Taliban Militants Fed Up With Office Culture, Ready to Quiet Quit
Taliban Militants Fed Up With Office Culture, Ready to Quiet Quit
A new report says some jihadists who transitioned to desk jobs after the Taliban’s takeover are tired of the 9-to-5.
Time magazine: "we don't know how yet, but we're gonna find a way to link the rise of fascism and avocado toast"
The article is largely good quality but what even is this:
“We couldn’t destroy the Taliban, but office work destroyed the Taliban,” said one Tiktoker, reviewing articles and quotes from the report.
It doesn't even name the person. Just cherry picked some random quip from social media and pasted it into the body.
I've been hating this since Twitter became a thing. I used to read BBC news articles for (seemingly) good quality reporting, and then they started quoting random twitter users. Like, who gives a fuck?
Editor: The article is great! All we need now is a quote from social media and we can publish.
Journalist: We haven't been able to find anything suitable, everyone thinks this story is satire.
Editor: Then just post one yourself and then quote that! But don't reference your name, that'll be a dead giveaway.
Hard to cite a GPT reference.
For me at least, "said" has a link to https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR7mbL8g/
That link only takes me to the front page, but perhaps if someone has a tiktok account that goes to a video (a tik? Tok? Whatever it's called).
Ah, winning was easy, young man, governing's harder
This is like that comic today with the Viking. "History is written by the winners" he has to literally sit down with quill and parchment....
Sounds like they need a good union.
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Hahahahhaha OMG. Yeah once the whole pew pew part of the insurrection is over and you actually take over the government, the whole running the government part isn't as fun now ain't it?
What a bunch of idiots.
The weird thing is that they used to be in power, before the 9/11 American "freedom spreading" spree in the region.
And they were in power because the US helped them get there. This article praising Osama bin Ladenisn't The Independent's finest hour 😬
It does go to show that people sometimes don’t think ahead. They seem to have only ever considered the present and now reality hit them in the face lol. Similar happened to Trump when he was elected and suddenly had to…you know…work.
It does go to show that people sometimes don’t think ahead
The Independent sure didn't!
What a bunch of
idiotsRepublicansThere, FTFY
Wow, maybe the taliban really will be defeated by capitalism
Which is deeply ironic considering how they founded themselves as a rebellion against the "false gods" of capitalism communism and democracy.
When you think you’re the Free Jaffa but you’re just the regular Jaffa lol
Capitalism will eventually beat itself
Nah, not really. It'll evolve like everything else.
As a person fed up with office culture, I'm wondering if it's now my time to destroy my government.
Okay say what you will about the Taliban but this article is really interesting in a way.
The dog caught the car.
Reminds me of this masterpiece.
The Taliban need to unionize
True covalence is the basis of a mutually-fulfilling relationship.
If every one of your relationships is either you giving up an electron or stripping it off some poor cation who then has to stick to you until you give it back, it’s easy to think that bonding is a zero-sum game, and that dominance is the only way to lead.
So yeah, Taliban definitely needs to unionize.
Phenomenal cosmic power! Itty bitty living space...
Everyone gets what they asked for.
FFS, they figured it out so much faster than America.
It's amazing how fast you can arrive at the right conclusion when you don't have a bunch of billionaires with media and politicians in their pockets 🤷
Breaking news Taliban discovers music and alcohol.
Taliband
Talibanned!
Greg Daniels absolutely needs to do an Afghani adaptation of The Office. It would absolutely kill and be like my fave series of all time. This whole situation is beyond absurd and mundane and also insanely great c/LeopardsAteMyFace fodder
How amazing would it be if office culture/politics was the thing (particularly "Western thing") that eventually compelled the Taliban to throw in the towel and start doing something productive + peace
Who would you cast as the Jim and the Dwight? I'm thinking Hasan Minhaj and Romesh Ranganathan.
One's Indian and the other's Sri Lankan, but it's close enough for Hollywood/BBC, amirite? 😛
Its up to you guys although I'm gonna need guarantees Jay Duplass will be playing a fairly significant role
Time for a company fun day
Maybe even a pizza party if they reach the quota!
I hope the afghan people raise up against their oppressors and fight back.
The largest military in the world occupied their country and gave them billions in equipment to keep it and they let the taliban retake everything in weeks. I don't think there is going to be any better opportunity then that. It's obvious that the fighting population already made their choice, and now everyone just has to enjoy it.
Of course there’s a better opportunity: figuring it out for themselves. Having some rich stranger give you a bunch of stuff is a recipe for failure. Building what you have slowly and steadily is a recipe for success.
Hopefully we can stay out of their way and stop trying to give them level 50 gear when they’ve level 1 noobs. Best way to guarantee someone stays a noob is to remove them their game and try to place them into your own.
Sure, blame the Afghan civilians after bombing their country back to the stone age and then trying to occupy it for 20 years with said largest military in the world only to pull THAT rug out from under them with a sudden bungled withdrawal.
It's not like the West had anything to do with the Taliban taking power in the first place, right? Right?
Alternate headline: Slow News Day in Afghanistan
