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worldrecordpace 15 hr ago +127

Tried to read the article about one country bombing another countries schools but the entire page was obscured by an ad to buy a Toyota Prius. Close button for the ad wasn’t obvious. I closed the ad and read the article but I understand why people choose just to read headlines. Every website is a money grab that is not user friendly at all. I question if they even care about reporting the news at all. Like a grifter preacher. Just a way to make money.

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eriek_halenx 11 hr ago +3

You can use some adblocker like ublock origin. And a DNS like control d or adguard. Say goodbye to ads forever. edit: u/worldrecordpace , both are free. Helps with malware too. ublock is a firefox plugin, so should work with iphone. DNS change, would be best done on our router.

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YoungRichBastard26s 9 hr ago +1

Ad blocker companies are our saviors they saw this shit coming

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worldrecordpace 11 hr ago -4

I’ve got to imagine something like that is a subscription. I don’t see myself getting a subscription for an ad blocker. But I do subscribe to a couple of pods patreons I haven’t checked out their patreon eps in a couple months. Maybe trade off.

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rookie-mistake 11 hr ago +6

ublock isnt a subscription, no. its just a browser extension lol

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worldrecordpace 11 hr ago +1

Can you do that on iPhone?

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AggravatingJudge7092 11 hr ago +3

the DNS method should work for your iphone even if you use something like Safari or Chrome

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rookie-mistake 11 hr ago +2

Oh, I'm not sure. It does work on Firefox mobile for me on Android but yeah, can't really speak to the iPhone experience, sorry!

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Itwasallyell0w 11 hr ago +1

Iphone has ad blockers extensions+ literally option to hide pop ups/overlays or anything that blocks the site.... All things said, I can't believe there are people in 2026 without add blockers.

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beekay86 14 hr ago -13

And the way the intro para is written, “targeted universities and high schools”…I doubt its legitimacy since China brokered the truce between Af-Pak last month.

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Ambitious_Wolf_3116 14 hr ago +17

Why is china's truce related to pakistan attacking? The attack itself would break the truce. So does the truce say pakistan can attack military infra but not civilian infra? It probably just says no attacks at all, so i dont get why that intro para is relevant to china brokering the truce.

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beekay86 13 hr ago -4

Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to address each other's concerns in Beijing. The one right now is related to border skirmishes. Afghanistan fires a bullet, pakistan fires too. Its a volatile border.

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Ambitious_Wolf_3116 13 hr ago +6

Yeah i get that, but still don't see why it's related to the truce. Nor why pakistan targetting schools makes you doubt the legitimacy. Pakistan has targetted civilian infra before, so how do you know it's just limited to border skirmishes and hasn't escalated to strikes like before?

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beekay86 13 hr ago -5

Because Afghanistan claimed 400 people were killed in the rehab center attack and then UN commission later cleared the debate that it was only 40s after Pakistan struck a ammunition depot next door. They both engage in propaganda to make each other look bad.

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Radioactive_Rainbow_ 12 hr ago +4

Seems China's peace efforts are as effective as Pakistan's peace efforts. Makes sense.

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worldrecordpace 14 hr ago +1

I know you have to take ai’s answers with a grain of salt but I had a long convo with it about this and the history and it said it was likely collateral damage from attacking the ttp. The bulk of the conversation was me asking how incels could be the first steps to groups like the ttp and how they differ. It said there were similarities and it understood my train of thought but there were a lot of differences.

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beekay86 13 hr ago +4

You have to go back to the 70-80s soviet invasion to better understand how Taliban were created. Israel's strategy of bombing civilians to reduce support for the military/fighters is not new (though it straight up turned it into a genocide). Soviets bombed civilian population centres trigering one of the largest migration since Pakistan-India partition. They did for the same reason too, to reduce support for mujahideen among the civilians who were feeding them. Estimated 5 million aghans fleed to Pakistan and Iran. There were millions of Afghan kids who had seen nothing but war and destruction. Never flirted with a woman, never faced a rejection, just war. At the time, there were only handful of maddrassahs in Pakistan. But Zia Ul haq was an Islamist. Pakistan was also fearful that they might be next so they went to CIA with a plan with Saudi money and help. CIA wanted to Afghanistan to be Soviet Union's Vietnam so they led it. By the 90s, from just a dozen or so madrassahs, there were thousands of them teaching these Afghan kids and turning them into Taliban. Afghans were never deobandi muslims. Deobandi muslims are the ones that are most hateful towards women but these maddrassah used that school of thought that even the actual deobandis were like "guys, you took it too far". So yeah, Taliban didn't appear out of nowhere, they were once kids who were radicalized so they can take over Afganistan one day. I am putting decades worth of history in a few words here. There are a few books that detail how this was done but I am forgetting which one that I read that talked about. I know Black Wave does mention it but it focuses more on Iran-US-Saudi nexus. EDIT: The book was The Return of Taliban

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Little_Road5921 15 hr ago +35

Another day, another ‘regional stability’ speedrun. Civilians paying the entry fee as usual

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dirtyasseating 15 hr ago +31

20 years and how many trillion again?

