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[–] 3 points 1 month ago

The banks wouldn't borrow anymore money to daddy without new collateral.

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    [–] 102 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    We're putting AMERICA First by giving the ARCHITECTS OF 9/11 CONTROL OF OUR NEWS!

    -LITERALLY Republicans!

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    A transactions for the architects of 9/11 to the architects of 9/11, sweet.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    1 year after the transaction

    Typical GOP Voter: 9/11 was all the jews! Bin Laden wasn't even a real person!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It’s square now, our king got a palace in the sky and that’s what matters.

    Ballrooms, arcs, palaces

    The people will sacrifice whether they want to our not.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    This has been going on for awhile. I’ve said it a few times. Saudi Arabia has been quietly buying up a ton of companies along with various Trump allies and sometimes outrighting funding those Trump ally companies.

    They invest in many Trump related companies as well as partnering with Russia’s Soverign Weath Fund.

    Everyone is so worried about China, they are letting Saudia Arabia buy up everything behind the scenes.

    I would trust a government that kills reporters, hangs out with Epstein, or likely helped fund 9/11 terrorist attacks.

    There’s a list of PIF investments in Wikipedia. PIF

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It is honestly pretty funny that they are currently incapable at protecting themselves even with top of the line equipment. They've also spent way too much money on completely useless megaprojects, failed to buy up large swaths of Arizona land for alfalfa, and haven't built any large internal industries to transition them away from their status as a petrostate aside from a few luxury electric car manufacturing plants.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Recommend Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991 (Studies in War, Society, and the Military) by Pollack

    There are many reasons; one of them is that Arab forces often lie to their commanders so that they have very poor situational awareness, leading to a cascade of further poor decisions in war.

    This is because you can and will be executed for failure.

    Unfortunately, you can also be executed for being too competent, which can be seen as threatening to your superiors.

    Also, maintenance. And sand. I hate sand.

    There are many other factors and exceptions, depending on when and where.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    and thier influence on trump is very limited compared to israel, and russia. they though they were getting a deal, but they dont seem to directly interact with politics, such as funding the actual campaigns or superpacs.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I disagree, please look at Trump's son in law Kushner's business dealings in Saudi Arabia (and elsewhere in middle east). The many billions of dollars are "officially" in his private equity firm (and accompanying shell companies).

    Russian oligarchs are small change and have nothing near as much influence (due to less money)

    Saudi Arabia can't beat Israel for influence, but you know, we formed Israel and they're like our colony/military base in the middle east; so I don't think any nation can match that influence, we're connected as allies, Israel could not exist without the USA.

    I am not saying that Trump doesn't accept money from Russia or anybody else, though, and exert influence for them. He'll take money from everywhere and make "deals" with anyone who has billions of dollars.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Who bailed Elon out and helped him buy Twitter? Who do you think Trump was selling those fucking cases full of classified Intel to? It's so sad watching this all play out with nothing to do about it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Saudi Arabia is capitalist so why should we worry about them? /s

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  • [–] 88 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Because of course nothing can go wrong with that.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    On the one hand we could imagine them clamping down on riske material and promote islamicism, but to be real having lived in the gulf for many years they care more about money than anything else. So prepare for more neoliberal enshittification.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    With a hefty dose of Israel support because if they went against Israel, 1, the US wouls get angry and 2, people would start questioning why the big rich Muslim countries aren't doing anything to help their brothers and sisters in Gaza.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Why do people who complain about Muslims want to give our industries away to Islamic countries?

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  • [–] 34 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I’m so happy everything in the world is gonna be owned by 5 people and 2 countries.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    MBS is Trump with more murder and less term limits

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    I’m glad I cancelled paramount plus a while ago

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    America's most defining characteristic is selling out.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Saudi Arabia is evil, but perhaps this is the only way to teach Americans the error of their ways

    They will betray us

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I dunno, the only way they could seemingly betray paramount is to put watchable shows on it.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Saudi Arabia also bought EA, which wasn't a great company to begin with.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    It's OK, the other 50.5% is owned by Israel.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago*

    Lmao, wb agreement did make Ellison's go broke.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Where is reuters on this? This is right up their alley, I have to think the omission is on purpose as this is news.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Can't be worse than the Ellisons. Changes nothing.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Sure it can't. Team Bonesaws And Islamist Petro-Monarchy can't possibly be worse.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    is it truly any wonder why the u.s. is car pilled? our culture is being controlled by oil tycoons

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago*

    Jummah every Friday evening only on CBS

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Isn't there a contradiction between the Zionist interest behind the purchase of CBS and say Qatar? I know UAE and Saudi were in bed with Israel before the war but not so sure about today.

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    [–] 14 points 1 month ago* (5 children)

    On the one hand it is going to be BS in many ways. But on the other hand CBS would have room to criticize Israel, not a winning silver lining but a silver line none the less.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I wouldn't hold my breath, gulf citizens may despise israel but the ruling families don't give a fuck. If they had there way the Palestinian issue would disappear into the background so they can get back to trying to diversify there gigantic horde before oil sales start slowing.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago*

    You are correct but in the interest of keeping their power and not give the people a cause to rally around the Monarchs allow Anti-Zionist reporting on the media sources they own, especially English speaking international ones.

    (As for the diversify before the Oil runs out too late for that, they can thank the guy in the white house they had been trying to bribe for that one.)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    paramount lost so much money from being bought by ellison and having to BUY CNN's parent company.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Welcome to the dystopia....

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Wait… is it the same Paramount that aggressively blocked Netflix from buying Warner Bros.? And actually Warner was bought by Paramount for like 20 billion more even though they wanted to go with Netflix? A transaction that eventually only worked because POTUS jumped in and kinda supported Paramount? Paramount, a company owned by POTUS’ friends and this transaction orchestrated by a company owned by POTUS‘ son-in-law. Must be a coincidence…

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