#aghanistan

[the-railroad-earth]

Mujahideen swimming in a river, 1988 [source]

[magnoliamyrrh]

thats why it hurts my brain too when ppl have intense ass arguments abt what race specific "hard to classify" groups are

the balkans are just one example of this bc weve been considered a bunch of shit throughout history and we exist in a weird position always but. there are So Many ethnic groups and regions of the world which are like this

and ppl will go on entire things with the upmost seriousness trying to "race" whatever ethnicity when its like....... dude do you not understand.... does the entire argument itself not make you see.... this is all made up and this conversation makes no damn sense bc there isnt actually any sort of biological basis that this shit is based on ,, ,,, race is Largely some bullshit made up for the sake of oppression and youre trying So Hard to shove ppl into it instead of understanding the complexities of the situation...why..... pls stop

[laundryandtaxes]

Typing here because notes don't give notification but here are the fundamental points of disagreement I take with this framing.

As stated in my reply, it is no secret that Hamas considers itself to be acting on behalf of the Palestinian people or is aligned with their interests, including an end to Israeli occupation. Whether the Palestinian people are aligned with them I do not know, but let's presume for a second that they are, and that every single Palestinian believes that every Israeli citizen is fair game for any amount of brutal violence one chooses to inflict. This still changes nothing other than how Westerners view the moral position of the people. But even if a people had an entirely "bad" national character, it would still not justify their occupation and intentional genocide, which is at least a major part of the fundamental project of Israeli occupation and always has been.

No two situations are exactly the same, but consider the case of Aghanistan. There is a nonzero percentage of Aghans who actively support the Talbian. There is an even larger number who saw their lands and lives and livelihoods and families outright decimated by two decades of war between the occupying US forces and the various fighter groups trying to wrest control out of US hands, and wanted absolutely any end to the war possible even as everyone knew that would mean imminent rule by the Taliban. The US occupation of Afghanistan was terrible and violent and only added to the overall level of violence surrounding everyday people. Neither the fact that the US occupation was horrific, nor the fact that some Afghans support the current Taliban government, means that those egging on the end of US occupation were cheering for the Taliban. The fact that some Aghans support the Taliban does not mean I think women and girls should, in fact, be barred from school and most public life. But even if the national character of the Afghan people was such that every single one of them supported the Talbian during US rule, that wouldn't mean they deserved occupation and genocide for people of poor character. The West has had to outright lie about the levels of Nazi sympathizing and violent elimination of dissent baked into the Ukranian state's character. I acknowledge that this is a position you could call that of a "Soviet sympathizer," but among those in the left with this view of Ukraine, we still don't think the Ukranian people deserve to be tossed into a meat grinder and made to die in tremendous numbers for no reason. Ironically, it is the West with its talk of support that takes this view of the value of the lives of these people. So talk of what a people support or like in a region of the world where of course people have different values and ideas and goals than I would is not a useful barometer for anything imo.

If every Palestinian wanted every Israeli dead tomorrow, the state of Israel would continue to exist. If every Israeli wanted every Palestinian dead tomorrow, the Palestinian people might see a conclusion to their ongoing genocide in the region, because Israel has a state, it has a military, it has almost a whole nation of potential conscripts and gives itself 18 years to militarize and shape the viewpoints of those potential conscripts, it has its Iron dome, it has American backing, it has the aporoval of the "international community" and has been pushing the bounds ever more in the direction of internationall illegal actions for every year of its existence. It is not surprising that it's not the case that every Israeli wants that- it's a function of the fact that human beings generally dislike violence and do not wish to see war. But functionally, I could say the same, that everyone who is sending #prayersforIsrael thinks the people on the receiving end of IDR bombs signed by Israeli children deserved to die, and that every Israeli must answer for some Israelis setting up beach chairs to watch a bombing; ultimately that's what this sounds like to me. I legitimately think the national character of Americans is absolutely awful, and the project itself rotten beyond use, but if some new occupying force showed up tomorrow determined to enact a genocide on the whole nation, I would find that bad in the same fundamental way that I despise all genocide.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Beautiful Aghanistan

By Justin Heine

[maaarine]

Taliban ban women from national park in Aghanistan

‘Despair is settling in’: female suicides on rise in Taliban’s Afghanistan

[chaiaurchaandni]

on mass deportations of afghan refugees in pakistan

pls watch this video, its not exhaustive and ur encouraged to reserach more but this is a v good intro to the afghan refugee crisis in pakistan right now.

