Saudi Arabia and human rights abuse?? Say it ain't so!
this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2024
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21,000+ dead and 100,000+ missing sounds like a war is happening in Saudi Arabia. Those are shocking numbers.
Wait they are actually building this thing? I though it was just another fever dream
It's becoming difficult to tell the difference.
And the US is completely ok with this. smh
This is actually happening in a completely different sovereign nation called Saudi Arabia.
Yes, which has multi-billion dollar deals with US defense contractors. This should not be ok. But the US loves money more than humanity.
Oh the old “US should be world police” argument.
Where's that coming from? I'm just saying the US shouldn't do business with a country that enslaves, tortures and murders people on the regular.
There's idealistic foreign policy, and there's pragmatic foreign policy
I mean China is a huge economy, that's kind of asking a lot.
i agree but it would be tough for the US to not do business inside their own country.
Touche
It seems pretty obvious to me that they're suggesting BDS and not a military invasion.
Not US citizens, I'm way more upset that India and Sri Lanka are OK with this.
Obviously Pakistan is fine, surprised they didn't offer the laborers as a package deal, or with their organs a la carte.
He who controls the oil, controls [a huge portion of] the world['s economies]. SMH, too.
Yep, exactly
One of those Australian executives, Wayne Borg, was accused of making several racist comments about laborers. After three workers died from a falling pipe, a wall collapse, and the mishandling of explosives, Borg said over obtained audio: “A whole bunch of people die so we’ve got to have a meeting on a Sunday night.”
That last quote sounds like something a Borg would say. Resistance is futile.
Although I do find the idea of arcologies intriguing, building one on death, slavery, and other human rights abuses really taints it.
Lemme guess: most of them are not Saudi nationals?
Closer to none than some, I would assume.