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Remind me, who spent billions funding and training the Taliban?
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2025
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Remind me, who spent billions funding and training the Taliban?
Pakistan?
Meanwhile the USA possibly spent almost a bil on training camps in Pakistan, and who knows how much on the Pakistani ISI.
"But the left one doesn't put burqa on women, therefore they're pro-women!" - delusional cultural-christians
Ya'll Qaeda
Y'all-Qaida
And then somehow, we have the self described “model leftists” doing this:
Yeah, but the Taliban are at least not so nationalistic that they can recognise the usefulness of the engineering chops of manufacturers like Toyota. Say what you want, 10 years from now those Toyota Tundras in the desert will still be running. It's a crapshoot with the Ford F-150s.
the left needs to be more pro gun if they want to solve this
While I am a pro-gun leftist, being a pro-gun leftist absolutely wont solve this.
I have this and OP's saved on my phone next to each other.
The differences are the brand of truck they use, and that the Taliban actually seems to use the truckbed.
Lots of Christians believe that, come the end times, they will be bodily taken up into heaven. (That's the reason for embalming, to preserve the body for judgement day.) Since, of course, they'll take their trucks with 'em, they don't use the bed now. It'd suck so much to spend eternity with scratched paint.
One difference is that the Taliban are arguably pro-immigration, as long as the immigrant is a muslim who does as they're told.
GOP are also pro immigration so long as the immigrant is rich and white.
And does as they are told.
Y'all Qaida, or maybe the Yee Hawliban?
Just YeeHawd, a play on Jihad.
They are NOT pro gun, they are pro control. Guns are for the ruling class only.
Who? The republicans are firmly pro guns. If you're american, just buy one.
Did you mean the Taliban being pro guns laws?
Republicans have and will pass laws that make it harder for nonwhites to obtain firearms, and they have raided and will raid nonwhites who stockpile firearms.
Yes! I wish the left would wake up. Now is not the time to be disarming yourselves.
When the user said "they" it was in reference to the GOP.
I did some research on the Heritage Foundation, which is who is really running the country right now. They're the people behind Project 2025s. Their president is a member of Otis Dia A radical Catholic group.
In essence, our country is being run by a radical Catholic group... You're on point.
Isn’t that ISIS, not the taliban?
You may be right about the pic, considering the seal on the flag.
You may?! this is like the terrorist group equivalence of racism.
There's a lot of cross-pollination between Jihadist groups over symbolism, even accounting for the fact that they all draw on the same long-standing symbols of Islamic faith in general and (regardless of whether they're Wahhabist or not) of Wahhabi revivalism from the 18th century. ISIS isn't even the only group which uses the Seal of Muhammad on their black flag with Arabic lettering (which I can't read, as a monoglot).
Religious extremists gonna extreme religion.
Religions don't spread by the quality of their truth, but rather the quality of their violence.
I found it! The left uses Rams/Chevys/Fords and the right uses Toyotas.
Aren't Dodges supposed to plow thru the middle?
That's why it says Dodge right on the front there.
They are one and the same. Rightwinged extremism is just the same thing with different skins.
end times is the goal
They have such an apocalypse fetish. Im not one to kink shame but its gross.
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Looks like the Taliban prefer Japanese imports... 🤷
The Toyota Hilux is a guerrilla classic. Mega US trucks have nothing on it.
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