Sweet L of Liberty | Chapo Trap House | Episode 550 FULL

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We look at the brutal, stupid, and embarrassing end of our brutal, stupid, and embarrassing twenty year occupation of Afghanistan.
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[@nicolev2028]

"What you're feeling now is imperial humiliation" -Felix strikes again Biederman

[@Opus766]

Felix got so mad this episode his microphone disintegrated

[@jeffm3283]

The Lord gives the heaviest posts to his most powerful posters

[@mitchhosking5599]

He keeps playing with his mic, he needs his enrichment or he can't eat his meals

[@fudgesticklebear]

You would think the Afghan men would have played enough Far Cry to fight back the imperial Taliban. Typical ubisoft failing women.

[@thefrenchbastard1646]

pretty sure you would be on the side of the Taliban if it was an ubisoft game and the plot twist would the the Taliban are actualy worst than the corrupt governement you where figthing all along, it's pretty mutch the plot of far cry 4

[@ar2042]

@@thefrenchbastard1646 Yeah you never play for the govt's side in Far Cry games even if the rebels are dubious like the 4th game

[@elijahz7019]

This was such a good episode

[@OstrichRidingCowboy]

That "Banana Boat Song" parody dragged me all the way back to high school.

[@bsh819]

After he'd been duckin us for a few years it became "daylight come and Osama go home"

[@juliettedemaso7588]

“You’re already in the pod, just praying you don’t get kicked out of it” Big squirmy American truth right there.

[@verdancyhime]

Sometimes you go like 3 or 4 episodes where Felix is asleep and mutters something half assed about something and a few episodes where Felix just rants about gaming and you forget that he isn't just a gaming himbo.

[@danielvalleduarte]

I'm an Iraq vet who was yelling this in 2004 and I am fucking howling at this...thank you for your service, my good boys

[@freakyzed8467]

Did my time on tanks back in the 90s and I completely agree. Was a mistake from soup to nuts.

[@danielvalleduarte]

@@freakyzed8467 I was in tanks, we trained in tanks all the way up until they sent us to Baghdad and said "sorry, no tanks...you guys are scouts now."

[@debrasue2793]

you guys might strongly identify with Clifton Hick's episode of the Eyes Left podcast. solid listen regardless of what your MOS was. definitely hits home.

[@danielvalleduarte]

@@debrasue2793 Roger that. The lefty vets need to form a strong coalition beyond independent media voices. Get together and anti recruit the youth....or the very least, tell them the truth

[@bitteralmonds666]

These episodes and CushVlog count as treats 🦄

[@commenter381]

The Twitch logo popping up on my phone when a Cushvlog starts has me conditioned like a lab rat getting a pellet.

[@FirstnameLastname-kn5sw]

Vietnam 1955-1975 Afghanistan 2001-2021 We love 20 year wars don't we folks. 45 years since Saigon so that means we've got 25 years before the next 20 year war to feed the MIC. What are we doing next guys, Venezuela, Iran, Nigeria?

[@samtesh2900]

Cuba

[@tomgreen6953]

Tigray

[@screamingphoenix8113]

Tuvalu is lovely this time of year.

[@MrLFJ7]

Probably Taiwan

[@pogoagogo7606]

Chinatown

[@Sneezes_LoL]

Can't wait for them to find out about the 21 year old British 4chan poster who went on vacation to Afghanistan

[@gonz0314jon]

Is that that young guy that's still there ? Never knew he was a 4 chan fuckwit 😆

[@alanfulcher460]

Hell yeah dude

[@somalipiratesunion1181]

At least when Soviets invaded Afghanistan they made decent music lmao what an idiotic war

[@sacrificezone]

Link?

[@wrinkledale6024]

This one was so good it was almost as good as the Sorkin one

[@thomasgiles2876]

The shipping container thing is too accurate. I keep seeing rural identifying people posting "dream homes" made from reclaimed shipping containers. Looks cool, won't *insulate* you from the outdoors.

