[igloofoo]

Changing the world one murdered-by-starvation Yemeni at a time.

How do you accept funding from oppressive, dictatorial, mysoginist regimes and then claim to “make the world a better place”?

Sigh. The political implications are so ironically cringe-worthy

[ahtu123]

But but but they're our allies! There's definitely some selective enforcement of our ideals. As long as it doesn't get in the way of military or business it's fine. This is the country that financed 9/11. It's not "racist" to be skeptical of Saudi Arabia.

[maxxxxx]

They buy a lot of expensive weapons so they are an ally.

[Maybestring]

They buy a lot of expensive weapons using a gift card from uncle Sam.

You've got the causal relationship backwards.

[maxxxxx]

What gift card? I thought they are living off oil.

[Maybestring]

US military aid is often in the form of dollars with the string attached that they be used to purchase weapons from US companies.

[godzillabrennus]

How many Iraqi civilians died from the USA led invasion?

What nation has the highest level of incarceration in the world?

In Saudi Arabia their regime is hereditary but in the USA we elect our leaders.

Who should we be angry at?

[igloofoo]

We should elect better leaders and avoid getting in bed with such regimes.

“Be the change you want to see in the world”

“Practice what you preach”

From a previous article

“Most people do not share the belief that a process must be morally pure before its results can be celebrated; they can be jubilant about the Falcon Heavy and question Tesla’s treatment of its workers at the same time, without the one invalidating the other. “

[igloofoo]

Why the downvotes? Can we not discuss the implications of “progress at all costs”?

[jingleheimer]

I too would like an explanation on why I was flagged.

[riku_iki]

> Changing the world one murdered-by-starvation Yemeni at a time.

I don't think they want to change the world, just multiply money.

[jbob2000]

There is no such thing as clean money. Everything we've built in the west was done on stolen land, on the backs of slaves and migrants. So whether it's $450mil that came off the backs of Yemenis or $450mil that came off the backs of natives and mexicans - it's all the same.

[walrus01]

saying "we did terrible things in the past" does not excuse us from the responsibility to, present tense, refuse to become complicit in ongoing atrocities.