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EA employees brace for the worst under Saudi ownership: 'Hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 19 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Beheadings, shooting people with impunity, monarchism, modern slavery, being the origin country of the most 9/11 hijackers, underaged arranged marriages, paying random women and girls from the Internet to go over there and then literally shitting on them. Buying children from Trump to sex traffic... and yes, using violence and torture to surpress journalism and political dissent.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 6 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

the origin country of the most 9/11 hijackers

That's underselling it.

If I remember correctly, all but one of them were Saudi.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

15 were from Saudi Arabia, two from the UAE, one from Egypt and one from Lebanon.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, okay. So only 4 who weren't Saudis.

Also ... I'm detecting a notable lack of Afghanistan on that list...

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 1 points 33 minutes ago

And Iraq. No Iran either.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, but I think they were mostly living in Afghanistan prior to the attack.

[–] ElChinchilla@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They all traveled through countries (passport stamped and all) deemed not allowed for Saudi Arabia > United States travel. The Saudis allowed them to move freely. That was the detail that has stuck with me from the 9/11 commission report.

[–] Hodor@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago

I thought they met and planned in Saudi