I am pleased to accept this new role de oportunidad por el presidente del pueblo de Afganistán.
These very nice men I met de parte de un story telling group told me I am now un Imam. ¡Soy conmocionado, pero I accept their compliment y also esta presidencia!
¡Viva Afganistán!
Edit: Chapos, qué preguntas should I be asking these story tellers? They are called el “tale y ban” and I want to do un buen trabajo.
I do not know much about Islam, but I am determined to learn. This group of storytellers, el “tale y ban”, have agreed to teach me. They are very kind men and have many expensive guns like all talented writers!
While the Taliban have been making rapid gains — particularly since U.S.-led forces began a withdrawal in May — few experts see a complete takeover of the capital as imminent.
Lib technocratic experts were so fucking wrong lmao
My new friends are muy eficiente! I am honored to serve as the president of this nation.
These story tellers now have many helicopters, which I have not seen writers own before. It is wonderful how literatura is always moving on to the next thing!
Every time it happens, it reminds me that Nassim Nicholas Taleb really does have a good bead (is that a phrase, or did I just make something up?) things. He points out in both Fooled by Randomness and Black Swan how absolutely terrible pundits and other species of prognosticators are at doing their "job." Just...daily you can watch them get every god damn thing wrong, but since they wear a serious face when they say dumb shit, audiences pretend this is Important Work and buy in. No learning from mistakes, ever.
I have tried very hard and I am trying to put my past failures behind me.
:guaido-despair:
I have been very busy trying to become interim governor of New York. I accidentally got someone fired, pero they were Italiano, so no me siento tan mal.
This is intentional, I am glad you noticed! I speak both English and Spanish fluently, but write in “Spanglish” for our yankee chapos. They need all the education they can get (America has very poor schools even though it is a wealthy country).
I got this idea from the hit American reality tv show, “Dora The Explorer”.
:guaido: ¡Aprendan español, yanquis!
Señor Kissinger, that is not my name, you are mistaken. We have met twice before, please remember.
:guaido-despair:
Surprisingly none! The American soldiers left all of the gates open when they ran away.
The power vacuum was inevitable so long it was the US that was leaving. Their presence was too domineering and too good of propaganda fuel for the groups opposing them. The only guarantee is instability until/unless another superpower gains a foothold. Looks like Russia’s trying to be it and I would hope China would too, but on the ground it takes a long time to see any net gain after an upheaval like this
I’m not sure that’s true. So far, the Taliban have been playing things really smart, portraying themselves as a newly moderate force primarily interested in law and order.
If they keep things up they could really secure support across the country as a legitimate government.
To be honest your take sounds like vicarious accelerationism. The US leaving isn't good but a confirmation that its entire Afghanistan occupation has been an obscene waste of life. The Taliban taking over as an anti-communist theocracy is also not good. All of this is bad and moving to a 20,000 foot viewpoint to admire the grand sweep of history has more than a hint of first world entitlement and indifference.
idk seems like the Afghani equivalent of being mad we're launching billionaires into space
They said nothing, but handed me many sticks of dynamite. What does this mean?
Mister Huwan Quwaydah, an honor to make your acquaintance.
"Tale y ban", esto means "students" en Arabic, tú must tell them estories from your escuela.
¡El gusto es mío! Thank you por this información, it makes sense they are estudiantes porque they are studying all of these documents the yankees left behind muy cuidadosamente.
Mi primera task as el presidente de afganistán was to bring them all cafés this mañana. Things are off to a good start!
I love la música. Mi favorito es Don Barry Manilow. Very talented man.
edit 1: Oh! I should ask them this! Thank you, I will!
edit 2: They say they also like Don Barry Manilow.