[@ashokamasilamani2448]

You can line and insulate them cheaply.

[@Hot.imgggg]

@@ashokamasilamani2448 that’s not the point, when the only feasible home I could own is a fucking shipping container something is very wrong. We should ask more of this country of our lives in general.

[@ashokamasilamani2448]

@@Hot.imgggg yes you should ask more of your country.

[@stothAjs]

my buddy was out there solely patrolling poppy fields!

[@RIP_Greedo]

The based chads and soy betas of the future can argue all they want about eating ground up mice and cricket loaves. True sigma males will learn to photosynthesize.

[@bafrali5561]

What is this vegan bullshit? True comrades are powered by fusion.

[@monotronfan1]

Anyone who needs meat substitutes is a beta, true vegan chads just enjoy delicious veggie dishes

[@ChewyThomson]

I'm so woke I let animals eat me

[@ultravioletiris6241]

Id throw some chlorophyll up in my cells if i could

[@freakyzed8467]

@@ultravioletiris6241 hoping Alex Jones joins the lefties and starts raving about how he loves grass and shills soy pills.

[@commenter381]

They brought back the duck hunt for this one. Folks, you love to see it.

[@heroloray]

13:20 love the George Lucas prequel reference

[@bpatrickhoburg]

Finally another free Chapo!

[@mrpieceofwork]

Good podcast.

[@cop-killer-]

Proof?

[@yossarrian]

ya, source your sources and define subjective Objectivism without a drip of personal bias, logic fucker

[@freakyzed8467]

Frum is the living avatar of feels bad man pepe.

[@twistedoperator4422]

"Eating rats and warthogs".

[@joshvelazquez8706]

Big w

[@MrKYT-gb8gs]

Bring Virgil back for call of cthulu fam ill allow it

[@SpiritualAtheist]

11:10. The Chopper Whopper.

[@davidhill2020]

1:09:00 Wasn't it the president of Montenegro that Trump shoved out of the way so he could stand in front of the crowd of world leaders?

[@emic621]

90% of Americans supported the war in Afghanistan back then?? 🤨🧐

[@mikejames303]

Yup, damn near 90%. It was a crazy time.

[@mikejames303]

And about 99% of the media.

[@MrLFJ7]

Yeah man we were hungry for blood I saw it all on TV

[@emic621]

I guess it depends where you lived/grew up? But yeah, media big time trumped up that shit. The beginning of the Fox News era 🥴

[@bitteralmonds666]

Even Bernie fucking Sanders supported it! Hahah. We were thoroughly sold on this lie.

[@CzolgoszWorkinMan]

Adrian Zcience

[@kyelemoler]

"cricket loaf"

[@berdyderg900]

(spoiler alert)

[@bigbrother787]

F

[@ericofadel]

Crew, may I as where's the 549 th episode?

[@b_lah_kay4515]

21:10 when Keego lake outside of Detroit is warm year round I’m killing myself.

[@andr0oS]

Wexit Taliban is... too accurate

[@geodav5700]

Duh?

[@RH-ng9qm]

Deport David Frum? Naw, naw. He's all yours. We don't want him back.

[@VoteOmnivore]

Logging on to defend Ted Lasso and the Dakotas. its a nice show about the power of kindness and the dangers of relentless positivity. Dakota is beautiful with a great diversity in flat surface related geography!

[@skoomakity8769]

Kansas is better at being flat tho

[@chickenfeed6272]

Imagine thinking no one in America genuinely feels bad for the Afghan women.

[@chickenfeed6272]

@Vincent H. Do you?

[@chickenfeed6272]

@Vincent H. Lol. I was saying that people in America DO, in fact feel bad for Afghan women. That's the opposite of the idea you seem to be mocking above, that no one but me feels bad for Afghan women. If you agree that there are Americans that feel bad for Afghan women then why are you even flinging sh.it at me.

