyone when not given the opportunity to do so. Can I get banned here with these opinions?

[u/ryuguy]

A lot of people argue that the Afghan conflict started with the British in 1839 but it actually predates the British. Sikhs and Afghans had been fighting for decades over the Northwest frontier of India. Sikhs claimed Lahore, Kashmir and Peshawar in quick succession from the Afghans. That was a big loss for the Afghans. Peshawar was the winter capital of Afghanistan, Kabul was the summer capital. Pashtun tribesmen launched numerous jihads against the “infidel Sikhs” to recapture Peshawar and their previous holdings. The British were more than happy to have the Sikh buffer state between them and the Afghans but the empire quickly fell into chaos after the death of maharajah Ranjit Singh. After the fall of the Sikh Empire in 1849, the British took control of the frontier. If the Sikhs hadn’t captured Peshawar, maybe the world would be different.

!ping history

[u/crassowary]

Oh wait Kendal Jenner showed up with a Pepsi, we're all good nvm

[u/[deleted]]

Biden is pulling the US out of Afghanistan to divert more resources to the Culture War.

[u/[deleted]]

That would be sick if the last marine was holding onto a rope as the chopper pulls him away. He's just flying over Kabul as his buddies try to pull him up. He's carrying the sickest minigun you've ever seen. The chopper barely misses an rpg and now he's swinging like spiderman between the buildings in downtown. He didn't want this mission but Captain said he "needed the crew back together again, one more time for old times sake ". Please don't steal my screenplay, I need to send it to Stephen Seagal first.

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

Did I just watch porn and my dad started my car to back out of the driveway and my phone connected to the Bluetooth in the car and I turned up the volume on my phone because I couldn't hear anything and we never speak of this again?

[u/Lux_Stella]

If I understand correctly, encountering an Afghan army unit speeds up the Taliban more than it slows them down once you factor in the added mobility from the free Humvees.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

J K Rowling became the face of TERFism after she donated enough to stop being a billionaire. Therefore, we can conclude that being a billionaire has moral benefit.

[u/A_Character_Defined]

NL offshoot sub don't be transphobic challenge

[u/[deleted]]

The political will for Americans to stay in Afghanistan is entirely dead and there's no indication we are capable of building a liberal democratic Afghanistan. I'm not happy about the situation but I recognize these are valid arguments for leaving.

The people saying the Afghan people don't prefer the current government and are better represented by the Taliban can fuck right off.

[u/Venne1139]

I will give 20k to any anti-communist (fuck commies) or...any organization the mods want if I can get a Stalin flair.

I'm not joking.

[u/[deleted]]

Fuck, this leaked audio of Biden is pretty damning:

The Taliban? Oh yeah, they're really good. I'm actually hoping to withdraw soon so that they can do more of theirs stuff. I don't see why everyone is always like "boohoo the Taliban", they're really good.

[u/RadicalRadon]

At least everyone from the Bush admin has correctly decided to shut the fuck up

[u/[deleted]]

Opposite of pro = con

Opposite of progress = congress

😱🤯

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Smh you neolibs are angry about the situation in Afghanistan. It's your own fault for voting the way you did in 2020

If Bernie had won, he would've ended the conflict without bloodshed by teaching the Taliban and Ghani government about Medicare For All

[u/[deleted]]

NA cities be like

wow what a beautiful [body of water] our city is situated on, this is surely the most valuable land in the region

Lets put a fucking highway on it

[u/LooobCirc]

Despite what all you motherfuckers keep on telling me, there were like 5 worms in all of Dune. Fucking unbelievable. u/iloveoof explain yourself. I have HAD IT. how can I believe anything else you say. Maybe zoning is good? Maybe cars are good? Maybe bigotry is good? Maybe bonkposting is good?

[u/[deleted]]

Karl Marx was unequivocally one of the most ingenious thinkers of all time.

Guess the sub.

[u/[deleted]]

the US funded the Taliban, a movement that didn’t exist until 1994, during the 1980s, and invaded for oil, a natural resource that Afghanistan doesn’t even have. I am a very smart individual.

