While talking about Afghanistan, as usual I was the only person in the room insisting that we never should have invaded, and I got this one:
The problem with Afghanistan is that you can't do democracy over there. Only a third of them can read.
That doesn't mean you can't do a democracy. There have been democracies in countries with low literacy before.
People just vote for whoever their Islam cleric tells them to. They're too dumb to understand the issues.
Not being able to read doesn't mean you're dumb, it just means you were never taught.
What? Of course they're dumb if they can't read.
In hindsight the absolute level of projection from an American right winger about voting for the person your priest tells you to is funny, but I genuinely can't believe his refusal to understand a very simple point: that someone can be smart but never get taught how to read as a child.
Regarding Afghanistan, one chud I know thinks the US lost to the Taliban because of "high civilian gun ownership", though from what I know legally buying them isn't how the Taliban gets their guns...
While talking about Afghanistan, as usual I was the only person in the room insisting that we never should have invaded, and I got this one:
In hindsight the absolute level of projection from an American right winger about voting for the person your priest tells you to is funny, but I genuinely can't believe his refusal to understand a very simple point: that someone can be smart but never get taught how to read as a child.
Charitably, maybe they're having difficulty separating knowledge from intelligence.. or more likely :us-foreign-policy:
Regarding Afghanistan, one chud I know thinks the US lost to the Taliban because of "high civilian gun ownership", though from what I know legally buying them isn't how the Taliban gets their guns...
I wonder if he knows how the Taliban got their guns in the 80s lmao.
Libertarian guy who turns on the Taliban after finding out they got started with a government handout