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buttcoinslol on Nov 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Saudi Arabia detains 201 princes, businessmen in $...

This is elites targeting elites, do you really feel outrage about this? It's an absolute monarchy, it's not supposed to be fair.

Diplomats don't care because the status quo with regards to oil hasn't changed.

baursak on Nov 10, 2017 [–]

> It's an absolute monarchy, it's not supposed to be fair.

"It's a dictatorship, it's not supposed to be fair". Or I guess all Saddam or Gaddafi had to do was to rebrand as monarchs and US would have completely backed off.

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