Perhaps, but Fatboy8 is right. It has to be because an American died. It won’t matter if 100000 Afghans die.
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Do January 6 insurrectionists feel any shame that the Taliban is significantly better at overrunning government buildings?
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He was probably referring to the graft.
https://twitter.com/Matt4VA/status/1427072048451489794?s=19
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Honestly I could see that as a factor as well why the army and police really didnt put up a fight. Under Taliban rule the role of men will be most likely be strengthen. It is not just about democracy. If these people dont believe in a moderate Islam they probably dont see much sense in fighting to keep the freedoms of woman and girls intact.
The GOP has #WheresBiden trending. Fuck them but was it really a good time to go to Camp David? As far as I can tell he’s not scheduled to leave until at least Friday.
CNN:
President Biden is expected to address the nation in the next few days about the crisis in Afghanistan, according to a senior administration official.
Ok then.
Kind of weird to see Reddit, a traditionally very blue site, be super anti Biden on this. I mean they’re anti Biden often in the way progressives are, but this seems to be in the way the right is, blaming Biden for the withdrawal failure etc. Lot of highly upvoted right wing takes on this issue there. Saying this is his failure, we should have stayed there etc.
Makes me wonder maybe the right will be able to successfully astroturf this after all.
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wat
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Basically nobody in this country realizes we’re the baddies. We’re also a staggeringly racist country, especially towards Muslims.
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But America is The Greatest Country In The World. It is known.
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I don’t think Vietnam was even an issue in ‘76, a year after Saigon fell.
But the media landscape was obviously radically different back then so who knows? Even MSNBC is covering it like Biden is actually leading the Taliban into Kabul today.
go to r/politics and read the top 20 headlines
r/The_Donald was one of the most active groups on Reddit.
The Taliban/American right analogy is pretty much perfect down to even which parts of the country they live in. Also the Dems rolling over in 2 seconds flat on anything that matters seem to be a pretty good fit for the puppet Afghani government.
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Yeah, there are pockets of deplorable echo chamber there, but the main politics subreddit is pretty pro-Bernie.
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