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For those wondering, harmless joke but got people/bots riled up https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/45ec8531-6433-47c6-995e-0e9f1f0b0a7d.jpeg

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

Fuck taliban and fuck america and all of its virtue signallers that act like they arent funding an ongoing genocide rn.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Daylight come and me wanna go home

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This post?

https://lemmy.world/post/19523949?scrollToComments=true

Now, its possible I'm not seeing some comments from people I've blocked....

But theres one person trying to explain that now that the Taliban is in control of a country, they're now a government and not terrorists...

Is that what confused you?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Well I made two other posts on Meme but they were taken down. I was told im Pro-Isis, that Taliban won the war so Afghanistan is the Taliban, a racist and that America does ir so its ok. In the end it got taken down but what a shit show. I maybe ridiculed the Taliban a little to much near the end but ultimately I got brigaded hard xD..

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That post has 13 comments on your intance and 89 on mine. lemmy.world doesn't federate with a few large instances like hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml, and there are some very enthusiastic users on those ones that will take sides with anyone that's anti-USA

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

World federated with ML, but I instance blocked them and didn't see OP's post there.

There's never anything worth seeing on ML. And if OP posts there and then comments about their experience, I guess it's not worth seeing any of their posts.

But thanks for answering that it wasn't that post.

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

Edit: ignore this comment, I didn't realise OP crossposted it

No, it was that post, it's just that you're not seeing 80+% of the comments on it on your instance

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Who the fuck is pro Taliban?????

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

No one in that thread....

OP is either not understanding stuff or just making shit up.

Probably why they didn't link the post, just their shitty meme

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

OP is taking a high dose of copium

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

People who hate america in such a way that they start liking those who oppose it.

Like, hating america is fine, this is a horrid country, there’s not much to love for many minority communities. Hating america because of political views is also fine, our politics suck.

Some people create two camps: pro america groups, and anti-america groups. If they want to oppose america, the only logical choice is to support the opposing camp.

At least, that’s my theory.

I don’t see how you can be pro-taliban without being either in line with their views, or just seeing the world as having two sides and sticking to one arbitrary side.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

And Talitubbies

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

"But against America tho."

-people who insist they have any moral backbone while being pro taliban

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

Horseshoe theory is sadly real, for a small number of hypervocal people.

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

I really want to disagree with you because conservatives have been pretty consistently anti-taliban for a long time, with the extreme end going mask off racist.

Unfortunately because of how completely fucked Trump is I've seen conservatives arguing in favour of relations with the Taliban in the recent shitshow discussions surrounding the exit from Afghanistan.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I mean... on the right side, we have what you are describing, as well as many conservatives just outright being pro-Russian invasion of Ukraine, with some now literally moving to the former Soviet Union they despised 30 years ago so that they can legally beat their wives and never have to see an openly gay or trans person.

This is fairly straightforward: They're religious, traditional conservatives who love hierarchy and hate and fear 'weird' people as an animating drive in politics. Y'all Qaeda, just another flavor of fundamentalism.

On the left side, you have people who take their support for anything standing against American dominance and imperialism so far that they are openly in favor of China taking over Taiwan, totally denying or massively downplaying the Holodomor or Uighur encampments/persecution, saying they support Yemeni pirate-terrorists just shooting missiles at any cargo ship of any nation or destination that cruises nearby.

A person I used to be close to, and thought I had reasonably similar politics with, described Hu Jintao being basically arrested and disappeared extremely publicly as part of a CCP conference as... him being placed into witness protection due to a threat on his life.

That makes literally 0 sense.

Hell, I myself started in a conservative family, got lost in the ancap sauce for a while, then discovered oh, there's basically nothing anarchist about any kind of capitalism, capitalism's prime function is to aggregate power, replace all 'free markets' with monopolies and oligopolies, ancapism is basically total bullshit that stole the word anarchist from left wing movements, and then I read Baukunin and Kropotkin.

Now I'm just tired lol.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

My money's on the Taliban.