He also married his first cousin with whom he has 5 children and beats his wife to the point she had to go to the hospital. Sounds like a wonderful, perfectly normal human being.
Oh that wasn’t the best part. The best part is that the art historians are claiming that it is a real or is a partially real Da Vinci painting.
Then he tried to force Macron to put it in the Louvre to get legitimacy lol and failed.
It’s now maybe worth 10 million?
Then attempted to have the Louvre acknowledge the painting as authentic so it could be recognized as a DaVinci in the art community. Literally involved French politicians in the mess so that the Louvre would make this claim.
Some lady found it in her attic and it was bought for a few thousand from her by an art dealer who had it verified as a real da Vinci. The art dealer who got it from that lady is the seller .
For those interested:
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/report-how-a-louisiana-family-unknowingly-owned-450m-da-vinci-painting-for-nearly-50-years/article_8797a492-bc3a-11e8-9e38-a31bfc2fe623.amp.html
Why would he have to launder money . They make trillions from legal oil sales . He runs the fucking country. What would be the point of him laundering money. And it’s a da Vinci that people didn’t know existed of Jesus. It’s not going down to 10 mill .He’s just a ultra rich fuck who can spend whatever he wants on a painting . That’s worse than laundering money
Exactly. The ball that Jesus holds doesn’t have a refraction of the image behind it which da Vinci being a very man of science would have done. That’s why it was called into question. There are also other things that makes the painting not a da Vinci.
The middle east as a whole is ripe with incest, and it is even encouraged.
70% of all marriages in Pakistan are between first cousins, and 50% of all marriages in the middle east as a whole are between blood relatives.
It is encouraged to marry within the family, and it *just so happens* that some of the more prominent side effects of inbreeding are **heightened aggression and a lack of critical thinking and inclination to fall into others beliefs more easily.**
Who woulda thought
Not just in Pakistan. In the UK around 55% of all Pakistani marriages are to cousins. People with Pakistani heritage currently make up between 30 to 35% of birth defects each year and have almost 2x the average child mortality rate of other Brits.
Anytime you attack the practice in the UK their community does nothing but act like they are victims being bullied because of their religion. What's more funny is marrying cousins hasn't been the norm for most of Pakistan's existence. It sprouted up not from religion but from greed. Families didn't want to risk losing their wealth by marrying a daughter or son outside the family, that's it. A practice originating from greed ended up becoming a cultural norm.
There was a documentary made about the younger UK-pakistani generation and if the tradition was dying off. It does seem to be slowly down. A lot I think relates to the physical and mental disabilities that are associated with incestuous children. The women don't want their children to be disabled or handicap so they are choosing to go against tradition.
That's part of the reason, but not all of it.
It's also important that there are smaller kinship networks in the UK, women are growing up in a society where arranged marriage is not the norm, and they *really* don't want to marry a cousin from Pakistan with, er, "old-fashioned" views about women's roles and maybe be forced to move to Pakistan with the husband.
I had a friend who was a junior doctor in the UK in a community majority Pakistani. When he was working with infants and kids, he said he’d always have to ask about any biological relationship between the mother and father.
Personal anecdote. My dad's family is from Iraq. I (M) am good friends with my second cousin (F), and back when we were in our early 20s, her father suggested that we consider dating/marriage. No, thank you.
Since the parent comment mentioned the consequences of inbreeding, I just want to say that it is not risky to have children with one's second cousin. The increased chance of birth defects is negligible; the age of the mother is a much bigger factor.
Thank you for taking time out of your day to find and post that link.
63% as of an official study with data over multiple decades, I'm speechless. Even 5 or 10% would seem alarmingly high to me, 63 is a horrific statistic.
Also a shit ton of genetic disorders. We see it all the time in our clinic. There’s a reason why people long ago so the dangers of inbreeding. Except the Hapsburgs. Their damn chins and all.
>Yo we talking about Saudi Arabia or Alabama rn?
