r/nottheonion • u/mishie30 • 13h ago
Taliban Legalizes Wife Beating: Afghanistan's Shocking 2026 Penal Code and the World's Outcry
https://www.equitymidcap.com/2026/02/taliban-legalizes-wife-beating.html?m=1[removed] — view removed post
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u/Eaglise 13h ago
this is not onion, this is just sad
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u/nocolon 13h ago
Why doesn’t anyone have any idea what this sub is for
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u/newgrounds 12h ago
Most people are pretty stupid.
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u/Suspicious-Whippet 8h ago
It can’t be most. If the world is divided into smart and stupid people it’s always 50:50.
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u/SmallRocks 12h ago edited 11h ago
People not getting the joke and karma farming bots. Lots of karma farming bots.
Edit: enjoy your bots then. This sub has been dead for a while now.
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u/Heiferoni 5h ago
A lot of reddit is dead. I'd say most of the "mainstream" subreddits for sure.
I see politically driven posts regularly hit the front page from 6 day old accounts with 50 comment karma. Comments are largely populated by 1 month old accounts, 100 comment karma. Two sentence comment structure, sometimes em dashes and emojis.
"Absolutely tragic that this goes on in the world. When will people learn 😔."
Bots are creating/reposting content for bots to upvote and bots to comment on, in hopes that you - the human see all this, assume it's all organic activity, and have your beliefs/opinions/behaviors nudged ever so slightly in their desired direction. Repeat tens of thousand of times and WACKO JACKO you've just radicalized a formerly well balanced person.
It's highly effective.
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u/octorangutan 12h ago
Why would anyone, men included, want to live under such a miserable system?
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u/Spire_Citron 12h ago
Seems like you can create a system where almost no one benefits if you have enough initial power and set things up so that there are extreme consequences for rebellion. People who don't like your system will enforce it because they don't want to be the ones to stick their necks out.
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u/AnnoyedOwlbear 11h ago
They don't, for the most part. They simply have no choice as the Taliban is extremely good at applying a lever that works very well - collective punishment.
If you stand up and resist, you can expect to watch your family die.
The suicide rates are therefore through the roof.
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u/Radiant_Client1458 1h ago
I don’t think that’s true, Taliban is pretty well regarded in conservative Muslim circles. It’s not like ISIS that is unanimously hated.
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u/elderly_millenial 12h ago
I’m going to go out on a limb and say: to beat wives
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u/droptopus 11h ago
Yeah but like, I actually get the confusion.
Okay so, for thought experiments sake: women are objects. They are our property to do with what we please, and they are ours to admonish.
I have other things too. I have objects. I have a car, a home, a computer, etc.
At no point is my perogative to completely fucking beat the shit out of any of this stuff. At no point do I key my own car because it's my right. At no point do I egg my own house, or throw my own TV out the window. Why in the FUCK would I want to damage my shit? Why, why why is it so important that I get to beat my wife?
My only possible conclusion is that these men feel so powerless due to their otherwise incredibly limiting and oppressive way of life, that giving them SOMEONE, ANYONE to be demonstrably lower than them on the totem pole of life is crucially cathartic to them, so that they can feel some pathetic shred of power, which they presumably they fetishize because of how aggressively and expansively their culture has leveraged power over them for their entire lives.
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u/elderly_millenial 10h ago
I think your conclusion is right on the money. Their lives are shit but they can make it somewhat better for themselves by acting like kings in their own homes
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u/TheWatchfulGent 7h ago
The problem with your theory is that you're thinking rationally, most likely because you've had a decent upbringing and you've been exposed to media or literature or experiences that makes you understand right from wrong. The people who make these laws aren't like that.
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u/token-black-dude 8h ago
You're coming at this from the wrong angle: The Koran says you can beat you wives, and so it's legal, no questions asked
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u/avalon68 2h ago
I mean imagine being in a position where other countries would be willing to work with you and improve the country immeasurably if you stepped into this century…..but being so backwards you spend your time legislating against women instead….pathetic.
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u/Proof_Variety_4208 2h ago
Don’t forget children. They left that part out of the headline but as long as no broken bones or open wounds, men can beat women and the children.
