• Saudis Move to Behead Female Activist as Facebook Censors Anti-Saudi Content
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https://www.mintpressnews.com/saudi-arabia-behead-activist/248162/ Saudi prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a 29-year-old woman activist for crimes such as chanting slogans at a protest. Beheading a woman is unprecedented in the kingdom. Meanwhile, Facebook has sprung into action to protect Riyadh’s back by initiating a crackdown on hundreds of accounts posting anti-Saudi content.
I was reading about Henry VIII's wives, and thinking about what it would be like to live in the middle ages Then I read headlines like this, and realise I just need to visit Saudi to find out
When will that shithole change?
Hey, Zuckerberg, eat a bullet
realistically? probably never they have been trying to modernize their image when the new guy became king but the dude is a moderate in name only, you relax the lays a -tiny- bit but then you still continue aggressive population control. The way it's moving it looks like it's going to move closer to a dictatorship, but there's really not much difference between that and absolute monarchy
idk whats more unnerving. The person about to be decapitated. Or the executioner and the crowd just wearing like casual clothing during a FUCKING EXECUTION BY DECAPITATION.
Would it be acceptable if they were wearing a tuxedo? I'd argue not.
The moral requirement to make money is worth supporting a theocracy. Ask the US and UK governments.
the picture is kinda misleading. that isn't the woman the article is talking about. she has a final trial on october 28
Moral requirement to make money, what a joke
That one phrase crystallizes corporate sociopathy and detachment, hope I'll never forget it.
@Peachy Defend this shit while you keep trying to say that I'm just being scared of technology.
Capitalism enables some of the worst shit
I'm not 100% doubting this statement, but I also have never heard anyone say they want to visit Saudi Arabia.
Definitely don't hear it often but I have heard it once or twice. It tends to be people who have a very poorly thought-out world view and don't really know much about Saudi Arabia other than 'loadsa money'
I sort of except some ceremonial butcher garb or something, like in the middle ages. Fitting, isn't it? Certainly don't expect the same clothes you use to go to the supermarket to get some celery.
"I'm sorry sir, we have a strict dress code here at the public execution. Your outfit fails to reach the required dapperness threshold for entrance." In addition to telling them to go fuck themselves and cutting political ties, can we also fuck up Facebook at this point? Like can we remember for like five minutes to be decent humans and stop enabling this shit.
literally
this is so fucking bad, how can any country justify aligning themselves with these animals?
We're not aligning with him?
When they diversify their economy and continue a peaceful transition of power as governments get more progressive over time. I'd give them 70 years to get to where the U.S. is at now.
The US has definitely aligned themselves with it and has been for at least two decades.
Oh, sorry - I thought you meant Britain.
He said Any, and there are plenty of nations moving and/or have already moved.
Yeah, but it's slightly ambiguous, because sometimes when people say it in a context like that, they're talking about the country being described rather than another.
That's fair, though I'm fairly certain the UK has also pivoted toward Saudi Arabia as well since the US/UK tend to do things together.
They absolutely did. They even shut off the mic of somebody who criticised Saudi Arabia. Have a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEcMW6RmC_w&t=1s
theocratic monarchy with a ruling class of very wealthy nobles and a country that has massively strategic importance. They have no impetus to change or mechanism to bring about that change.
a lot of western governments turn a blind eye to saudi arabia because they sell them their toys.
So apparently KSA is about to get even worse than it was in the 1990s. A few of you may remember a post I made in this thread. I mean, that was pretty fucked up, but nowhere near this fucked up. Let's put it in perspective. They're planning to publicly behead an activist for chanting slogans at a protest. That's some ISIS-level shit. Saudi Arabia has always been an irredeemable shithole run by savages, but it seems that the level of totalitarianism in that country wasn't enough for some people.
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