They're aiming for being carbon neutral with speaking.
Is the government over there closeted homosexuals or what?
They seem to fit the bill pretty well based off the R politicians getting doxxed on Grindr.
How long until they run of of ideas and just ban all women entirely
I see this as just another step towards the extremes of ridiculousness that is fundamentalist Islamic religion. Imagine being so disconnected from existence, and being so hypnotised by words, that you would subjugate those in your culture who, through their natural virtue, embody the positive characteristics of the very god they describe and worship such as love, compassion, acceptance, understanding, yeilding, giving etc.
If only this sort of dangerous nonsense were the purview of just fundie Muslims. Fundie Christians would and will do the same things should they gain absolute power.
Right. Margaret Atwood based the Handmaid's Tale as a combination of things that have happened somewhere, and she arguably didn't go far enough.
Controversial statement: We shouldn’t have left.
Actually, US occupation of Afghanistan was a huge waste of money. We should have settled for, leave us alone and we will leave your wretched bronze age asses alone. Fuck with us and we will kill you all.
Uh huh...
U.S. conservatives furiously taking notes...
It feels like the Taliban is just passing more and more ridiculous subjugation laws to try and get the west to attack them again so that they can go back to riding camels and shooting AKs with their 'brothers' instead of enduring the hell of office work and family life that is modern society.
They are totally free to do that now without the US attacking them. Hopefully the US has learned the lesson that Afghanistan is not worth invading nor "saving".
Predicting in 20 years, all afghani women have super deep voices because they only ever hear men speak
Project 2025 energy.
I actually had "an entire country fails the Bechdel test" on my 2024 bingo card.
I mean.....yeah. They ARE waging an all out war on women. It's the literal taliban. What did you expect?
Oh, hold on, I'm getting a telegram from 1939. It appears as if a Jewish woman in Germany is having a disagreement of opinions with one "Adolph Hitler". Seems this Hitler fellow isn't a fan of the Jews...
I don't know about you but I think that Hitler fellow sounds like a bad egg.
He’s a little sus.
The UK newspaper the Daily Mail had a headline titled 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts!'. Are you telling me the Daily Mail lies?
*Adolf.
Wait, really? That's an even dumber name that I thought it was already! Normally I'd feel bad for spelling a persons name wrong...but it's literally hitler. Excuse me while I feel no sympathy for insulting one of the biggest facists in history.
I disagree, it was a common German first name until he ruined it.
Though you should keep insulting him, the methhead "war strategist" deserves it.
...And how... pray tell... do they... plan to enforce this?
Violence
Definitely violently too.
They'll unless such violent violence that women's voice won't ever again.
“The world has abandoned us,” she added. “They left us to the Taliban, and whatever happens to us now is a result of Western government policies.”
Hear hear.
Since when is it the world's responsibility to save you from your superstitions?
Since when is it the world's responsibility to explain shit to you?
The US invasion strengthened the Taliban and basically killed native resistance to their regime, so the US does bear some responsibility for this.
So, now we WANT America to perpetually occupy Afghanistan?
Well, there’s also that bit where we funded fundamentalists during the cold war to try and fuck with the soviets, and the imperialism we and the soviets did that led to radicalization. A problem that we exacerbated which bit us back in the ass a few decades later.
Saudi was the one who built all the madrassas that created fundie fanatics.
And now the other countries are trying to do similar to us lol.
Yes, that's the only option. It's always occupation or no occupation. No other options exist. /s
we wanted them not to occupy it in the first place.
i think everyone is at loss on how to fix it now.
I wish the US had spent its efforts and resources towards completely eliminating the Taliban as an institution and ideology rather than kind of shoveling money around to opportunists with no skills for organizing people or maintaining loyalty. I think what happened instead was that the US was afraid of sparking a new movement that would eventually operate outside of its control so it funded what it thought it could control: rich assholes.
And now the religious fascists are back in charge. Wheee.
American occupation actually strengthened the Taliban compared to before the US came, so America does bear some responsibility for this. Left to their own devices, the Taliban would've likely collapsed under their own weight, but now it's likely they'll stick around for while because of Chinese support.
Do you see that collapse coming now that the Taliban have total control? Because that was the situation before the US invaded. We should have smashed Al Qaeda and then left, telling them that from now on, we'll leave you alone as long as you leave us alone.
Do you see that collapse coming now that the Taliban have total control?
I mean I did say they now have Chinese support where at the time they'd have been more or less on their own.
Because that was the situation before the US invaded.
Untrue. The pre-2001 Taliban saw fierce resistance from the North Afghan Alliance, among others, and didn't control all the country's territory. Compare to now where there's no meaningful resistance to their reign of terror.
religion doing what religion does.... men doing what men do....
What is the news!?
Guys, guys - settle down, Pooty Poot just took them off the terrorist list, they’re fiiiiine.
It’s probably just a joke, bro!
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