Taliban Members Fed Up With Office Work, Ready to Quiet Quit
time.com
A new report says some jihadists who transitioned to desk jobs after the Taliban’s takeover are tired of the 9-to-5.

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.worldEnglish
      292·
      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.

        • ZaroniPepperoni@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          1 year ago

          I sure hope your right, but we did not just give them stuff and tell them to figure it out, we trained them for 20 years, with the most experienced soldiers in the world. It’s obviously a motivation and culture issue, so maybe after they realize how shit things have gone they may make a change, but I am not holding my breath.

          • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
            51·
            1 year ago

            The US invasion of Afghanistan basically paused Afghani political progress for 20 years, because they were too busy fighting a foreign invader. Doesn’t help that the US-backed government was famously corrupt. Change in the Afghani political sphere was always going to start after, not before, the US pulled out of Afghanistan.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        35·
        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?

      • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        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.

        • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafeEnglish
          11·
          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.

          • stolid_agnostic@lemmy.mlEnglish
            11·
            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.

            • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafeEnglish
              11·
              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?