GenZedong

4635 readers

74 users here now

This is a Dengist community in favor of Bashar al-Assad with no information that can lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton, our fellow liberal and queen. This community is not ironic. We are Marxists-Leninists.

See this GitHub page for a collection of sources about socialism, imperialism, and other relevant topics.

This community is for posts about Marxism and geopolitics (including shitposts to some extent). Serious posts can be posted here or in /c/GenZhou. Reactionary or ultra-leftist cringe posts belong in /c/shitreactionariessay or /c/shitultrassay respectively.

We have a Matrix homeserver and a Matrix space. See this thread for more information. If you believe the server may be down, check the status on status.elara.ws.

Rules:

No bigotry, anti-communism, pro-imperialism or ultra-leftism (anti-AES)
We support indigenous liberation as the primary contradiction in settler colonies like the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Israel
If you post an archived link (excluding archive.org), include the URL of the original article as well
Unless it's an obvious shitpost, include relevant sources
For articles behind paywalls, try to include the text in the post
Mark all posts containing NSFW images as NSFW (including things like Nazi imagery)

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml

Elara@lemmygrad.ml

ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml

American_Communist22@lemmygrad.ml

Saudi 'Masked Youth Movement' criticises lack of freedom in kingdom (www.middleeasteye.net)

submitted 3 months ago by bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml

12 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Thoughts on this? There is really not much proof that the movement exists other than social media posts, which is not really trustable to gauge these things.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm getting lib/petty bourgeois vibes from this. Not that Saudi Arabia doesn't need a revolutionary overthrow of its despotic monarchy, but these methods strongly remind me of astroturfed color revolution movements. Smells too much like "Arab Spring" when online activists literally got NED (aka CIA) training.

Would be cool if it's genuinely grassroots though. Cause fuck the Saudi monarchy.

[–] GlueBear@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 months ago

I can see why you would feel that way, but I think the US wouldn't want a color revolution occurring in KSA. I mean who would fund a color revolution there?

China is a big no.

Russia has its hands full w/Ukraine.

Iran is already invested in its other fronts.

Europe is struggling bc of Ukraine and now Trump.

There really is no one else to fund this that could benefit from it.

I don't think isntrael is dumb enough to try a color revolution with its 2nd strongest ally.

This might be real, but we should wait before coming to conclusions.

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Saudis in general are weird fucks (not all of them tho).

They only go to my mosque during Eid prayers, and huddle together in their groups.

Their culture is also extremely materialistic, and it's spreading like a cancer across the Arab world, including the diaspora. My own sibling has fallen for the designer bags / new car every other year lifestyle because of what she's seen on social media.

I also talked to a Saudi guy in one of my classes years ago and he told me point blank, no sugar coating, that your last name dictates your caste in their society, showing how close you are to royalty.

I don't blame them really, most of them were just handed this life

[–] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Well the real workforce of Saudi Arabia is not handed those rights. I can't feel bad for them