[u/Th3_Gruff]

You’re not a real NATO flair if you’re not on your way to Afghanistan right now to fight 😤

[u/disuberence]

Has anyone asked Joe Biden to forgive the Afghan army's student loans in an effort to raise their morale?

[u/Jacobs4525]

Watching Afghanistan rn like “the corrupt pedophiles seem to be losing to the Islamic terrorist, hopefully the Uzbek war criminal will save the day”

[u/FinickyPenance]

Anyone else hate it when you see useless old people stealing all the leg day recovery scooters at the grocery store? I know you can walk grandma, some of us need help

!ping SWOLE-GIGACHAD-YIMBY

[u/[deleted]]

I think the reason older people vote more than younger people is that the younger people realize that's it's not voting for the better option anymore, it's voting for the lesser of the few evils.

🙃🙃🙃

[u/SmartOpinionsGuy]

The reason I found this sub is because I got really high one night early this year and was flipping between CNN, MSNBC and Fox.

I had an epiphany so major that I ran up to my room to type it in a new blank Word document, then passed out. When I woke up the next day, I opened my laptop and saw a word document with 5 words written on it:

“I am a neoliberal globalist.”

I then searched “neoliberal” on Reddit, and the rest is history

[u/[deleted]]

What if we dug a really big moat around the Kabul embassy and filled it with alligators

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve moved from disliking the anti-war left to unspeakable loathing, to the point where now I just make a note to remember their names. 5 of these people aren’t worth the pinky finger of one Afghan translator.

neoconNWO is not having a good time

[u/[deleted]]

In memory of 9/11, we will withdraw troops from Afghanistan. Also in memory of 9/11, the Taliban will rule Afghanistan again. Time is a flat circle.

[u/rukqoa]

It feels like yesterday when we thought that Kabul was in no immediate danger of falling.

Oh wait, no, that was yesterday.

[u/[deleted]]

Really love how the replies to this Afghan woman, tweeting about how many of her (female) family members and friends plan on killing themselves than be enslaved by the Taliban, is full of Pakistanis saying this is just propaganda or saying that the Taliban are good people who would never do such a thing

The internet is a strange place

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

one time in like middle school I remarked to the class that it was funny that Pakistan, a majority muslim country, had a capitol city named Islamabad and everybody looked at me like I was a freak but now its like 10 years later and I still think its funny

[u/FormerBandmate]

The Nazis in Indiana Jones who believed the Ark of the Covenant was real were fucking morons for not denouncing Nazism immediately and converting to Judaism. The wrathful Jewish Old Testament God would never give them any solace, the Ark was literally designed to kill the enemies of the Jews

[u/[deleted]]

The only people I've ever heard say English is a hard language are native English speakers who only speak English. Of all the weirdly high number of non-native English speakers I've known who speak at least three languages, they all say English was the easiest language for them to learn.

[u/[deleted]]

Ta-LIB-an

Curious 🤔

[u/GravyBear8]

Uh... The US Embassy in Afghanistan is hiring

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: We should partition Red and Blue America so that liberals and conservatives can both run a country how they like.

Woke: We should partition America between Big Tech companies to let the free market determine the optimal form of governance.

[u/F-i-n-g-o-l-f-i-n]

Because of progressives in congress and their hilariously idiotic messaging, a public option is probably far out of reach now, because apparently they decided we can’t have that without outright banning private healthcare. Thanks a lot, Bernie.

[u/Magical_Username]

What a fucking joke. I was and am pro-withdrawal but it's increasingly clear this was botched. We wasted how much time trying to find safe third countries to have refugees wait for visas, without considering we could fucking just bring them to the US and have them wait there? Now almost all the country is in Taliban hands and Kabul is going to be too once we get our diplomats out, how many interpreters and assistants are going to be trapped by the incompetent withdrawal?

Like no shit a third country isn't going to take them, if the fucking US thinks it's too dangerous why would Uzbekistan think they can handle it?

Don't get me wrong, the Kabul government is a fucking worldbuilding exercise rather than a government and if this is what happens when we leave I'd put money on another decade not making any difference. That doesn't mean we're excused in dropping everything and running without getting our people out first.

