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Yeah, this is Justin Bieber's wife, and good for him. Still an irresistibly beautiful woman.
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I've thought tilda had similar appeal as some older actresses, like Valentina Cortese or Leora Dana.
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Is that Didem?
Weren't you going to call her or something, dude? Told me not to until you did? How's that going?
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Here's Didem's most recent song in solidarity of the Iranian protests and the women victims of the Taliban. Suck on this, Wajahat Ali and Michael Moore.
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Wait, is Michael Moore pro-Taliban now?
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Rock wrote:
Wait, is Michael Moore pro-Taliban now?
It's a case where Moore's opposition to American presence in Afghanistan led him to be overly apologetic to the Taliban in a way like "Are they really so bad?", "Can they really be worse?" as a way of deflecting questions concerning what a post-American Afghanistan would look like. Moore, as far as I know, didn't go so far as some on the left who called criticism of the Taliban "colonialist", Islamaphobic or even racist. Much of these types of criticisms have gone silent in the past year as we've learned, well, no, the Taliban really just are that bad.
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Wait, is Michael Moore pro-Taliban now?
It's a case where Moore's opposition to American presence in Afghanistan led him to be overly apologetic to the Taliban in a way like "Are they really so bad?", "Can they really be worse?" as a way of deflecting questions concerning what a post-American Afghanistan would look like. Moore, as far as I know, didn't go so far as some on the left who called criticism of the Taliban "colonialist", Islamaphobic or even racist. Much of these types of criticisms have gone silent in the past year as we've learned, well, no, the Taliban really just are that bad.
I believe it was the great Dril who once said, in his infinite wisdom, said of ISIS, “ you do not, under any circumstances, ‘gotta hand it to them’”. I think that applies here.
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Also, my personal pet peeve around the subject is to flatten all the Mujahideen into a singular entity and ignore the fact that they were a diverse group of factions who fought it out in a bloody civil war after the end of the Soviet Invasion. Especially annoying is how this is then used to delegitimizate support for Ukraine, ignoring all the other factors that led to the Taliban’s rise.
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Also, my personal pet peeve around the subject is to flatten all the Mujahideen into a singular entity and ignore the fact that they were a diverse group of factions who fought it out in a bloody civil war after the end of the Soviet Invasion. Especially annoying is how this is then used to delegitimizate support for Ukraine, ignoring all the other factors that led to the Taliban’s rise.
It's noteworthy, for sure. The U.S. props up the Mujahadeen against the USSR and then they become the Taliban. The US props up Saddam against Iran (who shouted "Death to America" in 1979 after finally throwing out the Shahs that the US had propped up for almost half a century), then the US "unitary executive" pulls what Molly Ivins called The Two Great Lies: Saddam's nonexistent WMDs and Saddam's nonexistent support for 9/11. the US "de–Baathifies" Iraq and fires the Iraqi military, and the soldiers become ISIS.
I met a Vietnamese American today whose parents had to flee Saigon for their lives after the US abandoned them. Oh that reminds me, lest we forget, the US supported the genocidal Khmer Rouge, simply because they were enemies of the Vietnamese government that sent us packing.
Speaking of which, I had a Hmong classmate once. The Hmong never got to form a militia. They just got fucked all the way to hell.
I don't see an equivalence, though. Ukraine is a first–world nation (or geopolitical entity, if you prefer) with a robust economy, extremely high literacy rate, liberal democratic government, a modern standing army, freedom of movement and self–determination for its citizens (all citizens, not just the ones born with dicks), etc., none of which makes a person't life more or less valuable than another's, but supporting Ukraine's resistance is not the same as arming local Afghan warlords (and let's face it, ignorant–ass woman–beating Sharia rednecks) in the practically un–governable mountainous regions of a territory that's effectively a state in name only. The Russian (funny, I almost typed "Soviet invasion," I guess because those two words just go so well together)... The Russian invasion of Ukraine is egregious by any standards, and though the world has no shortage of murderous totalitarian regimes, no small number of which are in bed with the US (Saudi Arabia, for example), what makes this war different is how all signals suggest Putin has no intention of stopping there. He's playing old–fashioned "winner takes all" military expansionism. By contrast, nobody is worried that the Myannmar Junta will spread to dominate East Asia, or that the Sudanese government will go on to oppress all of North Africa or the Mediterranean, or even that the Saudis have any such expansionist ambitions. But Putin seems very willing and capable of continuing a campaign to retake all former USSR territory, the vast majority of whom have made it very clear they didn't like Russian rule the first time and don't want it again.
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…which begs the inclusion of all those suppressed democracies and propped–up tyrants in Central and South America, but now I’ve strayed too far from the point about Ukraine/Mujahedin. So much crime, so little time.
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Also, my personal pet peeve around the subject is to flatten all the Mujahideen into a singular entity and ignore the fact that they were a diverse group of factions who fought it out in a bloody civil war after the end of the Soviet Invasion. Especially annoying is how this is then used to delegitimizate support for Ukraine, ignoring all the other factors that led to the Taliban’s rise.
I share the pet peeve of "flattening" peoples into easy-to-consume identities. I bristle at the invocation of Islamaphobia as a cover for what essentially amounts to roughly 0.02% of worldwide Muslims, those zealous jihadis intent on severe cultural constriction. The Taliban becomes a stereotype, but they are a real regional power.
Keeping the thread in context, I'll invoke Bella Hadid, the half-Palestinian model who attracted a slight amount of controversy last year for showing solidarity with the protesters in the aftermath of the Al-Aqsa raid in Israel. Her career wasn't too damaged by being called out by the likes of Bill Maher or Bari Weiss, but it does represent a flattened - black and white - American perception of these kinds of ethnic strifes throughout the rest of the world that our media prefers to commodify into easy boxes - white vs. color. This is a binary that should be our society's mission to demolish. It's all color.
Let's get more complicated.
Lupita Nyong'o is a beautiful muse who turned down a role in a film that has a great deal of Oscar-buzz at the moment, The Woman King, which checks a lot of what we could call 'woke' boxes: Period piece about the Agojie, an all-female African military force in the kingdom of Dahomey in the mid-1800s. Nyong'o turned the role down after her research discovered that this seemingly progressive woke force was actually one of the major slave raider enterprises in West Africa, even celebrating the surplus slaves with an annual mass human sacrifice. Lupita Nyong'o told the white women who wrote and were producing this film that she could not take part in it. That film just might win Oscars, even though it fictionalizes a lot of the messier herstory out of it. And instead Lupita Nyong'o chose to become the brand ambassador of the notorious De Beers diamond consortium, hoping to ensure "the brand's public goals to engage 10,000 girls in STEM, support 10,000 women entrepreneurs and invest at least $10 million across southern Africa to achieve these goals by 2030."
Lots of facets.
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Perhaps this was the wrong takeaway from Tar, but Cate Blanchett is no less attractive (perhaps even more so) when she's being a bad person than she normally is.
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Cate Blanchette is about as good as it gets. I remember being in the vicinity of having a chance with a bartender who had mad Blanchette vibes, but some doofus that was supposedly her boyfriend (and the co owner of the bar) always had to be standing around nearby watching me closely and making sure I didn't get too cool around her. Always swooping in with a free drink when the conversation got good in the hopes of making me be kind to him. Not understanding that free whiskey only made me even better than before.
Goddamn that doofus.
