Afghanistan Megathread

[JurisDictum]

So I hired a guy to paint a shed out back. After the first couple of days I check in on him and it turns out nothing has been painted. He tells me the structure of the shed is breaking down, so painting it is useless. He asks for two weeks and a lot more money to rebuild the shed. So I go for it, wanting to get the problem solved.

After two weeks I check back in. Nothing has changed. He says that initial estimates were over-optimistic and he needs at least another month and more pay to hire extra help. I go for it, because im assured its the only way to recover my sunk costs in this project.

5 weeks go by, and there still is little progress on the shed. I finally tell him just to pack it in and give up the job. He agrees, but needs a couple days to gather all his materials and to make good on agreed payed days of employees etc.

After a couple days he says we needs another week. A week later its a couple more days. Finally you just tell him to leave at once and hes not getting a penny more.

The next day my wife is harassing me about the mess he left and saying ""why didn't you just have him clean up before letting him go!?"

[Ennewi]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So I hired a guy to paint a shed out back. After the first couple of days I check in on him and it turns out nothing has been painted. He tells me the structure of the shed is breaking down, so painting it is useless. He asks for two weeks and a lot more money to rebuild the shed. So I go for it, wanting to get the problem solved.

After two weeks I check back in. Nothing has changed. He says that initial estimates were over-optimistic and he needs at least another month and more pay to hire extra help. I go for it, because im assured its the only way to recover my sunk costs in this project.

5 weeks go by, and there still is little progress on the shed. I finally tell him just to pack it in and give up the job. He agrees, but needs a couple days to gather all his materials and to make good on agreed payed days of employees etc.

After a couple days he says we needs another week. A week later its a couple more days. Finally you just tell him to leave at once and hes not getting a penny more.

The next day my wife is harassing me about the mess he left and saying ""why didn't you just have him clean up before letting him go!?"

I forget where, but it was a very liberal town/city with what was becoming a notorious intersection. Pedestrians complained about the motorists, but more so the lack of crosswalk stripes. Council members spent days debating what was to be done and who would do it and for how much. As days turned into weeks, some random person in the community said, fuck it and painted a perfect row of white stripes in the middle of the night. The very next day, when council members learned of it, they held a vote and finally came to an agreement, to have the new stripes removed. That same day crosswalk stripes were again absent from that intersection and the council members returned to their old debate regarding what was to be done. If I find the news article or video again, I'll post it.

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So I hired a guy to paint a shed out back. After the first couple of days I check in on him and it turns out nothing has been painted. He tells me the structure of the shed is breaking down, so painting it is useless. He asks for two weeks and a lot more money to rebuild the shed. So I go for it, wanting to get the problem solved.

After two weeks I check back in. Nothing has changed. He says that initial estimates were over-optimistic and he needs at least another month and more pay to hire extra help. I go for it, because im assured its the only way to recover my sunk costs in this project.

5 weeks go by, and there still is little progress on the shed. I finally tell him just to pack it in and give up the job. He agrees, but needs a couple days to gather all his materials and to make good on agreed payed days of employees etc.

After a couple days he says we needs another week. A week later its a couple more days. Finally you just tell him to leave at once and hes not getting a penny more.

The next day my wife is harassing me about the mess he left and saying ""why didn't you just have him clean up before letting him go!?"

It wasnt socialism that broke the soviets will to work, it was hypernormalism. The same hypernormalism that tries to tell me a riot is an insurrection and not yet just another example of how the people are unhappy and feel cornered in the world we live in today.

It. is. only. a. matter. of. time.

[Ennewi]

One pro of living in Japan...

https://youtu.be/2xlUDUtftGw

[Ennewi]

Originally Posted by Ennewi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

One pro of living in Japan...

https://youtu.be/2xlUDUtftGw

One con of living in Japan...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-arres...033503520.html

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by nostalgiaquest [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Only a brainwashed/uninformed American who’s never left the country would consider America the most free and accepting society on Earth. Sorry but probably not even in the top 10.

what is?

[starkind]

I feel bad about people suffering but with everything going on I am still finding it really hard to get all worked up about people killing each other while everything else is going on and the level of greed, lust, and hatred people have just interfere with them doing a few simple things to improve their lives.

All very un mohamad or jesus like.

So I kinda have 'checked out'. Even tho I care. I really do. I feel like most people would really start to feel this way if they were able to admit their failings and their desire to do better and that they weren't so much individuals as part of gods plan and could develop a little bit of superego.

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by starkind [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So I kinda have 'checked out'. Even tho I care. I really do.

[starkind]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

too many mirror neurons and not enough woke neurons imo

[JurisDictum]

Well guys, I know its very confusing when both the left and rightwing corporate media are bought out by the military-industrial complex in this country. All that shilling for Biden went right out the window on the liberal side once he went against Ratheon. There was trillions spent on the war in Afghanistan (after the Taliban offered to surrender and after we let Bin Laden escape to Pakistan). Most of the money found its way back in D.C. The rest is currently in the form of equipment confiscated by the new Taliban government.

That amount of money creates a lot of bullshit thinking in the MSM. People seem to be unaware of basic realities in Afghanistan. There was no "civil war" just a colonial one, the corrupt government we were backing there was a blackhole, that was obvious as far back as Bush. The population consisted almost exclusively of conservative muslim people who were more comfortable supporting the taliban than any occupying presence. Everyone knew there was no military solution to Afghanistan. It has been clear for a long time that the military was lying about the progress toward independence our sham colonial government was making. Its been clear that a lot of the leadership has been lining their pockets.

We know the government in Kabul wasn't going anywhere

We know the military wasn't actually planning to pull out despite years of jerking around 4 different presidents about a withdraw timeline.

We know the corrupt media is all over Biden for finally cutting the cord. The MSM is the primary way the military industrial complex creates narratives and social pressure.

But I can't seem to make this mule drink. My rightwing relatives are making this all about Biden fucking up the withdraw -- which he might have but few people actually appreciate the agency problem he has to deal with.

Mainstream Dems are generally too cucked to say anything atm and change the subject.

The majority of Americans still support the withdraw of Afghanistan. The media however, continue to supports the indefinite occupation of Afghanistan. They make several low IQ arguments about how military presence in Afghanistan is somehow a cost effective way to fight ISIS. I guess people buy that shit because they are kept in the dark about how the Taliban is actually an ISIS enemy and part of the way we killed them off last time.