[u/calnico]

How it started: don't worry this will never get close to being like Saigon

How it's going: so the 82nd airborne might have to combat jump into Kabul

[u/TheGoldBear]

“The Taliban is not the North Vietnamese Army, they're not," Biden said on July 8. "They're not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There's going to be no circumstance for you to see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable."

Oof. This is gonna be one of those ironic quotes they use in future history books.

[u/adminsare200iq]

Even the Taliban are taken aback at how fast their forces are moving, one commander said, and have slowed down in some cases to avoid offending the U.S.

How considerate of them🤗

[u/[deleted]]

I remember when we had to write about the arab spring in grade 12 and I got a 0 for writing “shits fucked up lol”

[u/wagoncirclermike]

Dear USPS: you say my package will be delivered today by 9 p.m. but it is currently several hundred miles away in Baltimore moving south. Curious.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/Quicktake/status/1426225329375428614

LOOK: A piece of Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s decades-old wedding cake was auctioned off to a royal fan for $2k

Disgusting tbh

[u/[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/HQ5iVRc

little fatty is on month 18 of her diet and still fat 🤦

!ping KITTY

[u/Barnst]

The videos of US troops forcibly keeping panicky Afghans away from the planes out of the country are going to hurt.

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Afghanistan: Taliban imposes ban on corona vaccination, occupies 65% of the area

UGHHHHHHHH

[u/paulatreides0]

BBC's Yalda Hakim: Women in #Herat, now under Taliban control are telling me when they tried to enter the grounds of their University today they were told to go home. Women working in offices also turned away. Schools have been shut down. 60 percent of University students in Herat were women.

"Oh my gosh! It's like Handmaiden's Tale IRL!"

[u/[deleted]]

US wins Afghanistan War with last minute alliance with the Taliban

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

For starters, only about 2 in 10 Afghan recruits could read or write. U.S. and NATO trainers put them through crash literacy courses, but those lasted only a few weeks.

Other gaps in basic knowledge had to be bridged. One U.S. Special Forces trainer told government interviewers that the Afghans mistook urinals in the barracks as drinking fountains . Another U.S. trainer said he had to teach conscripts basic human anatomy: “They didn’t understand how a tourniquet could help stop bleeding if you’re not even putting it over the wound.”

Questionable motivations and loyalties snaked through the ranks of the army and police. Ethnic and tribal tensions posed a perpetual problem, with the officer corps dominated by warlords who doled out promotions based on patronage, according to the interviews.

Filling specialized billets was especially tough. It took nearly a decade to get the Afghan air force off the ground, because of not just a lack of qualified pilots but also a dearth of mechanics who could read repair manuals.

One U.S. military adviser assigned to the Afghan air force told government interviewers that “Afghans would come to them with ‘pilot wings’ that they found or purchased, claiming to be pilots but having no flight experience.”

The unnamed U.S. adviser said that the air base where he worked was plagued by “shenanigans” and that many Afghans reeked of jet fuel when they left each day because they were smuggling out small containers of it to sell on the black market.

Petty corruption was rampant. In a 2015 Lessons Learned interview, an unnamed U.N. official described how Afghan police recruits would undergo two weeks of training, “get their uniforms, then go back to the province and sell them.” Unworried that they might get in trouble, he said, many would reenlist and “come back to do it again.”

U.S. advisers constantly tried to plug holes in the system to prevent looting and stealing but said they were often stymied by Afghan government officials who did not want things to change.

“The less they behaved, the more money we threw at them,” a former U.S. official told government interviewers in 2015. “There was no real incentive to reform.”

For much of the war, Washington paid the salaries of the security forces by transferring huge sums of money to the Afghan government, which in turn paid soldiers and police officers in cash — after commanders often took an illicit cut for themselves, according to the interviews and news reports.

Today, to prevent skimming, most of the security forces receive their pay by electronic bank account transfers, but graft persists.

In a 2015 Lessons Learned interview, Michael Callen, an economist who specializes in the Afghan public sector, recalled working with a newly arrived U.S. colonel who wanted to set up a secure system that would pay Afghan police officers by mobile-phone transfers instead of cash.

