Anyone know if this is true or not?

    • bob_lemon@feddit.org
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      There are a lot of people that are capable of suppressing women without the US just fine. Just have a quick look at the Arabic peninsula, or the Taliban.

      Western securely repressive puritanism, maybe.

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        Nah, we funded both Iran and the Taliban. We even elected a guy who illegally funneled weapon sales to Iran in order to take that money and give it to Nicaraguan death squads. Arguably, without US support, neither gets the critical mass it needs to effect regime change or become anything more than an upstart.

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          The Taliban hated women long before being funded by the US, and hating women was not why they are funded. Same for the fundamentalist Iranian Muslims.

          Them being in power (and the subsequent suffering of women) can be attributed to the US, but not them hating women per se.

          I like hating on the US as much as anyone, but let’s not pretend they’re the source of all evil (only lots).

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        This is Iran in the 1970s, before the US started providing weapons, training, and funding to groups like literally the Taliban.

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          Wow, I’ve never seen this before. I don’t mean this in a derogatory way or anything, but they look like people.

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              Yeah, I know I just mean to say that nowadays they’ve had all of their humanity stripped away, they look more like machines than they do people.