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Everyone has very different ideas about what human rights abuses we're supposed to ignore and which ones we're supposed to be outraged by. Saudi Arabia is really bad and I wish we were actually openly hostile to them, and I mean that, but I think most of the posters talking about evil America enabling them here probably don't have much of a problem with the us normalizing relations with Iran, which has its God police sentence teenagers to be publicly strangled to death routinely. The naked subjectivity of Internet leftist outrage makes it lose all effect. If we were openly hostile to KSA they'd still be doing this poo poo and half the posters here would just flip their positions, because now innocent people are suffering under the "unjust sanctions regime. "
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# ¿ Sep 29, 2015 23:24 |
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# ¿ May 17, 2024 00:33 |
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I don't think anyone out there actually believes they're our friends though. Even the hardcore kiss the crown prince on the lips Bushites probably see them as allies of convenience at best, and it's downhill from there.
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# ¿ Sep 30, 2015 06:08 |
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wiregrind posted:I wonder why there's such an anti-US sentiment in the middle east. Nah, must be religion or something, right? It's actually probably a variety of factors.
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# ¿ Sep 30, 2015 08:16 |