The Taliban are working to woo tourists to Afghanistan

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The Taliban are working to woo tourists to Afghanistan
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"Come to Afghanistan for the food! Stay because now you can't leave, you American infidel"

The food is really good though

I’m lucky enough to live in a place with a solid number of Afghan expats. Can confirm they make some delicious food.

Real shame they blew up those statues of Buddha. Those might have draw in some tourists. :|

Natural selection though

Hmm? What does evolutionary fitness have to do with the barbarians destroying art they had no hope of imitating that honors a philosophical achievement that no random pedophile warlord could even hardly grasp?

I mean, literally? Foolish choices of the past are limiting economic opportunities of the present, meaning they will have less success compared to their peers, other nations. The concept of natural selection doesn't have to be limited to literal generational gene transfer, but can be applied to other areas. I mean technically you might be better served thinking of it more in terms of game theory or some shit, but a hand-waving application of natural selection isn't terrible.

Gotcha. The Afghani of the future will be worse off because of the present. Now I understand what you were communicating.

It wasn't actually my comment, just my interpretation of what they were trying to say. Still, I'm fairly confident that's what they were getting at.

Who DOESN'T want to visit a bloodthirsty theocratic warlord-state?

"Come to Afghanistan! Enjoy our wonderful mus- Shop for fashionable cl- Enjoy our historic sculpt- We play a game that's kind of like polo with a goat carcass, check it out!"

Yeah, see this is why it's important to have a project plan beforehand. If we'd known "tourism" was on the roadmap we'd have done a few things differently.

If you ever feel like your job is difficult keep in mind there is someone with this job.

This is the making of a funny TV show shot like flight of the conchords

Think we can sell an animated series version to Netflix that they cancel after a boycott and no one binging it in one day after only 8 episodes?

Looking for something to do?

You can throw the first stone for only $9.99.

Maybe they can let tourists throw the first stone. I’m sure that would appeal to a niche demographic underserved by the tourism market.

Borat Trilogy confirmed. How amazing if Sacha went over in disguise.

I heard they don't even chop off your head anymore! I was floored! They only scratch it a little now. It's like that Catholic thing where they mark the doors red and they mark their forehead with ashes. But they do run you over and stone you. It's an improvement.

the word woo makes me think Muhammad is going to suck my dick

Who needs Muhammed when the Taliban are lining up to suck capitalisms dick?

No, no, don't worry, they're attracting Chinese tourists and selling the nation's mineral rights to Chinese corporations, so it's actually Socialism With Chinese Characteristics.

They should launch a brutal attack on Israel to get everyone on their side

Literally no one is thinking like that. This is a construct of the zionist brain.