Pseudoplatanus22 [he/him]

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  • I assume they were talking about this interaction:

    The US fled Afghanistan and the Taliban won. Mind you, while I don’t like the Taliban, it’s better for them to be in charge than the colonial occupier the US had been trying to act as for 20 fucking years. If there is to be hope for Afghanistan in the dilemma between the Taliban and US, we must agree that the local force that actually has some stake in the country doing well is the better option.

    Hardly a defence of the Taliban’s ideology or methods. As for the stuff about DPRK, well… libs gonna lib.


  • Same thing happened in Vietnam. In fact, public opinion only really changed after the politicians started saying that it was ‘time to scale down US involvement’ or whatever, which only came years after many people in the Whitehouse realised the war was unwinnable. In the meantime, and despite all the famous protests and anti-war marches, the public was pretty happy to follow the official line that America was the good guy and that communism had to be stopped.

    You could do an interesting analysis of this phenomenon using Gramsci’s idea of Cultural Hegemony as a framing device.