How many restarts does it take to turn AFGHANISTAN into a LIBERAL DEMOCRACY?

[@tristanhenderick1120]

"I'm happy to call that a fifty percent success" - The US pulling out of Afghanistan

[@joundii3100]

The US pulling out of any war

[@joundii3100]

@Deadpoppin It was both.

[@aluminiumknight4038]

@Deadpoppin yeah bot a war but a "special military operation".. Stfu

[@ishrendon6435]

More like 100 percent failure

[@12354rony]

@@ishrendon6435 yea closer to that if we're being honest

[@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva]

This kind of challenge may have been better for Democracy: Africa since it has 3rd World issues better represented.

[@Seth9809]

I'm waiting for an expansion that brings those natures and features back.

[@captain_kadaver]

What fascinates me about 91.631 is that you managed to pick out a prime number, but not only that, it's also bigger than its prime predecessor by exactly 10, meaning there is only one digit difference. All that is to say, 91.631 is a really cool number.

[@owentucker6215]

Lmao, I love how you know this!

[@lockelamora8099]

"Why is violent crime going up?" I mean, you cut military spending in the middle of a civil war...

[@PTB_BE]

I think it's just easier to go for a Soviet/American invasion

[@jacobite2353]

Unfortunately that is a band-aid on the problem (like FDR) Nothing like stating a very controversial opinion for absolutely no reason

[@PTB_BE]

@@jacobite2353 Controversial opinions are the best ones

[@Remley.]

I would like to interpret this as both the USA and the USSR teaming up to either kill a few guys in some mountains or give Afghanistan an even scarier reputation

[@jacobite2353]

@@PTB_BE Except when you are trying to sleep and your device keeps going *bing* *bing* *bing*

[@DankusMemicus]

@@jacobite2353 Easy solution: make your device silent.

[@jonathanbrooks9768]

"we'll be a liberal democracy, we'll be horrendously in debt, but we'll be a liberal democracy" I mean, yeah.

[@mathew4430]

That’s exactly what a typical liberal democracy looks like

[@Humanresouces]

​@@mathew4430that's just every democracy.

[@mattyp8516]

You nailed politics within the first minute and a half. "Keep the class warfare going so we have emergency powers to try and 'fix' things."

[@jacobite2353]

1:16 Ah Machiavellianism an old classic

[@destvanderlei3093]

Oh boy here we go

[@Т1000-м1и]

Amazing but it feels like I know and don't know what's changing at the same time

[@mulethedonkey2579]

WooAH I just looked outside, somehow in this video game, you actually did it in real life! Afghanistan's a thriving, liberal democracy now! Women actually make slightly MORE than men now! Theres no war, and the UN called it more democratic than Norway! The economy is booming, and they're currently celebrating the President's marriage to her new first lady! Every sitting party sent their leader to support the wedding, to get some patriotism points in the polls.

[@brydenholley1904]

I really enjoyed this. Afghanistan is the most challenging country in the game. I made countless attempts at this and failed many times. But eventually I figured it out. The trick is to keep the Middle Income voters happy. Giving them mortgage tax relief, health tax credits and school tax credits plus the welfare fraud office will help to win that second election. Great video, thanks for posting 👍

[@theeverchosen1504]

"The whole world must learn our peaceful ways...BY FORCE"

[@jackiv7318]

what if next time you tried something like Kongo or some other country which is internal turmoil while having not the greatest economy? Sure, it may not sounds as extreme like North Korea, and I also have no idea if such country is in the game, but I still would like to see your way of attempting to fix it.

[@ed-b8045]

Alternate title: guy gets extra demonitized while playing a game that gets him demonitized

[@compatriot852]

I remember there being something the US was working on called the "gay bomb". I guess this playthrough is what if they actually used it on Afghanistan

[@12354rony]

Just made me think of gay folks in Afghanistan, god what a horrific place to be born there

[@noneofyourbusiness3288]

1:33 Afghanistan is Sunni I think, but at least with Shia that does not seem too out there. I have heard that in Iran there are a lot of transwomen, since homosexuality is outlawed, but transitioning is legal (obviously forced gender-reassignment is really fucked up, but this entire situation is really interesting imo and shows how even fundamentalists can interpret the same texts differently.) As far as I know their reading is "gender-reassignment surgery is not specifically outlawed (since it was not something people back then could even imagine was possible) so it is allowed." which is kinda neat I guess...

