The f'n MAGAts and the Taliban share a lot in common.
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2025
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There's a reason they call 'em "Ya'll-Qaeda" lol
Capitalists are more efficient than both.
They don't see almost anyone as human.
Haha I'm going to assume the comment wasn't giving the Taliban or Ya'll-qaeda a pass with a whataboutism.
They don't see almost anyone as human.
But it's okay you can drop the "almost". To them, humans are just another speculative resource that responds to market manipulation! XD
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capitalism is what broke up gender norms; if a woman or a man presses a button for 8 hours what does a capitalist care?
She isn't wrong. Imagine not seeing half of the population as human, even though they carried you and everyone who has ever been born in the womb for 9 months and gave birth to you.
I live in the United States. I don't have to imagine, I can see it up close.
JFC can you guys stop acting like your country is the worst place to ever exist? The situation for American women is nowhere as bad as it is for Afgan women. (yet)
they're just getting into the government, be patient
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Imagine comparing the situation in the united States, where women have favorable hiring and scholarship status, to the Taliban state where women are literally property and not allowed to get a job or education under threat of death. Like actual death, not someone online telling you something rude.
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Hey according to some that's okay, because at least they know what a woman is:
That's okay I'm sure her fellow "women's rights" defenders wouldn't do something awful like make fun of Malala's experiences:
Ofcourse JK Rowling likes that first tweet. What a vile piece of excrement
J.K. Rowling invented “fragile femininity.”
She loses her shit any time anyone tries to broaden or complexity the narrow little definition she is stuck on. She just can’t handle it. A woman has to mean exactly what she says it does, or her femininity is under attack. Such an asshole.
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Jfc people are gross
ahhh the wonders of religion. humanity's self-induced blight
I can assure you that misogyny is not a result of religion, religion is just used to excuse it.
And because it's excused it's allowed to exist.
It’s the sickness and its own cure! Just like other drug addictions.
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When incels have complete control, basically.
It's probably good they have basic religious differences or Republicans and the Taliban would have joined forces by now.
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Religious bigots in power, what to expect?
If the US had not invaded Afghanistan and done such a shitjob the Taliban would have been overthrown by now. The Taliban was highly unpopular in 2001, but thanks to the US fucking everything up, they regained more land than they had otherwise by 2017 or so.
Nothing's certain with alternate scenarios. Perhaps Taliban would have eventually fallen, perhaps not. In the meanwhile, countless people will suffer under those goat fuckers.
The Taliban was highly unpopular in 2001,
Fuck's sake, the Northern Alliance was hard-pressed in 2001.
Wow, neither do US republicans. So much in common.
They're also both religious fundamentalists who have very little care for religious scripture but love using religious imagery as a tool of oppression, huh they really are alike.
The word “chattel” sometimes gets used in conversations like this one, and I think we should stop doing that. It’s a confusing word that most people don’t understand, and is often confused with “cattle” ie cows. I mean just look at this definition:
Chattel is a catch-all category of property associated with movable goods . At common law , chattel included all property other than real property . Examples include leases, animals, and money.
TBH I think “livestock” is a better word all around. It means live animal property, which is accurate. People know what it means. And it has the right negative connotations, too: associating human beings with pigs and chickens, as if they’re on the same level.
"The Taliban declined to attend or comment."
Well yeah, they don't think a person was talking.
Really how is this news? The Taliban don't think woman are people, and water is wet.
We armed the wrong sex in Afghanistan.....
Sometimes the smartest person in the room is a woman. By refusing to educated women, they are limiting the intellectual growth and capabilities of their own culture. Cultures with fair, balanced rules, and systems of living, for everyone regardless of race, gender, or any other thing people imagine matters, will have a stronger society in almost all aspects from that alone. Because most of the things people imagine matter. Don't. In fact, what matters, is the actual intellectual capabilities of the individual, not how you or anyone else perceives them.
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She isn't wrong to say this.
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