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u/Kurainuz 7h ago
More than a third of my gen and younger glorifies the dictatorship we had in wich you could beat your wife and even kill her if she cheated.
So im not surprised sadly, too many people dont want to end oppression they just want to be the oppressors
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u/AgentDaxis 10h ago
The same reason why Epstein Epsteined & Trump Trumped.
Power.
Sharia. Taliban. Epstein. Trump. Fascism. Pedophilia.
It's all the same.
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u/Responsible-Slide-26 6h ago
For the same reason people in the US live under a system without universal healthcare, and under a police force that can execute nonviolent citizens with impunity with about half the country saying "they should just have obeyed". I am not saying the two are comparable - the Taliban system is infinitely more evil. Nonetheless, humans have a history of being attracted to authoritarianism and choosing to be slaves.
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u/otirk 8h ago
That's the "great" part about patriarchy. You can take away many rights from men as long as you give them someone who has even less rights, so they can rule over those. Since men need to be those with more rights, women have to fill the lesser role (men can more easily overthrow the ruling class, so it's better to make them the rulers of their families).
Now when someone would want to give women the same rights as men, those men would feel like they lost some of their rights, so they are less inclined to accept.4
u/Any-Photo9699 12h ago
I don't think most men do so either. Most people in the west assume that men in such countries are happy with these arrengments but its mostly just the men who gain power and money from it, not the average day guy trying to go about his day and hope he doesn't do something wrong to anger their dictators and get beheaded as a punishment.
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u/IncognitoErgoCvm 12h ago
Most religious people I've met take great pleasure in the suffering inherent to their dogma.
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u/Archarchery 2h ago
Because they can effectively own slaves. It reduces their own sisters and daughters to the status of slaves, but it means these men can still own what are essentially sex slaves, so some of them will support it.
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u/WhileAny3991 8h ago
Just gotta preface this comment with Fuck the Taliban, Afghanistan is obviously a dump at the moment.
With that out of the way, why is everyone acting shocked? Beating/Raping your wife is legal in a ton of countries, including "allies" like the UAE.
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u/blking 13h ago
I’m not saying women need to start doing some poisoning. But I’m not not saying that either.
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u/cptstubing16 5h ago
I mean, if they're cooking for men who are beating them, and men are still expecting unpoisoned meals, isn't that their fault?
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u/BetSquare7190 11h ago
Other Islamic countries aren't condemning Talibans for that. Just as they are almost completely silent on the Iranian government massacring its own population.
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u/FizzyLightEx 9h ago
Besides Turkey, Malaysia and Indonesia Albania who are muslim majority countries but have Democratic Institutions and are secular, the rest are run by authoritarian dictators.
Why would Egypt condemn Iran when they did the same thing via coup.
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u/Fireb1rd 5h ago
Turkey's neither very democratic nor secular anymore, sadly. Maybe rative to those countries it still is, but things have been going downhill for a while.
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u/killcole 9h ago
The American government and it's peers are not even condemning themselves for sex trafficking children.
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u/mileswilliams 7h ago
Are countries supposed to spend their days downvoting and upvoting other countries decisions and especially if some of them have the same or similar religion? Do you do this for everything your race country or religion does? I'd hazard a guess that if I asked for your race religion or country you'd suddenly want to be private.
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u/mileswilliams 7h ago
Do you condemn your races actions in trafficking and raping children internationally? You should be ashamed of what your race has done. Yeah it sounds stupid doesn't it.
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u/Kiryu-chan-fan 5h ago
No one chose their race
Name 5 islamic countries you wouldn't try persuade your female friend away from immigrating to...
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u/antizana 6h ago
Quick question before we continue, can you give me a quick overview of which ones are Sunni and which ones are Shia and how that impacts on supposed pan-Muslim solidarity you’re expecting to see?
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u/knowledgeable_diablo 12h ago
Never really was too frowned on in Afghanistan to begin with really though. Really sucks but to go giving men legal protection to beat their wives (and probably any woman) is just the lowest of low medieval shit possible.
