Time magazine: “we don’t know how yet, but we’re gonna find a way to link the rise of fascism and avocado toast”

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I mean, isn’t this like people predicting the year 2000 from the year 1920 and people in 2020 making fun of that being wrong? In neither situation could the future be predicted.

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Him and his Mujahideen were awful religious zealots back then too. That was just ignored due to the “enemy of my enemy is my friend and thus a hero” principle that the US have consistently applied to some of the biggest monsters in history.

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Well Ronald Reagan created the Taliban so that all checks out.

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That’s a very weird non-sequitor.

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