• phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    MBS is transforming Saudi Arabia from retro-medieval Wahhabi despotism to a more modern totalitarian police state, modelled on Saddam-era Iraq. For most Saudis, that’s better-- there are cinemas, women can drive and have a wider range of jobs, the muttawa’a are on a tight leash. But any involvement of ordinary people in politics will get them killed, even more than under the previous kings. And the insane inequality and exploitation of the Saudi economy remains unchanged.

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      3 days ago

      Nothing. I’m fed up with articles like those. They don’t want to say “bronze age shithole.”

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 days ago

        That’s partially because once they start pulling that thread, they’re going to arrive at the people paying them doing a lot of bronze age shit.

        One of the myriad reasons why billionaires and for profit corporations owning media is awful for journalism.

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      3 days ago

      Depending on your nationality this is very unlikely.

      They typically target those from poorer nations that they intentionally lure in under the guise of employment.

      Now there’s the moral arguements on continuing to do buisness with them ultimately supports these practices

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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      3 days ago

      If you really are afraid of that (well, I would), why go there at all? Just for some money? I wouldn’t trade safety for a lil cash.

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      3 days ago

      You’ll have to elaborate: The guys who machine gunned their own people hate another group of guys because they are degenerates?

  • mlg@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Yeah as long as they have Saudi in the name, it won’t be anything “new” or “different”