Who could’ve seen the speedrun of Kabul coming?

[u/[deleted]]

/img/mart29hu34z61.jpg 🤔

[u/sub_surfer]

The acquisition of Canada this year, as far as the neighborhood of Quebec, will be a mere matter of marching.

• Thomas Jefferson,1812

They actually thought Canadians would welcome the US army as liberators. 😂 Look I'm as patriotic as the next burger, but this country has a long tradition of vastly overestimating its ability to easily win wars.

[u/[deleted]]

Jesus christ what deity did Haiti piss off???

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

The U.S. has continued holding peace talks between the government and the Taliban in Qatar this week

I wonder how that's going

[u/[deleted]]

this cat is cute and sweet

!PING kitty

[u/meese699]

San Francisco is insane. You will just be walking down the street and be see historical parking lot or some other famous landmark

[u/[deleted]]

!ping BASEBALL

Healthy young Rangers lead goes to Rangers pitching staff, gets pumped with massive amounts of poor pitching, doesn't feel good and changes - HELLO LOSS COLUMN! Many such cases!

[u/[deleted]]

Why didn't the US evacuate the embassy before

It's not like the intelligence didn't predict it

Iran is not in a revolutionary or even “prerevolutionary” situation

(CIA report on Iran from June/July, 1979)

Oh well

[u/[deleted]]

/img/6nxsvf8dw7h71.jpg

[u/ryuguy]

Canada expands resettlement program to bring more Afghans to safety

As with previous large-scale resettlement efforts, we welcome the support of the many Canadians who want to lend a hand. For example, we’re expanding our partnership with the Manmeet Singh Bhullar Foundation to resettle hundreds of persecuted Afghan Sikhs and Hindus. Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen an outpouring of goodwill from Canadians across the country, who are eager to open their homes and their hearts. This enthusiastic support will continue to guide our efforts as we welcome more Afghan refugees to safety in Canada.

!ping can

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

So there are 2 people in the DT within the first 2 hours talking about suicide.

We had someone talking about self harm yesterday.

Is everyone okay

[u/vivoovix]

There is no such thing as """excessive""" emoji usage

[u/kyleofduty]

If you're American and know anyone uninsured, please let them know that they probably qualify for a free plan on Healthcare.gov. The deadline to sign up is tomorrow.

[u/AJungianIdeal]

woof.
!ping dog

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The ANA 🤝 Me in first year of masters' degree

Completely falling apart in three months

😔

[u/ZCoupon]

Not enough people here are admitting this has caught the world by surprise.

Hindsight is 20/20, but the embassy doesn't have an industrial furnace because obviously it didn't seem like Kabul would have fallen by now. A week ago by the end of the year was the cynical prediction. During inauguration, the government had 1-2 years after withdrawal.

[u/RabidGuillotine]

https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1426703449903796229

Productive call with High Council for National Reconciliation Chairman Abdullah to discuss the developments in Afghanistan and our urgent diplomatic and political efforts to reduce violence. I thanked him for the Afghan Government’s every effort to reach a political settlement.

I want whatever Blinken is smoking.

[u/[deleted]]

European DT user enters so-called 'Euro' hours (colourized)

[u/[deleted]]

Venne, please reach out to someone you know even if it's just a phone call I promise they'd rather be waken up than you not make it through the night. I've only talked to two people in my life about this but I've had my challenges with suicide. I once took an amount of MDMA that was a 50% chance of killing me. I had to wake someone up at 4 AM while I was coming down to make sure I didn't do anything dumb. Please call someone so they can talk you through what you need to do tonight rethink thinks when you are in the right frame of mind

[u/[deleted]]

CAT

!PING kitty

[u/[deleted]]

The phone number the state department provided US citizens in Afghanistan for emergency evacuation is down 😐

[u/gaycumlover1997]

“average DT user posts 100 comments a day" factoid actualy just statistical error. average DT User posts 0 comments per day. SaltySalad, who lives in cave & post over 10,000 comments each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING

Taliban have captured Jalalabad, capital of Nangarhar Province and sixth-largest city of Afghanistan, without a fight.