[@huntermead859]

They selectively and transiently feel bad for Afghan women, that's it. Next to no one in America thought about Afghan women for months, years prior to our military pulling out. In a few weeks, maybe you'll still be thinking about it, but almost no one else will be.

[@chickenfeed6272]

@@huntermead859 No one cares about the Hol'ocaust in their daily lives. Doesn't mean they don't find it awful when it comes to their attention. Also, the Taliban wasn't in control of Afghanistan months ago, so why should people feel as strongly for Afghan women then as now?

[@Muzikman127]

@@chickenfeed6272 because the plight of Afghan women everywhere outside Kabul was immeasurably worse under American occupation than before it, and probably after too, even under the Taliban. Actually, so far the "after" part is not true, because now America is insisting on sanctioning Afghanistan so hard as to drive Afghan women and their children to starvation, so it seems American policymakers have found a way to continue to make the women of Afghanistan suffer even after they've stopped militarily destroying the country. The Taliban are no good, but raining down bombs and propping up local corrupt and child-raping warlords, corrupt unaccountable military contractors, and opium gangsters, who all by the way commit murder and pillage on a mass scale throughout Afghanistan's countryside (where the majority of the population live) is not _better_ than Taliban rule, it's worse, and that's what America has been doing for the last decade or so. If Americans were concerned about the lives of Afghan women, they would be cheering the end of the war, and campaigning for the American government to work _with_ the new Afghan government to get the Afghan economy running, get the population fed, start seeing development, and negotiate with them to continue to allow things like women's higher education in Kabul (as they indicated they were more than willing to do, by the way) and basic literacy for girls _and_ boys in the rural areas. If this was _actually_ about helping the Afghan women, there are innumerable ways America could work _with_ the new government (which has more local legitimacy than the murderous gangsters America instituted for the last decade by the way), to improve the lives of Afghans broadly, and, yes, make the continuing development of women's rights a part of that negotiation. But they won't do that. Because it's not actually about Afghans, women or otherwise, it's about American ego, losing control of a colonial possession. They didn't care when it was Afghan women and children dying by the thousands in a destroyed country, destroyed by American backed forces, and they won't care when American policy continues to institute pain and suffering on a mass scale in Afghanistan. It's not about Afghan women, it's sadness at Afghanistan no longer being under complete American control. If it was anything else, then people would have been talking about the immense suffering inflicted on Afghan women *by* America for the last 20 years.

[@specificityarchives9920]

Well, if you feel that strongly, watch My Hero Academia instead of Ted Lasso and enjoy the progressive, anti-war, [SPOILERS] Anti-police brutality [END OF SPOILERS], anti-"being a general hopeless prick" messages in that show.

[@R1ck_Ryder]

Garbage opinion 🤮

[@specificityarchives9920]

​@@R1ck_Ryder That makes no sense but carry on. 😅

[@tomgreen6953]

Calm down Felix

[@metrodonkey8093]

i fuckin know there was fuckin good fuckin content fuckin in there fuckin somewhere but it was fuckin hard to fuckin extract from fuckin all the fuckin 'fuckin' fuckin infesting every fuckin sentence. ....fuck

[@mellowtron214]

I am 100% in support of what happened in Afghanistan. This very well may be Bidens single crowning achievement, in my eyes at least. But it was still shameful that the Afghan army, who we supposedly spent the last two decades training, didn’t shoot a single shot. I just put myself in their shoes, and I don’t see how you could just let this happen. But my opinions on this are super irrelevant, if the Afghan people want to surrender to the Taliban than they is their choice, not mine. And yeah, I read some shit about the Taliban marrying off all women over the age of 15, so that’s gross. But whatever. I’m not ashamed of the USA retreat, I’m just glad it finally happened.

[@coreygolphenee9633]

What if you were forced into an army for a government you didn't believe in and the people that at least make some rational sense based on your cultural experience come back into power what would you do go fight the people down your street.

