Turns out the way i get out of my years long funk and actually manage to read fiction books is with violent trashy horror. Any of u
got any good recs? ("Good" doesnt necessarily have to mean "actually well written") Bonus if written by a queer author, bonus×2 if by a transfem author
The fact wearing masks during flu season/when theres any disease around is a common social norm is like the one thing where Japan is genuinely above most of the world in a positive way
If ur gonna make a "materialist" argument u also have to look at what the war actually materially accomplished, which is that Afghanistan itself got ratfucked and is stuck in a cycle of war and fundamentalism (arguably wouldve happened anyway, but the soviet invasion sure as shit didnt help), the USSR arguably collapsed faster/worse because of the disastrous war, the USSRs international standing got worse for it and the afghan jihad spread worldwide including to the countries of the now former USSR (again, couldve happened anyway, but the fact the muj could recruit a bunch of international volunteers to "fight against global communism" certainly didnt help with that). Defending an abject disaster cuz it was done for "progressive" reasons is extremely idealist and not slightly materialist
I said that "the soviets were right cuz they fought against islamic terrorists" os the same argument as "the us was right cuz they fought against islamic terrorists". U are seeing shit i never said if u think im making any claims about which occupation was "more moral" (i dont care which one technically committed less war crimes)
A ww2 comparison makes zero sense here and idk how the fuck u even came to that conclusion. Is it just "the soviets were good guys in ww2 so they have to have been kinda good guys here too"?
Where in my comment do i defend either the muj or nato? This is a thing i cant stand about some leftists on the internet, even when u admit the soviet occupation failed and was riddled with atrocities, if someone critizises it even when i critizise the US at the same time u instantly launch into an angry rant calling me a salafist nato simp. Jfc
Apartheid was in southern Africa, not the horn. In the horn the USSR backed the derg, a genuinely fucky "socialist" regime, and its wars on its neighbors
U could use basically the same argument to support US imperialism in Afghanistan. "Fighting against misogynistic terrorists is bad, dont ya know?" Soviet intervention in Afghanistan wasnt bad cuz they were fighting the mujahideen, it was bad cuz they imposed a brutal occupation to prop up an already unpopular government, which never beat the mujahideen either and very likely made more ppl support them, just like the US occupation made more ppl support the taliban. This is all Americas fault for arming the mujahideen (baiting the soviets into war was their plan from the start, after all), yes, but the USSR wasnt good in this war either (idk if id actually call it "social-imperialism", but it wasnt good either way)
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