the US government covertly provided schoolbooks for children that promoted militant and incorrect Islamic teachings and included images of weapons and soldiers in an effort to encourage a hatred of foreign invaders (i.e. the Soviets and evil communism) in children

“The school books, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books.”

excerpt from the book, titled “the alphabet of jihad” -> “All the Russians and infidels are our enemy. No one can invade our country. Only Muslim Afghans can rule over this country.”

the US financially supported the Taliban between 1994-1996 because Washington viewed the Taliban as anti-Iranian, anti-Shia and potentially pro-Western

Washington wanted Taliban support for the development of a US-based oil company Unocal - and so they stayed silent when the Taliban captured Herat in 1995, and expelled thousands of girls from schools (Rashid, 2000)

killed over 47,000 civilians

US forces massacred civilians deliberately on multiple occasions, such as the Kandahar massacre, where most of the victims were women and children civilians

routinely executed unarmed civilians by UK forces

targeting of hospitals in air strikes and bomb raids, such as this hospital in Kunduz

heavy usage of white phosphorus in civilian areas

killed afghan civilians ‘for sport’, multilated the bodies, posed with the bodies for pictures, and collected pieces for trophies

Having a plethora of specific atomized sexualities discourages broad alliances and forming solidarity over shared experiences. Instead, it forces people to over-analyze themselves and focus on how they're different from others rather than what they have in common with them. We should embrace the many ways we experience our attraction, not dissect them into different "types" that we mustn't ever conflate -- sectioning everyone off over the most minor contrasts does us no favors. We should approach sexual liberation with collectivism, not individualism.

jesse’s friends talk about whether resident evil 4, call of duty nazi zombies, or left 4 dead is the best zombie game

walter and his son sit in their cars, which are parked in the driveway, furiously revving the engines

walter walks up to a kid eating cereal and says “fruit loops, huh? thats good stuff” (this is a few episodes after walt intentionally poisons the kid in question)

jesse plays Rage (2010) with a light gun

hank is bedridden after surviving an attack by cartel hitmen, so he sits in bed and orders minerals online. which he grabs with a little grabbing claw/ whenever his wife calls them rocks he gets really hurt and makes it very clear that theyre actually minerals

theres a scene that goes on for like 5 minutes where one of walt & jesse’s dealers is trying to sell meth to a guy he suspects of being an undercover cop, and he says that if he asks him hes a cop he legally has to tell the truth. the guy says no and the dealer sells him meth and immediately gets arrested

danny trejo is in it for literally one scene, where he lays in bed in a nightgown and orders shit off of skymall that DEA guys buy for him

walt yells at jesse for bringing funyuns to a meth cook

jesse gokarts sadly