OOTL, who is it for them, then?

Yes, i’d love my data to be owned by oil barons that want to see me decapitated.

The sauds are the most evil people alive. And i’m saying this as an arab.

unpaywalled: https://archive.is/7yc9S

A Saudi Arabian company that was created by the Saudi Arabian government just purchased Pokémon Go

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Investment_Fund

If you can’t see the article i will paste it for you.

I’m speaking from experience as a Saudi person who’s always grouped with the “saudi” or "Arabic " or “brown” groups instead of another human being.

So am i, and i’m also sick of it and the people who use this to fuel discrimination. I see this article as more of a reason to hate the sauds, not saudi people.

After MBS became the de-facto leader (after some purges, to centralize all the power to himself) he started “liberalizing” and giving us more freedoms. It’s all bullshit.

Women weren’t even allowed to drive four years ago. That was probably the only good thing he gave us.

The sauds are the last people you want to own anything you use.

Judging by what they did with the data from Xitter, this will cost someone their life. Anything to make a quick buck, though…

I’d assume same thing they did with the data from Xitter. Track down arab dissidents and butcher them, then dissolve their remains in acid so no one can find their corpse.

Yeah, but beforehand it was just a bad game (i don’t play it, but it’s clearly popular) but now it’s directly profiting the worst group alive. If there wasn’t a reason to leave before, there 100% is now.

Yet another good thing ruined by the Saudi government. Why can’t we have nice things? :(

If it’s a conspiracy theory about an authoritarian country, then there’s a pretty big chance that it’s true.

Now, here’s why MBS will ascend to godhood in 2067…

Too many western predictions :shrug: We’re already at rock bottom here, only positive news (incredibly rare)

Yeah. I hope it will still affect them though.

Yeah, they talk about it all the time here.

Here’s to hoping for their collapse 🥂

glad to have been helpful :D

The gulf monarchies’ oil will dry up, and they will collapse under their own weight.

… Probably not. But hey, a man can dream…

Thanks. It feels like every interaction with europeans i have about this is “well these countries are necessary for us! They’re strategic allies and better than XYZ (usually russia or china)” while ignoring the people who have to suffer the consequences. Out of sight, out of mind…

It’s refreshing to hear at least some people care about us.

Absolutely. The british and french are absolutely to blame. They destroyed the entire middle east, and made us all suffer for their own convenience. Also, the Sykes-picot agreement.

(now there are four other arabs than me that i know on lemmy :DDD)

I’d never hold my breath on this unfortunately. Europe is still not sinless, they have blood on their hands, funding both the sudanese and gazan genocide. And they have yet to pay reparations for the devastating damages of colonialism/imperialism, which has directly caused the death and suffering of millions.

The world is unfair, but no one cares about us.

Google Abdelfattah sisi wants to know your location

I see thanks. I assumed so since egypt followed a very similar timeline to you described (even the 21y reign of a murderous dictator lol)