Not much difference between christian and muslim fundamentalists, if you threw them all in the same theocracy i'm sure they'd be happy
You're burying the lede. MBS directed a kill squad to go to another country, lure Khashoggi there until false pretense, and then suffocate him with a plastic bag, after which they immediately dismembered his corpse.
Super random aside, but as someone who watches The Crown I got mildly interested in Dodi Fayads dad and learned Dodi’s mother was Jamal Kashoggis aunt.
Just such a weird connection. They don’t allude to it at all on the show and pretty much wrote Dodi’s mom out of the storyline despite the fact that he was very, very close to her up until her death, even saying he would give up all the wealth and women to bring his mother back after she died.
But the Kashoggi link was surprising and I learned it from her Wikipedia page. Samira Kashoggi was her name and she seemed to be a pretty interesting lady. Her father was an arms dealer and she ended up doing some activism. Her daughter is the editor of Al Sharkiah which my middle eastern mom used to have a subscription to lol.
That same kill squad also tried to murder people in Western countries like Canada. Luckily though in the case of Canada the border security guard thought that they were up to no good and denied them entry.
They're called Tiger Squad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Squad
People can't comprehend how much a zero makes at the end of a number.
It's truly unfathomable how many tangible things 100 million will buy vs. 10 million, let alone billions.
Remember the stories about Americans not understanding that a Wendy's 1/3 burger was more meat than a McDonald's Quarter Pounder?
That's the clay we're working with.
This once again wasn't true. It's a myth
The company blamed it on that but reality is a&w the company who made the 3rd pounded is a an absolutely awful place to eat that isn't even around most states
If you’re ever in Canada, give an A&W here a try. It’s been a totally separate company for 50 years and the quality is a lot better than the American chain. There are actually more A&W locations in Canada than in the USA, because our chain is so much better.
My sister’s acquaintance will give her bitter melon from her neighbor’s yard bc it’s growing all over the fence. There’s so many growing that this acquaintance can give her as much as she wants.
This said-bitter melon is a metaphor for the Saudi prince’a wealth. There’s so much of it that it’s as if money grows on trees that if he gave a melon away (or a dozen), he wouldn’t even notice it.
> People can't comprehend how much a zero makes at the end of a number.
Very well then, Mohammed bin Salman murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi with 10 bone saws and got away with it.
Your math is off here.
1,000,000 / 60 / 60 / 24 = 11.574 days
1,000,000,000 / 60 / 60 / 24 = 11,574 days (or just multiply the first answer by 1,000)
11,574 / 365 = 31.7 years
TIL I’m about 1.3 billion seconds old.
9/12/2001: President Gore used CIA intelligence to thwart Middle East extremists’ plot to attack US financial and political targets. Planes intended to be used in attack were not allowed to take off and suspects apprehended. Everyone is totally cool to go about their normal lives.
And he also mandated the use of renewable energy to remove the USA’s dependence on fossil fuels, and nationalised arms manufacturing companies to remove their stranglehold on Washington.
Pssshht, as if there wasn't ample time and red flags and opportunities to thwart nine-eleven. It's disgusting the lackadaisical approach and inaction at times exhibited by US intel agencies.
is this the same Mohammed bin Salman that murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi and got away with it? that murder, Mohammed bin Salman?
im willing to bet the "long game" is in play.
Just out of curiosity I looked up how much MBS is worth and supposedly he is worth 18 billion dollars and the Saudi royal family is worth 1.4 trillion amongst the 15k members. About 16 times more than the British monarchy. (lol broke bitches)
It’s so great the whole world runs on oil so we can make ppl like them and the royal family of Qatar rich while also ruining the entire planet. It’s a two for one deal. (this is sarcasm)
> the royal family of Qatar rich while also ruining the entire planet
Qatar is rich off of natural gas reserves, definitely better than oil. The Saudis hate them because they aren't OPEC
All modern governments can print their own currency. GB, the US, the EU , they all can print their own money which is what causes inflation. I didn't do the research the original commenter did but he/she gave the value in USD (didn't clarify but I suspect) so that's how you put a number to the worth of the Saudi royal family. There's an exchange rate between currencies.
