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Brother of prominent Saudi scholar sentenced to death over tweets (www.middleeasteye.net)

submitted 1 year ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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Tweets made from anonymous account with nine followers, focused on unemployment, inflation, mismanagement of resources, release of political prisoners.

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[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The world needs to stop giving Saudi Arabia a pass just because they have oil. If there's ever been a country in need of a regime change...

[–] krische@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only way to do that is to stop needing oil.

[–] jcit878@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not that far off. 20 years the world is going to be a hugely different place

[–] krische@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I wish I shared your optimism

[–] scarrtt@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blood and Oil is a fascinating book about the rise of MBS. They literally had a guy on the inside in Twitter in California who would feed them back information like this. Definitely not a boring book, it reads like a thriller more often than not

[–] timespace@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Added to my reading list, thanks!

[–] theodewere@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

their big social experiment, "The Line" or whatever they're calling it, will be home to some of the most complete repression the world has ever known

[–] mayonaise_met@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

But they won't complete it because it's stupid and impractical.