[–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes. An occupying force that came to help the progressive government that the people didn't like. Going back to my point - the Afghani people never wanted any of this. They wanted to be left the fuck alone.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The is no such thing as self made wealth and an insane majprity of it is already being very comfortable and just going full bore.

    There's basically one self-made billionaire I'm aware of. Wealth turned him into a right-wing asshole unfortunately, but the original creator of Minecraft, Notch, is the closest thing to a self-made billionaire I can think of. He originally built Minecraft on his own and it was already doing insanely well when other people got involved. He did not have a rich background.

    Now where we can argue about the self-made part: 1) None of what he did would've been possible without prior work by others (same goes for ANYTHING to do with computers nowadays), 2) There's no guarantee he could've sold the game for over 2 billion dollars without help from others.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    IS he promising universal housing and food? Big if true.

    Estonians pay a nearly 50% tax on salaries, we get universal healthcare and education, but not the other stuff you listed. Would definitely be way happier if we got that. Happier than a couple of euros more post-tax salary could make me.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    You think everyone has the same values as you? Newsflash: Most Afghanis outside the major cities would consider you to be a piece of shit for your values.

    USSR and USA tried to change that by force. They failed, because you can control a few cities, but it's incredibly difficult to control everything in the mountainous countryside. Just give up. Let the people of Afghanistan deal with their own issues instead of forcing western values on them at gunpoint. They're not really hurting anyone except themselves. Eventually they may be enlightened, but it needs to be grass roots, not bombs and bullets.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Get the hell out of here with your occupation apologism. The urss ia responsible of 1.5 millions afghan death

    Of course it is. Because they were rebelling against what the USSR was trying to bring - a more progressive nation. They did NOT WANT any of what the soviets wanted to force on them (such as, among other things, gender equality). Getting back to my original point - they do NOT WANT TO BE LIKE US. Which is why it was wrong of the USSR to get involved, and wrong of the US to get involved.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Say the average bus is 10 tons empty and the average car is 2. The fourth power law states that the bus is 625x as much wear on the roads.

    It'll reduce traffic jams, as well as empower people who can't, or can barely, afford the fare, but road maintenance? Not so sure.

    What would help more with the road network maintenance is taxing heavy vehicles. Commercial vehicles could get a bigger threshold and personal vehicles a smaller one.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    They didn’t care about afghans or democracy that’s why they kept a weak army

    The locals didn't care either. Have you seen those videos of them failing to grasp the concept of jumping jacks in their military drills? Why did afghani commanders make up troops (that they got paid for enlisting)?

    The "united snake" as you call it only funded what was already a very popular group with rich history in their region of the country. Obviously I'm not saying that was the right thing to do, I'm just saying that it's not like they put any more effort into that.

    They had a government that was getting increasingly progressive - and they had increasing amounts of trouble keeping the population happy with that, which is why the USSR came and tried to help, but unfortunately a lot of people did not support the PDPA's initiatives - the women's rights were a particularly sore spot and had been even before the revolution. Then the US of course famously funded a bunch of hardcore religious freaks (that were essentially seen as good guys who helped people in their area) to counter the soviets, the soviets lost what was already an incredibly difficult campaign to drive progress in an anti-progress land, and then we got Taliban numero uno, yay

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago*

    The CIA knew it was bullshit but Cheney wanted there to be WMDs so chose to believe bullshit artists instead, if John Kiriakou is to be believed. One of the only times in history where CIA might have been the good guys.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    The slaves didn't raise their own masters.

    The US backed Afghani government lasted less than one day because NOBODY wanted it. Only the Americans did. It's not part of Afghani culture to send women to school and such. It's like forcing Americans at gunpoint to eat salad instead of McDonald's.

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