The New York Times on Tuesday ignited a wave of backlash after revealing a framed photograph of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman displayed inside the New York City mansion of convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The article, which takes readers inside the late convicted paedophile's seven-storey Manhattan home, features surveillance cameras positioned above his bed and in adjoining rooms, taxidermied animals, and provocative artwork, including a sculpture of a bride clutching a rope suspended from the ceiling in the atrium.

The criticism escalated as people connected the image to long-standing allegations of Gulf-Israeli collaboration.

Sam Youssef, author and editor of American and International Affairs, asked: “Do you now understand why Arab rulers kneel to Netanyahu and the Mossad?”

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Oh no, people who believe there's nothing wrong with their prophet marrying a 9yo girl might be pedophiles?

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    [–] 207 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The man that has dismembered journalists might have had sex with children? I'm shocked. He seemed like such a nice guy.

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  • [–] 86 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    Aren't parts of Dubai basically just an alternative to Epstein's island? We've known about Dubai/yatch girls and their poop play for about a decade now, I think. The whole Gulf region is compromised.... They'll taste Hell but I wish something was done today as well.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, when I saw this my first thought was: you mean the guy in a leadership position in a country where it's legal and normal to literally sell your underaged daughters to middle aged men, was interacting with a known sex trafficker for underage girls? Shocking!

    .... But I don't know enough about what's happening in that country to know whether that specific thing is still legal/normal. Bluntly, I don't really care. I care that young women are being put through that, I don't care about the culture or the people in the culture that would participate in such activities. To me they're all assholes.

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

    They’ve always been compromised. It’s a backwards culture (not everyone is part of it but the heads of state certainly are) that only has wealth because of oil. Otherwise they’d be living still like they did in the 1800s.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    only has wealth because of oil

    And that's why they fund troll farms and fascist politicians to oppose renewable energy and to lie about the climate crisis. Their economy is far from diversified, and without oil, they'll be back in tents within a decade, if the TCNs don't organize and overthrow the reactionary parasitic bastards first.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The photo in question. Please download and share for the Streisand effect!

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh not the guy who likes to cut people up with chainsaws is a bad person??

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Good thing he's Twitter's second largest investor, so he can wave away this a well. Less messy than having to trick a reporter to go to his embassy and having him chopped up to bits to shut him up from Twitter.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    You mean a murdering piece of shit likes to abuse little girls. Sounds right on brand.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    It's always the ones you most expect.

    I'd love to see this guy's head on a pike.

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

    It's funny to think that the world is mostly able to get along except for the faux friction cultivated between cultures by a handful of people to maintain a status quo which affords them any luxury they could crave. More articles like this and I won't need to buy tinfoil.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    It hurts my soul every day to think of what things could be like if we weren't held back by this handful of evil manipulative people that sow chaos where otherwise we might have peace, cooperation, empathy, unity, and strength.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Saudi Arabia makes up its own rules about everything. It's Trump's model.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    It would be so ironic if MBS raped girls together with Barak the former prime minister of Israel. The most fucked up way to make peace in the Middle East imaginable.

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The whole Gulf leadership is in American pockets and they work together with Israel.

    Israel-Saudi Arabia land bridge emerges as game-changing prospect

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They did not increase oil production to replace Russian oil, after the full scale invasion of Ukraine. That was something the US really wanted, so hard to say they are in the pocket of the US. The simple honest answer is that the entire Gulf leadership has no problem with large scale human rights violation and starving thousands. They did it themself in Yemen and currently partly in Sudan.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Uh oh. The guy who has people dismembered may be a bad person!

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

    Of all the heinous things MBS has done, this is the one to generate outrage?

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 1 year ago

    He's getting outrage for the stuff inside of his country as well. But this heavy link to American and Israeli intelligence demolishes his image as a "Pious Muslim ruler".

    MBS has had a lot of whitewashing done to for image by consulting groups like BCG.

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  • Chad move.

    Be massive monster.

    Put up portraits of other despots.

    Get killed in prison

    Release lists as photo album.

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  • “Do you now understand why Arab rulers kneel to Netanyahu and the Mossad?”

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sociopaths being sociopaths. Shame that they have power over all of us.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It’s illegal to have sex outside of marriage in Saudi Arabia and while there is no age of consent, you must be 18 to marry. It’s not like he would break the rules.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Well, you're not going to believe this but there are temporary marriage contracts available that can be as short as an hour.

    Why do people need an hour long marriage? Beats me...

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikah_mut%27ah

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That’s a Shiaa thing and in Saudi Arabia Shiaa are being persecuted. There are plausible reasons for this practice to exist, e.g. being in a committed relationship and wanting to get married properly but for whatever reason not being able to get married currently. Prostitution is not a plausible reason, even though it’s common practice to use it as way to "legalize“ it.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's a Shi'a practice. The Saudi royals aren't Shi'a; they belong to a rabidly anti-Shi'a Sunni sect, the Wahhabis. The Saudis routinely murder and terrorize members of the Shi'a minority in the Eastern Province.

    The reason for temporary marriage is generally "try before you buy" during marriage negotiations. It's a loathsome practice but not relevant to the slimy deeds described here.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    That's weird. I thought the Saudis were into taking shits on American actresses, not raping children.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Rich people love raping children.

    It's an industry and part of their culture.

    If you support rich people, you support child rapists and child rape.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    JFC talking about a fucked up over generalization

    "Jews love raping children"

    "Blacks love raping children"

    Do I even need to continue to make the point? Yeah, (ultra) rich people probably are abusing employees and probably are way too much creative with taxes and I could point out a whole lot more selfish behavior but FFS dude, you're really making shit up here.

    Rich people are very problematic and shouldn't be allowed to exist (as in, make them as rich as everyone else though heavy taxes for them, not murdering them all), there is no need to make sick shit up just for shits and giggles

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    i agree that the generalization here was dumb but "rich people" is not at all the same category as "jews" or "black people". so no you don't need to continue to make the point because you're not doing it well.

    you yourself make a distinction in your final paragraph. imagine saying "jews are very problematic and shouldn't be allowed to exist".

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Wait, who are they criticizing? bin Salman? Epstein? The New York Times?

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Do you now understand why Arab rulers kneel to Netanyahu and the Mossad?”

    Is New York Times "Arab rulers"?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So they are criticizing bin Salman? Because Epstein had his picture?

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

    Epstein had a very casual photo of the two of them together, almost like old buddies. That's the crucial bit I believe.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Foto with bin Salman? The guy who ordered journalist to be brutally murdered and dismembered? And people are now angry at bin Salman because of the photo? I'm still confused.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Why am I not surprised?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Of course, this clown is a puppet. He didn't get his position because he's a good leader, he got his position because he plays ball. Have fun blowing all those resources on "the line", ya stupid fuck, until it's your turn to be Saddam'd.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    And nothing will be done.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Mohammed bin Salmon lol.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    He was Trump's +1

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  • i'm surprised he traveled so far

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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Nobility and pedophilia, name a more iconic duo

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Trump loves him some MBS. Now we know why. They met while raping kids

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Maybe there's some truth behind the 'world elite cabal' conspiracy theory. The worst people on earth are all friends.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    A religion of,

    SCP-MBS, (That's right. It's an SCP) “Hey DeeT! Pass the ten-year-old!"

    DeeT, "Yes My master."

    SCP-MBS, "Dag, honky! You could have wiped it off, first!"

    That, plus FGM should help you form an opinion.

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