[@bitteralmonds666]

Do you also think juan guaid0n’t is presinald of vuvuzela? Would you be willing to stake YOUR lyfe on it? 🧐🤔

[@bobbysbluebooster]

Take a shot every time they say “like” or “literally”

[@Blake_.Dryden]

This is all it is? Don’t get me wrong, very insightful, but I’d much rather record my political beliefs than work like a bitch for a salary. I’m starting a podcast tomorrow.

[@5508Vanderdekken]

How's the podcast going

[@Blake_.Dryden]

@@5508Vanderdekken first episode will be New Year’s Day, recording on the 29th. A friend was going to start it with me, but he’s an epidemiologist and too busy with work to commit. Came up with a pretty good name

[@laughingoctopus6550]

@@Blake_.Dryden So, update?

[@Blake_.Dryden]

@@laughingoctopus6550 I've canned a few episodes but haven't released anything yet because I'm trying to find someone to do it with, someone I have a natural chemistry with. Free form solo podcasts feel too one sided and self-righteous if you're talking about politics and any other subject feels just as awkward without someone to bounce ideas off of. Anyone want to attempt a test episode with me?

[@berdyderg900]

@@Blake_.Dryden still delusionally producing a podcast with zero episodes?

[@weejockpoopongmcplop]

Kinnock lost to Thatcher AND Major.

[@weejockpoopongmcplop]

1:02:11

[@ramirorybczuk9100]

55:32 David Frum: "This all wouldn't've happened if they killed Osama in December 2001" The US military complex, government, media and public in general: Oh wow, what an idea! How didn't I think of that?

[@jhondoe9308]

God emperor Biden is pretty hilarious to imagine. "THE EMPEROR PROT.. pro.. p... you know the thing"

[@vaiyt]

too bad Games Workshop hates fanworks, because I would watch the shit out of Senile God-Emperor of Mankind.

[@freakyzed8467]

For The Ice Cream!

[@macrussell78]

The Horus heresy would've been justified.

[@debrasue2793]

RE: "the helicopters delivering burger king" comment, there's a bit more to that story. in afghanistan during occupation, there were basically ongoing rotational flights in and out of bagram airfield through contracted couriers that would dleiver supplies and move people around. it was basically a bus service but with helicopters. so the guys at the smaller bases--having a fairly consistent arrival/departure schedule for these choppers, would have their buddies at bagram go out to disney road and buy american foods for them and then toss those orders onto a flight that was already going out. not saying that makes it any better, but that might at least make more sense with context.

[@mrpieceofwork]

I looked up "Disney Road" bc WTF? and found that it's named after a service member, who, now let's bring this home, was from Northern NV (the place I want to go back to) and oh, we share the same first name. Whoa.

[@LostEntradista]

Get em felix lol

[@nicolev2028]

I feel like soon Brace Belden will be asked to go off and fight there

[@cornerstore_d]

Congrats to the Taliban on their victory ✌ 👏

[@nicolev2028]

The way they talk about ted lasso sounds like something designed for extremely normal boring people.

[@wah666]

they can be annoying about shitting on media that's clearly not made for them/us lol but as someone who watched a few episodes out of curiosity: the ted lasso character is a fantasy, conjured by lib writers, of a simpleton flyover state yokel with a heart of gold, and the show is him winning over british people by being stupidly optimistic + heartwarming moments for every wine mom to gush over. it's just slop tbh

[@OlYables]

@@wah666 It's mostly harmless: pretty much taking several pages out of the Scrubs playbook of "front load the episode heavy with jokes: end on some schmaltzy sentimentality."

[@the_exegete]

The dry boys finally get steamed.

[@wishcraft4u2]

I'm specifically looking for the episode in which someone comes on and specifically discusses this military trade between local warlords and powerful Americans, even generals etc... Anyone remember which one it is?

