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550 - Sweet L of Liberty (8/16/21)

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Chapo Trap House

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4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

We look at the brutal, stupid, and embarrassing end of our brutal, stupid, and embarrassing twenty year occupation of Afghanistan.

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0:00.0

Thanks to our military, our allies, and the brave fighters of Afghanistan, the Taliban

0:07.3

regime is coming to an end.

0:12.9

We begin with Afghanistan and the dramatic fall of the capital, the embassy shuttered,

0:18.2

the flag coming down.

0:20.0

Secretary of State Blinken declaring to ABC's Jonathan Carl, this is manifestly not

0:24.8

siden. These images from the Al-Jazeera claim to show Taliban fighters inside the presidential

0:31.0

palace.

0:31.8

This has been a lot of good shit.

0:53.5

Here and there I've seen people who are castigating Afghan men for not fighting for their

0:59.8

women, literally just demanding that people on the other side of the world fight a war

1:05.8

for you so you can feel good.

1:08.0

Like amazing.

1:09.6

Fucking amazing.

1:10.6

Do you know when the Russians pulled out, there was a three-year-long war where hundreds

1:15.0

of thousands of people died.

1:16.6

These fucking morons want that, just so they can feel good about it.

1:22.6

This has been an amazing time.

1:24.8

You have people who talk about decolonizing their job for a phone app that loses $8 billion

1:31.8

a year, literally just wanting to recolonize a place, just so they can feel good.

1:39.3

This is literally just so everyone who, we have an obligation to the women there.

1:45.2

This is sad.

1:48.2

Everyone who thinks there's something else, they think that they're not, they didn't

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