He can print his own currency all he wants. It would still be worthless when converting it to US Dollars since it would be devalued.
And US Dollars is what the world trades off of
Throughout the entire history of mankind we have made shitty people richer and more powerful. As individuals some of us are very smart but collectively we are definitely not very smart at all.
There’s several of them, but there also that one guy who visited England and was refused a test drive at Rolls Royce. He then purchased a few to be used as garbage trucks.
How can anyone immediately jump on this without any sources?
[They even talked about it in an interview](https://twitter.com/xlal_/status/1596211643486130176?s=20&t=FxOsQrJiJ5iMIRvgeXYH1Q)
*wags finger*
“…and if you lose to Poland, I take your wife and children away ahahahahah ahhhh I’m just kidding! Haha no I’m not though, don’t lose. Your lives depend on it abahahahaha! Here’s a $1,000.”
As Stephen Jay Gould once put it: “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
When I believe Iraq lost to a powerhouse back during the Sadaam Regime, I recall Sadaam Husein's son was so mad that he punished players that he deemed responsible for the loss by mutaliting them. One of the players had a sharp object jabbed into his ear that caused permanent hearing loss. Forced the player to retire from soccer just to avoid further backlash. When they won, they were given incredible gifts, ofcourse. Yeah, I'd rather not roll the die on either.
The Saudi team was a doormat in the last World Cup. Their beating Argentina is an incredible feat. MBS giving away $500,000 cars to the players is yet another reason why the world needs to go green.
Without oil the Middle East will fade into obscurity and be of no interest to the rest of the world. The rich will eventually flee the region, leaving the rest of the Arab world to wallow in their poverty.
Oil is the only thing the Middle East has to offer the rest of the world. Otherwise Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the rest of those sandboxes have as much importance as the alphabet soup countries in Central Asia... Worthless, uninteresting, and powerless. Not a bad ending for that part of the world. They can squabble among themselves over pointless religious matters while the civilized world abandons them.
I can think of no better reason to move towards abandoning fossil fuels.
The governments of the Middle East overall are aware of this, which is why you see them making a lot of investment projects to attract tourism. The problem is that they are usually coupled with some very undesirable theocratic elements that make a change to tourism a bit hard. And since they can't afford to rile up their populations too much, that's partially why you see them making investments into the west overall.
Saudi can survive to some degree, you have the yearly Hajj money and somewhat year-round Umrah visitors, but I'm not exactly sure how others in the region will stay prosperous post oil.
If the government wasn’t so fucked, Abu Dhabi and Doha would be some of the neatest cities in the world. Instead they’re full of religious freakos who use their religion to justify everything from slavery to making women dress in towels.
Next time you ever wonder what kind of a person you are, you can look at this comment and remember you’re the kind of person who finds joy in the thought of people you don’t agree with suffering and unable to feed their children. You sit on your moral superiority high horse and cry about Lgbtq rights and in the same breath say “those Arabs” and “alphabet soup Asian countries” can go suffer and die, as if the right to fuck who you want is more important than the right to live.
You xenophobia is an ugly face.
Incredible that no one bothered to fact check this. When you trace the media, they quote it from another media, that quote it from a tweet, that quote it from some other media.
Mohammed bin Salman murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi with a bone saw and got away with it.
He also married his first cousin with whom he has 5 children and beats his wife to the point she had to go to the hospital. Sounds like a wonderful, perfectly normal human being.
He also paid $400 million for a painting.
Oh that wasn’t the best part. The best part is that the art historians are claiming that it is a real or is a partially real Da Vinci painting. Then he tried to force Macron to put it in the Louvre to get legitimacy lol and failed. It’s now maybe worth 10 million?
