On 8/28/2021 6:11 AM, John Clark wrote:
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.
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