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This article is really, really light on reasons why you wouldn't take Saudi money. Is he really suggesting we reject money from a citizen of any country that's

This article is really, really light on reasons why you wouldn't take Saudi money. Is he really suggesting we reject money from a citizen of any country that's been "criticized for its human rights record"? Would there be any money left?

erikb 9y ago
If you did that, you couldn't take US money either. Especially now that we've seen Trump and his friends, does anybody really consider them better than any other powerhungry folks?
- malaipriya 9y ago
  trump and hilary are making their way to become a president of america
- PeachPlum 9y ago
  Can you show me the list of President Trump's human rights abuses ?
  - erikb 9y ago
    E.g. depends on whether you consider simply grabbing women by the pussy as a human rights abuse.
    - gozur88 9y ago
      ... when she's okay with it.
  - jernfrost 9y ago
    Fortunatly for the US there are checks and balances hindering Trump from doing most of the evil he wants to. Don’t be naive and think he would be nice if he had dictatorial powers. He has already publicly complained that he can’t use the FBI for whatever he wants to, like going after his political opponents.
    - humanrebar 9y ago
      So doesn't the U.S. get some credit in the don't-be-evil Olympics for having such a system in place?
    - jochung 9y ago
      Just imagine if the US had secret prisons, policies of torture, autonomous killing machines, an unaccountable surveillance apparatus, and worst of all, a government that outright lied about some of these things without consequence during a presidency awarded a Nobel Peace prize. amirite
    - gozur88 9y ago
      So no actual abuses, just some hyperventilating on the left? Presumably Trump could do things like, oh, I don't know, use the IRS as a tool to harass his political opponents.
    - juliangoldsmith 9y ago
      >He has already publicly complained that he can’t use the FBI for whatever he wants to, like going after his political opponents. When his political opponents take money to approve a deal to sell one-fifth of the United States's uranium production to Russia [0], perhaps the FBI should be going after them. [0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton...
lostboys67 9y ago
And presumably all Americans should disinvest from all south American countries

erikb 9y ago

If you did that, you couldn't take US money either. Especially now that we've seen Trump and his friends, does anybody really consider them better than any other powerhungry folks?

malaipriya 9y ago
trump and hilary are making their way to become a president of america
PeachPlum 9y ago
Can you show me the list of President Trump's human rights abuses ?
- erikb 9y ago
  E.g. depends on whether you consider simply grabbing women by the pussy as a human rights abuse.
  - gozur88 9y ago
    ... when she's okay with it.
- jernfrost 9y ago
  Fortunatly for the US there are checks and balances hindering Trump from doing most of the evil he wants to. Don’t be naive and think he would be nice if he had dictatorial powers. He has already publicly complained that he can’t use the FBI for whatever he wants to, like going after his political opponents.
  - humanrebar 9y ago
    So doesn't the U.S. get some credit in the don't-be-evil Olympics for having such a system in place?
  - jochung 9y ago
    Just imagine if the US had secret prisons, policies of torture, autonomous killing machines, an unaccountable surveillance apparatus, and worst of all, a government that outright lied about some of these things without consequence during a presidency awarded a Nobel Peace prize. amirite
  - gozur88 9y ago
    So no actual abuses, just some hyperventilating on the left? Presumably Trump could do things like, oh, I don't know, use the IRS as a tool to harass his political opponents.
  - juliangoldsmith 9y ago
    >He has already publicly complained that he can’t use the FBI for whatever he wants to, like going after his political opponents. When his political opponents take money to approve a deal to sell one-fifth of the United States's uranium production to Russia [0], perhaps the FBI should be going after them. [0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton...

lostboys67 9y ago

And presumably all Americans should disinvest from all south American countries