They must be hoping their citizens don't pull a Nepal.

Fuck religion and authoritarian governments that use it as an excuse to keep the population cowed and under educated.

Awesome, no education for 50% of the population. What's next? Replacing homes with caves and electricity with fire?

As usual, organized religion and religious states are bound to turn to shitholes.

It's difficult not to extrapolate the U.S's current trajectory to something approximating Taliban-rule. It feels like it relative to what the old-normal was.

Seems like I see a "Women in Afghanistan have no freedom" post every week or two practically since the day US troops pulled out of the country. Never see anything like this regarding Saudi Arabia. There's virtually no coverage of the violent anti-feminist street protests in India. Vanishingly little about women's liberation in The Philippines or El Salvador. Even the rapidly deteriorating condition of women's rights within the United States fails to get the kind of coverage afforded our old conquest.

I have to wonder what the public response to these articles is supposed to be. Trump's currently demanding that the Afghans turn over Bagram Airbase to the US military. We've also seen him float the idea of re-invading in response to China.

Is that where all this is heading? Seems like the drumbeat exists to manufacture consent for another war. After Hegseth's latest speech, how long until we try and take another bite at the Afghani apple?

Connectivity breed hope. For much the same reason why internet access is considered a part of human rights in the modern world, they know just how big a threat access to new ways of thinking, of possibility can be to their control.

Gross

I kind of want that to mean we can now insult and impugn the Taliban on the internet without fear of retribution but 1) that'd be cruel even if they are wilfully backward, 2) it would undoubtedly devolve into racism and Islamophobia from the less bright among us, and 3) you can bet the top brass of the Taliban won't have given it up.

I bet at least one of them is a closet Swiftie.

Smuggle in some standalone Meshtastic devices 👀

Orginized religion is social cancer.

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Hey, do you guys remember when Trump et. al created that Office of Faith? Yeah, that was a precursor.

I wonder how many people choose to leave because of these conditions.

I would've left a long time ago.