If we really want to defeat the Taliban we should be dropping Internet-enabled smart phones on them, not bombs.
A few years of Twitter access and they'll destroy their culture all by themselves.
“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.”
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It's trippy how a government that's been democratically elected by free people behaves in exactly the same way you'd expect a government to behave if it was run by corporations.
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow is the road that leads to life, and only a few find it”
Matthew 7:13-14
Outside of conversations with my family, I’ve never told a single person to get the vaccine or not get the vaccine. I’m not you. I’m not your doctor.
You have to live with your decision either way.
But thinking you’re “going back to normal” if you get it isn’t how this works.