TheOubliette

Lying like this is why most people like me just make fun of you instead of trying to explain why you shouldn't celebrate the acts that were designated war crimes because the Nazis did them so much. Personally, I don't think it should require much explaining, but I am always available if you would like to engage in good faith.

You responded to criticism of the state of women's rights under Taliban governance

That is not what I responded to. If you would re-read what I said, I am focused on the material deprivation of the entire country that is the "go broke" part of this meme and consistent with OP's behaviors elsewhere.

You can also see from the responses so far that the logic of collective punishment is appealing to at least a few people here.

with criticism of America

Afghanistan is "broke" because the US invaded it, subjected it to two decades of war, stole a huge portion of its foreign reserves when it left, and then leveraged a massive sanctions regime. The "go broke" can mean nothing other than referring to how impoverished Afghanistan has become due to these actions.

you absolutely said something exactly that simplistic.

I did not. Quote me if you disagree. I was pithy, there is no need to try rephrasing it on my behalf.

If the post was saying that America and/or its allies should re-invade or otherwise try to overthrow the Taliban, sure, you might have a point, but it isn't

It is celebrating the government of Afghanistan being poor.

The women starve with everyone else.

You are just repeating the logic of collective punishment.

I have never said anything so simplistic. The reality is that this post supports the collective punishment visited on the people of Afghanistan after the US ended its two decade hot war there.

I would hope that people be less cruel and bloodthirsty.

Yes, of course it will. It already distributes food. The thing you think is absurdly improbable happens every day in Afghanistan. You should ask yourself how you could be so confidently wrong.

Stealing billions of dollars from a country you invaded and bombed for two decades is not okay just because you don't like the state. Collective punishment, which is what this actually constitutes, violates the Geneva Convention during war, and is unconscionable.

Please do some introspection on whether starving children is such great "own".

I would recommend using this as an opportunity to build out and use a backups system. Whenever I get a new laptop, for example, I just make a(nother) backup on the old laptop and restore whatever I want to the new one. If there are any files I want that are normally excluded from backups, I either tweak my rules to include those files/put them in a different directory and repeat the process or just make a new manual external backup copy temporarily.

If you have good backups then your new drive can be populated from them after creating new partitions. Optionally, you can also take this opportunity to reinstall the OS, which I personally prefer to do because it tends to clean up cruft.

Also, if you go this route, your data on your old drive is 100% intact throughout the process. You can verify and re-verify that all the files you want are backed up + restored properly before finally formatting the old drive for use in the NAS.

Copy + paste small business tyrant investment. Like a ghost kitchen. They all just copy each other because it returns a consistent profit.

There is probably some kind if grotesque item in the menu as a "draw", too. The Tower of Cheese. The Bacon Bun. The [town name] challenge, a dish made of 34 kinds of flesh. Get in here, techbros! Get your grub.

A single hand pie filled with brown sits in the center, slowly crumbling to bits

TSA is security theater that fails over 90% of real-world tests. It just wastes a ton of time, jet fuel, and people's energy who could be doing jobs that actually help others or even just hanging out because that would literally be a more productive use of their time.

Flip it around a little: we need to take control over production to eliminate this pointless and even pernicious waste. There is such massive waste in this system, so much energy and resources and lives dedicated to harmful or wasteful activities, that never really touches a consumerist perspective.

For example, the for-profit healthcare insurance system in the US. If you fired 90% of them, ran a central insurance option through the government, and then paid every single person you fired the same just to do whatever they wanted, you'd actually make the system better and more efficient. That 90% are not just redundant, they are there to put up barriers for needed healthcare because that makes the company money.

The more you analyze any industry, the more you will find these attributes. The product that doesn't need to exist and only does because of some other deficiency driven by capitalism. The massive bureaucies dedicated to monitoring workers so they don't unionize, the massive bureaucies that must be duplicated across 50 companies because they each have to do accounting and taxes and payroll and answer calls even though they make the same widget.

On top of all of this is war and related imperialism. Entire countries are thrown into chaos, with this economic system as the root cause. Why is Venezuela so heavily sanctioned? Simply because they nationalized their oil industry so that the money made would go to Venezuelans. This ran against the capitalist imperialist ownership of Venezuela's resources so they did their very best to destroy the country using economic means. Think of all the people forced into poverty because of this. Think of what they could have built instead. Now think of Iraq, its infrastructure bombed to nothing. We should center the people, but also think of all of the resources it takes to build a power grid, a clean water system, desalinization plants, roads, etc. All of that rubble because Iraq stepped outside the domination of US Empire, itself just an extension of global capital.

Through this we will decrease consumption as well, it is the natural outcome of not maintaining so much redundancy, of destroying so much of what is built, of being able to focus on real problems and developing real solutions rather than forcing humanity into pointless tasks.

Israel is a Western project.

In terms of who the propaganda is meant for and works on, it's really an internal-facing apparatus handing down false or misleading information and narratives (and censoring true or clarifying information and narratives). The peddlers are ruling class interests that usually span Israel and Western countries, not existing in just one. Large corporations, the military, your local cops, PR firms, think tanks, lobbyists, etc etc.

While Israelis have a pretty fucked up culture and I'm not letting them off the hook, the primary divide in terms of who is creating propaganda vs. consuming it is ruling class vs. everyone else.