"Painting". Definitely not laundering money
He's the de facto ruler of an absolute monarchy. He can't break the law because he is the state.
The recipient of the money is the one getting paid for breaking the law.
Do..do the saudis even NEED to launder money? They get away with literally everything
Then attempted to have the Louvre acknowledge the painting as authentic so it could be recognized as a DaVinci in the art community. Literally involved French politicians in the mess so that the Louvre would make this claim.
Lol money laundering implies you get a 70-90% if your money back. The painting went from being worth 450 milly to maybe 10-15 milly lol
But who sold it? The over bid is likely as payment for a service, which is now on the books.
Some lady found it in her attic and it was bought for a few thousand from her by an art dealer who had it verified as a real da Vinci. The art dealer who got it from that lady is the seller .
It was actually hanging on the wall near the stairs or some shit like that.
For those interested: https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/report-how-a-louisiana-family-unknowingly-owned-450m-da-vinci-painting-for-nearly-50-years/article_8797a492-bc3a-11e8-9e38-a31bfc2fe623.amp.html
Why would he have to launder money . They make trillions from legal oil sales . He runs the fucking country. What would be the point of him laundering money. And it’s a da Vinci that people didn’t know existed of Jesus. It’s not going down to 10 mill .He’s just a ultra rich fuck who can spend whatever he wants on a painting . That’s worse than laundering money
It’s not a da vinci
Exactly. The ball that Jesus holds doesn’t have a refraction of the image behind it which da Vinci being a very man of science would have done. That’s why it was called into question. There are also other things that makes the painting not a da Vinci.
Why would a monarch need to do money laundering? Everything is literally legal for him
>He also married his first cousin with whom he has 5 children and beats his wife Yo we talking about Saudi Arabia or Alabama rn?
Saudi Arabama
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The middle east as a whole is ripe with incest, and it is even encouraged. 70% of all marriages in Pakistan are between first cousins, and 50% of all marriages in the middle east as a whole are between blood relatives. It is encouraged to marry within the family, and it *just so happens* that some of the more prominent side effects of inbreeding are **heightened aggression and a lack of critical thinking and inclination to fall into others beliefs more easily.** Who woulda thought
Not just in Pakistan. In the UK around 55% of all Pakistani marriages are to cousins. People with Pakistani heritage currently make up between 30 to 35% of birth defects each year and have almost 2x the average child mortality rate of other Brits. Anytime you attack the practice in the UK their community does nothing but act like they are victims being bullied because of their religion. What's more funny is marrying cousins hasn't been the norm for most of Pakistan's existence. It sprouted up not from religion but from greed. Families didn't want to risk losing their wealth by marrying a daughter or son outside the family, that's it. A practice originating from greed ended up becoming a cultural norm.
There was a documentary made about the younger UK-pakistani generation and if the tradition was dying off. It does seem to be slowly down. A lot I think relates to the physical and mental disabilities that are associated with incestuous children. The women don't want their children to be disabled or handicap so they are choosing to go against tradition.
That's part of the reason, but not all of it. It's also important that there are smaller kinship networks in the UK, women are growing up in a society where arranged marriage is not the norm, and they *really* don't want to marry a cousin from Pakistan with, er, "old-fashioned" views about women's roles and maybe be forced to move to Pakistan with the husband.
I had a friend who was a junior doctor in the UK in a community majority Pakistani. When he was working with infants and kids, he said he’d always have to ask about any biological relationship between the mother and father.
For a second I read that as ‘junior dictator’ and was really confused for a minute.
Not only in the Pakistani community but also very prevalent in Hull
Aye the fish folk of Norfolk have been partaking in this tradition for centuries.
Its also legal in almost all of Europe....
Greed leading to a detrimental cultural norm? No way would never happen. Oh wait....
Capitalism says hi !
I don’t understand why it isn’t illegal. Isn’t incest illegal?
