Or we could actually support journalists so we don’t end up in a dystopia where we have to get all our news from BuzzFeed and Mashable.
Murdoch you mean?
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand why Kashoggi is brought up so much more frequently compared to what Saudi Arabia is doing in Yemen.
In general people find it much easier to understand the story of one person than to understand the story of thousands.
Not to mention it feels more black and white. Killing a dissident journalist in your embassy in another country, coming from up top, directly contradicts the promises/suggestions made by the Prince that SA is modernizing and becoming more free/open. The coverup was amateur, in part aided by Ergodan mastery at slowly leaking intel that just kept poking holes in SA’s story.
Meanwhile fighting “terrorism” has lots of gray, and is notoriously messy.
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#23> We need to highlight to the world that Saudi investment is good That is, of course, if you're ok with some people being lured into an embassy and cut up into little pieces.
I don't understand why Kashoggi is brought up so much more frequently compared to what Saudi Arabia is doing in Yemen.
"If only one man dies of hunger, that is a tragedy. If millions die, that’s only statistics." - Joseph Stalin
Also, Turkey has been dolling out new bits of information about the ambush regularly, keeping the negative stories rolling.
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#24> We need to highlight to the world that Saudi investment is good That is, of course, if you're ok with some people being lured into an embassy and cut up into little pieces.
I don't understand why Kashoggi is brought up so much more frequently compared to what Saudi Arabia is doing in Yemen.
Which in turn is child's play compared to what the US has done in the middle east for the past decade or two
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#25Or we could actually support journalists so we don’t end up in a dystopia where we have to get all our news from BuzzFeed and Mashable.
News Corp ( WSJ's owner ) is one of the largest companies in the world. It's founder is one of the wealthiest men in the world. I don't think anyone at the WSJ is starving. Besides, if you want to support journalism, find and support independent journalists doing real journalism rather than mega corporations. If anyone needs support, it's the independent journalists.
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#26> We need to highlight to the world that Saudi investment is good That is, of course, if you're ok with some people being lured into an embassy and cut up into little pieces.
I don't understand why Kashoggi is brought up so much more frequently compared to what Saudi Arabia is doing in Yemen.
It's the personification of the brutality. You can put one face as opposed to the thousands in the crowd.
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#27> the Saudi government has placed huge buy orders, often in the closing minutes of negative trading days, to boost the market.
This sounds quite exploitable. Buy low before the end of the trading day, sell high at the end.
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#28> We need to highlight to the world that Saudi investment is good That is, of course, if you're ok with some people being lured into an embassy and cut up into little pieces.
I don't understand why Kashoggi is brought up so much more frequently compared to what Saudi Arabia is doing in Yemen.
Yemen is a civil war that has turned into a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Things aren't black and white and its very hard distinguish between propaganda and facts.
Khashoggi is very black and white. A US journalist was killed after being lured into a Saudi embassy.
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#30> We need to highlight to the world that Saudi investment is good That is, of course, if you're ok with some people being lured into an embassy and cut up into little pieces.
Should US companies refuse Chinese investment? Should we stop buying oil from Venezuela? Are you for the Cuban embargo (Cuban intelligence agencies have propped up repressive regimes, like Venezuela, throughout Latin America)? Should Apple stop doing business with Chinese suppliers?
What Saudi Arabia did is BAD. Very bad. But I don't understand the singular obsession with it as a call to action, compared to the above for example.