not many people are talking about this but this is a gross human rights violation. according to pakistan's citizenship laws, people born on pakistani soil are automatically eligible for citizenship and parents/spouses of pakistani citizens are also eligible for citizenship. however, these laws have not been extended to afghan refugees. now these refugees are being deported to afghanistan, even tho many of them have never been to aghanistan. theyre literally being sent to camps on the pak-afghan border and forced to take classes on how to evade landmines. the police is also targeting and brutalizing documented afghan refugees. any success and wealth that afghan refugees accumulated has been in spite of the bigotry of most of the pakistani population and in spite of the shitty pakistani government. these civilians are in no way a strain on pakistan's economy, neither do they pose a security threat. theyre just being used by the pakistani establishment as a political pawn to get back at the taliban govt in afghanistan and to appease the pakistani population in the wake of intense economic and political instability. the conditons in afghanistan are already horrible and the vid touched upon that. afg has suffered some major earthqakes that have killed thousands of people, in addition to the sanctions + ofc the fact that the country is trying to rebuild after almost half a centruy of violent conflict

also want to point out how sick this is considering that pakistan benefitted a lot from the wars in afghanistan (against the soviets and against the taliban as well) bec of US aid and then bec of aid that was given to pakistan to cater to afghan refugees (ofc this aid almost never made it to the people who needed it - pakistan has p much no welfare programmes for the refugees) and pakistanis are often discriminatory/racist against afghan refugees. the afghan people have suffered a lot due to pakistan's greed and now theyre suffering once again. pakistanis are literally using similar rhetoric thats used against pakistani immgrants abroad (that theyre illegal aliens, that theyre illiterate regressive extremists, that theyre rapists and criminals)

[transgenderer]

okay so the central bank of aghanistan is called "Da Afghanistan Bank" and i cant figure out....why? what is da? It sounds like someone is just saying "The afghanistan bank". da afghanistan bank...

[joelletwo]

[ID: tweet by @/Laddin_ reading "America has now bombed and conducted illegal wars in: -Iraq -Syria -Libya -Somalia -Pakistan -Aghanistan -Palestine -Yemen But Muslims are the terrorists?"

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As someone who volunteers at a refugee center that specifically serves middle eastern refugees, and is the daughter of an immigrant Iraqi woman: exactly this. Arabs are routinely accused of being terrorists, but it’s Arab countries that are practically getting eradicated every single day. This has been happening over and over, and it’s getting extremely tired that it slides every time. And yet Biden has said with his whole chest that there would be more US-UK airstrikes on Yemen incoming. Fucking insane that anti-Arab racism gets a world stage & everyone’s just okay with it. Ceasefire now.

[more-intensity]

…of Aghanistan shortly after the September 11 attacks. After spurious[11] claims about the possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) by Iraq were made in the United States Security Council by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell in 2003[12], he also ordered the 2003 invasion of Iraq[2], thereby beginning the Iraq war.[13] That same year Bush ordered the remake of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air for white audiences making him responsible for the creation of the hit Fox network show The O.C.[4][14][15] After the capture of Saddam Hussein on 13 December 2003, Bush returned to…

[needlesscontrarian]

Biden pardoning everyone court martialed under Don't Ask Don't Tell is such an unambiguous W it's shocking he didn't do it sooner. Right up there with Aghanistan in terms of saying "sorry I've been a huge piece of shit about this for most of my political career now that I have the power I'm fixing it."

On that note: just legalize weed! Come on Joe it's not so bad! Everyone would love you forever and you'd win in a landslide.

[void-of-course]

Q” UKRAINE

PUTIN SAIS HELL ONLY END WAR IF UKRAINE ABANDONS CRIMEA AND NATO

WATTT UUUU DOOO!?!?!?

T: TROOPS HATE BIDE

LIKE MEEE

NASED ON ALL INFORMATION

IF WE HAD A RESPECTED PRESIDENT RESPECTED BY PUTIN

Many future deaths

AGHANISTAN most embarrassing moment

NO GENRAL FIRED FOR MOST EMBARASSING MOMENT IN HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY APHGNISTAN

PUTIN SAW OUR MOMENT

HE SAID HEY WE COUND DO IT TO UKRAIN

NO TERROR UNDER TRUM

B: SO MUCH MALARKY

IRAN ATTACKED AMRICAAAAAN TOIOOOPS

UNDER HIS WATCH

HE DIDNT DO A THIIIIING

100 THOUSAND TROOPS OUT OF APHGRANISTAN

[tieflingkisser]

it's actually not the same though, as neither Sudan nor Aghanistan nor Congo nor anywhere else on Earth facing food insecurity right now is a fenced-in open-air prison that is being genocidally cleansed as part of a decades-long colonization with starvation being intentionally weaponized as part of that mass murder

these situations should not be used to downplay one another and what any of these places is no less horrific, but it is important to acknowledge that what is happening in Gaza fundamentally different including in how and why and to what degree food insecurity is effecting the population

also this is a maybe a glitch or something but i only see you talking about Sudan on your blog in response to people talking about Gaza???

