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Saudi Arabia to be appointed chair of UN’s gender equality forum (www.amnesty.org)

submitted 8 months ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 57 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Man, the world’s gonna be a MUCH better place when the House of Saud finally goes the way of the dinosaur.

[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 38 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Unless it's just replaced with something objectively worse...which wouldn't be the first time in history something like that happened.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

They already massacred Yemen as a monarchy while their crown prince is known for dismembering journalists, they're about as bad as it gets.

[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Maybe I'm just cynical, but I can imagine many, many ways it could get worse and only a few of them involve nuclear or bio weapons.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This oil fields aren’t moving. If the Saus family is ousted, we just talk to the new family

What I would to see is a Saud realizing he’s on the outs, crying on the tarmac. But that’s just mean

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 8 months ago

This oil fields aren’t moving.

Yes they are. We've been moving them out of the ground and into the atmosphere for almost ninety years.

[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

They already did, but some other Saudis realised those dinosaur bones had oil and they went full circle again.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world -3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I believe one day in the future, maybe by aliens hands or maybe by some incredible new discovery, religion will cease to exist and the world will be finally peacefull with people working for the betterment of their lifes not praying for a ghost

edit: a religion plague that kills only dumb people also works lol

[–] AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This will not happen, as long as other people find a way to use "religion" for power, influence or financial gain. Some people already thought that the mass adaption of the internet would be the end of religion, scams and other fraud preying on the gullible minds, because people could just read up what the catch is and not fall for it, right?

Unfortunately the scams just adapted, made their own flashy homepages that mostly outranked critical information and people just choose to belive what they want to belive.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

We didn't know how dumb people really was.