• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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    Their only dignified escape from the conservative nightmare is by their own hand. Nothing good in history has ever come from conservatism. Nothing.

    Conservatism is a plague of oppression and death. And the plague is spreading.

  • AndreaHill@lemmy.world
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    Latest: The Taliban have decreed that any woman caught attempting suicide will be put to death.

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      Correct me if I’m wrong but don’t some JudeoIslamic factions already punish suicide with death?

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        Suicide, really. That’s the last thing you should try. You realize that suicide’s a criminal offense. In less enlightened times, they’d have hung you for it.

        – Peter Cook, Bedazzled (1968)

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    Disturbing yes but not entirely surprising. I hope the Taliban get their just dues for what their doing to women soon.

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        The army that folded in two days after 20 years of time wasted trying to make a horse drink.

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            It’s the middle east, they’re not “minorities” in their own fucking country lol

            Armed the women? Certainly would have worked if they’d been willing to fight, probably would have only driven more Afghani army into the Taliban’s ranks though. Considering even the non-extremists in the area don’t want women equal to men at this point.

            Sharia law is the problem, we will never have a functional middle east until religious authoritarianism stops being the actual written law. Problem is most of them are comfortable in their current existence and have no reason to change. Any change we suggest or offer will just be met with “these evil westerners are trying to destroy our faith!”

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      The only way that will happen is for the women of Afghanistan to receive the same training and equipment as the Ukrainian army are getting.

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    Absolutely tragic, but I probably would do the same were I forced to live the life they’re forced to with no hope of escape.