This is Saudi Arabia we’re talking about. If you think that’s a place where you can “speak free”, you’re an idiot or a fascist (probably both). These people are comparing people calling them an asshole on Twitter to a regime that literally murders people that say things they don’t like (RIP Jamal Khashoggi).
Fuck, every one of these comedians literally got a list of things they couldn’t talk about in their big money contracts. One of them got fired before the show because he mentioned Saudi Arabia’s slavery on a podcast (in the context of, they’re paying him enough to ignore it).
I’ll say it again; if it’s so free there, let’s see one of these comedians drop a bonesaw joke.
The dominant worldview, as reinforced by American culture, is that everything (even our values) can be measured in dollars. All we can do is withhold our financial support from these performers.
I don’t think we should be suprised that America produces people without moral conviction. This is the nation that made Saudi Arabia wealthy by helping it develop its oil reserves followed by oil purchases from the kingdom for decades.
Yeah, the Saudi Arabian government don’t really care if you talk shit about Americans. It’s when you talk shit about them that the saws come out.
Which just goes to show what these “free speech champions” and “brave truth tellers” are really about. They don’t actually care about speaking truth to power, just airing their own grievances.
This is Saudi Arabia we’re talking about. If you think that’s a place where you can “speak free”, you’re an idiot or a fascist (probably both). These people are comparing people calling them an asshole on Twitter to a regime that literally murders people that say things they don’t like (RIP Jamal Khashoggi).
Fuck, every one of these comedians literally got a list of things they couldn’t talk about in their big money contracts. One of them got fired before the show because he mentioned Saudi Arabia’s slavery on a podcast (in the context of, they’re paying him enough to ignore it).
I’ll say it again; if it’s so free there, let’s see one of these comedians drop a bonesaw joke.
The dominant worldview, as reinforced by American culture, is that everything (even our values) can be measured in dollars. All we can do is withhold our financial support from these performers.
I don’t think we should be suprised that America produces people without moral conviction. This is the nation that made Saudi Arabia wealthy by helping it develop its oil reserves followed by oil purchases from the kingdom for decades.
especially a country that has a hate/love relationship with the US.
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Yeah, the Saudi Arabian government don’t really care if you talk shit about Americans. It’s when you talk shit about them that the saws come out.
Which just goes to show what these “free speech champions” and “brave truth tellers” are really about. They don’t actually care about speaking truth to power, just airing their own grievances.
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