• pandapoo@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    I don’t even know where to begin with the levels of idiocy contained in your remark.

    Like, do I start with the realities of how Western PMC mineral extraction fed into the cycle of extremism and poverty, the problems inherent with trying to use foreign military occupation to create a functioning centralized state out of a tribal society who’s only a nation because colonial powers drew lines on maps, or just the raw racism of believing that the white saviors should invade and occupy poor brown countries because we have to show those savages how to be better people.

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      6 months ago

      Let’s start with how it’s racist to stop religious fundamentalists from abusing women. This should be fun.

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        6 months ago

        Just a wild guess here, but I take it that you never got very good marks for reading comprehension. But whatever, I’ll answer your bad faith question:

        The racism is ignoring all of the ways in which colonial powers have fucked, refucked, and then triple fucked, the collection of tribal regions known as Afghanistan, which only exists as a nation state because of colonial powers drawing politically convenient lines on maps.

        All while pretending that religion, and not the colonial conflict legacy is the root cause of these problems. Because admitting that colonialism is why we’re here, isn’t a very good narrative for selling the next war.

        So great, now it’s the white Savior’s moral obligation to fix the problems that these brown people created all on their own, and definitely did not happen as a result of over a century of colonial violence , resource exploitation, and constant warfare.

        And not for nothing, but you also clearly don’t have a clue about the crimes against humanity level shit that happened during the occupation.

        So stop and think, why all this coverage now, and not for the last decade of occupation?

        Manufacturing consent for the next foreign war.