On August 12, a user on 4Chan's far-right "/pol/" board shared a link to a news article reporting that "American negotiators are trying to extract assurances from the Taliban that they will not attack the U.S. Embassy in Kabul if the extremist group overruns the capital in a direct challenge to the country’s government." The original poster (OP) thereby inquired, "What are the political implications of the USA being terrified pussies?," to which one user replied by expressing hope that the Taliban will "kill" all of the U.S embassy employees and "drag the bodies through the street":
Kill them all, lop their heads off and drag the bodies through the street for all I care. Anyone still in the embassy right now, after everything that has happened deserves it.
Another user - posting a photo of what appeared to be Taliban members - championed the Islamic extremist group as "Based Talichads": with "Based" being an adjective that describes anything or anyone that promotes the far-right community's hate-motivated agendas, and "Chad" being a term used in far-right and "incel" meme culture to symbolize men who uphold "alpha male" and Western chauvinist values.
Based Talichads
4Chan User Refers to Taliban as "Based Chads" (August 12, 2021)
Maintaining that Afghanistan "shouldn't have been invaded in the first place," one 4chan user opined that he/she is "glad the Taliban stuck to their guns" and has now supposedly won the "war of attrition" against the West:
honestly.. good on them. it became a war of attrition and the West had stopped fighting to win.. through war fatigue, the cost of a twenty year war. The world stopped caring and geez Afghanistan shouldntve been invaded in the first place. why not Saudi Arabia or Israel? oy vey. Im glad the Taliban stuck to their guns and won their war and drove their invaders out and will soon mop up the boy raping ANA
In another 4chan thread discussion on August 12, a user asked to be "Redpilled*" on the Taliban, which garnered similar comments referring to the Islamic extremist group as "based" and acknowledging its initiative to "kill sluts, kill fags, force marriages, [and sustain a] traditional agricultural society."
OP: Redpill me on the Taliban
User 1: Nuristiani afghans are whiter than mutts
User 2: pretty based desu
>kill sluts
>kill fags
>forced marriages
>traditional agricultural society
only problem is theyre brown but no-one's perfect
4Chan Users Show Support for Taliban (August 12, 2021)
Highlighting the topic's prevalence across far-right dominated platforms, on August 11, the almost 2,000 subscriber neo-Nazi Telegram channel known as "HL" posted a screenshot of a 4Chan post celebrating that the Taliban has purportedly gained control over two thirds of the territory in Afghanistan. In the post, 4Chan users further recognized the Taliban for allegedly issuing a list of targets who should be "reported for execution," many of which - such as bankers, feminists, and LGBTQ folk - are also known to be common "enemies" of the far right. The screenshot can be seen below:
OP: So the Taliban offensive only seems to be gaining power and they now have control of 2/3 of the country. They are killing thousands in the areas they have taken over. They have just issued a list of people who civilians need to report to them so they can be executed.
>Anybody who worked for the previous government
>Bankers and financial workers
>Anybody committing child abuse
>Feminists
>Women in political office
>Journalists
>TV presenters
>LGBT activists
>LGBT individuals
User 1: not gonna lie, kinda based
User 2: I wish we were more like you you mountain nigger
Screenshot of 4Chan Users Showing Support for Taliban (August 11, 2021)
"This will be us one day," HL wrote in the post's caption, seeming to encourage the neo-Nazi community to take inspiration from the Taliban by drafting lists of and taking direct violent action against its political, racial, and religious enemies.
The next day, HL made another post identifying solidarity with the Taliban's "crazy dreams" of "autonomy" and "freedom from the jew": commending the group's "Guerilla Fighters" for their tactical improvements over recent years.
They were just some friends with a crazy dream of autonomy and freedom for their people. Freedom from the jew, and the autonomy to forge their own destiny.
Hail the Guerilla Fighters
Hail Revolutionaries of Every Stripe
Death to System
Screenshot of HL Post of Solidarity with Taliban "Revolutionaries" (August 12, 2021)
Notably, HL's post was subsequently promoted by other prominent neo-Nazi Telegram channels as well.
Following news on August 4 of the Taliban seizing abandoned U.S army bases and weapon containers, the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement-affiliated Telegram channel "TCC" also posted a statement of support for the militant group: prophesying that it will "restore order in Afghanistan" and make "paedophiles [rain] from the rooftop":
Sleep tight knowing that the Taliban will restore order in Afghanistan. Soon paedophiles will be raining from the rooftops.
*To "Redpill" someone means to indoctrinate them in far-right ideology or update them on news relevant to the far right community.
