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[–] TheCelticPirate 235 points 1 month ago (2 children)

GOP - "Write that down! WRITE THAT DOWN!"

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (2 children)

“Wait… you just pass a law and women can’t talk? Call the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society. We have the final solution.”

[–] FlyingSquid 74 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Does the law also apply to Marjorie Taylor-Greene?

Is there a way to make it only apply to Marjorie Taylore-Greene?

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[–] foofiepie 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Let’s maybe not call it the final solution.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 12 points 1 month ago

It’s apt. Apt!

[–] fluxion 18 points 1 month ago

Pfft, they stole that from Project 2025, Appendix F

[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 month ago (13 children)

For the Taliban, women are sexual slaves whose sole purpose is to be baby making machines: they're not human beings.

[–] yesman 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For the Taliban, women are sexual slaves whose sole purpose is to be baby making machines

What a backward society. Under that thinking, a post menopausal woman would be useless.

[–] gsfraley 65 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Luckily we here in America have much more encouraging and progressive viewpoints from people like our VP nominee Vance who said the purpose of "postmenopausal females" is to provide backup childcare.

https://www.ibtimes.com/jd-vance-postmenopausal-female-economy-3739794

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

Don't forget that they have to cook and clean as well.

[–] exanime 13 points 1 month ago

So exactly JD Vance's stand

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes 95 points 1 month ago

Project 2025

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Never ask about:

A man - his wage

A woman - her age

A talib - what they do to a boy aged 5-12

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Why are they so afraid of women?

[–] VubDapple 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who would be the servants and sexual submissives if women were free to do as they pleased?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Conservative Sunni Islam's attitude towards women basically boils down to men needing to see as little as possible of them, lest they become uncontrollably rapey. Shia are a little bit less misogynistic, and Sufi are significantly less so.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Conservative Sunni Islam's attitude towards women basically boils down to men needing to see as little as possible of them, lest they become uncontrollably rapey.

I find that so utterly bizarre, like, you can't control your sexual impulses like a normal person does unless every woman in your field of vision is dressed like a Halloween ghost?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's the woman's fault, obviously!

Edit: also, your comment is ironic given your username. One of the GOAT sexual deviants...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sunni Islam does not prescribe women being fully veiled nor does it forbid schooling. The Taliban are following tribalism not Islam.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I used "conservative" for a reason. Sunni men writ large consider the hijab mandatory, but not face coverings.

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[–] gcheliotis 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Probably because many local women would outright reject the Taliban, as partners and as masters, if they had a say. Educated women especially would run circles around them.

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[–] bazus1 60 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I feel like the Taliban rule workshopping is something like, "Okay, everyone write down ANYthing that get you off or arouses you. Alright, let's see... 'women's feet,' yeah, banned. 'Clothes,' okay banned. 'Women singing.' Y'all some fucked up, but also banned."

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Isn't beards required because a smooth faced man might cause impure thoughts?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know about you guys but even as a straigh dude, especially glorious beards can also have me staring and acting unwise...

I say ban all beards.

[–] bazus1 11 points 1 month ago

As another straight dude, I don't know what you're talking about. I happen to have unrelated photos at the ready below.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid 36 points 1 month ago
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[–] huzzahunimpressively 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Once, I talked with a Muslim, and I said that they are afraid of women. He told me that they aren't afraid of women; they respect them so much that they have to cover them and do all these kinds of things

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Obviously. How else would they protect them from their uncontrollable male urges?

/S in case anyone gets confused...

[–] Duamerthrax 25 points 1 month ago

"We protect them like diamonds!"

"So you protect them like objects?"

[–] DrSleepless 27 points 1 month ago

Religionheads are the worst

[–] exanime 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well I'm happy a war was fought to liberate them and bring them the joys of deMoCRacy and cheap beer

[–] chaogomu 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The war in Afghanistan was lost the moment Bush switched gears to invade Iraq.

He pulled resources out that never went back, and then Obama did the same to fight ISIL. And then Trump pulled even more out just because.

As the years went on, more of the security was offloaded to a corrupt interm government that never quite managed to become self sufficient.

When Trump did his pull out, he got Congress to pull funding. That funding was all that wa keeping the Afghani military going.

Then Biden had to finish the pull out, and he did not stick the landing.

Also bonus fun fact. The Taliban is very likely going to start the world's first Water War. They've been damming and diverting rivers that their neighbors rely on.

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[–] RandomGuy79 19 points 1 month ago

Man I can't believe they've done it. Who saw this coming

[–] lennybird 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Can you believe it, MAGA has more in common with the Taliban and Russian neo-nazis than being American? At least, their platform reflects an obvious roadmap to these destinations.

[–] xc2215x 10 points 1 month ago

Should not be a shock to anyone.

[–] SattaRIP 10 points 1 month ago

This is taking victim blaming women for the mens' reactions to their existence to a new level of so stupid it won't work and will actually have the opposite effect in that people are MORE frustrated, sexually or otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

The usual women as posession of the mate shtick.

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