Where did I justify it lmao
Yes. An occupying force that came to help the progressive government that the people didn't like. Going back to my point - the Afghani people never wanted any of this. They wanted to be left the fuck alone.
IS he promising universal housing and food? Big if true.
Estonians pay a nearly 50% tax on salaries, we get universal healthcare and education, but not the other stuff you listed. Would definitely be way happier if we got that. Happier than a couple of euros more post-tax salary could make me.
You think everyone has the same values as you? Newsflash: Most Afghanis outside the major cities would consider you to be a piece of shit for your values.
USSR and USA tried to change that by force. They failed, because you can control a few cities, but it's incredibly difficult to control everything in the mountainous countryside. Just give up. Let the people of Afghanistan deal with their own issues instead of forcing western values on them at gunpoint. They're not really hurting anyone except themselves. Eventually they may be enlightened, but it needs to be grass roots, not bombs and bullets.
Get the hell out of here with your occupation apologism. The urss ia responsible of 1.5 millions afghan death
Of course it is. Because they were rebelling against what the USSR was trying to bring - a more progressive nation. They did NOT WANT any of what the soviets wanted to force on them (such as, among other things, gender equality). Getting back to my original point - they do NOT WANT TO BE LIKE US. Which is why it was wrong of the USSR to get involved, and wrong of the US to get involved.
Say the average bus is 10 tons empty and the average car is 2. The fourth power law states that the bus is 625x as much wear on the roads.
It'll reduce traffic jams, as well as empower people who can't, or can barely, afford the fare, but road maintenance? Not so sure.
What would help more with the road network maintenance is taxing heavy vehicles. Commercial vehicles could get a bigger threshold and personal vehicles a smaller one.
They didn’t care about afghans or democracy that’s why they kept a weak army
The locals didn't care either. Have you seen those videos of them failing to grasp the concept of jumping jacks in their military drills? Why did afghani commanders make up troops (that they got paid for enlisting)?
The "united snake" as you call it only funded what was already a very popular group with rich history in their region of the country. Obviously I'm not saying that was the right thing to do, I'm just saying that it's not like they put any more effort into that.
They had a government that was getting increasingly progressive - and they had increasing amounts of trouble keeping the population happy with that, which is why the USSR came and tried to help, but unfortunately a lot of people did not support the PDPA's initiatives - the women's rights were a particularly sore spot and had been even before the revolution. Then the US of course famously funded a bunch of hardcore religious freaks (that were essentially seen as good guys who helped people in their area) to counter the soviets, the soviets lost what was already an incredibly difficult campaign to drive progress in an anti-progress land, and then we got Taliban numero uno, yay
I have not ended up in court. It really depends on what kind of people you deal with.
The overwhelming majority of people would not falsely accuse people of sexual assault. Even of those who would do it, I reckon most would only do it against a high net worth individual. Still, there have been documented cases of false accusations landing people in jail.
While I was being hyperbolic, it's still food for thought. How DO you prove consent after the fact unless you had a signed contract? Not to mention the fact that consent can be withdrawn DURING intercourse even if there was consent in the beginning. To legally be 100% protected, you'd have to have a contract AND a video recording for every time you have sex. Video recording to prove that consent was not withdrawn after the fact. Contract to get permission for sex and the recording of said sex.
To be clear, I am somewhat kidding, but also not. No, I have never signed contracts, nor recorded having sex. But I HAVE broken the rule of "don't stick your dick in crazy" and I am moderately scared of what future holds for me - luckily I have 2 years of text conversations proving that it was a consensual relationship (I mean technically not all consensual on my part, she threatened me plenty, just not for sex).
To illustrate how crazy we're talking about: She essentially whined me into getting her mom airpods and an apple watch as a gift. Since she was an extremely explosive pregnant lady, I agreed. Later when she got into a spat with her mom, she asked for the things back and when she didn't get them back from her mom, she had me file a police report for theft of these things. Literally the kinda person who falsely accuses everyone of everything to get things. I'm in for a bumpy ride.
Oh and of course if anyone is asking "wait, the relationship only lasted two years and she was pregnant?" - well naturally, she claimed to be on the pill. And a sheet of said pills did appear on a countertop when she started hanging around my place. But I suspect she was just throwing them down the toilet once a day. This was month #1.
The CIA knew it was bullshit but Cheney wanted there to be WMDs so chose to believe bullshit artists instead, if John Kiriakou is to be believed. One of the only times in history where CIA might have been the good guys.
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