Mentions (18)
"They've banned them from education, work outside the home, divorce, or being seen outside without a hijab. Of course. Then they banned them from traveling more than 72 kilometers away from home without a male chaperone. They cannot use public transport, go to the doctor, or be served in a cage witho"
"If the Taliban had a Hollywood culture they would make inspirational films about it. A rag tag team of ne'er-do-wells with a crazy dream, who fought the odds to do the impossible."
"Dumb bitch ex REFUSED to go to Afghanistan even though it was perfectly safe at the time and I magnanimously offered to pay her visa. Now the Taliban won't let you visit anymore."
"I'm 28 and she's 34. I hope the taliban are recruiting"
"Black people glorify gang violence in rap music and movies - everyone loves it
Italians get mob movies - everyone loves it
The Japanese make light-hearted games about the Yakuza - everyone loves it
But I can't say the Taliban have swag????"
"I asked, stupidly, if she wanted to ever return. No, no, she said. The Taliban. Oh, yes, I said. The Taliban. Very bad. Very bad, she said."
"why are we meant to be happy some Afghans have decided that now the Taliban are back in and Bachu Bazi is no longer allowed, they can just ditch their wives and travel all the way to our tiny little island to make absolutely zero effort to intergrate and add extra strain on our system"
"I'm gen z / millennial cusp and I know a couple guys who had mental breakdowns and joined the marines and went to Afghanistan at the end of the occupation circa 2019/2020 and when I had a chance to ask each of them about it about it they both said, 'The Taliban is winning.'"
"Finally, the white imperialist colonizers have abandoned their oppressive occupation of the indigenous lands of afghanistan, and the native people there are now free to practice their ancient and beautiful religion as they see fit. Congratulations to Joe and Kamala for truly living up to their promi"
"The US military- Gryffindor, The former Afghan government- Ravenclaw, The Afghan people- Hufflepuff"
"Some guy called Mohibullah Ghafizani transliterating Pashtun tribal insults into English and using them to reply to Anthony Blinken on Twitter could keep us all laughing for at least like eight minutes"
"All the "leaks" are a bad attempt to make him look cool. "I killed 25 Taliban" "I did coke" "I got in a fight with my brother""
"There's no way that isn't going to be sampled constantly"
"Islamists on twitter defending the Taliban blowing up the buddhas of Bamiyan"
"I don't know. Sometimes I chase a dumb thought and then I must chase it to the end."
"How do you know what's going on in "Afghanistan" is true if you've never been there? Personally, I refuse to believe anything I can't see with my own eyes (I'm an atheist)."
"Giggling in gogo boots, sitting atop a Taliban SAM launcher used to shoot down American helicopters."
"Man I haven't heard about the Taliban in ages"