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.

      • 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?

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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.

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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.

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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?