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  The US doesn't care about freedom for women in Afghanistan. If they cared about women, they wouldn't be allies with KSA. 
  KSA used to punish women for being raped.
context: medieval ass-backwards fucking governments still being a thing nowadays is insane >
  
  Didn’t some women hold jobs even in medieval times? >
  
  Women held the positions of wife, mother, peasant, artisan, and nun, as well as some important leadership roles, such as abbess or queen regnant. >
  
  Brewing was female-dominated through much of Europe for much of the period. >
  
  Now it’s dominated by crunchy hipsters with mustaches and plaid shirts >
  
  And so I must ask: is there any other type of "crunchy hipster"? >
  
  No but there are degrees of crunchiness - mustache and plaid are automatically level 2, but I didn’t specify whether or not they had eCigarettes, or bicycles with wheel guards and bells, or carry a satchel. >
  
  What's wrong with wheel guards? It keeps the wheel from spraying a stripe of road water up my back. >
  
  Bicycles are for recreation and for children, not for transport of adults. Recreation can only be accomplished in ideal conditions so water on a road and pedestrians to ring a bell at will never be encountered by bicycles.
  So sayeth the (tongue-in-cheek) gatekeeper! >
  
  To keep supplying aid, against the fundamental principles of aid agencies, is not possible. 
  How can you provide support to a regime that is so far removed from the principles of equality, self determination and individual dignity? 
  They would be giving the food that keeps the Taliban strong enough to murder its citizens. >
  
  It’s just hilarious to me that they feel obliged to take any international aid. 
  Fuck em. >
  
  There is never going to be good news coming from Afghanistan, you can count on that at least >
  
  Yep. The Graveyard of Empires since the time of Alexander the Great. >
  
  I am suprised people are suprised by this. 
  I mean come on, they are hardcore religious fanatics with no education but gun.
  What do you expect ? >
  
  More Gun. >
  
  7th century values created by warlords of that era and espoused by warlords of this era, are considered perfect god's words, they will stop at nothing. 
  The only thing we can do is call out their behavior in the harshest words, so that others think of the repercussions. >
  
  Not surprising: that the Taliban has done this. 
  Surprising: that the Taliban took this long to do this. >
  
  Evacuate the women, leave the sausages behind. >
  
  Seriously, then they will have no choice but to go fuck themselves. 
  All I see from these cretins is what a country would look like if incels ran things. >
  
  They fuck the little boys. It's a thing, sadly. Look up bacha bazi if you want to be further disgusted by humanity. >
  
  Bacheh bazi isn't some Afghan cultural phenomenon, IDK why this keeps getting repeated. Bacheh bazi is literally the persian translation for "pedophilia". 
  Pedophiles live everywhere, and tend to thrive in lawless failed backwards countries... like Afghanistan >
  
  It is terrible yet I don't see what can be done.
  I do truly wish for change, there and everywhere, including countries like mine who think they have it all worked out! >
  
  We should invade Afghanistan and bring them freedom and democracy again. >
  
  It didn’t work the first time, but sure try again I guess. >
  
  It hasn't worked since 1893. Too fragmented a land, too fragmented a people, too little control possible from Kabul, too little incentive and desire for civilization outside the main cities. 
  Quite frankly, so long as they do not create the conditions for external terrorism, they are better off left to their own devices. 
  If they again support terrorists, I guess someone can bomb the mountains and dirt roads into oblivion for a decade like the Soviets did, or for two like the coalition did, but to expect a different result would be futile. >
  
  Maybe majority want democracy some day after long corrupted taleban rule. The desire for change must come from within. >
  
  This is beyond ridiculous. People against their better judgment help them out because otherwise it would be a humanitarian catastrophe for the population. And instead of playing along they still place demands on how they're being helped. Because they simply don't care about rhe humanitarian catastrophe. 
  It is important to remember that these aids are not supporting the Taliban rulers but are there to save people from death. >
  
  This is slavery. >
  
  A nation under the rule if Incels, psychopaths who see women as objects only worthy of "breeding" and raising children while never being allowed to leave their home without being on a leash attached to a man of any age. They seem to believe that a women's sole purpose is to please men. That's what I see, they are just incels using religion as a weapon to make their country a boys only club where the women exist to serve. 
  Which come to think of it was basically the concept in handmaids tale if I recall. Didn't the author say everything that happened in the book actually happened somewhere at some time? Like every policy and societal norm was at one point a real thing somewhere? >
  
  Stop throwing buzzwords you don't even understand. Taliban rule in Afganistan because it works. USSR and the US tried to change things, but the people helped taliban undo everything in a matter of weeks. >
  
  I sum this up by saying the US went to Afghanistan to bring them freedom thing is they wanted the freedom to oppress women