Please remember this people, next time you're thinking of helping the US military.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2025
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I liked this part of the story:
"Kasper Erikesen, a Danish father of four and green card holder who made posts supporting Trump, was among those detained while actively trying to become a U.S. citizen. "
The Schadenfreude is delicious
Oh no, anyway you guys can keep him, we've got enough idiots as it is
Probably increase the average intelligence of both countries if the US keeps him
Fuckin ouch lol
The u.s has a big history of fucking their interpreters. Don’t assist the u.s army.
This. Look at how shitty we treat our soldiers. The Americans you help in the field, the lives you'll save, they will all appreciate it, but our leaders will go out of their way to fuck you over.
I'm guessing they weighed their options and somehow thought it was the best option at the time. Maybe their beliefs didn't align with the Taliban, or they didn't believe they could leave the area and didn't want to become 1 of the tens of thousands of civilians that were killed who weren't combatants. One of them granted asylum, and one being treated like shit, hopefully they'll get lucky and they'll just detain him and let him go when some politician realizes it may lose more support from military members.
they are going to need interpreters in this war, and I hope no one in Iran is stupid enough to help Americans.
That seems to be an international trend.
Fuck the guys that helped keep our soldiers alive during the nation building war that we started. So glad we paid for those white South Africans to come here. /s
hey, they might have risked their lives to protect and help American troop. but have you considered they are brown?
They’re just arresting people here legally at this point.
I know a few Venezuelans who are citizens, and they tell me they aren't worried, but I am. I've heard they are review citizenship and green card applications, and looking for discrepancies, and if they find them, they are pulling their citizenships. They don't even respect birthright citizenship, which is in the Constitution. They aren't going to respect the citizenship process.
Bottom line, if you were born somewhere else, they want you gone. After that, they'll be going after actual citizens they don't like.
“But I’m a naturalized American!!”
In 1998 on your registration form, you wrote “OK” in the space labeled as “do not write here”!
It's scary and I hate it. It's giving me stress shits.
If they come near anyone I know, I'll be going near people they know. FAFO
this is just flat out incompetence
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Doesn't sound like incompetence at all. Sounds like they're being dick heads, as intended.
This is what happens when ~~cops~~ thugs are given quotas.
Not that I'm a fan of any of America's modern wars, but the way we pulled out of Afghanistan was just above and beyond a shit show. We spent over a decade running around with our dicks in our hands, and when its finally time to end the farce we decide that it has to be done virtually overnight.
I'm not one to normally "both sides" Democrats and Republicans, but imo bidens refusal to change the withdrawal does lend evidence to that argument, at least when it comes to certain foreign policy. We fucked over the country, but worse of all we fucked over the people who actually believed in whatever good will we were selling them on.
I volunteer with an organization that connects healthcare providers like myself with Afghan refugees. When they came over here they didn't have access to social security numbers, programs like Medicaid or Medicare, or even Tricare. They were basically being brought with what they could carry and then dumped in section 8 housing in some of the roughest neighborhoods in the area.
My friend Mahmud was a translator who had been blown up in an IED attack while serving with our military. I met him because he was trying to find a job without papers, but had a hard time keeping up with his work because he had severe drop foot because he was missing the anterior of his calf muscle.
His wife, himself, and their 6 beautiful children were living in a rundown two bedroom apartment, and even though they had virtually nothing they were gracious host. They basically force fed me tea and what little food they were provided to live off of.
This article is just another example of the government wiping its hand of any responsibility when we decide to make war. Mahmud and his family are doing so much better now, but it's only because we have a very active Islamic community that has taken the responsibility over caring for these families. Things like this make me embarrassed to be an American citizen.
If you ever have the chance to befriend an person from Afghanistan, I highly recommend it. Be warned, you will basically be kidnapped and forced to eat more food than you can handle, they are an aggressively loving people.
Biden just followed through with what was negotiated with the Taliban by the former Trump administration. If the US doesn't follow through we lose credibility in all future negotiations with everyone.
What you're complaining about is the fact that Trump et all made an agreement to pull out the troops within a certain (completely unreasonable) timeline. They had no idea WTF they were doing and obviously didn't do due diligence or any sort of logistics planning for such a withdrawal before making the agreement.
If you think that sounds like bullshit let me ask you this: Does Trump ever do due diligence on anything? During his first administration nearly all his executive orders got thrown out because they were deemed arbitrary and capricious and during his second administration it looks like we're getting the same exact situation.
They don't know what they're doing. They don't know how to govern. If they didn't have several powerful right wing media empires backing up every stupid decision they make Trump would never have been re-elected and he'd have long since been impeached in this administration.
Biden just followed through with what was negotiated with the Taliban by the former Trump administration. If the US doesn't follow through we lose credibility in all future negotiations with everyone.
I am skeptical of the claim that we had any credibility to lose in respect to our dealings in Afghanistan. Plus, our negotiations weren't with the Taliban, they weren't in control of the country until we extracted. Our dealings were with the former Afghan government who weren't in favour of the expedited process.
What you're complaining about is the fact that Trump et all made an agreement to pull out the troops within a certain (completely unreasonable) timeline. They had no idea WTF they were doing and obviously didn't do due diligence or any sort of logistics planning for such a withdrawal before making the agreement.
And knowing that the Biden administration still rammed through the pull out. It's not like delaying the pull out of Afghanistan didn't already have a precedent.
What do you think makes us look worse on the global stage....? A slight and understandable delay in moving our troops out, or completely abandoning our partners to a regime that everyone knew was going to hunt them and their families down in retribution?
You are pretending as if geopolitics is completely devoid of nuance.
you think that sounds like bullshit let me ask you this: Does Trump ever do due diligence on anything? During his first administration nearly all his executive orders got thrown out because they were deemed arbitrary and capricious and during his second administration it looks like we're getting the same exact situation.
Again, I fail to see how that makes the Biden administration seem competent if they chose to proceed with something they knew was going to be a shit show.
My point was that it was a shit show, and that both administrations are in some way responsible for it.
You lost credibility with all your allies, who came for help when you called NATO, article 5, lost hundree s of soldiers during a couple of decade, and then were left alone in the chaos with no warning.
The both sides thing is hard to get around sometimes and people who believe in the more traditionally classic form of democracy like Biden make it that much harder. While republicans will get elected with a 0.5% margin and call it a mandate to change everything, people like Biden tend to approach the situation with more of an idea that the people voted for Trump and changing what Trump did would be going against what the people voted for, sometimes to a fault.
It's also just stability and cooperation. Every other president came in with the idea that we were all working towards the same goal with different ideas on how to get there. They've taken the country in good faith from their predecessor and generally carried forth close to their vision on the things they were working on. No matter which side you're on, the things that get attention are usually done in an intelligent way that makes sense. It's generally better to shift the agenda by focusing on new things than to focus on the things that were fixed literally last year.
This president has the exact opposite behavior. He's aggressively destroying anything Biden or Obama have built, down to straight up trashing assets of the USPS (including mail sorters).
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Time for all migrants to wear maga hats or ICE costumes to their hearings
Dude, that's Matt Damon!