[@Tea_N_Crumpets]

So you’re saying… Iran says trans rights?

[@alirezabhmanabadi4235]

They may not give that much of a choice but it's because they care for that person's health and the society sexual health condition in its entirity. And no, it's not really fucked up, because they do the sexual transitioning surgery and hormone theropy or even phycological theropy for anyone with a condition to make sure of their issue and the solution needed for it and do it all for free. If you knew the many many bad thing that homosexuality and unreasonable transitioning does to someone you would not call what they doing fucked up or something like that.

[@alirezabhmanabadi4235]

@@Tea_N_Crumpets We have human rights; there is no such thing as trans rights, gay rights or whatever right you or whomever in the liberal society might call it; all of them are patient rights to us. We give them what they need and what is best for them medically and morally. Nothing more and nothing less; exactly what they need and we do it for free which you should consider too. Liberalism sells random rights Islam gives rights according to your responsiveness in doing your responsibilities and those rights being good for you, not just whatever and responsiblities according to your abilities and capacities in handling things.

[@nikolasgrots334]

@@alirezabhmanabadi4235 the many many bad thing that homosexuality and unreasonable transitioning?? hahaaha, not going to take moral examples from religions and religious figures that like to surround themselves with children or those who are vulnerable only to exploit them.

[@alirezabhmanabadi4235]

@@nikolasgrots334 well those "religious feagures" you're talking about are condemned even more than any average sinner because they are suppose to be an example to the rest of the believers. When it comes to religion I'm specifically talking about Islam, because it is the most logical and reasonable religion between all of them. Also that is not how an average religious feagure actually is and how a religion necessarily works specially if it is truthful.

[@Redarmy1917]

1:46 The US said the same thing.

[@whatif5584]

Why environmentalists support was so high at the start of his term?

[@Canada1994]

Did he use a mod to play as Afghanistan? I've never played this game before.

[@emrehepgunes3005]

Can you please tell me which mods you use to play with different nations?

[@fxailing1201]

I can see the thumbnail making ppl angry

[@michaelheliotis5279]

Afghanistan, like many other non-Western contries, isn't really an ethnically homogenous nation state like people in the West tend to presume. Most African and many Middle-Eastern countries are characterised by a variety of different ethnicities or tribal groups that have been incorporated together, either by an arbitrary colonial power or historic conquest, and are ruled over by a privileged minority who typically were installed by a colonial power or exploited the upheaval it created. With regard to Afghanistan, the Pashtun people (formerly known as Afghans until that name became associated with the multi-ethnic state) occupied lands in the south that were ruled by the Mughal Empire in the east and the Persian Safavids in the west, and took advantage of the upheaval between them to establish an independent state under the Hotak dynasty. They were quickly supplanted by the Durrani dynasty, who expanded the area of Pashtun control and established the Afghan Empire, which was later supplanted by emirs of the Barakzai dynasty who ruled until the monarchy fell in 1973. Despite their political dominance, however, the Pashtuns only constitute about 39% of the Afghani population, barely more than the Tajiks who are the next largest group at 37%, not to mention the dozen others. Although the Durrani dynasty set a precedent of ethnic inclusivity in their empire, it has not always been upheld over the years and ethnic tensions have always continued to exist, with Pashtun governance facing constant challenges by other ethnic groups in the country. Even today, most political groups or movements within Afghanistan are drawn along ethnic lines, with the Taliban arising during the Afghan Civil War to champion Pashtun interests and political dominance, primarily against the Jamiat who were the Tajik faction dominant among the mujahideen, and who thus posed a significant threat to traditional Pashtun hegemony if they were allowed to entrench themselves in the new Afghan government nascent in Kabul. Contrary to popular imagination, the Taliban isn't about religion, it's actually about ethnic dominance with only the trappings of religion.

