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operation mulch maker

The US has had 30 years without the USSR and they’ve gone to complete shit.

capitalism is the most efficient system

well i’ve been afraid of chaaaangin’ cuz i built my life around you

Can oil be pumped-and-dumped?

british petroleum has always thought so

seems like it’s just continuing the trend that began around feb. 2024. accelerating dedollarization?

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Although it had been known for centuries, occurrences in Afghanistan exploded in the 1980s with the ascendancy of the U.S.-backed Mujahideen government. It was briefly quashed under the Taliban (1996-2001), but returned again in the 21st century under the U.S.-protected Afghan government, made up of many of the same elements who were in power two decades previously.

just like opium cultivation. the u.s. occupation wasn’t simply ignoring it, but was actively promoting and encouraging the practice among their local comprador allies. this was official u.s. policy for afghanistan under every president since jimmy fucking carter.

Bacha bazi was primarily practiced by high-status individuals put in power by U.S. occupation forces – police, military, teachers, and government officials. Many of these people lived with their boys on U.S. compounds. This meant that, in practice, the U.S. taxpayer was subsidizing the widespread **** of children, one of the many reasons that American personnel were so unpopular with the local population, and why the U.S.-installed government fell within days of the 2021 military pullout.

Likewise, drug production in Afghanistan directly correlates with U.S. involvement in the country. In the 1970s, heroin production was minimal, and largely for domestic consumption. But as the Western-backed regime change war dragged on, Washington looked for other ways to support the insurgency. They found their answer in opium, and soon, refineries processing locally-grown poppy seeds sprang up on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Trucks loaded with U.S. taxpayer-funded weapons entered Afghanistan from their ally, Pakistan, and returned filled to the brim with opium.

You can’t blockade the sun!

We don’t know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power. It was believed they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun.

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i almost added the padme face but then i worried i’d have to edit it to fit the structure of the padme/anakin bit and now i’m worried i should’ve just committed to the bit

three weeks ago

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/21/us/lunas-campos-ice-detainee-texas-death

to protect the people of minnesota from ice or to quash the protests?

sure but now he has to deal with biblically accurate a/v nerds

michael and michael can comment on ww3 together like statler and waldorf

because that would be too openly admitting how much of a farce the prize is, and that’s against he committee’s material interests

yeah time to fish or cut bait, sounds like

he read the “you are a serf” copypasta and realized he only has one path available to advance his social status

great point! this probably means antifa can start expecting a paycheck from the state department and psl will get funding from the national endowment for democracy

that’s why they went in the first place. the taliban had banned opium growing just a year or two before the invasion and production was down more than 90%, and then miraculously returned once the troops were there to guard poppy fields.