Nah, they should make it Phoenician most European languages are descended from it, Including English. The true universal language.

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Interesting, seems like they’re taking advantage of dysfunctional mideastern countries to gain power in the region. EF only they kept their grubby hands to themselves.

Colonialism is how we got into this mess, and our leaders think being colonized more will save us, it’s a tragic loop.

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True, but Assad is useless now. I wouldn’t be surprised if he fell down 9 stories down to his death, Putin has no use for him anymore. It’s over for Russia in Syria, maybe they’ll refocus on Sudan.

I Shfybyeya shnf vyeyyefits fyafm tndt? /s

But I guarantee that 80% of this fake news comes from westerners (particularly on twitter), literally the only people i’ve seen some of them mourn the fall of Assad. every Syrian i know is ecstatic and smiles from ear to ear.

Example:

Thank you for caring about my safety. And I should, as you said, remove some information on the above comments.

Oh, he was just an old teacher of my father’s school, many people knew him. I’m not related to him in any way. If i was related by blood to him, i’d steer clear, though…

Oh yeah, it could get me executed publicly by beheading. I am very privacy conscious, and I harden all my systems so I hope none of this can be traced back to me.

Its also useful for applying for asylum, free citizenship! /hj

But you’re right, It’s small city and that makes me extremely vulnerable, so I edited to just Saudi.

Not a problem, Arabs are a minority on lemmy anyway (probably in the double digits), let alone Saudis. So I’d assume the same as you, too.

I [unfortunately] was born and live in Saudi, it’s a little hard to do that when you are at the heart of the country you are trying to boycott.

When i said there is nothing we can do here, i meant it. Protesting is illegal, and considered terrorism. Fuck, even just criticizing the monarchy is a death sentence.

We are one of the least democratic states in the world, and defining saudi as a fascist monarchy is only a matter of semantics of this point.

Despite a pledge in 2018 from Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to reduce use of the death penalty, the rate of executions has continued to soar…

What did you expect? he’s a fucking snake. Nothing we can do about it here, though. :(

Our history sounds shockingly similar to Animal Farm.

Revolt against the Ottoman colonizers

The Hashemite dynasty rules the Hejaz for 10 years

Get invaded by the Saud dynasty, an ultraconservative, wahhabist group

Become an absolute monarch, where criticism = death by beheading

Pretend how it’s great here, and how nothing ever goes wrong here

Destroy history of our past

Become a lifeless country, where all our work and natural resources are reserved for the Sauds

By islamic law, we are all equal. But some of us, are more equal than others.

Next step, is probably to centralize all power to MBS, which he partially already did.

No need to compare him to Hitler, he’s evil enough on his own.

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Why would i be a russian troll? Genuinely asking.

And egypt, as in ancient egypt. A time where the idea of human rights were unheard of, and they started supporting basic human rights. Europe at the time had no rights at all, and only began in the middle ages.

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the Athenians/Phoenicians invented democracy, not you. The ancient egyptians thought of human rights before you even dreamt of it. The mesopotamians invented the wheel.

And yes, how would you invent literally anything without proper numerals, algebra, calculus, trigonometry, and more?

You literally said the west is the most civilised place in the world.

And without us, you wouldn’t even have the concepts to invent any of those, so I guess by your logic you can’t criticize us now.

I wasn’t saying the west is barbaric, but pretending that it is a beacon of morality is just silly.

The west is the best place to live in, because of exploitation of the third world.

And what do you even mean by a millennia? Not even 100 years ago, Europe was incredibly racist, and feudalist. They committed:

The holocaust, Bengal genocide, free Congo, the Sudanese genocide and Gaza genocide.

PS: fuck China, too. I’m no tankie.

The world isn’t black and white. But calling them “civilized” is disingenuous. A country can’t be civilized while also massacring and committing genocides abroad, no matter how much freedom you have.

No country is civilized, from what i can tell.