It’s not about assigning blame, but about what would have to have been done.
And more importantly, American women CAN still fight back, so why are you talking about women in another country who can’t really fight back anymore like it’s a good counterargument?
Arguably, current-day Afghanistan is what happens when you (i.e. Afghan women as a whole) don’t fight back early and decisively enough.
Economists also said that Trump would tank the economy. Americans sleep.
Not even just “sleeping”, Wallstreet is celebrating his win!
She’s amazing, Jeph outdid himself with her expressions!
unless he goes to war with us and wins.
That’s not what “direct” means. Abortion isn’t going to be outlawed in my country because Trump becomes president, unless he goes to war with us and wins.
Part of the issue is that Europe largely relies on US media - e.g. there isn’t really a European or French/German/Polish/… equivalent of Reddit or Twitter (unless you count the national Lemmy and Mastodon servers, but those are pitifully small compared to Reddit).
He also hates trans people, worker’s rights and free speech.
It’s gotta hit harder if you’re directly affected by the outcome.
Does this count as actual fascism yet?
Lots of these predictions were actually quite horrible. e.g. flying cars would be so much worse than regular cars in so many ways.
Who wants to have personal effects in their grave anyway? When I’m dead, I want to become soil as quickly and cheaply as possible.
If I wrote comments like I chat in a grocery store queue I’d never write a single comment.
A scientist might think that the historical/scientific value is more important than the personal rights of people who died millenia ago.
The people who dug up graves in the early 20th century just didn’t see the locals as people, though, which is also why most of those museums were in Europe, not anywhere near where the artifacts were found (if the artifacts were given to museums at all, instead of being sold to private collectors).
If you ask me personally: A pharaoh is a king, and fuck the king.
AFAIK cameras can be identified by the dust/grain patterns on their lenses. Probably no risk of random users doxxing you through that, but I don’t feel comfortable opening myself up to mass surveillance like that.
Why write “the” as “ð” instead of “ðe”?
God isn’t real, but if he was real he’d be a dick.
I wouldn’t be so sure about that. We definitely got a lot of social progress from technology, but it’s plain to see that social media gets massively abused for reactionary propaganda (not entirely unlike radio and print have been abused to further authoritarian ideologies in early 20th century). IME, in recent years people have been getting MORE cold and brutal, more willing to assault random people for being the wrong sexual orientation, they started assaulting EMTs, firefighters and train employees in significant numbers, and people have been outright murdered for telling them that they should wear a mask.
And every appliance becoming “smart” seems to further the corporate desire for planned obsolescence and making people unable to repair their belongings, along with massively increasing security risks and possibilities for mass surveillance.
Good luck ignoring social media nowadays. Whether you use them or not, you live in a society that does use them and you are impacted by its consequences.
And good luck trying to buy a new television that isn’t “smart”. Even cars are getting like that.
But my point is that it doesn’t make sense to use Afghan women as an argument against fighting back in the first place. It doesn’t matter if it’s their fault or not, American women need to fight back.