Brother of prominent Saudi scholar sentenced to death over tweets

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-arabia-saeed-ghamdi-brother-scholar-sentenced-death-tweets

Tweets made from anonymous account with nine followers, focused on unemployment, inflation, mismanagement of resources, release of political prisoners.

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Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee · 28 pts · 2y (3 replies)
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krische@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

The only way to do that is to stop needing oil.

jcit878@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

not that far off. 20 years the world is going to be a hugely different place

krische@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I wish I shared your optimism

scarrtt@lemm.ee · 20 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Blood and Oil is a fascinating book about the rise of MBS. They literally had a guy on the inside in Twitter in California who would feed them back information like this. Definitely not a boring book, it reads like a thriller more often than not

timespace@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y

Added to my reading list, thanks!

theodewere@kbin.social · 17 pts · 2y (1 reply)

their big social experiment, "The Line" or whatever they're calling it, will be home to some of the most complete repression the world has ever known

mayonaise_met@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 2y

But they won't complete it because it's stupid and impractical.