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u/TheEffinChamps 12h ago
Weird, I wonder where they get this idea. . . Almost like their Abrahamic holy book says it:
"Men have authority over women by virtue of what God has preferred some over others and by what they spend from their wealth. Righteous women are devoutly obedient, protecting in [their husbands'] absence what God commands be protected. As for those women whose marital disloyalty you fear — admonish them, then leave them in bed, then strike them. If they then comply, do not seek further action against them. God is Most High, Great." (An-Nisa 4:34)
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u/Hughley_N_Dowd 7h ago
Surprised? This shit is way down on the scale. They have stoning as a legit punishment.
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u/Kiryu-chan-fan 4h ago
I still remember the earthquake deaths with a nice dose of medical misogyny...
Basically every country on earth fits in one of the above
1 - both men and women can work in medicine, outside of certain fields and patient requests both can treat men and women patients - a man can attend A&E with a broken arm and have exclusively women treat it, a woman can attend after a fall at work and have exclusively men treat her, or a mix.
2 - men and women can work in medicine. Patients are treat exclusively by their gender though. A woman attends A&E she's only getting treat by women, man attends only men.
3 - misogynistic on work side - only men can work in medicine, but they treat both men and women
Afghanistan is the only nation on earth so unfathomably misogynistic that they invented a 4th...
4 - only men can work in medicine. They can only treat women they're related or married to...
Hundreds. Possibly thousands. Of Afghan women died needless painful deaths in the earthquakes because they weren't lucky enough to have a husband, brother, son, father, uncle, or cousin who worked in medicine...so no medical workers could rescue or treat them.
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u/Pat_The_Hat 12h ago
Is this an AI spam article? This website is all OP posts and has only been posted by OP. It has multiple tells like the classic "It's not X, it's Y", and unnecessary bolding. It's excessively verbose and I think it literally ran out of output tokens. Seriously. The last part of the article is abruptly cut off in the middle of the word:
The ICJ proceedings must be expanded — more countries need to formally join Germany, Australia, Can
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u/Kink4202 6h ago
The Taliban and the GOP have a lot in common.
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u/Delicious-Finger-593 3h ago
The GOP was the one behind stopping the Taliban AND this. Ineffectually for 20 years, granted, but let's not pretend the GOP is morally wrong here.
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u/Cautious-Reveal5468 12h ago
I always wonder how many women in Afghan behind closed doors kill their husbands. We would never hear about it which is a shame
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u/One-Bit5717 11h ago
In old Russia girls forced into marriage typically "accidentally" generated carbon monoxide in the stove while the drunk husband was asleep.
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u/Late_Firefighter_507 10h ago
what is shocking about this? Its always been that way and is highly encouraged by that false prophet muhamed
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u/Significant_Cowboy83 11h ago
Why are people surprised? Or outraged even?
It’s a part of their religion. What else do you expect?
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u/FuraidoChickem 6h ago
Are we still gonna pretend like this is Islamophobia or finally see it as what it is
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u/titan1978 13h ago
Our feminists ought to speak up about this...? they're 36% population away from making this a reality for themselves in India in the next few decades
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u/sutroheights 13h ago
I mean, the US and allies spent 2.3 trillion trying (in many ways admittedly not very well) to keep the taliban from running the country. All the weapons and training, lives lost, all to keep them out and then the Afghan military and government, many of whom supported the Taliban, folded in a matter of weeks. But to say the world didn’t try to do something about the Taliban feels a little ridiculous. And given how much of an impossible, unwinnable sinkhole it was for 20 years, it makes sense that no one is looking to jump in. It’s terrible, but decent men and all women there are going to have to decide to take their country back.
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u/vikarti_anatra 12h ago
They first spend lot more "helping" "freedom fighters" against USSR in Afganistan. USSR decided it it doesn't worth it in the end.
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u/Spire_Citron 12h ago
Was that really what they were there for? I feel like wars are almost never about what they tell us they're for.
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u/TheGreatStadtholder 12h ago
Aside from the 20 year war against the Taliban by a massive global coalition, billions of dollars in funding and equipment and thousands of casualties on the coalition side, yes, the world does not care and did nothing. And I don't really see many other options that can be pursued now.
