Time magazine: “we don’t know how yet, but we’re gonna find a way to link the rise of fascism and avocado toast”

  • @[email protected]
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    111 months ago

    I mean, isn’t this like people predicting the year 2000 from the year 1920 and people in 2020 making fun of that being wrong? In neither situation could the future be predicted.

    • @Viking_HippieOP
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      111 months ago

      Him and his Mujahideen were awful religious zealots back then too. That was just ignored due to the “enemy of my enemy is my friend and thus a hero” principle that the US have consistently applied to some of the biggest monsters in history.

        • @Viking_HippieOP
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          011 months ago

          That’s a very weird non-sequitor.

          • @[email protected]
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            211 months ago

            Is it? He funded them in Pakistan because the USSR was in Afghanistan and it was fine to fund terrorists as long as they attacked your enemy. They just didn’t foresee it coming back to hurt us.