Yup. 55% to be exact, with fewer than 25 countries in the World classed as “full democracies”, (a larger number being classed as “flawed” democracies, then straight into authoritarian).

How does the average Saudi feel about Yemenis?

Khashoggi was the least of it. They’ve killed 350,000 Yemenis on top of him, in a war he supported.

Israel hasn’t killed as many people in the past 40 years as Saudi Arabia has in the past 8. It also isn’t the biggest funder and home of the ideology driving massacres on civilians almost everywhere from Bamako to Bali.

Absolutely. The bottom line is the one that matters, and having killed 350,000 people through starvation, disease, and aerial bombing over the past eight years, Newcastle fans won’t care so long as the likes of Kounde and Oshimen arrive in the summer. Qatar did it with a World Cup and PSG, the UAE (Britain to Saudi…

The World’s worst state continues to launder its image. Part of me honestly does hopes the oil runs out, I’m betting they can’t actually diversify fast enough.

White supremacists are a much smaller factor in Ukraine than people sometimes like to believe. Overrepresented in their military certainly, as they are in ours, and very important, like it or not, in Mariupol. But out of uniform, and outside of Galician public support for Stepan Bandera, (and it certainly gets…

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It’s Lori Lightfoot.

Your ire is misplaced. And you know it.

The comment doesn’t actively condone the action, it’s just my anger talking.

Reading this almost makes me see worth in the Israeli tactic of destroying the family homes (and occasionally killing the families) of attackers after the act, but I know that’s just the rage talking. Murdering grandparents because it helps you protect the “white race” (from what), I don’t know...there’s no…

I don’t remember vapes being really a thing until about 2010. Probably none of them. Abdullah Kamel al-Kandari and Salih Uyar were detained for wearing Casio watches, but vapes I can’t say.

If Guantanamo was full of Saudis of a certain bent, it might be what its defendents claim it is. But it really isn’t.

The homicide rate isn’t falling.