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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Damn, a lot of "Fuck Afghanistan, hoo rah America is great" kinda vibes in here :-/ I left Reddit to get away from the constant USA Defaultsm nonsense...

Yes, let's ignore the most important issue - people are suffering and as decent humans we have a duty to them, when we can instead use it as an excuse to point out how much better Americans are at being a country, etc etc :-(

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My impression of reddit was the opposite. Lots of people who have never set foot outside of their town saying America was the worst place on earth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems reddit exists to spread controversy...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems people will do whatever mental gymnastics they want to be correct and have their experience be the only true experience. You don't need to blame social media for that one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Username checks out (in a way)?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Y'all read waay too much into unames lol

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly fuck that? USA, it's intentions mixed as they were, at least tried to help - and that's a country that already had experience in influencing growth and change in other countries. I can't really see other options for them.

Yeah, they are in a bad place but please let's not forget that they actually worked to be in that place. So screw that, my heart goes to them but they're lost case for now, until they are ready to fight for themselves.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

we have a duty to them

So you mean reoccupy them right? Because that seems like the only option in order to force the local bad actors out. Or if you mean foreign aid, then you're directly funding the Taliban and all that money will be just embezzled and wasted by them.

How are we supposed to help them out now?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I left Reddit to get away from the constant USA Defaultsm nonsense...

This is possibly the most delusional take in the entire thread. If you thought that reddit, where people take every opportunity to shit on America somehow has constant "USA Defaultism". You have to be a Stalin worshipping commie to even begin thinking that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I read that and was rather surprised, it felt like it was the opposite. And I wasn't in rah rah murica subs, this was in the large default ones.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

How can most people help and as a follow up how can we help them and not the Taliban