This is evidence of what happens when religion is allowed to control social policy.
Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting
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Re: Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting
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That’s cute. No interest in being “repaired” by someone who can’t see the obvious difference between a democracy and a dictatorship, and the clear fact that even identical actions done by the two are not equally legitimate.
Democracy? So the people of these countries had some say in these laws? They did not. I'm not aware of a democracy on Earth that isn't just a dictatorship with fancy clothes, at least at the federal level. My man, you're OK with throwing nonviolent offenders in jail for speech. This is not a good look.
A sensible person can think something is not okay and also think it's not equivalent to a theocratic dictatorship.
A sensible person can also see that "being on the losing side of an election" is not equivalent to "not having anything resembling an election."
I wouldn't even chalk these up to nuanced or detailed or subtle distinctions. These are basic, substantial differences that only a disgruntled WEIRD-worlder could struggle to detect.
Re: Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting
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Have you considered that after seeing how the US handled Manning, handled Assange, handled Snowden, handled Ellsberg, handled Martin Luther King Jr, handled the Vietnam war, the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war, Guantanamo Bay, and the countless other shit just in the last half century, I might have a hard time putting them squarely into the "good guys" bracket? That isn't to relativize in any way what others are doing…
I'm not sure the criteria for being good is being perfect and "never making a mistake".
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