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Taliban Militants Fed Up With Office Culture, Ready to Quiet Quit (time.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Time magazine: "we don't know how yet, but we're gonna find a way to link the rise of fascism and avocado toast"

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[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean, isn't this like people predicting the year 2000 from the year 1920 and people in 2020 making fun of that being wrong? In neither situation could the future be predicted.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Him and his Mujahideen were awful religious zealots back then too. That was just ignored due to the "enemy of my enemy is my friend and thus a hero" principle that the US have consistently applied to some of the biggest monsters in history.

[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Well Ronald Reagan created the Taliban so that all checks out.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's a very weird non-sequitor.

[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is it? He funded them in Pakistan because the USSR was in Afghanistan and it was fine to fund terrorists as long as they attacked your enemy. They just didn't foresee it coming back to hurt us.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Fair enough. I sit corrected.