Oh I an aware of how the extremely small and unpopular communist movement within Afghanistan forced its jackboots down the throats of the working people of Afghanistan.

I get that you are a communist and thus almost certainly really bad at thinking but do you think the military is pulling the triggers themselves instead of those they arm and train?

Your first paragraph makes it clear you don't understand what extrajudicial means. Is there any point in reading past there?

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This is a false equivalence.

What the fuck are you talking about? The first war was over the invasion of Kuwait. The second war was to steal oil. At no time did we attack to prevent Sadam from rebuilding.

Because killing someone in a battle as an act of war isn't extrajudicial killing.

The Jakarta method was when 1 million people were murdered by the Indonesian military. Why aren't you blaming the Indonesian government for that as they very willingly took part? It's the sane situation the USA isn't killing these people and asking why they don't stop it is asking why the USA isn't the world police.

Not at all look at the sates in your article vs the ones in the study. Your article is talking about after 4/23 and mine is before then. It isn't bullshit the fact is it might be eventually reduced but immediately afterwards it spiked.

The word "extrajudicially" should explain that difference

https://www.unodc.org/documents/crop-monitoring/Afghanistan/Opium_cultivation_Afghanistan_2022.pdf

It has grown since the Taliban took it back

Key word is "extrajudicial". We could easily have stopped the drug trade if Americans were willing to accept the wholesale destruction of Afghanistan.

The USA is willing to let other people kill people in Jakarta. The US military is not doing it themselves which is the difference here. The US DoD would have to sign off on the extrajudicial killings of Afghani civilians vs not engaging in war crimes to stop killing in Indonesia.

The rest of your post compounds on that ignorance.

The Taliban is willing to murder people to keep them in line. The US DOD was not willing to kill the thousands of people extrajudicially that would have bern needed to stop the drug trade.

Edit: EXTRAJUDICIALLY means without a trial or in this case as a directive from the WH. They aren't in theory just murdering for the sake of murdering. The Tailban, on the other hand, are less focused on trials for these people though they are turning a blind eye to the growth of the opium trade post 2021 takeover.

I never considered the Xi/Pooh comparison to have a racist component as the Disney version of Pooh and PM Xi have similar facial features. I'll have to be more sensitive about that. Thank you.

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Oh absolutely want cis actors. I have wanted this since seeing Steven Spinella win back to back Tonys in the 1990s for Angels in America and realizing despite how incredible he was he wouldn't be on screen much.

Oh I was just using that as an example. I just want normal-ish people on tv as main characters.

To be clear what I don't want is a Heather Matarazzo type who is better looking than many people being called "ugly". I want normal people so that people can watch actors who aren't the ideal lead happy lives.

UK TV has toms of people that look normal-ish on TV. I think that's healthy

I really want us to come around to the idea that conventionally unattractive people should appear on tv in non-news roles. I want to see the 180cm 100kg transwoman in a love story get their partner. I want to see a fat bald person come out on top and be happy. Im tired of beautiful people in everything