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They are a powerhouse geopolitically, one of the fastest growing economies in the world and their citizens are happy Why would they want to be Singapore?
by nxmnxm99 4y ago
They are a powerhouse geopolitically, one of the fastest growing economies in the world and their citizens are happy
Why would they want to be Singapore?
- sangnoir 4y ago> Why would they want to be Singapore? To move up the value chain and not have all their eggs in the oil basket, for one.
- Maursault 4y agoFor two, they may want to establish a parliamentary republic to safely avoid the fate of those from which the Saudi family's ancestors originally usurped executive power. Currently, there is only one method of establishing a new government in what is only tenuously Saudi Arabia, which is using the old ways of sneaking into the palace at night with jambiyas and assassinating everyone. My suspicion is that this inevitable coup will be composed entirely of women.
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoHow do woman learn to effectively handle a jambiaya in such regions? Are there woman sports gyms teaching self-defense, martial arts of any kind?
- Maursault 4y agoI'd expect they'd have become quite expert with it through domestic activity, such as food preparation, cooking and watching television.
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoWatching TV is not experience by doing it. Maybe more often counterproductive, because stunts and CGI distort your expectations :-) Not to mention that most food doesn't struggle anymore, after the initial butchering. Or having an intuition about something feels wrong here and alertness because of that.
- Maursault 4y agoThey probably read a lot, too. But I think you're missing the point, because what they may lack in melee experience and exquisite jambiaya skill they more than make up for in guile and fury, especially when scorned, and all women in Saudi Arabia effectively live their entire lives in a state of being scorned. Saudi Arabia is basically a ticking time bomb.
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoHm. Could be.
- Maursault 4y agoIt may be a chicken and egg thing. Maybe sexual discrimination, sexist repression and misogyny are a reaction to some earlier male catastrophe, and every few thousand years the scales tip in calamity back in that direction, and patriarchy slowly makes gains over centuries until back on top in repressing women, the process repeating when women have had enough.
- BerislavLopac 4y agoAncient mythologies have plenty of examples of women taking power from the men - cf the story of Lemnos in the myth of the Argonauts, where women killed all the men.
- lazide 4y agoThey don’t, and even elsewhere they usually aren’t either. But don’t let that spoil the comic book narrative. Poisoning still effective though!
- nxmnxm99 4y agoHaving thousands of wealthy relatives helps. “Tenuous” is a stretch
- bergenty 4y agoWhich is what the new development does? Basically western thoughts on any non western country should be ignored. China had the right idea.
- nxmnxm99 4y agoThey don’t need US handouts to do that (see: OPEC+)
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoAnd the tribesmen from the headline aren't 'citizens'? Just some retarded hillybillies which are in the way of 'progress', and have to go?
- bergenty 4y agoIt’s basic eminent domain, the only crazy part is the death sentences.
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoI'm aware of the concept. Usually the displaced people get compensated, not executed.
- nxmnxm99 4y agoShould the US be giving Indians their land back then?