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What were they supposed to do? It was fine for years until the botched withdrawal. Changing a domain name in a federated system is tricky business.

by Kye 3y ago

poulpy123 3y ago
not using afghanistan as TLD for a queer forum. Even if the Talibans didn't get back in power, it wasn't a country very LGBT friendly to put it mildly, so it was very risky for a long term instance to use it for TLD
- pyuser583 3y ago
  I’ve heard Kabul is one of the gayest places in the world. The presumption is you are gay until proven otherwise. Not the same thing as being LGBTQ+ friendly. Torture and executions is pretty LGBTQ+ hostile. But interesting how extreme homophobia and widespread homosexuality coexist.
  - dibujaron 3y ago
    This is fascinating. I feel like you're serious but I don't understand. does anyone have a source about this gay-but-not culture in Kabul?
    - pyuser583 3y ago
      https://www.scotsman.com/news/world/startled-marines-find-afghan-men-all-made-up-to-see-them-2468177 https://www.scotsman.com/news/world/startled-marines-find-af... That’s rural Afghanistan, not Kabul. “Taliban Shuffle” by Kim Barker is entertaining and relevant.
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    - ptsneves 3y ago
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      - ksenzee 3y ago
        This comment deserves some kind of prize for simultaneous display of surface support for women's rights together with a breathtaking level of casual misogyny.
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        ptsneves 3y ago
        And you saw it all nonetheless :) I have a bit of an impostor syndrome given HN’s high brow public but this is cluedo-master level. At least there is a prize.
skissane 3y ago
> It was fine for years until the botched withdrawal. The previous government made gay sex a crime. Their seeming tolerance wasn’t because they were LGBT-friendly, it was because they were too busy fighting a losing battle against the Taliban to have time for enforcing their own anti-LGBT laws and policies. If they’d survived, they quite possibly would have made the same decision at some point

What were they supposed to do? It was fine for years until the botched withdrawal. Changing a domain name in a federated system is tricky business.

by Kye 3y ago

What were they supposed to do? It was fine for years until the botched withdrawal. Changing a domain name in a federated system is tricky business.

poulpy123 3y ago

not using afghanistan as TLD for a queer forum. Even if the Talibans didn't get back in power, it wasn't a country very LGBT friendly to put it mildly, so it was very risky for a long term instance to use it for TLD

pyuser583 3y ago
I’ve heard Kabul is one of the gayest places in the world. The presumption is you are gay until proven otherwise. Not the same thing as being LGBTQ+ friendly. Torture and executions is pretty LGBTQ+ hostile. But interesting how extreme homophobia and widespread homosexuality coexist.
- dibujaron 3y ago
  This is fascinating. I feel like you're serious but I don't understand. does anyone have a source about this gay-but-not culture in Kabul?
  - pyuser583 3y ago
    https://www.scotsman.com/news/world/startled-marines-find-afghan-men-all-made-up-to-see-them-2468177 https://www.scotsman.com/news/world/startled-marines-find-af... That’s rural Afghanistan, not Kabul. “Taliban Shuffle” by Kim Barker is entertaining and relevant.
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  - ptsneves 3y ago
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    - ksenzee 3y ago
      This comment deserves some kind of prize for simultaneous display of surface support for women's rights together with a breathtaking level of casual misogyny.
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      - ptsneves 3y ago
        And you saw it all nonetheless :) I have a bit of an impostor syndrome given HN’s high brow public but this is cluedo-master level. At least there is a prize.

skissane 3y ago

> It was fine for years until the botched withdrawal. The previous government made gay sex a crime. Their seeming tolerance wasn’t because they were LGBT-friendly, it was because they were too busy fighting a losing battle against the Taliban to have time for enforcing their own anti-LGBT laws and policies. If they’d survived, they quite possibly would have made the same decision at some point