Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting
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#2What an absolute human rights disaster Saudi Arabia is.
That the U.S. government continues to engage with and support that regime is all the evidence you need of our hypocrisy on the issue.
Re: Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting
#3What an absolute human rights disaster Saudi Arabia is. That the U.S. government continues to engage with and support that regime is all the evidence you need of our hypocrisy on the issue.
There is no hypocrisy there, like everything in life, including startup life, everything comes down to money. And money is power. The US created the Saudi Arabian powerhouse we see today. We need them to keep our economic inertia moving forward at a pace acceptable for the populace. Is it a travesty? 100% But we made this bed.
Re: Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting
#4Any time you read a headline like this, replace the innocuous-sounding non-crime (“tweeting”) with “upsetting people in power.”
Suddenly you’ll realise that the same kind of thing happens everywhere in the world.
E.g.: Julian Assange, who’s main crime was upsetting people in power.
Unless you think it’s a crime worthy of being hounded for over a decade by multiple nations’ security agencies for trying to — and failing — to reverse an NT hash.
Because that’s the “crime” they’re extraditing him for.
Re: Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting
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#6What an absolute human rights disaster Saudi Arabia is. That the U.S. government continues to engage with and support that regime is all the evidence you need of our hypocrisy on the issue.
There is no hypocrisy there, like everything in life, including startup life, everything comes down to money. And money is power. The US created the Saudi Arabian powerhouse we see today. We need them to keep our economic inertia moving forward at a pace acceptable for the populace. Is it a travesty? 100% But we made this bed.
Americans like to pretend that we fight for higher ideals than naked self interest or national interest.
Re: Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting
#7What an absolute human rights disaster Saudi Arabia is. That the U.S. government continues to engage with and support that regime is all the evidence you need of our hypocrisy on the issue.
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Re: Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting
#8Any time you read a headline like this, replace the innocuous-sounding non-crime (“tweeting”) with “upsetting people in power.” Suddenly you’ll realise that the same kind of thing happens everywhere in the world. E.g.: Julian Assange, who’s main crime was upsetting people in power . Unless you think it’s a crime worthy of being hounded for over a decade by multiple nations’ security agencies for trying to — and faili…
But the threshold for upsetting people in power varies. So this sed doesn’t give us any extra insight or predictive power. For example I can say “The Jewish people upset the Nazi party in Germany during WW2”
Re: Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting
#9What an absolute human rights disaster Saudi Arabia is. That the U.S. government continues to engage with and support that regime is all the evidence you need of our hypocrisy on the issue.
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We don't throw people in prison for 3 decades over social media posts.
Re: Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting
#10What an absolute human rights disaster Saudi Arabia is. That the U.S. government continues to engage with and support that regime is all the evidence you need of our hypocrisy on the issue.
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