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The article is largely good quality but what even is this:
“We couldn’t destroy the Taliban, but office work destroyed the Taliban,” said one Tiktoker, reviewing articles and quotes from the report.
It doesn't even name the person. Just cherry picked some random quip from social media and pasted it into the body.
Hard to cite a GPT reference.
Editor: The article is great! All we need now is a quote from social media and we can publish.
Journalist: We haven't been able to find anything suitable, everyone thinks this story is satire.
Editor: Then just post one yourself and then quote that! But don't reference your name, that'll be a dead giveaway.
I've been hating this since Twitter became a thing. I used to read BBC news articles for (seemingly) good quality reporting, and then they started quoting random twitter users. Like, who gives a fuck?
Wow, maybe the taliban really will be defeated by capitalism
Which is deeply ironic considering how they founded themselves as a rebellion against the "false gods" of capitalism communism and democracy.
Capitalism will eventually beat itself
The Taliban need to unionize
Ah, winning was easy, young man, governing's harder
This is like that comic today with the Viking. "History is written by the winners" he has to literally sit down with quill and parchment....
Breaking news Taliban discovers music and alcohol.
Taliband
Hahahahhaha OMG. Yeah once the whole pew pew part of the insurrection is over and you actually take over the government, the whole running the government part isn't as fun now ain't it?
What a bunch of idiots.
It does go to show that people sometimes don’t think ahead. They seem to have only ever considered the present and now reality hit them in the face lol. Similar happened to Trump when he was elected and suddenly had to…you know…work.
The weird thing is that they used to be in power, before the 9/11 American "freedom spreading" spree in the region.
And they were in power because the US helped them get there. This article praising Osama bin Ladenisn't The Independent's finest hour 😬
That's not what happened,
The US sent Pakistan materials to supply to local Mujihideen to provide support to the US assisting the Northern Alliance, AKA the guys they were later supporting against the Taliban once the Taliban basically all but chartered the planes for Bin Laden.
You'd be amazed how many of america's problems in the region trace in some way back to "Pakistan did it."
Like it's not unreasonable to guess that Kissinger croaked because his old heart couldn't take how America's foreign policy was becoming way more aligned with those "commies" in India after just a few terrorisms and genicides on Pakistan's part.
The US sent Pakistan materials
You'd be amazed how many of america's problems in the region trace in some way back to "Pakistan did it."
With the help of the US, of course, as is often the case when atrocities occur around the world..
Your name is "Viking_Hippie". I assume you're embracing a Scandinavian heritage of some kind.
Vikings committed atrocities all over Europe. Genetic studies of Icelandic people indicate that their Y chromosomes are from Scandinavia and their mitochondrial DNA is from Ireland. Mitochondrial DNA only comes from your mother (from the egg).
Why do you think Iceland was settled by mainly Viking men and Irish women? Do you think those women willingly left their homes or did they leave at the point of a sword?
I'm embracing the modern colloquial meaning of "lives in Scandinavia" (which I have since my birth 40 years ago), not the historical "commits atrocities" meaning.
You'd think that people would come to that conclusion by doing just a minimum of research into colloquial uses of regional terms before accusing me of embracing the worst acts of my ancestors.
If that's too difficult, then maybe the second half, which is much more descriptive about how I am when not discussing politics with idiots online, would be a bit of a clue 🤦
As a person fed up with office culture, I'm wondering if it's now my time to destroy my government.
If you're in the US, doing that would save tens of millions of lives, both in the US and across the world.
I hope the afghan people raise up against their oppressors and fight back.
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.
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?
FFS, they figured it out so much faster than America.
It's amazing how fast you can arrive at the right conclusion when you don't have a bunch of billionaires with media and politicians in their pockets 🤷
Okay say what you will about the Taliban but this article is really interesting in a way.
Reminds me of this wise quote from Walter Sobchek:
"Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism, but at least it's an ethos!"
Time for a company fun day
Sounds like they need a good union.
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