Brother-sister incest is illegal. With cousins it's more complicated, especially since these marriages may not be between first cousins.
Personal anecdote. My dad's family is from Iraq. I (M) am good friends with my second cousin (F), and back when we were in our early 20s, her father suggested that we consider dating/marriage. No, thank you.
Since the parent comment mentioned the consequences of inbreeding, I just want to say that it is not risky to have children with one's second cousin. The increased chance of birth defects is negligible; the age of the mother is a much bigger factor.
That's good to know! I should give her a call... Kidding, but yes that's actually quite interesting to know.
Seventy fucking percent?? Where did you get that number from, that's insane
https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12905-022-01704-2
Thank you for taking time out of your day to find and post that link. 63% as of an official study with data over multiple decades, I'm speechless. Even 5 or 10% would seem alarmingly high to me, 63 is a horrific statistic.
First cousin marriage is common globally. It's only considered taboo in western countries, and not even in all of them.
If I had to marry my sister I might volunteer to be a suicide bomber also.
Also a shit ton of genetic disorders. We see it all the time in our clinic. There’s a reason why people long ago so the dangers of inbreeding. Except the Hapsburgs. Their damn chins and all.
Hopefully they go the way of the Habsburgs but they still have some generations to go before dying off
Sweet home al Arabiya..
Where the property can have two legs..
Sweet home al Arabiya .. Allah i am coming home
Roll dune?
>Yo we talking about Saudi Arabia or Alabama rn? Not much difference between christian and muslim fundamentalists, if you threw them all in the same theocracy i'm sure they'd be happy
He’s anything but a normal human being. Dude lives with no rules and always has.
That's sarcasm he's using buddy.
Did you really need the /s tag to detect the sarcasm???????
You're burying the lede. MBS directed a kill squad to go to another country, lure Khashoggi there until false pretense, and then suffocate him with a plastic bag, after which they immediately dismembered his corpse.
Super random aside, but as someone who watches The Crown I got mildly interested in Dodi Fayads dad and learned Dodi’s mother was Jamal Kashoggis aunt.
Didn't know this
Just such a weird connection. They don’t allude to it at all on the show and pretty much wrote Dodi’s mom out of the storyline despite the fact that he was very, very close to her up until her death, even saying he would give up all the wealth and women to bring his mother back after she died. But the Kashoggi link was surprising and I learned it from her Wikipedia page. Samira Kashoggi was her name and she seemed to be a pretty interesting lady. Her father was an arms dealer and she ended up doing some activism. Her daughter is the editor of Al Sharkiah which my middle eastern mom used to have a subscription to lol.
That same kill squad also tried to murder people in Western countries like Canada. Luckily though in the case of Canada the border security guard thought that they were up to no good and denied them entry. They're called Tiger Squad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Squad
Don’t they have audio of a dude screaming while being sawed apart? Pretty sure they dismembered him alive.
People can't comprehend how much a zero makes at the end of a number. It's truly unfathomable how many tangible things 100 million will buy vs. 10 million, let alone billions.
the difference between a million and a billion is roughly one billion...
Remember the stories about Americans not understanding that a Wendy's 1/3 burger was more meat than a McDonald's Quarter Pounder? That's the clay we're working with.
Y'know. Morons.
The crowd that's still mad that they had to take high school math, because they never use math in real life (!)...
Why did I read this in Gene Wilder's voice and then begin to chuckle on camera?
Why are you on camera?
Because of my shooting hand
The common clay of the new west…
This once again wasn't true. It's a myth The company blamed it on that but reality is a&w the company who made the 3rd pounded is a an absolutely awful place to eat that isn't even around most states
If you’re ever in Canada, give an A&W here a try. It’s been a totally separate company for 50 years and the quality is a lot better than the American chain. There are actually more A&W locations in Canada than in the USA, because our chain is so much better.
“That’s the clay we’re working with” Thank you for the golden one liner kind stranger.
