It's seems obvious that the better plan would be getting military on the side of the citizens and not the fascists rather than driving the military towards the fascists.
That's the better plan, as long as they're willing to denounce American imperialism. If criticizing the imperialism they're cooperating with is enough to push them away, then they're less than worthless as an ally. Also some of us aren't American and don't care about the health of liberal democracy in your murderous neocolonial empire.
It was very clear to me from the start that for a majority of the afghan people, life would get significantly worse under the Taliban.
Except one of the reasons the Taliban took over the country as fast as they did is that the US backed government
. The US-backed government was a rotten corrupt cesspool that gave its subjects marginally more civil rights at the cost of plunging the country into decades of civil/"civil" war and destroying any chance at development and progress due to its rampant corruption and incompetence. They did a couple of things right (though very half assed), but it's downright comical to talk about "liberation" when two thirds of the population were illiterate. Not to say the Taliban are any better at these things, but at least the Taliban don't have the world's strongest military backing them.
This comic is about clowns (nominally) combining murderous hateful ideologies with ideologies concerned with improving people's lives; no part of it is concerned with what happens if you tolerate hateful murderous ideologies.
First, this is a non-sequitur as there's no direct relation between how China governs its territory and the kind of conditions it imposes/would impose on imperial vassals; by this logic Western (neo)colonialism must be "nice" and democratic because Western countries were until 2024 all democratic (hint: It fucking isn't). Second, despite the authoritarianism Hong Kong has one of the highest standards of living in the world, higher even than mainland China. What exactly is your point here?
I hate to be pedantic, and I don't mean to diminish the scale of injustice being committed against Cuba, but I can name quite a few worse crimes the US has committed.
I mean Chinese and Mexican people have been in America for almost two centuries. I'm usually the first one to shit on Americans, but at this point Chinese-American stuff and Tex-Mex are theirs.
Data theft? Data should be a public good where authors are guaranteed a dignified life (decoupled from the sale of their labor).
I've seen it said somewhere that, with the advent of AI, society has to embrace UBI or perish, and while that's an exaggeration it does basically get the point across.
Nah those guys hate (gen)AI because it's (gen)AI, or for other reasons that are ultimately intrinsic to the tech such as the intellectual property aspect.
Thats only a good if Authoritarians don't step into that gap
No, it's good even if authoritarians (thinking of China here) step into the gap. It's hard for Europeans to properly appreciate how absurdly evil US hegemony is and has been, and how much blood is on their hands for supporting it/kowtowing to it over the years. I'd rather have China as the world hegemon than, say, France frankly, and that's not out of my love for China; the EU has a lot of introspection to do if it wants to avoid America's fate, and I find this narrative of the EU as the innocent victim unfairly bullied by big brother America/last bastion of human rights to be very counterproductive towards that end.
Not exactly, some people already hate America.