Don't you know that any potential leader is probably just a grifter? If you want to build an effective leftist movement, you have to have no leaders whatsoever. Directionless resentment is surely the only way forward.

  • Puffin [any, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    And how's that gonna work out for a movement that needs millions of followers sustained over many years?

    • ChudlyMcChubbyPants [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      There are still Pashtun in Afghanistan. You should ask them how they've been doing beating back not one but two empires for the past 40-50 years.

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        The last time someone successfully controlled Afganistan he was named Alexander the Great. A good chunk of those Pashtuns are the remains of his armies. They don't fuck around with johnny-come-lately amateurs.

        • ChudlyMcChubbyPants [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Noice. I did not know that far back. The Art of Not Being Governed is still in my get-to pile.

          • Mardoniush [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            Invaded and burned, yes...conquered...well technically they were in the Mongol sphere, practically not so much. Timur had to burn it down al over again. Aghans can't catch a break.

            • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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              4 years ago

              Timur showed up over 100 years later, though. A few cursory searches seems to indicate that the Mongol Empire held the territory for quite a while after the conquest in 1221. (Alexander's empire, meanwhile, fell apart when he died...)

      • cuckfucker93 [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        they've been doing that for thousands of years. May as well ask americans to just abandon the love of guns while you're at it

        • AliceBToklas [she/her]
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          I mean, they're the largest group in that whole area of afghanistan but the taliban didn't have universal support from them