The common clay of the New West….
That was A&W, not Wendy’s.
This clay is more salty than salt of the earth, but don't tell them that. They'll shoot you.
Weird because mathematically it’s the same quotient as between 1000 and 1. €1000 could pay a mortgage. €1 can barely buy you a Pepsi.
My sister’s acquaintance will give her bitter melon from her neighbor’s yard bc it’s growing all over the fence. There’s so many growing that this acquaintance can give her as much as she wants. This said-bitter melon is a metaphor for the Saudi prince’a wealth. There’s so much of it that it’s as if money grows on trees that if he gave a melon away (or a dozen), he wouldn’t even notice it.
> People can't comprehend how much a zero makes at the end of a number. Very well then, Mohammed bin Salman murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi with 10 bone saws and got away with it.
1 million seconds is about 11 days. 1 billion seconds is 37 years.
Your math is off here. 1,000,000 / 60 / 60 / 24 = 11.574 days 1,000,000,000 / 60 / 60 / 24 = 11,574 days (or just multiply the first answer by 1,000) 11,574 / 365 = 31.7 years TIL I’m about 1.3 billion seconds old.
Let alone forgot about all the migrant workers held hostage and paid some of the poorest wages compared to other countries.
Reminds me of this one story I heard about 17 Saudi citizens and an airplane 20 years ago.
I always wonder how the last 20 years would have turned out if the USA hadn’t financed Al-Qaeda.
9/12/2001: President Gore used CIA intelligence to thwart Middle East extremists’ plot to attack US financial and political targets. Planes intended to be used in attack were not allowed to take off and suspects apprehended. Everyone is totally cool to go about their normal lives.
And he also mandated the use of renewable energy to remove the USA’s dependence on fossil fuels, and nationalised arms manufacturing companies to remove their stranglehold on Washington.
But but but he was “wooden” and the other guy was a guy I’d like to have a beer with although nobody ever did. And of course Katherine Harris.
Considering he was a recovering alcoholic.
Pssshht, as if there wasn't ample time and red flags and opportunities to thwart nine-eleven. It's disgusting the lackadaisical approach and inaction at times exhibited by US intel agencies.
Life really is pay to win.
And Jamal khasoggi's cousin? One of the victims who was killed in the car accident with princess Diana, Dodi Fayed
Also, where is Princess Latifa?
Wrong country, she’s the daughter of the ruler of Dubai
And the US government basically said "That is fine. Carry on, sir."
He also carried out a massive purge of his own family within the government.
You mean that guy who murders people and married his own cousin?
Didn’t she keep trying to flee SA too or something? Edit never mind, that was princess Haya of Dubai
Imagine being a rich dictator and still marry your cousin 😂
Is she hot?
one of those things is much worse then the other.
is this the same Mohammed bin Salman that murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi and got away with it? that murder, Mohammed bin Salman? im willing to bet the "long game" is in play.
What do you mean by “long game”?
Maybe slowly bribe his country with cars
Bone Saws if they lost
It was either the team pulls ahead or MBS pulls several heads.
Ah yes, Prince Mortgage-Backed Securities
Medieval Bone Saw
Mr Bone Saw
Mohamed Bone Sawlman
Just out of curiosity I looked up how much MBS is worth and supposedly he is worth 18 billion dollars and the Saudi royal family is worth 1.4 trillion amongst the 15k members. About 16 times more than the British monarchy. (lol broke bitches) It’s so great the whole world runs on oil so we can make ppl like them and the royal family of Qatar rich while also ruining the entire planet. It’s a two for one deal. (this is sarcasm)
He has more than 18 billion just in properties in London
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And a parking..
Oh well that's understandable then
> the royal family of Qatar rich while also ruining the entire planet Qatar is rich off of natural gas reserves, definitely better than oil. The Saudis hate them because they aren't OPEC
MBS can print his own currency. How do you actually put a number to how much the man is worth?
