• RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
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    ABC should just say:

    Give it your best shot (, a**hole is implied)

    He would so lose in court and if he doesn’t what did you actually lose?

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    Fucking sick of our presidents sucking up to these fuckers. Every president gotten on their knees for these terrorists. Hell there a picture out there of Bush holding hands.

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      I am sick of anything that sucks up to them. Sports are sucking up to them. Networks are sucking up to them.

      You know, people who have hated muslims since 9/11, aren’t being given anymore reasons to let off on that gas pedal. It is just making it worse.

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          And that’s why decarbonization is so important. That’ll not only address the existential threat of climate change, but will also cut off Saudi Arabia’s main source of income (though they’re also richly endowed with sunlight, so they could potentially convert to that and still earn insane amounts of money).

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      As a Muslim man, I saw this and I wanted to come argue with you about using the word “terrorist” to describe a Muslim man, but tbh fuck the Saudis, they are terrorists.

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        Well at least this guy is. Killing journalists to me is a form of terrorism. And though not all Saudis are terrorists, I feel those on top most certainly are. They at least help fund 9/11.

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        I’d call the Saudi state a despotism rather than a terrorist state. Historically, there has been funding and logistical support for terrorism, but in recent times, MBS has shifted to a more Ba’ath-party-style model of secular totalitarian dictatorship and, in the case of his war against Yemen, a more traditional model of imperialist state aggression against an impoverished civilian population.

        I hear a lot about Saudi Arabia from people I know who live there. I’ll say no more about that, since more detail would disclose personal info that’s not relevant here. Suffice to say, I know a lot of people who are well-placed to talk about what life is like there.

        There has been considerable social progress, within constraints: it’s now a much less restrictive society in terms of things like seeing movies, couples living together, women driving and working, etc. The infamous Muttawa’a (The Society for Encouraging Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the morality police) are now muzzled. Women won’t get beaten up for showing an ankle. You can see sports and stand-up comedy, though both are obligingly self-censored. But you’ll still get tortured or murdered if you challenge the powers that be (or happen to be Shi’a).

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    Remember how they caved and gave him all that money? Yet they’re being threatned yet again. It just shows how dictators can never be satisfied.

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      Please don’t include the citizens with their oppressors actions. Fuck the oppressors. None of them should exist. But i hope the people get to just fucking live in peace regardless of where they were born.

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      I wish them and Israel would bomb each other into oblivion.

      They’re allies. Both hate Arab democracy more than anything.

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      What would you say to those that wish the same on America since Trump defended the Saudi government’s actions? Or is that a “special case” where civilians should be seen as distinct from their government?