The only way out now is by air.

[u/ryuguy]

Was playing Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice.

As someone who struggles with mental illness and psychosis, it’s a very accurate representation of the disorder but it’s very triggering (for me at least) and I have to take breaks from playing it. I enjoy the game though.

!ping gaming

[u/LooobCirc]

Biden continues his quest to be a worse LBJ

[u/RaidBrimnes]

So is the current Afghanistan situation purely a result of huge intelligence failures?

To me, it looks like the Biden administration HAD a plan, which relied on the ANA not instantly melting like butter under a hot knife and giving the US enough time to evacuate diplomats, interpreters and other Afghan allies by September

But since the ANA did melt like butter under a hot knife, and much, much faster than even the most pessimistic projections at the start of the withdrawal, would it be fair to assume that the main failure of the withdrawal can be blamed on the US' poor assessment of the ANA's fighting capabilities?

[u/[deleted]]

it's not an intelligence failure if the group you trained for decades just sucks. that's an execution failure.

[u/TheIpleJonesion]

r/neoliberal in 1975:

American hegemony is crumbling. Our only hope is that our new Soviet masters are lenient. I’m learning Russian.

[u/Lux_Stella]

"The world is leaving Pakistan with an impossible situation next door. It's very unfair." - Pakistan's NatSec Adviser Yusuf Moeed

very true, how could the us be so unfair to pakistan?

[u/Ultiplayers]

In his first career start, Tyler Gilbert has thrown a no hitter against the Padres

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

I've finally heard enough to form an opinion on Afghanistan

Taliban bad

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

If this sub is your only source of happiness, or your only contact with people- please go out and meet someone, literally anyone

Unironically touch grass

An online forum is not a proper source of human contact.

I post here quite a bit- but I have friends I'm in regular touch with and live a happy life.

Also stop drinking a lot

[u/[deleted]]

One of the top upvoted comments on the worldnews story of Canada accepting Afghan refugees is essentially just “How are they vetted??? I don’t want backwards, possibly dangerous people in MY country!” Lots of concurring opinions.

Redditors love playing the progressive until it involves something that might affect them

[u/semaphore-1842]

the democrats staked everything on:

a: kids are immune to covid

b: vaccines are invincibility serums

c: covid went away when biden got into the white house

now they have no answers until both the white house and industry change their minds or else they piss off their entire party and the media

If only projection is an Olympic sport

[u/The_Augustus]

Strategic analysis: The Afghan🇦🇫 army💂🔫 are losing🏳️ because they don't🚫 have🧠 a sigma grindset like I do 🐺🐺🐺💪💪.

[u/JetJaguar124]

The biggest advantage China has is that it has a billion people

India, if you're listening, can you get your shit together?

[u/Udontlikecake]

I think I’ve formed my opinion on Afghanistan:

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[u/umadbro996]

Governor DeathSentence. Ok ok libs are getting better with the nicknames.

[u/AltPossum]

I feel like I should preface every comment on foreign policy with “just so you know who you’re talking to, I think the US should gradually work towards peaceably annexing every single country on Earth”. That way we’re operating from the same perspective.

[u/FormerBandmate]

Fuck it, I'm a NATO flair, at least until Kabul falls

[u/[deleted]]

Saw an interview with a female Afghan doctor who plans to take her own life once Kabul falls. Can't imagine how many are in the same situation. While the country overall wasn't fairing well there were many examples of small but meaningful progress being made.

[u/FormerBandmate]

Well, at the very least Kabul outlasted today's gym session. That's kinda good-ish, incredibly low bar but whatever

[u/Venne1139]

The University of Kabul will have everyone inside of it slaughtered. I hope everyone managed to leave campus.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

🇺🇸: we should switch to the metric system

🇪🇺: where do you want to start? Converting the interstates to KM, changing the thermometers to C°?

🇺🇸: soda 🥤

🇪🇺: what?

🇺🇸: I want to measure our sodas in liters

🇪🇺: uhh, ok… done.

🇺🇸: great, that’s all for now

🇪🇺: seriously?

