• 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    What do they expect? Permanent US occupation? If they really expect that, then they’re going to need to make themselves a US territory or deal with themselves.

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      1 year ago

      Did they expect the USA to invade in the first place?

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      1 year ago

      I think they just expected empathy and interest in them as a people.

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          1 year ago

          It translated pretty easily for 2 decades. Then an orange chimp decided he didn’t care just like he doesn’t care about anything his country commits to and left. Then Biden just pushed it through while the Afghanistan government was unready and countless American sympathisers and supporters still had not been extracted just because he also doesn’t give a sh*t about promises his country makes. America leaving was inevitable. The taliban retaking was almost handed to them by how America decided to withdraw.

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            1 year ago

            There was no way the ANA would have held on for long after the US left, held on for a little longer, maybe.

            There was no way the Taliban wasn’t going to eventually win in some capacity.

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          1 year ago

          Do they? You’re more focused on trying to have a gotcha on the internet than displaying any empathy or interest in them.

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            1 year ago

            What is yours? How would you have supported them without actually helping the Taliban?

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              1 year ago

              Please explain to me how sending thoughts and prayers is your idea of having empathy or interest in something first.

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                  1 year ago

                  And yet you came in defending it for some reason. Now you refuse to actually elaborate on why you decided to speak up at all and want me to make up something new just so you can have something to argue about.

                  All I said is that asking what a repressed and destroyed community expects is probably some basic humanity, and not a bunch of internet commenters being condescending assholes. I also said “thoughts and prayers” isn’t empathy or interest, and if I have to explain that, then I may as well be asked to explain to a Republican why “thoughts and prayers” is a shit response to a school shooting.

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            1 year ago

            What do you think it should look like? I’m not pleased with the situation but I don’t know what we could do differently.

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              1 year ago

              It definitely doesn’t look like thoughts and prayers, a phrase which is often used by people who show the opposite of empathy or interest.