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    The next Mass Effect game is going to be wild. Apparently you get an immediate game over right there in the character creator if you set the gender to female.

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        “All people against my side are exactly the same and interchangeable”

        TBF, there’s a left-wing version of that too.

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      Conservatives want the past, not the future. They resist change because it was ok for them.

      Until it’s not, and then they want change, but not like you blacks and latinos or pakis or chinkys (I’m paraphrasing ok?)

      They want change especially for them, not the other people.

      As a and old white male with not family or money.

      FUCK THEM.

  • Gpennyhigh@lemmy.world
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    What a disgusting and unjust dump of a country. Pity on all stuck there and who want out of any repressive place. None should be this way, to abuse women and children and others, it’s sick to treat people that way.

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        Actually, not one of those men personally gave birth out of wedlock!

        /s, although it’s technically true.

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        Eh. They aren’t blocking Saudi ports, and are intercepting things on the Saudi’s behalf.

        Unless you mean that as a prediction for the near future, or something.

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          Yeah, I guess there is still an alliance. Kinda…sort of…for now… until the US-Iran war ends that is.

          But in case it wasn’t plainly obvious: the US failed spectacularly to honor its treaty obligations and defend the Gulf states from attacks.

          The US will soon have to retreat from the Strait or Hormuz and afterwards there is no chance in hell that the US will (or even can) commit the forces and resources necessary to rebuild their military bases and capabilities, restore deterrence and honor their original commitments.

          The Saudi’s know this. They recently entered into the Mecca Defence Alliance and are actively seeking other partners such as Ukraine to help strengthen their defense.

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            And just to hammer it home: the US dragged its ‘allies’ into an unwinnable war while ignoring their strong warnings and objections (so much for shared interests…).

            Their defense commitments then proved questionable because the US couldn’t prevent the Iranians from dealing massive damage to oil, gas and military infrastructure all across the region.

            They then escalated the war, causing the Houthi’s to block the Bab al-Mandab Strait which dragged the Saudi’s even further into this war.

            And now that the war is finally nearing its conclusion, the US has depleted its intercepter stockpiles, has lost a lot of its military infrastructure in the region, has pulled many of its air assets from the region and is likely going to accept de facto Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz, because they have no leverage whatsoever.

            This leaves the Saudi’s reeling from the massive political and economic damage from the war, having to deter a stronger and emboldened Iran, while still being embroiled in a guerilla war with the Houthi’s, being largely unable to defend itself from drone and missile attacks, while losing its primary security guarantor because they just suffered a humiliating strategic defeat.

            Oh, and the Iranians are now 100% guaranteed to try and develop nuclear weapons in the next few years and Russia is probably desperate enough to lend them a hand.

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        Yeah tell me once KSA’s shitty monarchy falls lol.

        The running joke is that the Houthis would successfully invade KSA in a matter of days if the US actually left.

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      They don’t give all the lashes at once. They let you heal up a bit between sessions.

      Religion of peace you see.

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    Fuck those religious pieces of shit so shallow to allow a human to be.

    The sooner we can get off oil the better for this world.

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    say rights groups, which have condemned the punishment as an “act of violence”.

    Thanks Captain Obvious!

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        Even the UN can do better than that. It’s not even a condemnation … pretty sure even the pro-lashing people would agree that it’s an act of violence.