edit: never mind i see you are a genocide denier which explains everything

Entire Gaza population now 100 percent severely food insecure

[bookoformon]

3 Nephi, Chapter 6. Part 2. "The Order."

Even after an amazing miracle, the revelation of the Plates of Nephi, the text warns the Robbers were going to betray the people, and they did. So long as there is null enforcement of the law, the Robbers will return to the scene of the crime. They will try bigger and more elaborate works of evil and they will succeed because no one will know what to do.

This is what happened when George W Bush and Dick Cheney pulled our bra cups up over our heads and faked terrorist attacks on New York and DC, and then invaded Iraq and Aghanistan so Dick could play in a sandbox down the street from where Jesus grew up in Israel during his retirement. They got away with it. Then came Donald Trump and a huge list of felonies and war crimes, and then comes now. All of Dick and Don's friends are watching Europe go up in flames, refusing to put the key in the ignition and do what is right.

The Book of Mormon says all we need "are a few who are firm and willing" and we can get rid of the Republicans and this nagging evil on the other side of the world forever:

10 But it came to pass in the twenty and ninth year there began to be some disputings among the people; and some were lifted up unto pride and boastings because of their exceedingly great riches, yea, even unto great persecutions;

11 For there were many merchants in the land, and also many lawyers, and many officers.

12 And the people began to be distinguished by ranks, according to their riches and their chances for learning; yea, some were ignorant because of their poverty, and others did receive great learning because of their riches.

13 Some were lifted up in pride, and others were exceedingly humble; some did return railing for railing, while others would receive railing and persecution and all manner of afflictions, and would not turn and revile again, but were humble and penitent before God.

14 And thus there became a great inequality in all the land, insomuch that the church began to be broken up; yea, insomuch that in the thirtieth year the church was broken up in all the land save it were among a few of the Lamanites who were converted unto the true faith; and they would not depart from it, for they were firm, and steadfast, and immovable, willing with all diligence to keep the commandments of the Lord.

Riches are okay- braggings, boastings and persecutions, these are not okay. Society needs merchants, lawyers, and "officers" in order to function but if they abuse state power or refuse to use it appropriately and law enforcement watches, then one risks what we have risked: the possibility of a world war and now we've got our Third. How did that happen?

Merchants "travel by ship to trade." Merchants in Judaism represent scholarship. They ensure life within the self external to it is fresh, new, interesting, and innovative.

We have allowed a bunch of hogwashers, the Republicans and Mormons who think a box of plates in upstate New York, left there by Navajos from ancient times tell them it is okay to fuchk their kids and they are willing to protect this belief with lethal force.

If only I were 40 years younger! Rrawr!

A little scholarship would have explained a miracle happened when Abe Lincoln and co. took those brand new brass printing plates they created in Nauvoo, Illinois, applied ink to them and minted the first real copies of the Book of Mormon in 1829.

Lawyers provide religions with their princpals. When we learn in Sunday School how angry God became when men turned violent, and He regretted making the world, the little lawyer inside each of us should register a spiritual direction for the soul that leads away from violence. This principalled point of view is meant to be lifelong.

Officers take orders from the conscience and give them to the faculties.

If these three aspects of divination go awry, then persecution is the result.

The Values in Gematria for the above verses are:

v. 10: The Twenty and Ninth Year after the BOC. The Value in Gematria is 9668, ח‎טוו‎ ‎, "he ordered."

v. 14: The Thirtieth Year after the BOC. The Value in Gematria is 9844, טחדד‎, tahdad, "sharpen up."

[the-invisible-queer]

Criminal Minds contuity error

If JJ was back and forth between DC and Aghanistan when they faked Emily's death

How did Spencer go to her house 10 weeks in a row?

Because I got rough dates for her time in Afghanistan (due to that Cruz fixation I had to brutally murder)

And she was back in Afghanistan within the same month that Emily "died"

So like wtf?

[juniorrios003]

Airstrike in Aghanistan - 3 JDAM TACP

[sagetheroom]

“You have to understand, no one out their children in a boat, unless the water is safer than the land” - Warsan Shire

“In Somali, when we say injustice we say ‘dhiiga kuma dhaqaaqo?’ which translates into ‘does your blood not move?’” - Warsan Shire