Dead on! They should be planks of any conservative party. Quite telling. Fox/WSJ won't cover it that way. I can see the headlines now: Stupid trump people F-ing up conservative chances in the house.
Afghanistan has a 7% literacy rate. Many there believe the earth is flat, the moon is as small as it looks from earth and that drones were flown by tiny people. This is what my buddy who ran special ops there under General Kelly told me. He actually had Afghan officers ask him where we get the little people who fly in the drones! No education in that and many other countries but yet we try to bring democracy there. Ridiculous.Doubtful. NATO failed to defeat the Taliban even during the surge. Which saw the heaviest fighting and the highest death toll. And the Taliban managed to topple the American installed government within weeks of NATO's withdrawal. Another thing that I think the western media/officials fail to grasp is that it seems the Taliban are actually pretty popular with the Afghans.
For instance look at the attitudes that Afghan women have towards husbands beating their wives:
So 94% of uneducated Afghan women think that it is ok for a husband to beat his wife in some circumstances. However what is perhaps even more surprising is that 79% of EDUCATED afghan women think that it is acceptable for a husband to beat his wife. If you look at the other countries listed (Bangladesh, Nepal etc..) you will see that far fewer educated women think that this is acceptable.
I recall reading about an anthropologist who visited Afghanistan in the 1950s or 60s. This was at a time when Afghanistan was less conservative (or perhaps less fanatical/fundamentalist) than it is today. He recorded numerous instances of women complaining because their husband DID NOT beat them. As apparently this shows a man is not "masculine" enough. Completely different culture. What is "barbaric" to Westerners is "acceptable" or even "desirable" to them.
I’m pretty sure if you tally the percentage of social/health issues attributed to alcohol, you could build a much better business case for banning booze as opposed to guns. But people like to drink, including myself, so it’ll never happen.Put this on the alcoholic thread as well....but these woke muppets that don't drink are what the future is.....
BBC News - Why Gen Zers are growing up sober curious
Why Gen Zers are growing up sober curious
A complex combination of outside pressures and information overload is driving young people to snub alcohol, far more than generations before them.www.bbc.com
Trump is supporting McCarthy - even Marjorie Taylor Green. So it's actually the stupid Gaetz people trying to cement their own little insurrection within the party. Goes hand in glove with his position on Ukraine and anything else he can think of that might turn the populist base (at the expense of Trump).
I know that the younger generation drinking less is a good and positive thing, maybe it’s financial after paying for heavily inked and pierced skin there can’t be a lot of money left. $7.00 lattes don’t grow on trees and an Iphone 13 is more then I paid for my first three cars combined. Now let’s consider the history of whiskey (water of life). Irish monks and shortly there after the entire country of Scotland were turning barley into an a magical elixir long before Christopher Columbus planted his flag in the new world. Such people spread this culture locally to surrounding countries and before you know it all kinds of inventions are being made, incredible discoveries are taking place and the peoples of these nations are traveling the world and being serious ass kicking machines. In America a great experiment was tried (not democracy, that was ok) it was called prohibition. The purposeful closing of breweries and distilleries led to the rise of organized crime, the stock market collapse, the Great Depression and a product called “Near Beer” yuck!! So this prohibition stuff was just no good, it went away and America rebounded. As a teenager my first taste of whiskey burned and tasted horrible. I knew from watching my father and other male relatives that men drank whiskey, so rather then trust my senses I persevered, I trudged onward, it became possible to take a shot without making a face and I’m not sure exactly when the transformation took place but in fact an appreciation for this wondrous drink. Let’s us take to heart that those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it. A world without whiskey is a dark and foreboding place. Well that’s it.Put this on the alcoholic thread as well....but these woke muppets that don't drink are what the future is.....
BBC News - Why Gen Zers are growing up sober curious
Why Gen Zers are growing up sober curious
A complex combination of outside pressures and information overload is driving young people to snub alcohol, far more than generations before them.
Put this on the alcoholic thread as well....but these woke muppets that don't drink are what the future is.....
BBC News - Why Gen Zers are growing up sober curious
Why Gen Zers are growing up sober curious
A complex combination of outside pressures and information overload is driving young people to snub alcohol, far more than generations before them.
Well, long before whisky there was beer. The ancient Egyptians brewed it. In Europe and many other places around the world during the Medieval times, the water was so contaminated by humans it was unsafe to drink. So, they brewed beer which killed the viruses and bacteria in the water. Later, distilled spirits emerged as they got tired of drinking beer. LOL
