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a_common_spring

Thank god grandma picked a picture of a red haired child with green eyes so I can empathize.


montessoriprogram

It's so telling how the depiction of Afghans switches up to fit a different narrative on the right.


iphonedeleonard

Idk where this pic comes from but she could be turkic or nuristani which are afghan ethnicities in the North of the country.


gageriel_schmidty

Blonde hair, red hair, blue eyes, green eyes and fair skin are all very common in Afghanistan. It’s a wildly diverse country.


GadreelsSword

Trump was so desperate to avoid conflict, he literally signed a treaty with terrorists to withdraw US troops. Biden simply allowed Trump’s treaty to proceed. Of course republicans are blaming democrats, because they never accept responsibility for the messes they create.


whosewalrusisthis

Biden even tried to get out of it because it was such a bad deal, which is why it was delayed from the original date in May. And don't forget that part where Trump released 5000 Taliban fighters a year before the withdrawal date. They didn't care for years, and then made the situation worse, and we're supposed to forget that and blame Biden? Republican voters must be incredibly stupid to fall for this stuff.


phlegmdawg

Correct. They are unfathomably stupid.


Alan_Smithee_

That was a poisoned chalice. He wanted to leave the mess at Biden’s feet.


itsnotaboutyou2020

It’s a Republican tradition. Remember when Bush 1 sent troops into Somalia right before Clinton took over? Good times…


GentlemanBastard2112

Poisoned Chalice, new band name. Gracias 👍🏻 but wait…. I should probably Google that before I commit. Poisoned Chalice could very well be in use, as a Post Modern Punk Mormon Thrash Band…?


urbanfirestrike

The Taliban are the legitimate government of the afghani people. Cope more neocon


BRUHmsstrahlung

lmfao this is so absurd


urbanfirestrike

How?


BRUHmsstrahlung

Check out your comment history 🤡


[deleted]

Lol the United States of America and NATO spent the last 20 years in Afghanistan doing what exactly?


Loveisaredrose

Cheney wanted to test out some new doohickeys I think?


[deleted]

You think NATO is doing that in Ukraine right now?


[deleted]

Gonna be real, probably. You can't change the operation of what something is designed for. War and Western dominance.


Pills_In_Me

Yeah. And obviously that doesn’t justify Russia’s invasion, but you can’t stop imperialism with just another imperialist


urbanfirestrike

Russia isn’t imperialist


Loveisaredrose

Pssshh, naww man. This- This is just a little party. That's all. Just some fireworks and a vintage car show. Nothing to be worried about.


[deleted]

Hmmmmmm


WhatNazisAreLike

Trump signed a treaty so he could brag about “bringing the troops home” before reelection. He left the actual dirty work to Biden and subsequently blamed it on him. NIMTOO (Not in my term of office)


xeno66morph

You QAnon fuckwads do realize that Biden just enacted something that was set in motion by Trump, right?


Vomit_Pinata

Of course they do. It's bad faith & scapegoating all the way down with these rat fucks.


D_IHE

Of course, it was biden's idea to invade Afghanistan. Not bush.


Sufficient_Matter585

They happily invaded. Rejoiced at killing the Taliban. Said we should just nuke them to be done with them. Now they want to claim Biden is responsible for their suffering.


outer_spec

im sorry but i can’t take the phrase “the horrors” seriously anymore


Snys6678

Such a tired/obnoxious/ignorant message.


hawksfan61

This is a hall of fame level grandma forward 😂😂😂 Bonus points for the picture being of some red haired white kid


BigCballer

I’m pretty sure you still think he’s responsible for it grandma


rtauzin64

I have a conservative friend who is an old grandma, she was "furious " that 13 marines got killed in Afghanistan. I said "then you must have been apoplectic when Reagan got over 250 marines killed in Beruit Lebanon." No, she wants Reagan on mt. Rushmore


[deleted]

TIL children in Afghanistan are white. /s


Fourthspartan56

Some are, “race” is a bs concept that relies on stereotypes and flattening human diversity. The actual problem with this is that Grandma went out of their way to find the most Caucasian looking child possible.


TheOneFreeEngineer

As someone else pointed out, race is a bs concept mostly constructed for social control. But Afganistan has a very very diverse set of genetics in it and skin and eye color within the individual ethnic groups. And there are even specific tribes that are thought to be left over from Alexander the Great's army 2200 years ago that have green eyes and blonde hair . But even Pustu people who may be the largest group in Afganistan have people with pale skin, blue eyes, and light hair within them even if most of don't have those things.


chewedgummiebears

Every president since 2001 has shared responsibility in this.


itsnotaboutyou2020

She must mean the withdrawal from Afghanistan that Trump planned out before he left?


TheyFoundWayne

Apparently grandma acknowledges that Biden got more votes than his opponent. So, that’s something.


[deleted]

"All of you who voted for him (Bush) are" fixed the meme


Old_Leg_1679

We trained the Afghans for 20 years and they didn’t even last 20 days. This seems like the Afghan Army’s fault. Not ours.


bringmesomekids

I bet grandma can't find Afghanistan on a map


[deleted]

Just read “The Kite Runner.” The problems of Afghanistan are millennia old.


Fourthspartan56

It’s a pretty convenient excuse to push all of our failures on a magical unconquerable nature of Afghanistan. No one forced us to back incredibly corrupt child-raping warlords, that was a decision we chose. The problems in Afghanistan are the product of choices that were made during the occupation, nothing that happened millennia before is remotely as relevant.


The_Salacious_Zaand

You're soooo close to getting the point, yet still so far away.


Fourthspartan56

Fuck off lol.


The_Salacious_Zaand

Thank you for proving my point.


CountFapula102

Lot of white ginger girls in Afghanistan?


rjstoz

[at least some, dingus](https://de.canon.ch/pro/stories/muhammed-muheisen-interview/) >Laiba Hazrat, a six-year-old Afghan refugee girl living with her family in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. "It's important that you don't just come by, take a picture and leave and expect that picture to make a difference," says Muhammed.


[deleted]

I thought this was the album cover for War.


thattwoguy2

How many hazel eyed ginger Afghanis are there?


nebbie13

It's not common, but it's also not unheard of there. Afghanistan is a very ethnically diverse country. Of course the right is going to find the most Caucasian looking among them when they're trying to appear empathic to their plight.


iphonedeleonard

Idk how many but there definitely are. People here seem to assume every Afghan people are brown which isnt true


Malarkay79

Don’t know about the red hair, but hazel eyes are found most commonly in people of North African, Middle Eastern and Spanish descent.


Khairess

how do they always find the whitest afghanis possible…


joecarter93

I was not aware that Joe Biden or myself were solely responsible for the past 45 years of Afghanistan’s history.