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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Remember kids, when brown people do something bad, it’s terrorism. When white people starve an entire population after a failed occupation, that’s just because we are very concerned about misogyny. Now, starving an entire country en masse has (to my knowledge) never caused a government to be overthrown, and in this case has no chance of improving the treatment of women in the country. Nor have women in Afghanistan ever asked for sanctions, nor do they support them now that they are in place. But don’t let that fool you in to thinking we’re doing it for any reason other than to help women in Afghanistan.

    Before you respond, please take a look at my post and notice I said _nothing positive about the Taliban _. This is about the disingenuous use of women’s rights to excuse and even celebrate mass starvation.

















  • The thing is, I’ve seen Trump supporters dodging criticism of the big lie by pointing to Hillary saying the election was stolen from her. Now it’s true that she didn’t do a January 6th, but it’s still cover.

    I will say, I think it’s true that without Russian interference she would have won. But that’s only true because her loss was so narrow, almost anything happening slightly better would have won her the election. The real question is: why did Democrats run a candidate weak enough that this was a possibility in the first place? Trump was an awful candidate, and he would have been trounced by any non-awful candidate. But it’s more comfy for people to stick their heads in the sand about the fact that HRC actually lost the election.