The Fighting 44s

See, this is the kind of ignorant western reaction that annoys the crap out of me. Der Spiegel describes western outrage over the recently-passed “men rule women” laws with words like “shocking,” “outrageous,” “worse than the Taliban.” And I have to ask, just what the fuck did you think was going to happen? You march into a country that doesn’t even have a stable agricultural base (poppies don’t count as food), much less industrial or informational, and you install a goddamn democracy where people have only ever known tribal and ethno-religious rule. If a huge chunk of the population is going to be strongly ethno-religious, how the fuck do you think they’re going to vote? Liberally? Fucking morons. This is the same shit as when Hamas got voted into power, and the west was shocked and outraged. Stable democracies with liberal pluralist, equality values can’t just pop up out of pre-liberal, pre-rational, pre-equality ground: you need an agrarian-to-industrial techno-economic base, a strong educational base, and some significant chunk of the population that buys into liberal democratic values (like middle-class knowledge workers who take survival for granted).

Instead, the western nations show their massive incompetence and hypocrisy whenever newly (and inappropriately) democratic countries vote in parties with very illiberal values: they voted them in!! How the fuck are you going to protest now when they’re using the system you told them to use, without looking like a hypocrite, without undermining their democracy, and without making their government look like a puppet? The retardation is killing me.

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