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The Taliban has banned a lot of things ... but chess?

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/06/17/g-s1-72309/chess-ban-afghanistan-taliban
SocialMediaRefugee - 6mon

The Taliban have to justify their existence by doing something, like a new manager that makes everyone move their offices. They aren't doing anything of substance to improve the lot of their people so they do dumb shit like this.

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jet @hackertalks.com - 6mon

Once you start to ban things, it starts to become no big deal... And suddenly your banning everything

Just like on Lemmy

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