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No it express's contempt for Afghanistan's culture (rightfully so) but you don't antagonize a country your trying to broker a stable withdrawal from, why not just go piss on the graves of their ancestors "Cus meh inclusionz"
Tweeting about respect for LGBT people isn't expressing contempt for anybody's culture.

What the hell are you even talking about?
 

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Tweeting about respect for LGBT people isn't expressing contempt for anybody's culture.

What the hell are you even talking about?

Afghanistan is a fundamentalist Muslim theocracy. Are you daft to the basic fact as a people they find homosexuality repugnant and a manifestation of Satan on earth and are more than prone to engage in violence as a response.

Civilian and troop casualties are not worth a a virtue signaling tweet they should be entirely aware are going to antagonize the local populace.
 

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Afghanistan is a fundamentalist Muslim theocracy. Are you daft to the basic fact as a people they find homosexuality repugnant and a manifestation of Satan on earth and are more than prone to engage in violence as a response.

Civilian and troop casualties are not worth a a virtue signaling tweet they should be entirely aware are going to antagonize the local populace.
  1. This is a broad overgeneralization.
  2. Are you saying the US should sell out its core values?
  3. This would be all the more reason for the US to withdraw.
 

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But seriously though where is Joe? Is he legit gonna hide until next week or something?
He's at Camp David, and he's expected to address the nation within the next few days.

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It's understandable that conservatives are celebrating an overthrown government given their recent history
All while hypocritically saying until very recently that Trump should get all of the credit for an Afghanistan withdrawal.
 

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  1. This is a broad overgeneralization.
  2. Are you saying the US should sell out its core values?
  3. This would be all the more reason for the US to withdraw.

I am saying it is bad diplomacy to occupy a country and then have your ambassadors tweeting support for a behavior that is known to be repugnant to the local populace from their capitol when your supposed to be there to stabilize a violent situation.

There is a time and place for everything, Tweeting about gay pride from Kabul in the middle of a warzone isn't exactly on my todo list.
 
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I am saying it is bad diplomacy to occupy a country and then have your ambassadors tweeting support for a behavior that is known to be repugnant to the local populace from their capitol when your supposed to be there to stabilize a violent situation.

There is a time and place for everything, Tweeting about gay pride from Kabul in the middle of a warzone isn't exactly on my todo list.
Do you have any evidence that this tweet actually did anything of of consequence, or are you just spouting homophobic and islamophobic nonsense?
 

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New level of daft to claim it is Islamophobic to acknowledge Afghanistan is in no way tolerant to homosexuality.
It's islamophobic to make broad characterizations as if they apply to everybody in that region.

I'd also like to point you that you avoided my question.
 

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It's islamophobic to make broad characterizations as if they apply to everybody in that region.

I'd also like to point you that you avoided my question.

Because your derping nonsense is so removed from reality, history and recent events such as the youtube video in Syria I found it to be complete garbage.
 

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Because your derping nonsense is so removed from reality, history and recent events such as the youtube video in Syria I found it to be complete garbage.
Nobody is arguing that homophobia doesn't exist in the Middle East. Your claims were overgeneralized, and you also provided no evidence that the tweet resulted in anything negative. Your point about homophobia and how the United States should sell out its values would also be reason enough to withdraw from the region.

Come back after you've collected your thoughts.
 

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The cope is real

If he isn't on Vacation, then that literally just means he isn't doing his job.
 

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Nobody is arguing that homophobia doesn't exist in the Middle East. Your claims were overgeneralized, and you also provided no evidence that the tweet resulted in anything negative. Your point about homophobia and how the United States should sell out its values would also be reason enough to withdraw from the region.

Come back after you've collected your thoughts.

I said none of the ridiculous things you are attributing to me.

I said it's the depths of bad diplomacy to have your embassy representatives in a hostile nation advocating for things that carry a death sentence in the country you are tweeting them from.


The cope is real

If he isn't on Vacation, then that literally just means he isn't doing his job.

The newspeak term for vacation in 2021 is "Biden called a lid" first Presidementia in history to claim a national "time out" is a thing.
 
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