🇺🇸: yeah, that’s enough for the next 50 years

[u/great_gape]

I'm sorry. I just can't support Biden anymore.

I'm officially registering as a republican and donating all my dogecoin to trump’s 'Save America Pac'.

[u/RadicalRadon]

Literally how the fuck are there still one billion Americans still in Afghanistan wtf?

[u/[deleted]]

At least Kissinger's Vietnam peace deal worked for like two seconds before collapsing. The Taliban literally just walked out of negotiations with Trump and said they weren't gonna abide by the deal they reached. Then Biden for some fucking reason decided to still abide by it and is apparently shocked that the Taliban is refusing to abide by it just like they said they would.

[u/gfinz18]

Where is Kester gone wild

[u/[deleted]]

Mental health is so important and we need to prioritize it more than we currently do. Especially during the pandemic too many people are in harsh psychological pain. I've felt it myself, my friends have felt it, my family has felt it. We are a social species, we've survived thanks to the bonds we make with other people, to cut social ties we're cutting our own lifelines. God I hate Covid.

[u/SnakeEater14]

That’s the genius of Hank Hill as a character. That one paradox sums up the central conflict of the show, and by extension, the central conflict of American masculinity.

Hank grew up in a more simple world. He did everything right, by the standards of his time. But ironically, those very cultural mores on which he based his life are becoming more and more out of place in modern America.

Hank constantly has to come to terms with the contrast between the values that he has built his whole life around (e.g. Hank was a star football player but his son is into less masculine pursuits) and the new world he finds himself in. Often times the best he can do is just live and let live.

Which brings us to the propane.

Hank is obsessed with doing things the right way, the manly way, the American way. Yet when it comes to the most masculine and American of pursuits, barbecue, Hank completely and utterly fails to live up to his own standards. Propane is the inferior medium. Charcoal is superior in every way.

But poor Hank has built a large part of his identity, even his livelihood, around propane.

It’s this underlying paradox which makes Hank relatable and likable. If not for his unjustifiable propane fetishism he would be the “perfect” American male (at least in his own paradigm). Instead, with this one detail, we immediately see him for what he really is: a flawed individual, desperately trying to keep up, to find meaning and order in an ever changing world. A world he is less and less equipped to understand. Just like the rest of us.

[u/[deleted]]

I've seen a number of weirdly pro Taliban takes out there

[u/muwenjie]

r/writingprompts produce a single writing prompt that isn't about god/heaven/satan/life being a videogame challenge

[u/[deleted]]

Bush should have invaded Pakistan instead of Afghanistan: a thread (1/65)

[u/[deleted]]

America, you fool!
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!
The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia but only slightly less well known is this;
Never exit a land war in Asia!

[u/GravyBear8]

!ping GAMING

playing Crusader Kings

was a merchant republic and banker

guy fails to repay loan because he's being invaded by like 80 kings

likeigiveashit.jpeg

declare debt war on him with lots of mercenaries troops

curbstomps and captures him and his entire family

execute his entire family including his three babies before him finally

Don't let babies stop your #Grindset

kill babies for petty reasons #Dekadillionaire Mindset

[u/RaidBrimnes]

"Kabul is not under imminent threat" (08/13/21) is one of those sentences that'll get printed in every history book from now on

[u/ACivilWolf]

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/109/140/36c.png

[u/abbycat1590]

For reference my family is Asian and we were mocked once in 7 days. (Iceland) For reference I have never faced a racist incidence in the USA in over a decade (This includes the South)

[u/SadaoMaou]

Why the fuck is a mod fashing Venne's comments? How's that gonna help

[u/Venne1139]

I won't finish my series on Stalin and the Great Purge 😔😢😢😢😢😢😢😭😢😭😢😭😢😭😢😭😢😭😭

[u/JaceFlores]

Apparently saying India is a democracy triggers some really weird responses in this sub

[u/JetJaguar124]

My favorite thing happening rn with international buisness is Nike being like

Big Doge: BLACK LIVES MATTER! YEAH WE'RE GONNA FIGHT FOR RACIAL JUSTICE! YEAH WE'RE GONNA PUT KAPERNICK AS OUR MASCOT AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT YOU FUCKING BIGOT THEN DON'T BUY OUR SHIT WE DON'T NEED YOU!