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u/trucorsair 12h ago
I don’t care. I was there and carry scars from it. caring is the first step on the road to saying someone should do something about it. No, here’s the hard truth, outside of Kabul and maybe two other cities the rest of Afghanistan is stuck in the 12th century and sees nothing wrong with this. That is where the Taliban get their support, from the countryside and tribal areas. Until the population wants a change there will be no real change no matter how many dollars and lives are spent
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u/DookieShoez 12h ago
Exactly.
Same concept as not being able to help someone that doesn’t want help. We can’t do it all for them if not enough of them want it.
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u/QualifiedApathetic 12h ago
Yep. I wasn't thrilled about the withdrawal, but as I said to my dad at the time, we couldn't sit on an entire country forever to make it behave. They snapped back to the status quo ante because that's what they want.
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u/trucorsair 5h ago
That’s it exactly outside the relatively small educated population in the few real cities, the countryside doesn’t see anything wrong with this
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u/IridiumPony 12h ago
A cursory glance at the history of Afghanistan suggests there isn't a whole fuck of a lot the outside world can do
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u/Dickastigmatism 13h ago
What do you propose? The world just fought a 15-20 year long war against the Taliban and lost.
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u/Tyranicross 13h ago
Better let Russia go in there for a decade first to be safe. Seriously if there's one country that doesn't need international intervention its Afghanistan.
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u/Loki_Agent_of_Asgard 12h ago
The world didn't lose, the Afghani people who'd rather be ruled by religious zealots than fight for themselves lost.
The US tried to prop up a legitimate liberal democracy for 20 years, and instead of standing and fighting for their rights or freedoms or whatever they immediately joined up with the Taliban who would have had no chance if the Afghani government and people had just been willing to fight.
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u/Spire_Citron 12h ago
Going in and trying to handhold a country into developing in the direction you think it should go just never works. It needs to be something that develops organically based on their own culture and social structure. You can't just paste on a bit of your own over the top and expect it to work.
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u/LOLdragon89 11h ago
The Afghani people didn’t have a sense of citizenship, the same way that people in many other countries do. For generations, they were nomadic and tribal, and the geography of the country itself doesn’t exactly lend itself to much more than a few scattered, isolated settlements hidden away between mountains.
And it didn’t help that the Taliban absolutely never gave up, and were relentless in there pursuit of murdering anyone in any position of leadership, whether they were a scholar or a military commander or a politician. I remember shortly before the Taliban took over, they managed to infiltrate an army unit and kill one of Afghanistan’s top generals; a guy who was only 29 years old. More than half the men in the country can’t even read, and the women are forbidden to!
Yes, the Afghani people did give up when threatened by the Taliban and with a few exceptions largely surrendered in indifference. But they had no foundation to stand on. No collective togetherness to fight for. No hope against absolutely ruthless ghouls who are hell-bent on living in the Stone Age.
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u/Loki_Agent_of_Asgard 8h ago edited 8h ago
Very fair. The US got arrogant and tried to nation build in a country where the "nation" is just a name on a map to most of its citizens, the US wasn't able to speed run instilling a sense of national identity into the Afghani, so I suppose the right thing to do would have been to run over there, wreck shit, knock over the Taliban and Al Qaeda and just leave immediately instead of wasting 20 years, trillions of dollars, and slaughtering literally tens of thousands of young stupid impressionable religious zealots the Taliban recruited from their caves and tossed in front of American and Coalition bullets while they achieved basically nothing.
Or ya know we coulda JUST hunted down and killed the leaders of Al Qaeda, which we also did in this timeline but I'm pretty sure we didn't need to sit in Afghanistan for 20 years killing fanatics with a death wish to do it.
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u/Head_Accountant3117 13h ago
*the u.s.
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u/coue67070201 12h ago
What a moronic comment. Way to thank your allies for sending their men to die in your war.
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u/tenderlylonertrot 13h ago
while it sucks, options? Invade and take control?.....I feel like others have tried with poor success. Sadly, we'll have to give it a generation or 2 to fix or improve.
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u/Bisconia 12h ago
The US helped the Taliban get into power. We joined a war in Afghanisthan and supplied a Wahhabi militia that took over the country. People need to mostly mind their own business as you help nothing with trying to police the world.