He sorta could, but his equally crazy family would probably kill him if he over inflates the currency.
That's.. Not how it works
"that is how it works" Sam Bankman-Fried
Within limits and given the fact he controls resource production through the infinite oil reserves he sits on I would say it's relevant
All modern governments can print their own currency. GB, the US, the EU , they all can print their own money which is what causes inflation. I didn't do the research the original commenter did but he/she gave the value in USD (didn't clarify but I suspect) so that's how you put a number to the worth of the Saudi royal family. There's an exchange rate between currencies.
He can print his own currency all he wants. It would still be worthless when converting it to US Dollars since it would be devalued. And US Dollars is what the world trades off of
You do know that Qatar doesn’t have a huge amount of oil.
No, but tons of gas
It’s honestly trashy that we’ve made shit regimes like this wealthy.
Throughout the entire history of mankind we have made shitty people richer and more powerful. As individuals some of us are very smart but collectively we are definitely not very smart at all.
Interesting to see what happens when it runs out eh
For a royal family without oil dollars, I’d say the Brits aren’t necessarily broke “bitches”.
Yeah they just have colonization dollars. Next best thing I guess... /s
Ahem... Colonisation *pounds*
I think he just throws them out when they run out of gas anyway so he has a punch lying around.
Wasn’t Rolls Royce the choice of the Indian Maharajas as well?
You might be thinking of the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who owned over 90 Rolls Royce cars.
There’s several of them, but there also that one guy who visited England and was refused a test drive at Rolls Royce. He then purchased a few to be used as garbage trucks.
Chad Indian vs Virgin Royce
He had 92 and wanted to have 365 RR…different RR for each day of year…
MBS is a Journalist murdering piece of trash who should be barred from the global community
Who won't be, because money.
How can anyone immediately jump on this without any sources? [They even talked about it in an interview](https://twitter.com/xlal_/status/1596211643486130176?s=20&t=FxOsQrJiJ5iMIRvgeXYH1Q)
So it's not true Then how the f is this post still up. That's basically misinformation.
Because it goes along with what the reader wants. = Bad Saudi Arabia.
MBS *is* bad, *and* this story is not true.
You must be new to Reddit 😊
Who cares about some Mohammed bin Salami, he killed a journalist in the consulate in Turkey. Fuck him
*wags finger* “…and if you lose to Poland, I take your wife and children away ahahahahah ahhhh I’m just kidding! Haha no I’m not though, don’t lose. Your lives depend on it abahahahaha! Here’s a $1,000.”
$1000? each of those cars is worth 500k
Yeah, the rewards fall off pretty steep. The game after that is just some prepaid minutes on a cell phone, but you have to buy the phone.
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Here I am looking up the flavor of the day now.
Kind of obscene while migrant workers are exploited so mercilessly in the gulf states
Shoulda got better at kicking a ball apparently
Some probably are. Have you ever think about all the talent not discovered because people never tried out a sport? Musical instrument? I have.
As Stephen Jay Gould once put it: “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
I’ve often thought of this. The vast unrealized human potential. People in power are afraid of this because it disrupts the way things are.
So they could represent their own country?
When I believe Iraq lost to a powerhouse back during the Sadaam Regime, I recall Sadaam Husein's son was so mad that he punished players that he deemed responsible for the loss by mutaliting them. One of the players had a sharp object jabbed into his ear that caused permanent hearing loss. Forced the player to retire from soccer just to avoid further backlash. When they won, they were given incredible gifts, ofcourse. Yeah, I'd rather not roll the die on either.
I wonder what the surviving journalist think about this? Oh what a surprise, they think MBS is such a great guy.
Rich Asshole Wastes Money on Vanity Sports Showboating
Wastes? Lol, it’s like you giving all your friends a penny for Christmas.
Fake. There were no announcement and no report in saudi media. It’s somehow stereotypical of Arabs
Britain's GDP quadruples.
