The US got exactly what it wanted out of its occupation of Afghanistan for decades — staggering amounts of wealth transferred to the military, defense contractors, and mercenary groups, continual justification for increased defense budgets, and a steady supply of dark money for our intelligence services via resumed…

The propagandists of our country used the abuse and suffering of women to sell the justification for an un winnable war to as large an audience and political spectrum as possible. Meanwhile the corrupt government and military we installed were horrendously abusive to Afghan women.

Feminist lobbying did not make the US invade Afghanistan. It did, however, provide cover on the left (however you’d like to construe that) for a war of conquest, occupation, and exploitation.

I don’t think this piece gives too much power to feminists, per se, so much as it points out the easy/fundamental alliance between (white) Western bourgeois feminism and rapacious imperialism. Feminist lobbying did not make the US invade Afghanistan. It did, however, provide cover on the left (however you’d like to…

US foreign policy doesn’t give a shit about women. It’s not why we invaded 20 years ago. Women’s rights were used beatify the argument, but invasion would have happened anyway.

This assigns too much importance to feminists. Afghanistan was never invaded to protect women or to appease western feminists. It was invaded to protect US National security and economic interests, period. Feminist lobbying would have had no bearing on the decision to invade Afghanistan either way.

Saying feminism was used to justify the invasion of Afghanistan is revisionist history, IMO.

“If ever there was a moment for monied, powerful white feminists to stand to the side and allow for Afghan and Muslim women to direct the narrative and guide the future of aid, this is it.”

Should America occupy Afghanistan? No. Absolutely not.

Let’s not with the “all fandoms suck.” Bullshit.

Among other things, I’m sure she saw her performance last season and didn’t like what she saw; and the producers DEFINITELY told her to be more interesting this season.

To be fair, Wendy is a completely different person this season and it’s clear something is going on with her.

No, but this actually happened.

People Online ran this yesterday, and it was such a mindfuck. It was like, “Surfing instructor arrested for killing his two toddlers” and then pics of him at the beach cradling his babies and smiling with his wife. I was honestly confused if the dad in the pics was the murderer in question because…why are you showing…

Maybe a mug shot.

People who “look like” murderers usually don’t get close enough to murder people because they look so scary!

I’m fully on board now with the notion that ANYONE who believes ANY aspect of QAnon rubbish is clinically mentally ill and should be treated as such: dangerous, but mentally ill, and need to be dealt with as such... which is to say, I am actually afraid of QAnon people, and want to distance myself from them: they…

Probably hard to find a pic of him frothing over a q-anon website.

Ever notice when stuff like this happens they always have to include a happy family photo? Like what kind of dumb manipulation tactic is that?

His own kids with a fucking spear gun.