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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Aug 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted ABC News

      Only the military side of the Kabul airport has been secured, leaving ordinary civilians with no flights or a functioning airport. The women’s rights leaders who’ll be hunted by the Taliban had no chance. But no worries, the evacuation of dogs is proceeding in an orderly manner.https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1427206247338622980 …

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      U.S. military dogs in Kabul evacuated from the city’s airport among other officials as Taliban takes control of Afghanistan. https://abcn.ws/3g9h6JF  pic.twitter.com/Q371CU38of
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Aug 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted euronews

      This also happened in Kabul. People clung to an evacuation plane — these are carrying embassy staff —and fell to their deaths. The video should be distressing, though many won’t care it seems.https://twitter.com/euronews/status/1427236717183045642 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

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      In a distressing video, Afghans can be seen attempting to hold onto a U.S. military plane as it takes off from Kabul airport. According to reports, at least three people died after falling from the aircraft. pic.twitter.com/WvrO0FIIyv
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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Aug 2021

      People immediately rushing to remind me dogs are valuable too or we had to leave—who said otherwise. But as those heartless, callous commenters remind me, it’s a hierarchy in which people or Afghanistan don’t even get crocodile tears. They’re, at best, props for domestic policy.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Aug 2021

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      People can at least pretend to accept Afghans as human beings, their suffering as real and mumble some thoughts and prayers? The bar for pretend humanity isn’t high. We know what’s happening and what was inevitable and blah blah blah. Just one crocodile tear, please. It’ll do.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1427274293642244106 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
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      I just can’t handle people who can’t even manage crocodile tears, especially for the women but also for all the people who worked for us and we didn’t bother evacuating in time. Just have the decency to pretend to care, mumble some perfunctory thoughts and prayers.
      7:26 AM - 16 Aug 2021
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        1. Wear a mask don't be a murderer‏ @theolddelewis 16 Aug 2021
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          https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/6790279/US-Taliban-Agreement.pdf …

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        1. drameet‏ @drameetr 16 Aug 2021
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          For 20 yrs the afghan regime didn’t have time to prepare?

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        2. Bailey1950‏ @Bailey1050 16 Aug 2021
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          You are being ridiculous.

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        1. Filiz‏ @filiz_beren 16 Aug 2021
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          The World has too many issues. Which ones do we need to fix while we are also fixing our own? I am disgusted with images and the mentality that is taking over. But I also have an obligation for our next generation so they don't elect M.T. Greene to represent them.

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        1. Ebba‏ @blalinjen 16 Aug 2021
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          I suggested that Americans could spare a thought for the Afghan people, instead focusing on which president to blame. The replies that I got… I suggest that the new American foreign policy is named: How to lose friends and alienate people.

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        1. emily hodges‏ @elh2005 16 Aug 2021
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          The dogs are more of a symbol than reality, of course we would bring back our dogs, we left nothing behind - the issue is that we don’t have more planes on the ground bringing back the people & never planned to.

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        1. steve e‏ @bookends_ny 16 Aug 2021
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          This was a reverse-Chanukkah; the US thought the Afghan gov't and army could hold out for 14 days but they barely made 14 hours. How could US intelligence have been so wrong?

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        1. Will Goring‏ @aggroboy 16 Aug 2021
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          I generally don’t think very highly of my (UK) govt, but this from our defence secretary is the only human(e) response I’ve seen from any senior politician anywhere. Of course it could just be the UK nationals he’s worried about, but I get the sense not.https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/afghanistan-taliban-uk-ben-wallace-b1903193.html …

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        1. Mark Dunstan‏ @markgdunstan 16 Aug 2021
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          It’s absolutely awful. And the first response should be to the human tragedy.

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