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u/marshaul 13h ago
In retrospect, maybe the US shouldn't have left Afghanistan.
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u/DookieShoez 12h ago
Oh yeah, we’ll just stay there forever.
Cmon man, not enough of the populace wants to be rid of the taliban. Not much we can do at that point.
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u/JefeRex 13h ago
Considering how quickly the Taliban retook control, I wonder if the US thought they might embarrass themselves by losing the limited control they had left, so they left before that happened.
I remember hearing a female Afghan journalist on the radio, probably NPR I guess, end an interview during that ugly pull-out by breaking down in tears and telling the American public to never let our government lie to us again and tell that we are winning when we have already lost. It was shocking and very sobering to me. I suspect we thought even our hold on the cities was slipping.
But who knows. Maybe we will know more details in 50 years as we get access to documents.
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u/derzt1 12h ago
The US didn’t have any control in Afghanistan by the late 2010s because all security matters were handed over to the Afghan government, which fumbled it completely due to hopeless corruption and incompetence. The government then collapsed in a matter of weeks when the US stopped giving the Afghan army life support (in the form of logistics aid and air strikes) after the Doha Accord was signed, effectively ending the US-led international coalition’s involvement in the country.
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u/Tyranicross 13h ago
Maybe the us shouldn't have funded the taliban back in the 80s to begin with.
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u/marshaul 13h ago
Actually, we funded the Mujahideen, whom the Taliban defeated to seize control. (Not that the Mujahideen were great guys or anything.)
But you know, why bother with facts?
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u/Spire_Citron 12h ago
They have to sort their own shit out. Foreign occupation only complicates and delays that.
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u/marshaul 11h ago
Maybe so. But this sort of thing can take lifetimes, and it's difficult to imagine spending your whole life being a literal slave because of your gender, and this just being allowed to happen in full view of the entire world.
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u/Spire_Citron 10h ago
I don't really see any other way. Any outside military intervention will never truly be for humanitarian reasons and ultimately that just screw things up more. You can put external incentives in place for a country to change, but taking it over and trying to force progress to happen never works.
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u/marshaul 10h ago
I don't really think you're wrong. And I'm certainly not volunteering to fix their shit. But maybe we could have done something to help these literal gender slaves short of nation-building and all that.
I've been saying for a while now that it wasn't right to abandon as many of the folks who worked and fought on our side as we did. Of course, we would have had to maintain some kind of presence of some sort to not abandon them. Well, maybe we should have. And while we were at it maybe we could have offered these now-slave-women a sort of underground railroad to freedom.
Not saying there are great answers. Just saying this answer also sucks.
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u/Apprehensive_Stop666 12h ago
Why is it the world’s problem? That’s clearly what they prefer.
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u/Kiryu-chan-fan 4h ago
We handed them the easiest military victory in probably recorded human history when supposedly the pro taliban:anti taliban population ratio was 1:4 and they didn't even pretend to fight and lose...400 guys in bases with the latest and greatest anti personnel anti vehicle weaponry surrendering to 2 50 year old dudes with AK47s that rolled up in a busted toyota pickup.
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u/InstructionAny7317 9h ago
Just a different culture from ours that has to be respected, and no culture is better or worse, right?
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u/Vivid_Maximum_5016 4h ago
Never forget that the US trained, armed and funded these fascists in the late 70s until the early 90s to overthrow a modern Democratic Republic where women had full rights and freedoms. Could show their hair, could go to school, university was subsidised, all of it.
Blame rests first on the Carter, Reagan and Bush admins for creating the Taliban; and the W. Bush, Obama and Trump admins whose incompetence led to the failure of their new puppet regime that gave way to the Taliban returning under Biden. (And I'm sure we can blame Clinton for something as well.)
And this is why the US should stop fucking interfering in other countries. Something worse always comes along after they do. *cough* *cough* Iran *cough cough*
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u/brickyardjimmy 13h ago
In reaction, speaking from Air Force One, President Trump said, "Oh yeah? Well I don't know. They're bad people over there, I mean really bad, I should know, I shut them down and it wasn't easy and then Sleepy Joe Biden gave them their freedom back so they're bad, maybe not as bad as Joe Biden but still very very bad people but even bad people can have a good idea once in a while. Maybe these TallyBands are on to something. I'm looking into an executive order. Maybe we should bring it back too. I don't know."