[@blueatomicfox]

pretty sure its this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKLRgnxul6yod7s

[@Eamonshort1]

​@@blueatomicfox OP didn't thank you, so I wanted to say thanks I've been trying to find it too. Most of Chapos Episode titles are clever / funny but they way they name the eps can make it very hard to find a certain one you're looking for.

[@brazoshopper5081]

i live in a shipping container! not like those CUCKS in the city

[@pr00de]

Instant classic

[@freakyzed8467]

So we are gonna have to lash out and start another war just to show the rest of the world we can do it. Let's hope I am wrong on this one.

[@julymagnus493]

This episode sucked. I haven't seen it yet but I suspect it doesn't have matt for some reason so I hate it. 0/10 glad I'm not a patron.

[@JayFortran]

Not even Ted Lasso is safe. SAD

[@bathtubs]

I don't think your listening.

[@lanceblankenship9995]

Americans know so little about the Middle East and Central Asia that few of us are even aware of one of the building blocks of Near East Muslim cultures - cousin marriage. Not surprisingly, we are almost utterly innocent of any understanding of how much the high degree of inbreeding in Iraq and Afghanistan could interfere with our nation building ambitions. In much of the region, nearly half of all married couples are first or second cousins to each other. By fostering intense family loyalties and strong nepotistic urges, inbreeding makes the development of civil society more difficult. Each ethnic group in the region is divisible into smaller and smaller tribes, clans, and inbred extended families - each with their own alliances, rivals, and feuds. And the engine at the bottom of these bedeviling social divisions is the oft-ignored institution of cousin marriage. Many Muslim countries are usually known for warm, devoted extended family relationships, but also for weak patriotism. In the West, where individualism is so strong, many assume that “family values” and civic virtues such as sacrificing for the good of society always go together. But, in many Islamic countries, loyalty to extended (as opposed to nuclear) families is often at war with loyalty to nation. Civic virtues, military effectiveness, and economic performance all suffer.

[@topcatmatt]

Shhhh Libs don’t wanna hear this, it’s something real that helps explain things

[@treeguyfly]

Cut down on the Ritalin kid.

[@bitteralmonds666]

This doesn’t explain the entire US south, which is also founded on inbreeding ☠️

[@lanceblankenship9995]

@@bitteralmonds666 Ignorant comment. Don't get flustered and make lame, hand-waving jokes just because someone dares criticize the culture of brown people. The rates of cousin marriage in places like Afghanistan is several orders of magnitude higher than in even the most backward parts of the US.

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

@@lanceblankenship9995 Okay? That’s how a lot of societies have worked since pre-modern times. It’s what happens when you don’t have an entire continent to take over and you have a defined area where tribe lives and can’t move beyond

[@ScoreManUnder]

Bad take alert: we cant be angry at the Afghan army for not trying to protect thier women??? Chapo? Hello? High on the lefty juice in this episode

[@adeelsk4]

Gtfo lib

[@lutherblissett9070]

Taliban don't simp

[@debrasue2793]

Right-wing talking point. We were blowing their women up with JDAM's by the truckload. Taliban or not they're objectively safer per capita.

[@samzeng159]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKO3f3ileK2lm6c "At least one ground to ground missile was fired to help kilo company's fight, the missile did not hit the compound from which the marines where taking fire. It hit another a few hundred yards away killing 12 civilians including 5 children." (NYT 2010) The Americans and the Afghan army were the ones killing the women. Afghanistan is a largely rural country and the war was fought in the country side not the cities. While women's rights was improved in Kabul and other major cities the country side was more like something out of a McCarthy novel. The US army/Coalition was reluctant to take causalities and opted to use its superior firepower as per standard military doctrine however in that process enabled the Taliban to form a more effective parallel government that was far less violent than the Americans.

[@weejockpoopongmcplop]

Shrimp are the bugs of the sea.

[@crackaassedcracka]

one of the best of this version of chapo