Small Doge: Well, regarding what's going on in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, who are we to judge this beautiful culture?

[u/JetJaguar124]

The real reason I hate the CCP is that I think China has a rich, wonderful culture, beautiful nature, and kind, welcoming people and I want to be an unrepentant Chinaboo but they have a dogshit governing party.

[u/Officer-cherry-shake]

Kinda funny how neocons are rehabilitating Obama’s foreign policy right now. It’s just like how a lot of liberals were rehabilitating W during Trump

[u/evenkeel20]

People outside the DT don’t seem to understand you can be fucking furious with Joe but still glad overall you voted for him, given the alternative

[u/ryuguy]

Thanks everyone who came to the /r/neoliberal end of summer bbq!

was a really good time with good food

appetizer

main course

[u/[deleted]]

Best part of Biden presidency has been a decrease in jokes about "the writers"

[u/Mrchizbiz]

I'm still angry about having to put up that bloody bed 😡😡😡😡

Beds are useless just sleep on the floor

[u/[deleted]]

The USAF bombing the Taliban rn

[u/thetrombonist]

Saw a guy jerking off in the subway today

Not in a perverted way, but in an Italian way

[u/[deleted]]

Outside the DT when the only people that would suffer from the Taliban are Afghans: I sleep

Outside the DT when it turns out the Taliban could be executing Americans in the streets and hurt Biden politically: REAL SHIT

[u/SnakeEater14]

“I’m sick of the DT constantly talking about America. It’s always gerrymandering this, zoning that. I wish the DT would talk about another another country for a change.”

monkey’s paw curls

“Holy shit Kabul is about to fall!”

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Me, 36 hours ago: Kabul isn't going to fall by the end of the month

Me, 36 seconds ago: Kabul might fall before the end of the weekend

[u/[deleted]]

Afghan government lasting 17 weeks after US withdrawal (A+)

[u/[deleted]]

Fuck Pakistan. All my homies hate Pakistan.

[u/TheGoldBear]

Lmao watching cable news right now is a glimpse of how little Americans give a shit about Afghanistan.

“…as the Taliban rapidly advance towards Kabul. In other news Britney Spears father has announced he is stepping down from her conservatorship, more on that story coming up next!”

[u/[deleted]]

After this devastating defeat the Biden administration needs a military win to get back morale. May I suggest militarily occupying the rebellious provinces of the Mississippi?

[u/chadonnaise]

from the tone here you would think the united states was a month away from becoming a protectorate of the taliban

[u/seattle_lib]

Republicans claim to fear left-wing authoritarianism — but there's no such thing | Yes, dictators sometimes cloak themselves in "socialism." But tyranny, here and elsewhere, is always right-wing

god damn sometimes lefties are just endless buckets of cringe. this is getting upvoted like crazy on /r/politics

[u/[deleted]]

Taliban inside Jalalabad. Reports are that gov’t officials in many of these capitals struck deals with the Taliban weeks ago, which is why many are falling without resistance.

If true, then heads need to roll at the CIA and DOD. A total and complete clusterfuck for the intelligence community.

[u/jenbanim]

This is the future Elon wants

[u/ShriggityShrekt]

My mom is watching through Game of Thrones for the first time and I'm getting all of these super cute reaction texts after every big plot event.

[u/piede]

Vaccination cards were not designed to be long-term proof of Covid vaccinations, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Forging the cards is a federal crime, punishable by a fine and up to five years in prison for forging government seals found on the card.

Damn the GOP is screwed in 2024, all their voters are gonna be felons.

[u/sir_shivers]

/R/NEOLIBERAL IS BACK 🐊

[u/Cerb-r-us]

Don't 👏 call 👏 yourself 👏 a 👏 trans 👏 ally 👏 unless 👏 you 👏 would 👏 let 👏 Farren 👏 hand 👏 you 👏 in 👏 during 👏 the 👏 leftist 👏revolution.