Big Limber Male officials.

You left off the “in Europe” part.

NATO and the USA basically destroyed Afghanistan and left all of the women of in the hands of barbarians

NATO assisted with the initial invasion. The war aims and rules of engagement were poorly thought out, as one would expect of G W Bush. The two choices that made sense were to kill off Al-Qaida and leave, or stay a bit longer and kill every single member of the Taliban, in both Afghanistan and in Pakistan (where they were formed by the Pakistani ISI, and from whom they continue to receive shelter and material support). The US did neither, NATO members faded away after the initial engagement, and the US attempted to stabilize the situation without addressing the root problem. If anyone had asked me, the first option would have been my choice: kill as many jihadis as possible, take out AQ leadership if we can, then go home.

And it was Donald Trump who surrendered the Afghan people, including the women, into the hands of the Taliban, releasing all the Taliban prisoners and getting nothing in return.

But I don’t believe that you’re really all that torn up about the fate of Afghan women. It just feeds your anti-NATO narrative.

And again, NATO isn’t doing shit in Ukraine.

Why would they be? Ukraine is not a NATO country, so the mutual-defense treaty has not been triggered. I suspect you’d be complaining even more if, in response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, NATO waded in and we now found ourselves in a war the likes of which hasn’t been seen since WW2: possibly worse.

On the other hand, several NATO member countries are supplying and supporting Ukraine.

Galloway’s more a wide-spectrum troll than a tankie. In his last campaign, he was putting out contradictory campaign materials in Muslim and non-Muslim neighbourhoods.

There are 800k names that’ll never get a job offer from me.

The Gulf despots don’t give a shit about the Palestinians and in fact distrust them for being more democratically based. Like the Israelis, the last things absolute monarchs want are countries in the region where Arab leaders rule with democratic legitimacy. That only highlights the monarchs’ lack of legitimacy and was also the reason the Gulfies did everything they could to sabotage the Arab Spring.

That’s how you get a Manson family with 70 million members.

So how can I disconnect my car from the internet?

Reddit is fairly left-leaning

Anything left of Biden/Harris is met with a torrent of abuse. If anything, Reddit is split between centrists and fascists. And some of the mods will ban anyone who’s active and doesn’t agree with their politics.

I cut the umbilicus after getting banned on fake pretexts from rightwing mods. Fuck 'em. And fuck Spez.

I was a highly involved redditor, but now I realize I was being suckered into engagement by ragebait. Now I use Lemmy a bit, and have reclaimed my leisure time to walk, cycle, go to the pub, play music and hang out with family and friends.