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Happy Taliban Day! - Impress Polly - Aug 15 2025
August 15th was the fourth anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Kabul. To celebrate, thousands of men gathered in the city's streets wearing flowing religious garments to watch helicopters drop "flower showers" nearby. (You be the judge.) I say men because women were, of course, banned from the fruity national independence festivities. It was appropriate and just as well really, considering that their human independence has also been outlawed, leaving them with nothing to celebrate. Human women in today's Afghanistan literally enjoy less freedom than the country's birds and squirrels, who are, by contrast, at least free to roam the nation's parks. Fully veiled women protested the occasion indoors (as they're under permanent house arrest because of their sex), were joined in solidarity by women of Islamabad in neighboring Pakistan, and were cursed as traitors to God by their government for their ingratitude.
I post this as a reminder that no, the fact that Israel is brutally colonizing Gaza right now doesn't actually mean that Muslims are all Ms. Marvel. Islam is not actually our friend and, taken as a faith group, far from facing extinction, is in fact the world's most rapidly-growing religion, on track to overtake Christianity as the world's leading faith persuasion some time in the next five or ten years. To judge by the tone of many posts around here, it seems to me that an occasional reminder is in order.
Incidentally, you know how many of the Taliban's early fighters got their political start? Many of them had previously belonged to a Marxist faction known as the Khalqs who'd briefly seized control of the government in a military coup in 1978 and went about attempting to redistribute the nation's land equitably and get girls and women into schools. Their regime was overthrown by the Soviet Union the following year and the Khalqs went into opposition. Many ultimately joined the new-fangled Taliban years later. The Taliban has now won the nation's independence in no small part through the appeal of its land reform program, which is basically the same as that of the Khalqs before them by no coincidence. They (the ex-Khalqs I'm describing) dropped that frivolous women's stuff along the way though, seeing as this whole women being human crap is all colonial bullshit too. This is the result. It's kind of like how the "men's rights" movement here in the United States was originally a male feminist movement known as "men's liberation". Originally men's lib was just a name men who supported the women's liberation (i.e. radfem) movement of the 1970s gave themselves. They tasked themselves with pitching men the idea that masculine social roles were limiting and oppressive to them. (Sound familiar?) By the 1980s, they had shifted away from championing the advancement of women and begun to focus on the interests of their own sex at the expense of women instead (e.g. fighting for more child custody victories for fathers, etc.) and things simply devolved from there over time, especially once the internet became a thing, and eventually what once was a network of male allies to the women's cause now breeds Andrew Tates and incel terrorists and forms a sizable chunk of Donald Trump's support base and is disproportionately represented amongst the ranks of online pornography addicts. (Incidentally, Mr. Tate in recent years has chosen to make the conversion to Islam, speaking of. He seems to feel that it is the most misogynistic religion available.)
If I have just depressed you about the prospects for reforming moids and the male gods they've invented for us to serve then I will have done my job here. It is vanity. They hate you and cannot fake any other sentiment for any too long. Embrace this reality and live accordingly.