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Speaker to Animals

encephalopathetic
May 16, 2021
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Great ideas in history, Biden military edition:
Demobilize your troops, then remobilize and redeploy to face attacks with their own hardware.

Genius stuff
 

BeardOfKnowledge

The Most Consistent Motherfucker You Know
Jul 22, 2015
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Great ideas in history, Biden military edition:
Demobilize your troops, then remobilize and redeploy to face attacks with their own hardware.

Genius stuff
Most of the ugliness is just the reality of losing a war. These things happen. Going back in "for revenge" is the stupidity.

But this development of the U.S. working with the Taliban is interesting.
 

Speaker to Animals

encephalopathetic
May 16, 2021
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I don't mean to put too fine a point on it, but this is an excessive reaction. We frequently deal with governments as bad or worse that no one gives a fuck about.
I agree that it does seem like an overreaction.

However.

There are thousands of religions and cultures throughout the world, and I respect them all. I give them a lot of leeway and try to understand things from their perspective.
But there's a limit to how far I'll go to accommodate that leeway, and the Taliban reached it two decades ago. Hell, on their treatment of women alone that makes them expendable.
 

Filthy

Iowa Wrestling Champion
Jun 28, 2016
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I don't mean to put too fine a point on it, but this is an excessive reaction. We frequently deal with governments as bad or worse that no one gives a fuck about.
"Taliban" is not discrete. It's a continuum of "Stop Blowing Up Our Schools" to "I Want To Blow Myself Up In Your School".

Let's kill the Taliban AND the Imperialists.

Edit- sorry, meant to quote Speaker to Animals @Pak protector
 

John Lee Pettimore

Further south than you
May 18, 2021
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I agree that it does seem like an overreaction.

However.

There are thousands of religions and cultures throughout the world, and I respect them all.
Why?

Most of them are nonsense, and barbaric as well. Respect is earned, not given. Wilfully denying reality in favour of perpetually clinging to fantasy, is not worthy of respect.

??
 

BeardOfKnowledge

The Most Consistent Motherfucker You Know
Jul 22, 2015
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I agree that it does seem like an overreaction.

However.

There are thousands of religions and cultures throughout the world, and I respect them all. I give them a lot of leeway and try to understand things from their perspective.
But there's a limit to how far I'll go to accommodate that leeway, and the Taliban reached it two decades ago. Hell, on their treatment of women alone that makes them expendable.
I meant it literally. Look up what Saudi Arabia does, but they're an oil rich ally so no one gives a fuck.
 

Speaker to Animals

encephalopathetic
May 16, 2021
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Why?

Most of them are nonsense, and barbaric as well. Respect is earned, not given. Wilfully denying reality in favour of perpetually clinging to fantasy, is not worthy of respect.

??
I'm also an atheist (?) but basic respect to me means allowing others to worship who and how they see fit, and not hassling them about other religions or with my atheism. There are militant atheists. I like to be quietly correct.
 

Filthy

Iowa Wrestling Champion
Jun 28, 2016
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I'm also an atheist (?) but basic respect to me means allowing others to worship who and how they see fit, and not hassling them about other religions or with my atheism. There are militant atheists. I like to be quietly correct.
Go kill some White Rose Society folks with drones and occupy Alabama.

:)
 

Speaker to Animals

encephalopathetic
May 16, 2021
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I meant it literally. Look up what Saudi Arabia does, but they're an oil rich ally so no one gives a fuck.
Absolutely.
But wrt to the Taliban, I just don't figure why they should exist. If every one suddenly vanished from the Earth, let's say Allah called them home, they'd be replaced by chill Muslims who aren't down with that hardcore bullshit.
Those are the Muslims I respect, the people happy to worship without fucking the place up with enforced behaviors.