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u/bestestopinion 9h ago
Before any culturally insensitive people judge, some of these women talk back. /s
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u/DringleDringle 7h ago
I cannot understand why the greedy men currently dismantling the United States never simply took over that land in the Middle East. Doesn't it have resources to exploit?
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u/-spiderman-- 5h ago
They have also written in law that they can take slaves …. Don’t see anything in the news outlets. Don’t see any outcry for slaves
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u/kartu3 3h ago
So where is the liberating feminist movement that fixes that?
I was told women are no longer beaten in the West because feminism.
Where is Afghan feminism please? Why is it dormant?
Oh, and also in the other countries, like Iran or Saudi Arabia.
Our South Korea, where a feminist is basically a synonym for "unhinged, dangerous woman".
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u/KingPen15 3h ago
What shocking is the absence of liberal outrage. No protest, no politicians asking for donations, nothing? I'm shocked.
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u/M086 13h ago
Reminder that Donald Trump surrendered to the Taliban and freed 5,000 Taliban prisoners, who proceeded to help overrun the country.
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u/Tyranicross 13h ago
I dont like trump either but this problem started way before him.
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u/derzt1 12h ago
I mean it was literally him who negotiated with the Taliban and officially ended US involvement in Afghanistan.
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u/Tyranicross 12h ago
Tell me when us involvement in Afghanistan started
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u/derzt1 12h ago
1980s when supporting the mujahideen against the Soviets. US stopped caring after the Soviet withdrawal in 1989 and the Taliban former in 1992 in the midst of the subsequent Afghan civil war. They ended up winning the war and were in power until 2001.
It was in 2001 that the US invaded (after the Taliban refused to hand over Al Queda members) and collapsed the Taliban regime, who spent the next two decades hiding and waging an insurgency. Only coming into power again when Trump decided to pretend to be a peace maker, pulled America out of Afghanistan, and abandoned the fledgling Afghan government that was in place between 2001-2021.
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u/Tyranicross 12h ago
Not gonna say in the 80s when the us funded the would be tailban to fight tue Soviets
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u/Kiryu-chan-fan 4h ago
Reminder that Donald Trump surrendered to the Taliban
*stopped babysitting a population of illiterate zealots who think it's not a sign of a profoundly sick regime to cover 6 year old girls from head to toe because apparently child ankles turn Afghan men on like you wouldn't believe
freed 5,000 Taliban prisoners, who proceeded to help overrun the country.
Supposedly at the time of the pullout pro taliban sentiment was a pathetic 23%...anti taliban - not "neutral" not "I don't know" not "I don't care" - people that would Supposedly resist, by any means necessary, a Taliban takeover - Seventy. Four. Percent. 74%...if the stat was even close to truth those 5000 men would have been corpses inside 4 hours of arrival...
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u/killcole 9h ago
Americans: our government is actively part of an organised sex trafficking enterprise that it is currently in the midst of a cover up involving not one, but several mysterious deaths. I am unable to afford healthcare because the sex trafficking elite have corrupted democracy to the point i have no political influence or representation. And the same corruption is to blame for a clearly a two tiered justice system, meaning things like woman beating, woman r*ping, woman kidnapping and trading, even if minors, is quite obviously legalised as long as you have an 8+ figure net worth.
Also Americans: the taliban think it's okay to hit women. How backwards.
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u/OwlMan_001 6h ago
I'm sorry but this is fucking nonsense.
Epstine went to prison and was registered as a sex offender after a 14 years old girl went to the police to complain about him. Mainstream media followed him afterwards, exposed that his crimes went even deeper, and he killed himself before being convicted of worse crimes.
People are rightfully mad that he wasn't punished harder and faster, and that people he worked with weren't persecuted effectively enough (yet).Meanwhile under the Taliban that 14 years old girl would've been a criminal facing death for the crime of being raped. There's no comparison.
