A guy I know who was working for the US government in Afghanistan trying to eradicate the opium production said that the reason they choose to grow opium isn’t because they make more money than growing other things (the farmers don’t get paid that much at all for the opium), they would much rather grow strawberries or melons, my friend said the best fruit he ever had was in afghanistan, but the problem is that the roads are so terrible that you can’t grow and ship things before they go rotten, whereas opium, you can stick it in a shed and it will keep for two years if stored properly.
Anyway, yer man says he became disillusioned with the whole thing after they just kept trying to throw money at the problem, paying the farmers to not grow opium, they used the money to buy more land and grow twice as much the next year.
I know Americans who talk like this. They’re generally pretty well-adjusted, I think it’s more of a coping mechanism to deal with the actions of their government. Even the most lefty Democrat is wilfully blind of US foreign policy (“I didn’t even vote!”)
We had a period of religious fruitcakes running the country too.
Living abroad the only kind of racist thing (racist is too strong a word) that as Irish I experience is people confidentally talking me things about Ireland and problems we have or had and the causes of them and solutions.
That’s the same kind of bullshit you see here. People know one tiny thing and completely blind to everything they have no idea about. It’s much more racist when it is directly impacting how people live today though.
At least we can just ignore it now and won’t have much impact.
Fucking lol. Afghanistan 2 for 0 versus global superpowers, but Butterface McNugget opines from his LaZBoy that they are ‘weak as a nation’.
The phrase ‘Irish potato famine’ boils my blood, it comes across as reductive and is usually used by brits or Americans
You can’t argue with somebody who doesn’t know the difference between “then” and “than”.
It wasn’t a potato famine it was genocide by the English. Donkey……
Looooooow aaaaaare the fiiiieeeelds of Kandahar.
I agree with the sentiment, but r/LateStageImperialism is a pro-Russian tankie sub.
Afghan famine was caused by a bunch of religious pos violently taken over their country and now in the process of ruining it for decades.
Fuck off with this comparing it to the irish famine shit bs
I encountered many of these sorts of comments under a similar post in r/worldnews recently. Lots of finger pointing about “cowardly men who flee rather than fight for their own country” by Americans who have never had to make that choice.
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A guy I know who was working for the US government in Afghanistan trying to eradicate the opium production said that the reason they choose to grow opium isn’t because they make more money than growing other things (the farmers don’t get paid that much at all for the opium), they would much rather grow strawberries or melons, my friend said the best fruit he ever had was in afghanistan, but the problem is that the roads are so terrible that you can’t grow and ship things before they go rotten, whereas opium, you can stick it in a shed and it will keep for two years if stored properly.
Anyway, yer man says he became disillusioned with the whole thing after they just kept trying to throw money at the problem, paying the farmers to not grow opium, they used the money to buy more land and grow twice as much the next year.
I know Americans who talk like this. They’re generally pretty well-adjusted, I think it’s more of a coping mechanism to deal with the actions of their government. Even the most lefty Democrat is wilfully blind of US foreign policy (“I didn’t even vote!”)
We had a period of religious fruitcakes running the country too.
Living abroad the only kind of racist thing (racist is too strong a word) that as Irish I experience is people confidentally talking me things about Ireland and problems we have or had and the causes of them and solutions.
That’s the same kind of bullshit you see here. People know one tiny thing and completely blind to everything they have no idea about. It’s much more racist when it is directly impacting how people live today though.
At least we can just ignore it now and won’t have much impact.
Fucking lol. Afghanistan 2 for 0 versus global superpowers, but Butterface McNugget opines from his LaZBoy that they are ‘weak as a nation’.
The phrase ‘Irish potato famine’ boils my blood, it comes across as reductive and is usually used by brits or Americans
You can’t argue with somebody who doesn’t know the difference between “then” and “than”.
It wasn’t a potato famine it was genocide by the English. Donkey……
Looooooow aaaaaare the fiiiieeeelds of Kandahar.
I agree with the sentiment, but r/LateStageImperialism is a pro-Russian tankie sub.
Afghan famine was caused by a bunch of religious pos violently taken over their country and now in the process of ruining it for decades.
Fuck off with this comparing it to the irish famine shit bs
I encountered many of these sorts of comments under a similar post in r/worldnews recently. Lots of finger pointing about “cowardly men who flee rather than fight for their own country” by Americans who have never had to make that choice.