The taliban have banned women from hearing each other’s …

[fernweh]

Voices.

This is gut wrenching, these poor women. I literally have no words.

What can we do? Seriously, I’m asking, I want to stand up and fight for them but I don’t know how.

globalnews.ca/news/10841150/taliban-women-morality-laws-praying-voices/amp/

[sonrisa]

I’m so glad Bush took us into war there. Clearly the Afghan people have benefitted from our intervention.

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Oct 31, 2024 17:11:04 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

I’m so glad Bush took us into war there. Clearly the Afghan people have benefitted from our intervention.

They did benefit, for almost two decades. They voted, they owned businesses, they went to school. Hearing that they are back in the hellhole of repression feels like tearing my heart out. But they DID benefit from our intervention.

[underwaterrhymes]

It’s absolutely heartbreaking. I cannot fathom this level of hatred.

[pixy0stix]

Oct 31, 2024 17:15:28 GMT -5 @villainv said:

Oct 31, 2024 17:11:04 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

I’m so glad Bush took us into war there. Clearly the Afghan people have benefitted from our intervention.

They did benefit, for almost two decades. They voted, they owned businesses, they went to school. Hearing that they are back in the hellhole of repression feels like tearing my heart out. But they DID benefit from our intervention.

No. They were colonized for two decades. We did nothing to build a lasting structure for their needs, as evidenced by how strong a hold the Taliban was able to take the very day that we left. We did nothing. Absolutely nothing.

[livinitup]

It could happen here.

[Beeps (WOT?*)]

Oct 31, 2024 18:31:10 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Oct 31, 2024 17:15:28 GMT -5 @villainv said:

They did benefit, for almost two decades. They voted, they owned businesses, they went to school. Hearing that they are back in the hellhole of repression feels like tearing my heart out. But they DID benefit from our intervention.

No. They were colonized for two decades. We did nothing to build a lasting structure for their needs, as evidenced by how strong a hold the Taliban was able to take the very day that we left. We did nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Exactly why I get outraged with the Border issues as well. The reason we get such an influx is because of the destabilization WE did in Central and South America since the 1950s with US Fruit Corp (Dole, iirc) in Colombia and the 1980s with Iran Contra in El Salvador, Honduras, El Salvador, installing Pinochet, etc. without creating an infrastructure or stabilization. They come here because we destroyed so much of down there. It's what we do.