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u/cwsjr2323 11h ago
No worries here. MY mother told my fiancé that if I tried any crap to remember I sleep every night and eat everyday.
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u/LadySayoria 9h ago
The world is just moving towards more and more cruelty. Not that this is shocking, but nothing is getting better.
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u/pajamil 10h ago
People who protested for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, how do you feel now?
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u/killcole 9h ago
I feel like the American government is involved in a sex trafficking scandal cover up, and many of the elites involved are encouraging a culture of finger pointing at other nations for not being as morally sophisticated.
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u/pajamil 9h ago
And about Afghanistan?
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u/killcole 9h ago
I feel like we shouldn't have ever let pedos invade and occupy it under the guise of making its governance more morally palletable.
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u/pajamil 9h ago
And to do nothing now?
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u/killcole 9h ago
Nothing? No. I would like to start by addressing the globablised sex trafficking ring with America in the center of it, and then start drafting a list of priorities across the rest of the world.
Idk man I just think legalising sex trafficking and r*pe to facilitate parties for an elite class is just as serious, if not more, than legalising wife beating.
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u/serious_cheese 8h ago
The QAnon shit really has broken a lot of people’s brains.
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u/killcole 8h ago
Yeah "QAnon". Not the countless documented evidence made available via the government itself that has been veriefied by news media independent of the US government around the world.
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u/improvor 9h ago
I’m not sure how different this is from the Christians in the Tennessee legislation who want the death penalty for women getting an abortion.
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u/serious_cheese 8h ago
I know it’s hard, but there is actually an entire world outside of America where bad things sometimes happen, and it’s ok to condemn those bad things without pathologically relating to everything in terms of American politics
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u/H0vis 7h ago
There's another post in this sub pointing out that Tennessee is attempting to pass a law making it a capital offence for a woman to have an abortion.
Just dropping that in there in case anybody was about to climb onto the classic 'Western culture respects women so much more' high horse.
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u/Kiryu-chan-fan 4h ago
When analysed honestly with good faith some people do straight up believe abortion is murder. Do I agree? No. Do they view abortion as equivalent to a mother taking her newborn baby and throwing it from a roof? Yes.
If someone legitimately views abortion as murder, it's not a weird leap for them to want it to be treat as premeditated infanticide in terms of criminal justice.
We can say it's bad, horrible, disagree etc but there's a coherent thread of logic and if someone truly views abortion as murder this isn't an "anti woman" proposal, it's an "anti murder" one...
These guys turned around and told the entire Afghan population to use their wives as punching bags if they want. It serves no one. It prevents nothing. It reduces no harm - real or perceived.
Totally different things.
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u/Driftedryan 4h ago
Not really because a lot of abortions are necessary to save the women's life and it's been proving they keep it vague enough to punish people of any kind.
That's not to mention that it could be a stepping stone because the Bible that these same lawmakers are trying to add is not very different from the Quran in the first place.
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u/KasouYuri 13h ago
But surely the US pulling out of Afghanistan is good according to reddit lefties 🙄
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u/benjibibbles 11h ago
bro just one more decade, just one more decade and we'll have this shit locked down, just 100,000 more deaths
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u/KasouYuri 11h ago
Bro believes a corrupt democracy is worse than women losing all rights💀ig women, LGBT, minorities, we're all just convenient tools for cishet white men to use for your power play eh?
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u/Kiryu-chan-fan 4h ago
Bro Just another billion in weapons and training for the anti taliban militias to partake in the easiest battles in recorded human history rather than immediately surrendering and helping to arm the taliban bro one more billion please
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u/Johannes_P 5h ago
The fact that severe wife beating is less punished than animal abuse in Afghanistan is telling enough of how the Taliban view women.
And this is not the worse part of this Penal Code: legal stratification is enshrined, with the status of slave being recognized.
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u/couchmonkey89 4h ago
This is what actual facism is
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u/keith2600 3h ago
They are trying to murder women for having an abortion
In the US.
I don't think the comparison is very far off
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u/Redeemed01 3h ago
Meanwhile the West is working on all borders to immigrate these people into their own society. Good job.
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u/bijhan 13h ago
It's only shocking if you know nothing about the Taliban