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standardargument 14 hr ago +45

When you have an issue with all your neighbours , maybe it's you, who is the problem. Pakistan is the worst country to exist in the subcontinent.

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Integral_humanist 13 hr ago +3

and that’s saying something

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shunyaananda 15 hr ago +16

They got universities in Afghanistan? I'd like to see the curriculum

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Alert-Algae-6674 14 hr ago +47

Kabul University seems to publish some real papers in 2025 : [https://kujnsr.com/JNSR/article/view/302](https://kujnsr.com/JNSR/article/view/302) There are actually educated people still living in Afghanistan but it is unfortunate they have to be subservient to the Taliban

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AggravatingJudge7092 12 hr ago +12

Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, all these places used to be "normal", sufficiently advanced and educated countries, they all had a ton of high ranking universities and intellectual societies, some centuries old. Their fall from grace is a much much more recent thing (something like 4-5 decades) stemming from radicalisation, generational trauma, regional destabilization and weaponization of religion. Iran is the probably the best example of a radicalized theocratic state that still retains most of its intellectuals, universities, and scholarly culture (although it's definitely depleting fast due to the opressive state in Iran)

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delinquentfatcat 15 hr ago -29

Stockpiling rockets 101 PS: Talibots downvoting this like crazy, LOL PPS: Yes they used to have them, but at this point, that's exactly what it is. Idiots.

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Ambitious_Wolf_3116 14 hr ago +21

Probably coz the joke is in bad taste because there are normal educated people still in afghanistan just like everywhere else. Like you don't say iranian unis jus teach ballistic missiles or nukes 101 right? And i do doubt taliban has bot farms like iran, russia or china does.

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Ctrl-Alt-Q 14 hr ago +6

Well, Normally educated men, maybe. The women of Afghanistan are treated worse than animals.

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Ambitious_Wolf_3116 13 hr ago +5

Very true. Recently there was a law about breaking a woman's arm is a few weeks in jail, but mistreating a camel would land you six months in jail. So afghani women being treated worse than animals isn't just hyperbole. It's literally true! And pretty surprising to me tbh, that such a thing could happen in 2026. Although i have heard about foreign orgs helping educate afghani women through the internet. They teach them coding and stuff. Dont know how prevelant it is though.

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Ctrl-Alt-Q 13 hr ago +5

Not hyperbole at all. Women can't talk or show their faces in public. A dog in the street has more freedom.

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Ambitious_Wolf_3116 10 hr ago +1

They can't even laugh in public. I don't know if that's funny or sad. Women not showing faces in public is common across islamic countries though. It's a cultural/religious thing i guess. But taliban's afghanistan is at a whole different level.

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AvgChrisEnergy 15 hr ago -3

You joke, but I’d include get a B.S. in Guerilla Warfare that would definitely be something to show off.

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redditscraperbot2 14 hr ago +3

Step 1: wait for occupiers to get frustrated and leave Step 2: walk back into government capital city and declare victory.

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IBM296 13 hr ago +4

Blud put a better source. That article is so dogshit.

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krazybanana 10 hr ago -5

It's a source solely for propaganda

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benrinnes 9 hr ago +1

It's alright, no women hurt!

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MercantileReptile 8 hr ago +1

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jamie9910 15 hr ago -33

The Taliban might not do so well against a non Western military that doesn't follow wokey prohibitively restrictive rules of engagement. Pakistan would not hesitate to put Afghanistan to the sword if they had to. "We unequivocally condemn these actions by the Pakistani military regime, in which civilian populations as well as educational and academic institutions were intentionally targeted, and we regard these actions as grave and inexcusable war crimes, a blatant act of brutality, and a provocative action"

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ArchonofTevinter 13 hr ago +19

Sorry, are we unironically suggesting that western militaries should operate more like Pakistan or Russia when it comes to war crimes, and not killing enough civilians was the main problem with the War in Afghanistan?

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Psychedelicsaiyan 13 hr ago +7

But why? Why bomb Afghanistan? What’s the reason?

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krazybanana 10 hr ago

Afghanistan regularly launches attacks on its border with Pakistan so it's probably that

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Noctis_777 12 hr ago +5

> The Taliban might not do so well against a non Western military that doesn't follow wokey prohibitively restrictive rules of engagement. This argument doesn't really hold because though not the Taliban, the Soviet Union also failed there. Pakistan is already struggling with containing militia within their border, especially the Baloch region. There is no way they would have the resources or capability for a full scale occupation of Afghanistan.

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slimeyy_02 9 hr ago +1

Soviets??

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krazybanana 10 hr ago +1

Pakistan can't even think of occupying Afghanistan. The Taliban would get decimated in tactical fights against the US regularly, and they'll fare the same against Pakistan. The goals are pretty different.

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