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Twitter Would Rather Ban Trump Than the Taliban
“Woke” Taliban 2.0 has the media drooling.
Having a delusional orange buffoon organize a coup under the table was disturbing enough. But what about another right-wing fascist coup that actually succeeded in bringing about a dark age for 38 million people?
The Taliban’s takeover of the presidential palace in Kabul was being live-tweeted. Twitter and Facebook are allowing Taliban accounts to spring up despite US law sanctioning them as a terrorist organization subject to digital restrictions.
The world is on the verge of legitimizing the violent takeover of an entire country despite disturbing footage of mothers throwing their babies over barbed wire just to save them from the approaching terrorist mobs.
Gay men are preparing themselves to be exterminated any moment. Women are already being forcibly married under threat of death to terrorists and shipped off as sex slaves, yet this falls under the radar simply because of the real shock value that came from a Taliban press conference hosted by a female reporter.
And what does the Western press have to say about all this?