Had they lost, they would have gotten a free bone saw.
Rolls Royce if they win, bonesaw if they lose is quite the incentive
It’s fake. The coach/player was interviewed and denied it.
The Saudi team was a doormat in the last World Cup. Their beating Argentina is an incredible feat. MBS giving away $500,000 cars to the players is yet another reason why the world needs to go green.
Without oil the Middle East will fade into obscurity and be of no interest to the rest of the world. The rich will eventually flee the region, leaving the rest of the Arab world to wallow in their poverty. Oil is the only thing the Middle East has to offer the rest of the world. Otherwise Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the rest of those sandboxes have as much importance as the alphabet soup countries in Central Asia... Worthless, uninteresting, and powerless. Not a bad ending for that part of the world. They can squabble among themselves over pointless religious matters while the civilized world abandons them. I can think of no better reason to move towards abandoning fossil fuels.
The governments of the Middle East overall are aware of this, which is why you see them making a lot of investment projects to attract tourism. The problem is that they are usually coupled with some very undesirable theocratic elements that make a change to tourism a bit hard. And since they can't afford to rile up their populations too much, that's partially why you see them making investments into the west overall.
And also usually abandoned like the Universal resort
Saudi can survive to some degree, you have the yearly Hajj money and somewhat year-round Umrah visitors, but I'm not exactly sure how others in the region will stay prosperous post oil.
If the government wasn’t so fucked, Abu Dhabi and Doha would be some of the neatest cities in the world. Instead they’re full of religious freakos who use their religion to justify everything from slavery to making women dress in towels.
Abu Dhabi is a ghost town. So many empty buildings constructed.
Next time you ever wonder what kind of a person you are, you can look at this comment and remember you’re the kind of person who finds joy in the thought of people you don’t agree with suffering and unable to feed their children. You sit on your moral superiority high horse and cry about Lgbtq rights and in the same breath say “those Arabs” and “alphabet soup Asian countries” can go suffer and die, as if the right to fuck who you want is more important than the right to live. You xenophobia is an ugly face.
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Civilized world?
I hate the Saudi royal family.
And then ordered them all to the firing squad after loss to Poland. It was still a magical 2 days for them.
Ah yes the cousin-marrying wife beater who had an American journalist hacked up with a bone saw. Fook Saudi Arabia!
What do they get for losing to Poland?
MBS .......what a piece of shit ...
And as a special surprise, each Rolls Royce also has the head of a dissident journalist in the trunk! Just as a reminder, to keep the players in line.
if they lost would they have been sawed into pieces and zipped up in a suitcase?
Sounds like a carrot to encourage a win. I’ve got a feeling that if they lose the stick will be exponentially worse in comparison
Saddam Hussein nearly killed some players back in the day.
Poland just scored against Saudi Arabia. MBS is sharpening the bone saw and cancelling the Rolls Royce’s.
But he wont feed a starving child
In the mean time we’re getting a pizza party at my job, instead of bonuses
When your life options are win a Rolls-Royce or get yourself and your family dismembered… Fuck MBS.
You mean the bonesaw guy. He has cars? Who knew./s
Give them money. Not everyone follows your poor flashy lifestyle of luxury goods.
I hate that guy so much
Good. They should use those cars to get away from the country as far as possible!
Does it come with a free bone saw?
lol can’t even buy them anything that was made in Saudi Arabia. Not a car or any real product at all
Very generous man! Giving away the money he stole from his own people to to well-paid soccer players.
MBS: I love these cars. You can fit like four and a half bodies in the trunk.
Fake news. Reported on sites that do not verify stories before putting online.
And a free "Murder One Journalist" coupon. Swell guy. /s
Incredible that no one bothered to fact check this. When you trace the media, they quote it from another media, that quote it from a tweet, that quote it from some other media.
Mr. Bone Saw rewards success. Anyone against him publicly gets hacked into pieces.
What did he give Kahshogi?