Republicans are buying up radio stations and Democrats are saying “LatinX” and we wonder why Texas isn’t going blue.
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Radio is utterly dominated by conservatives and corporations. Even NPR is brought to you by the Koch Brothers.
Lefties tried to take on Republican talk radio with Air America, it didn’t do well.
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It’s not a novel tactic.
that clearly had no natural interest in fighting to kill each other for 20 years.
There was war in Afghanistan before we showed up and it’s very likely to go on without us. If there’s something hopeful to be said about the future there, I don’t know what it is.
The left (not Liberals) have Pacifica Radio. How many people here listen to it?
Never heard of it. No local affiliate. Don’t want to made fun of for listening to radio.
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They put on stuff like Democracy Now (news daily), which maybe you’ve heard of? You can watch it on YT.
Ok, yes.
The left appears to have greater control of podcasts compared to the right.
Radio is the domain of the right
Podcasts require some effort to listen to which eliminates many boomers. Radio is largely passive, just turn one knob and inject that Daily Rage.
Some historical background:
Clliffs: Everything was better when Afghanistan was a monarchy. Makes you think…
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Thank you, that was fascinating. Man I love history.
Have some more! 
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It certainly helps if you don’t help them get out before the Taliban moves in. From State Dept numbers, ~150,000 translators and special immigrant visa holders/applicants and their families remain, along with a small number, ~100, of Americans who are probably dual citizens.
Trying to be hopeful, the Taliban can’t imprison all of them. The Afgan prison population is about 30,000, already twice official capacity. If they are as reasonable as some people expect and they can restrain their more enthusiastic members, maybe killings are limited to just a few cases where randoms like musicians are dragged out of their houses to be found shot to death later. Maybe punishment for most people is limited to losing jobs and property. I guess they’d also be ostracized by friends and family out of fear of getting the same treatment. If this holds, maybe most of the 150k eventually get out.
That group of people won’t be alone in trying to leave, though. Last estimate I heard is half a million refugees by the end of the year. But that could be a low number, especially if the economy collapses. Just a guess, but millions may be leaving in years to come.
They will mostly go to Iran. There are 780k Afghan official refugees in Iran and maybe 2 million unofficial.
Seems to me if you want Future Afghanistan to resemble America as much as possible we should’ve been maximizing the size of the Afghan-American population from day one.
I didn’t know that. For the US associated refugees, Iran maybe wouldn’t be so appealing. The 'stans seem to be most often mentioned. Any country would probably want help if the numbers are large. Iran is unlikely to get it, at least from the US.
Afghans just go to Iran without asking. They go for jobs. Iran is comparatively wealthy.
I’ve read this is why they can keep their F-14s flying. (Not being sarcastic.)