Well the Taliban have taken over Afghanistan and have already outlawed the keeping of song birds as pets because they produced music, which is also banned, they won't even allow humming, and they have outlawed the flying of kites apparently because it's fun and having fun is banned. The Taliban previously slashed all the artworks in the Kabul Art Museum they could get their hands on, burned libraries, and blew up two huge historic 6th century statues because it depicted a leader of a rival religious franchise, Buddha. The Taliban require that all women who go out in public must be accompanied by a man and wear something that looks like a a hazmat suit you would wear if you were visiting the core of a crippled nuclear reactor or trying to help a highly contagious Ebola patient. And many conservatives look upon all this with glee and think we could use it as a blueprint for the future of the USA.
Fox's Republican pundit Tucker Carlson and Trump supporter (obviously) , likes the way the Taliban treat women, immediately after the fall of Kabul he said "*The Taliban ** don’t hate their own masculinity, They don’t think it’s toxic. They like the patriarchy. Some of their women like it too. So now they’re getting it all back. So maybe it’s possible that we failed in Afghanistan because the entire neoliberal program is grotesque*.” Nick Fuentes, an influential white supremacist, Trump ally, Holocaust denier, and January 6 rioter, said on the encrypted app Telegram: “*The Taliban is a conservative, religious force, the U.S. is godless and liberal. The defeat of the U.S. government in Afghanistan is unequivocally a positive development.*” The Proud Boys, another pro Trump group that was very active on January 6, said approvingly of the Taliban that they "*took back their national religion as law, and executed dissenters*.” Matt Gaetz, a Republican congressman and rabid Trump supporter said "*The Taliban, like Trump, is more legitimate than the last government in Afghanistan or the current government here*.” Yoram Hazony, an Israeli Bible "Scholar" and right wing ultra-nationalist said “*The humiliation of Afghanistan will have been worth it if it pries the old paradigm loose and lets new thoughts in. What went wrong in Iraq and Afghanistan was, first and foremost, the ideas in the heads of the people running the show. Say its name: Liberalism*.” And now the Taliban have a new religious enemy, ISIS-K, who think the Taliban don't go nearly far enough and are far too liberal. No doubt Republicans will embrace them even more than the Taliban. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> oto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3%2BBySXHCMNzcOq6P1kHgqdLddC-yz5d2Zr5pBeBrZGeg%40mail.gmail.com.