[@davidpan5387]

You should play Venezuela, it would be a good one

[@Virtrial]

I got baited; thought it would be an eu4 vid. sadge :'(

[@Virtrial]

no idea why I thought that tho

[@eescoto71]

The CIA has been asking this question since the 70s

[@Dryrubbersock]

Whats super funny is making atheist progressiv afghanistan in vic3

[@BoraCM]

12:15. You mean a positive feedback loop.

[@siamakyazimy8548]

Play as iran too!

[@dawidwojacki5049]

BEHOLD! Afgaynistan.

[@Jareers-ef8hp]

Whenever they say they want to bring democracy to a country, what they really mean is bring feminism, lgbt, and black lives matter to that country, thats what they really mean.

[@grahamparks1645]

Constitutional monarchy foreign education of elites, foreign private schools in country, parliament, religious tolerance

[@priest_george976]

Hi!

[@Kilgorio]

wow

[@borisradojkov7051]

Here's the problem you will literally never make enough money so you might aswell just spend money on the biggest possible projects and not care

[@superdestrier9160]

helo

[@raithneachdavisson6156]

Do more xcom 2

[@nedekrug372]

This is insulting

[@thatrandomguyontheinternet2477]

Fun fact : Afghanistan isn’t becoming democratic and liberal because it is a islamic nation with a conservative belief

[@jhonshephard921]

clearly you have no sense of history. Look up the Abbasid caliphate(Al Mamun in particular) or the Mughals, particularly Akbar. Just like you are not exactly the same as every other person in your country, the Afghans or Muslims aren't either. Hell, if you want a modern example, just look up Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion when the former king was liberalizing it.

[@Humanresouces]

WE KNOW.

[@ZacharyFindling]

I mean of course it’s not going to happen soon but things change in the long run. The societies of most of the rest of Asia and Europe are completely unrecognizable from a century ago, and interpretations of Islam was much more lax until recently (and seem to be growing more lax again). Just like the CCP went from hardline Marxists to capitalists within a generation, certain pressures may force the Taliban to “revise” their policies.

[@andriusgimbutas3723]

Quran doesn't prohibit gender transition, therefore it's allowed

[@alirezabhmanabadi4235]

But it doesn't allow you to be an idiot and harming yourself because you feel like it so no willy nilly transition. You can only do it if you really need it or else it's a sin because you are harming yourself.

[@mtnmanofcolorado]

Make a conservative communist america

[@mtrn7504]

the Afgan is heroic people who defeat the Soviet Union and USA 💪💪

[@hashtagrex]

what good does heroism do when you have a country where people butcher their own countrymen in the streets? what good does heroism do when its an out of control downward spiral? what good does heroism do when innocent people fear stepping out of their homes? victories are hollow if they dont make actual lives better

[@mtrn7504]

@@hashtagrex That's what the media shows you. It did not show you that it is a people that defended its freedom against the American and Soviet occupiers. The media fakes the facts and shows what governments just want.

[@momen866]

I agree with you

[@hashtagrex]

@@mtrn7504 i asked you basic questions that you immediately failed to answer, questions that had nothing to do with what is shown on the media, instead trying to call everyone else liars and fakes. *you* are the one guzzling fake media

[@DankusMemicus]

They're so heroic that they immediately gave up fighting the Taliban. Over time, they'll get sick of their government just like the Iranians.

[@ishrendon6435]

Lmao

[@thesmilyguyguy9799]

= D

[@Yannick3585]

So many adds ffs.

[@kaznika6584]

If you want the liberal Afganistan experience, just move to California!

[@tommysoliz3064]

Lmao W vid

[@Ofiotaurus]

First?

[@user-eu5ci2yb9f]

Who cares 🤨

[@jacobite2353]

No one cares

[@leroiarouf1142]

Gg😐

[@user-eu5ci2yb9f]

@@jacobite2353 you're right

[@Knudsen_Hernandez]

second last as of now actually