North Carolina shooting: 2-year-old accidentally shoots, kills father, family says

Lol Fox News is going to have fun with this.

Atlanta elementary school accused of segregating Black and white students

Shut up ABC we're leaving. Supposedly.

If we are gonna pull out we need to commit to pulling out and stay the course. Just accept the Taliban controls Afghanistan again. That's gonna happen. Don't pull out and then when they take back over be like oh we gotta go back now. That just makes us look silly. Like we didn't already know they're gonna take back over?

We originally only went there to get Bin Laden anyway. It's tragic but there really isn't anything anyone can do for Afghanistan. They know the terrain and we don't; it's that simple.

Also we just never really cared about building a functional country.

Another Vietnam.

It would only be unbelievable if the Taliban weren't taking over Afghanistan.

I agree with the last few posts. I'm disappointed that the Afghan government couldn't do better at standing alone, but it shows the extent to which US/Brit intervention was trying to push water uphill the whole time: an effort likely to fail.

Moderate Afghans had a chance at self-government after the Russians left, but blew it because of corruption and in-house conflicts. Now they are blowing it again by being militarily unready.

What bewilders me is how strong and/or popular the Taliban have remained, given their cruel repressive fundamentalism.

https://www.asiaone.com/sites/defaul...buddha_afp.jpg

This pre- and post- Taliban shot of the Bamiyan Buddahs sends a message: "Support the Taliban and we will reduce your life to rubble too"

Many were driven to it as a way to fight against their country being invaded. Removing foreign military presence will likely undercut that recruiting incentive and with a focus shifting from fighting the u.s. to domestic issues, there could be an organic turn of the tide against extremist groups. It's not like we can just put the cat back in the bag, but it might starve and die.

Yes, that's true about foreign intervention being a big rallying cry for the Taliban. I hope you're right about their popularity waning once the US are out. Unfortunately, any dwindling popularity for the Taliban may not result in their relaxing their grip on the country; I don't think the Taliban are swayed much by polls, opinion pieces in the newspapers, protesting students, etc.

I think your emphasis is backwards. I don't think American politicians who don't have the will to build infrastructure in their own country ever gave a **** about infrastructure in Afghanistan. They just wanted military bases. And I doubt they gave a **** about building any kind of political infrastructure either. Just make sure your puppets are willing to take your money. And the military leaders probably just wished they could have turned the whole country into a crater.

I'm guessing any "good" Afghanis weren't corrupt enough to exist in the soon-to-be-not-current regime.

Well, I don't know the details, but I don't think the Americans were there to build infrastructure anyway. Weren't they there to give a bit of military protection, giving the Afghans a chance to fix their own infrastructure and politics? Like putting up a fence round a patch of corn; keeping the deer away and hoping that something will grow.

Yeah i also disagree

What most people don't realize about the Soviet invasion is that, not that I'm defending the soviets, but they invaded after the local govt requested intervention. Because the govt at the time was allied with the USSR and was losing its grip on control of Afghanistan because insurgents who styled themselves as mujahideen or afghani nationalists... And they resented how the govt was pushing western/modern ideals like sending women to school, being more secular, etc. And the US was funding them before the soviets invaded. Yes, you heard me right. Not only were the soviets requested to intervene, but they were requested to do so after countries like the US and pakistan helped destabilize their country through covertly funding rebels to undermine the local govt and thus the Soviet sphere of influence in afghanistan. After said rebels bleed the Soviet invaders dry with asymmetric guerilla resistance, we no longer had a dog in that fight so we pulled out any involvement and allowed the inevitable power vacuum to devolve into inevitable chaos as different groups engaged in bloody civil conflict until the Taliban came to control most of the country.

So yeah... Afghanistan didn't drop the ball here. They really never had a ball to drop in the first place.

Another homicidal "toddler" in the news

Wow.

Why do grown adults have to be told this??

Police are urging gun owners to exercise basic safety precautions with firearms.

"Our message to the public is gun safety. Locking and securing your firearms," MPO Robert Ruiz Jr, with the Altamonte Springs Police, told Fox News in a statement. "Keeping them out of reach of curious children. Having a safe is ideal but if you don’t have one, gun locks are another way to secure them."

Today in everything is horrible and people are the absolute worst:

Algeria: 61 arrested after mob kills man falsely accused of starting deadly fires

Is it time for the flood again?

Three Wise Men though.........

It is very calm in Montalembert....our commune Church, which is not used very often as France is a non religious country sinc 1901....

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Germany Flew 65,000 Beer Cans Out of Afghanistan, but Just 7 People on an Evacuation Flight :beer:

OnlyFans to ban adult material after pressure from payment processors

Another tumblr. Watch their traffic drop by 90%. Sad days for all the sex workers out there making a living through them. :/

Wamp wamp wamp time for you hoes to come work at the box factory

Ur not very woke are you m8

He's mad no one wants to pay to see him fist himself.

New York Post - Bin Laden warned in 2010 letter that Biden would ‘lead US into crisis’

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Monarchies:
 

From whence did this come? I have only heard it once in many lives and that was in the northern reaches of Iran or eastern Turkey.

Nirvana Sued by Baby From Nevermind Album Artwork for Child Pornography

Wow, I really can't believe this news story.

you'd pay and you know it

And I'm not mad at the hoes i quite literally think the best solution is that they come work at the box factory.

Don't they already work at the box factory?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIE1FLFkYMw

Facebook Apologizes After Its AI Labels Black Men As 'Primates'

Facebook is correct though.

I ****ing knew it! AI has progressed to the point where it's now indistinguishable from humans - it's even become racist! :laughing:

Incidentally, we're all primates. I have to laugh when our Archbishop is officially referred to as Primate of All Ireland! :rofl:

The bit about the Chinese premier was pure class though.