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[–] 106 points 1 week ago (8 children)

We're putting AMERICA First by giving the ARCHITECTS OF 9/11 CONTROL OF OUR NEWS!

-LITERALLY Republicans!

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    A transactions for the architects of 9/11 to the architects of 9/11, sweet.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    1 year after the transaction

    Typical GOP Voter: 9/11 was all the jews! Bin Laden wasn't even a real person!

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    [–] 90 points 1 week ago (8 children)

    Because of course nothing can go wrong with that.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago* (6 children)

    On the one hand we could imagine them clamping down on riske material and promote islamicism, but to be real having lived in the gulf for many years they care more about money than anything else. So prepare for more neoliberal enshittification.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago

    Saudi Arabia and UAE are absolutely not going to be promoting Islamism (Qatar is more complicated). Islamists are the biggest enemies of entrenched authoritarian regimes in most of the Middle East, so even ones with a veneer of religion are trying hard to gain legitimacy as secular nationalist dictators. For example remember that one story about the UAE being like "Britain harbors dangerous islamists? The translation here is "this foreign liberal democracy is harboring enemies of my authoritarian regime." If anything both of them (but probably not (Qatar) are already pushing for more bellicose US policy in the Middle East, because they're vassal regimed whose survival depends on the continued interest of their imperial masters.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    This has been going on for awhile. I’ve said it a few times. Saudi Arabia has been quietly buying up a ton of companies along with various Trump allies and sometimes outrighting funding those Trump ally companies.

    They invest in many Trump related companies as well as partnering with Russia’s Soverign Weath Fund.

    Everyone is so worried about China, they are letting Saudia Arabia buy up everything behind the scenes.

    I would trust a government that kills reporters, hangs out with Epstein, or likely helped fund 9/11 terrorist attacks.

    There’s a list of PIF investments in Wikipedia. PIF

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    It is honestly pretty funny that they are currently incapable at protecting themselves even with top of the line equipment. They've also spent way too much money on completely useless megaprojects, failed to buy up large swaths of Arizona land for alfalfa, and haven't built any large internal industries to transition them away from their status as a petrostate aside from a few luxury electric car manufacturing plants.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Who bailed Elon out and helped him buy Twitter? Who do you think Trump was selling those fucking cases full of classified Intel to? It's so sad watching this all play out with nothing to do about it.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Why do people who complain about Muslims want to give our industries away to Islamic countries?

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  • [–] 35 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I’m so happy everything in the world is gonna be owned by 5 people and 2 countries.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    MBS is Trump with more murder and less term limits

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  • [–] 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    I’m glad I cancelled paramount plus a while ago

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    [–] 14 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    America's most defining characteristic is selling out.

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    [–] 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Saudi Arabia is evil, but perhaps this is the only way to teach Americans the error of their ways

    They will betray us

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    [–] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Where is reuters on this? This is right up their alley, I have to think the omission is on purpose as this is news.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Saudi Arabia also bought EA, which wasn't a great company to begin with.

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    [–] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Can't be worse than the Ellisons. Changes nothing.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Sure it can't. Team Bonesaws And Islamist Petro-Monarchy can't possibly be worse.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    It's OK, the other 50.5% is owned by Israel.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago*

    Lmao, wb agreement did make Ellison's go broke.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago*

    Jummah every Friday evening only on CBS

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