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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Guessing men only?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

I heard they don't even chop off your head anymore! I was floored! They only scratch it a little now. It's like that Catholic thing where they mark the doors red and they mark their forehead with ashes. But they do run you over and stone you. It's an improvement.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you ever feel like your job is difficult keep in mind there is someone with this job.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is the making of a funny TV show shot like flight of the conchords

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Think we can sell an animated series version to Netflix that they cancel after a boycott and no one binging it in one day after only 8 episodes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Wouldn't have it any other way!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Looking for something to do?

You can throw the first stone for only $9.99.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

the word woo makes me think Muhammad is going to suck my dick

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Who needs Muhammed when the Taliban are lining up to suck capitalisms dick?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

No, no, don't worry, they're attracting Chinese tourists and selling the nation's mineral rights to Chinese corporations, so it's actually Socialism With Chinese Characteristics.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i think just remembering not to throw acid at women would help.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I thought this was an India thing..

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't there some influencer who went there last year to prove he was safer there than in the West and they murdered him?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Found it - Miles Routledge, and he wasn't murdered, "just" captured and held prisoner by the Taliban for eight months.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Miles described his time of imprisonment as a "holiday" and "living the lap of luxury", saying he was kept in a luxurious guest house, with several Taliban servants, and that he has been treated well during his time there, even being able to buy an Xbox, and being well fed with foods like pizza and kebabs. He recently went back to Afghanistan to visit his friends in the GDI and plans to open businesses such a gold mine there

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Routledge

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Yeah, see this is why it's important to have a project plan beforehand. If we'd known "tourism" was on the roadmap we'd have done a few things differently.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Real shame they blew up those statues of Buddha. Those might have draw in some tourists. :|

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hmm? What does evolutionary fitness have to do with the barbarians destroying art they had no hope of imitating that honors a philosophical achievement that no random pedophile warlord could even hardly grasp?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean, literally? Foolish choices of the past are limiting economic opportunities of the present, meaning they will have less success compared to their peers, other nations. The concept of natural selection doesn't have to be limited to literal generational gene transfer, but can be applied to other areas. I mean technically you might be better served thinking of it more in terms of game theory or some shit, but a hand-waving application of natural selection isn't terrible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Gotcha. The Afghani of the future will be worse off because of the present. Now I understand what you were communicating.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It wasn't actually my comment, just my interpretation of what they were trying to say. Still, I'm fairly confident that's what they were getting at.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Borat Trilogy confirmed. How amazing if Sacha went over in disguise.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Honey! We can go to Afghanistan where we can live out my dream of you being human cattle!?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago

"Come to Afghanistan! Enjoy our wonderful mus- Shop for fashionable cl- Enjoy our historic sculpt- We play a game that's kind of like polo with a goat carcass, check it out!"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Maybe they can let tourists throw the first stone. I’m sure that would appeal to a niche demographic underserved by the tourism market.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Come to Afghanistan for the food! Stay because now you can't leave, you American infidel"

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The food is really good though

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

I’m lucky enough to live in a place with a solid number of Afghan expats. Can confirm they make some delicious food.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Who DOESN'T want to visit a bloodthirsty theocratic warlord-state?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well, plenty of people vacation in America

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

As bad as the US can be, it's not even close.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Hey! I don't think we have warlords here by the strict definition of the term.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Just give it another year or so.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Our warlords go to work in business suits

[–] [email protected] 82 points 4 months ago (1 children)

any place where 50% of the population is treated as meat is not a place any human should purposefully go.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago

This is cannibal erasure and you should feel bad