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  What the fuck man. Why do people act so insane. Like hijab isn’t even supposed to be an enforceable thing it’s something between you and your religion. Some men will just use the slightest excuse to subjugate women.
context: This also results in NGO's not being able to help and reach women (as men are not allowed near them, of course). >
  
  There also probably aren't that many women working in NGOs in Afghanistan today. Obviously some of them stayed after the Taliban took over but if you're a foreigner working in Afghanistan (especially a woman) you already know that you are risking your life. Most NGO workers are passionate about what they do but not downright suicidal. >
  
  I thought most people working for NGOs were locals, rather than foreign workers. >
  
  This is correct. >
  
  Yeah right. I also agree with this. Probably he was familiar about this. I envy people like them. They know exactly what's happening . >
  
  How do the Taliban benefit from turning Afghanistan into a failed state? They aren't doing well right now and their solution seems to be to make things much worse >
  
  You see a state failing financially and morally, they see a state that pleases Allah >
  
  Sounds like Texas >
  
  It's similar, but far more degenerate.
  Modern Christianity is far less bloodthirsty than modern Islam >
  
  Eh, tell that the the people that shoot up drag shows or kill power to large numbers of people, also killing people,  to prevent drag shows, or to the 10YO girls forced to carry their rapist's babies, or to any of the sexually abused kids from all doctrines, or to the child brides in the deep south, and that's just domestically in the US! These people literally fantasize about being the chosen heroes to survive the apocalypse, sorry I mean rapture, as the rest of us all just die. It's insane. 
  These fuckers aren't any better just because they're the home team. They're all whackjob assholes that need to stay away from me and my family.  In fact, the home team whack job assholes are far more dangerous to my family than the away team whackjob assholes are. >
  
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  That's insane. Even ultra-conservative parts of Texas is heaven compared to Taliban's Afghanistan.
  Ask ANY member of LGBT if they would rather be in Texas or the fucking Taliban. This is a purely insane take I can only find on twitter and reddit.
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  Edit: EDIT: They LITERALLY tried to hang on the plane in the hopes to avoid a Taliban Afghanistan in favor of the US. >
  
  While I agree that the taliban is demonstrably worse, as a gay person I gotta say that there are areas in the US where’s it’s highly dangerous to exist as gay. Not to mention that these people would also legislate similar heinous laws if they had the kind of power the taliban do. Crazed religious hate is the same everywhere it feels like. >
  
  Yeah all these people protesting the idea that it's not as bad actually mean it's just not as bad for them. Whether or not they realize that is irrelevant.
  For example, I'm quite sure that gay people walking around on the street fearing for their lives for existing don't really care which flavor of crazy religious person stalks and murders them, right? It will and does happen across the country here daily, and will continue to do so. What, do christians think they deserve a medal and accolades for being the kinder, gentler oppressors? They can fuck off, tbh. And while they're at it, they can leave my daughters and my vote alone. >
  
  Even if a man LITERALLY fucks another man in public in the deep deep south death would be an extreme event for them.
  Imagine holding a drag story time event in front of the Tailban. You would pray for a quick death. This is a very tolerant country. The south and the Taliban are not in the same universe.  It's a lie that people are getting killed left and right comparable to being in the Taliban in the United States.  I'm an ally, but correctly identifying a problem allows you to address it. >
  
  In a perfect world, Afghan women would all be allowed to leave Afghanistan, immediately.  That would solve the problem the spineless Taliban seem to have with women, and in a few years, would solve the world's Taliban problem. >
  
  Things have gotten so bad that my home country has recently announced that any woman from Afghanistan will automatically be granted a residence permit. As per the website;
  
  The Swedish Migration Agency estimates that life as a woman in Afghanistan has now become so difficult that it counts as persecution on the basis of gender. For this reason, Afghan women and girls seeking protection in Sweden will be considered to be refugees and be granted a residence permit.
  
  I mean, holy shit, I can't believe things have escalated to this degree. >
  
  All western countries should do this, and then assist these women in getting out of the hell hole they had the misfortune to be born in.  I applaud Sweden for their stance. >
  
  We spent trillions fighting the war for Afghanistan if we were smart we would have just adopted this policy and the problem would have solved itself in a few decades >
  
  Yeah nation building really isn’t America’s strong suit. More of a fuck you up sort of mindset. >
  
  Japan, South Korean, and Western Europe were  nation building operations. >
  
  I think the difference was that they embraced the efforts and wanted to shift towards what the US was trying to do (or were already democracies). Things fell apart in the middle east because the population just wasn't invested in what America had setup and therefore didn't bother to even try to defend it. >
  
  This is hearsay, but the way I understand it Afghanistan is still very tribal. Unless you lived in a big city like Kabul you didn't really consider yourself a citizen of the country of Afghanistan. You considered yourself a member of this tribe or this village. That's why the army folded to the Taliban like so many dominoes. They didn't consider themselves as soldiers fighting for their country, it was just some job to send money home to your tribe or village. 
  Personally I don't think that there is necessarily anything wrong with that in a vacuum, but it does explain why "nation building" efforts never succeeded and why the Taliban could easily take root again and again. >
  
  Looks like a simple solution. City-State building >
  
  Do you want warlords? Because that's how you... Wait a minute. Shit.
  I don't think the USA had any chance solving this one. >
  
  The Taliban: "Recognize us as a country and unfreeze Afghanistan's foreign assets."
  The World: "Stop sponsoring terrorists and oppressing women."
  The Taliban: "Instructions unclear, all societal progress for women reversed."
  The World: "ffs." >
  
  NGO = Non-Government Organization >
  
  Thank you >
  
  Will never forget the image of people clinging to the airplanes as they were taking off after the USA announced they were leaving Afghanistan. 
  Those poor souls >
  
  Remember when the taliban leadership said they wouldn’t do any of this?  Not like it was believable but that was short lived. >
  
  We all knew better >
  
  We could grant asylum to all the women, and then all those superior males can relax and enjoy their own bearded company by themselves in peace and harmony. Win win. >
  
  We could certainly do that, but a vast majority of the women would be unable to leave the country. Turns out the severe restrictions on their freedom is also quite effective at keeping them prisoners. >
  
  They should just ban women from their country and be done with it. These fuckheads would disappear within a generation, and the women they hate so much can go and live a decent life around people that are interested in harmonious existence >
  
  They want women, just as slaves. They think women should be slaves to men. That’s what it boils down to. >
  
  Yeah, ban half of your population from working, that’ll do wonders for your economy. 
  Fucking idiots. >
  
  But it pleases god and that's what's most important!
  /s obviously. >
  
  One of the poorest most corrupt countries keeps campaign promise to remain poorest, most corrupt >
  
  Well if they hate women that much, all the women should be able to leave, and the Taliban will just have to fuck themselves. >
  
  The joke sadly doesn't account for the Taliban view that women are to stay in the household, be slaves to their family and breeding machines. >
  
  Yeah I know... its a sad situation there, and what can anyone really do about it? >
  
  Offer asylum. Doesn’t matter if people want to leave, there needs to be countries that allow them to enter.