if you don’t vote we’ll become like ARABS

Coincidentally just as the CIA financed, trained and armed opium warlords and religious zealots to recruit personal armies and set them to burn down thousands of schools all of the country teaching girls in an attempt to eradicate the nascent communist movement and pull their neighbors, the soviet republics, into an unwinnable war of attrition.

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yeah but that was back then and also that’s uhh whataboutism I think

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edit: skibidi vote

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Afghanistan wasn’t even really pro-USSR, they were just neutral in the cold war and that was enough for the US to start weekly deliveries of grenade launchers to what we now know as Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

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The republicans are just about to turn into the Taliban, forcing a dystopian theocratic hellscape on you and stripping you of all your rights.

What should you do about it? Well, obviously you should vote for the people who wants a strong republican party and want to put republicans in their cabinet so they can get “good ideas” from them.

These people are not going to do anything to stop the republicans or to break their institutional power out to handle the socio-economic ills driving support for the republicans. But somehow voting for them is all you have to do to stop the republican Taliban.

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I’ve used this argument on my lib friends plenty of times.

You bait them with “Trump is an evil christofascist, right?” or something of that sort, then follow it up with

They usually just get really dismissive and holier than thou but it’s still fun.

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[Trivial: Failure] Encyclopedia - Your mangled brain is unable to come up with a proper critique of this.

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And which nation of imperialist cousin fuckers armed the Taliban?

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