My heart is breaking about this. Tough prison sentences for Kashoggi’s lawyer and now a women’s rights activist, as soon as Biden left town. No more fucking fist bumps, okay Joe? We have totally been played. Terrible things happen when you totally sell out your values….
The Freedom Initiative @thefreedomi
14 Aug 2022
🚨 NEW: Saudi women’s rights activist & academic Salma al-Shehab was sentenced to 34 years in prison + 34 year travel ban for tweets calling for basic rights in the KSA. This is the longest known sentence against a women's rights defender in the country. thefreedomi.org/statements/s…
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This has “I’ll sell you the oil but in exchange I want you to shut up about our human rights abuses, got that?” written all over it.

Aug 14, 2022 · 8:13 PM UTC

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Trump had us self sufficient and drilling. Just saying…
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Drilling is NOT the answer
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Whatever it takes to get gas prices back to $2/gallon.
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Yup 👍 we are basically dealing with the mob in my opinion. We scratch their back and they will scratch ours as long as we stay quiet. It’s clear to me that speaking out about how people are being treated in a country said country will make a person disappear
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You’re typing this on your cobalt-powered iPhone right?
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We don’t need the Saudis- the Saudis need us. The Saudis want to keep the price of oil in $80-100 a barrel range. If it gets too expensive, people find alternatives or efficiencies to use less.
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Without question, this administration (and others before it) turns it back on human rights abuses whether they be in Saudi Arabia, China, or elsewhere as long as the country in question has something we need.
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Uh , you voted for this disaster !! Quit your bitching !
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Sooo ... You sell your soul ... for a few barrels of oil!
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