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Taliban bans women from ‘hearing other women’s voices’ (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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In a rambling voice message on Monday, the country’s minister for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice announced the bizarre new restriction on women’s behaviour.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

A lot of people want to point at religion but these are conservative sentiments. The Taliban was only popular due to it's anti-imperialism fighting foreign invaders like the Soviets and US. Now that the people of Afghanistan can turn to internal politics, the can fight to end or reform the Taliban's oppressive rule. The Taliban is sowing the seeds of their own demise via popular revolution

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The problem is, they've actually successfully reduced corruption from the unjust kleptocracy the US installed. Shits pretty bad when the fucking taliban can come along and create a less corrupt government.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

By what metrics?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

https://tradingeconomics.com/afghanistan/corruption-index

Along with the general removal of US money spigots and the CIA/DOD putting it's thumb on the scale for corrupt politicians that will collaborate with them. It's frankly the entire reason the regime folded so fast when the Taliban invaded. Entire divisions of troops were just some guy taking their paychecks and putting it into his pocket after forcing them to sign up. And when everyone is power is just blatantly stealing while being propped up by US agencies for being cooperative, well, it trickles down.