ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
6hr ago
Why should I privilege the views of a non American specifically selected on idealogically grounds over the 12 randomly selected ordinary American citizens who apparently spent like two weeks listening to just the testimonies alone who all decided he was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt
I never understood this argument. The evidence the jury gets to hear is curated, so they don't necessarily see everything, the quality of the arguments depends on which side can afford a better lawyer, and people are easily manipulated by the general zeitgeist and the media bombarding them with propaganda about racist police.
Also no one is arguing you to privilege the guy's argument, presumably you posses sufficient reasoning faculties to evaluate his argument on your own.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
10hr ago
The US won for ~20 years, we had dominance over most of Afghanistan while barely even lifting a finger.
The "barely lifting a finger" was a massive money pit that could have funded all sorts of "everybody gets a pony" programa from universal healthcare to a permanent base on the moon, and the "winning" was a state where you failed to subdue your enemy.
The issue techieland has isn't in winning the war, but in convincing their people that a war halfway across the planet is worth the relatively minor expenditure on them against a group of people who see their side as existential and go into hiding.
Even in that framing it sounds like they have a shortage of manly men that would enable them to take decisive action.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
16hr ago
"The government we set up collapsed, and we had to leave" is a curious definition of victory.
If you moved Belgium next to the Taliban any war would be laughably one sided in Belgium's favor.
Belgium has a quarter of the population of Afghanistan, and almost 10% of it is Muslim. Moving it closer would, if anything, work to their disadvantage.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
19hr ago
Who wins?
Techieland obviously.
That's not what I saw in Afghanistan.
What?!
I don't disbelieve, I'm just impressed. Even if the top of the range is that one couple who really fucks, the sheer logistics of it all...
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