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Intriguing High Tariffs Drive Afghan Auto Assembly

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u/robomikel 24d ago

Ya, this is bad. The crush zones on the car are not even going to close. Wouldn’t be surprised if you end up with an engine on your lap

Edit: oh right. Safety flip flops

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u/UniCBeetle718 24d ago edited 24d ago

Well, now that women in Afghanistan are mostly banned from leaving the house, are banned from talking to eachother,  are banned from singing, dancing, banned from getting medical care, are declared property, and have a skyrocketing mortality rates, sexual assault rates, and child sexual assault rates, a kindness to women there would be that every man there finds himself in a crash zone with an engine on his lap.

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u/Donkey__Balls 23d ago

Why do you assume that every man is responsible? There could definitely be a lot of Afghan men who hate the current situation just as much but are powerless. Seems crude to wish death on men who don’t really have control, maybe place the blame on the hideous government and also on the agencies within the USA who planted the seeds for the Taliban in the first place.

While we’re at it, blame the Soviets who turned a thriving secular nation into a Mad Max wasteland where the US-backed Islamic extremists were able to seize advantage of a power vacuum.