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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 73 points 2 years ago (3 children)

i, for one, look up to a day when oil exports aren't enough to keep that parody of a country running

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Nah man that line city’s really gonna do it for them, you’ll see!

[–] worldwidewave@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Buy an electric car to give a middle finger to the whole OPEC cartel

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

my ride is a bike, i need no car at all

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's despicable that the US continues doing business with this horrible fucking country. Instead of turning their country into glass they're buying and selling those scumbags whatever they want.

[–] elscallr@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well considering "turning their country into glass" would require murdering 35 million people, I'd say let's not do that.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 years ago

Oooooook 😜

What if we just did the east side?

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

you still have iran around, which ironically would probably do better out of these two when oil market irreversibly crashes (they do have actual industry other than oil, some farming and don't need to hire sudanese for them to die in what passes for "army")

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Boy. The government that must silenced it's critics to remain in power must be really weak.

[–] LordCirais@pawb.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So logging on to the Twitter of someone you don't like and tweeting bad things totally doesn't happen, right?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

This would only be a concern to someone interested in justice, not to the Saudi government.

[–] zepheriths@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I think everyone should make critical tweets of the Saudis to big down the court

[–] jerome@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Now that Saudi Arabia owns Twitter this is going to be more common

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's the lighter sentence

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 6 points 2 years ago

Maybe it's better to get the death sentence than 45 years in a Saudi prison

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Pshh, what could be worse than 45 years in prison? 46?

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 3 points 2 years ago

They aren't 'tweets' anymore, so it's fine, right?

[–] barfplanet@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I this this is too harsh.