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franczesko 1 hours ago [-]
He get the Darwin award for restarting the current conflict in Yemen
eldgfipo 40 minutes ago [-]
Little thug who took power through brute force then thought he could bully the world like he bullied people all around him his whole life. Too bad the spot is already taken by the Don.
MisterMunchkin 1 hours ago [-]
This is the problem with having a king, all it takes is one moron and you destroy your country.
Anyone could have told you his genius ideas like “turn a city into a thin line across desert/mountains” were the stupidest thing anyone had ever said. But you can’t tell him because he’s the king and he’ll kill you.
cjs_ac 1 hours ago [-]
I worked on this project for a little under a year and it was fractally stupid. The top-level concepts are stupid, but so are the details. The whole thing has a cyberpunk aesthetic because that’s what MBS likes. The ski resort has a dam that’s made out of failure modes because that was the only way to combine that aesthetic with the requirement that the lake be able to host international rowing events. One day we had to work out how to freeze the lake over because MBS liked a render someone made of people ice skating on the lake. And so on.
csvm 31 minutes ago [-]
The stupidity of the whole project is fascinating. Do you have any other wild examples?
kleiba2 1 hours ago [-]
> This is the problem with having a king, all it takes is one moron and you destroy your country.
Can happen in democracies just as much.
hurfdurf 7 minutes ago [-]
That's what snap elections are for, except in the US.
d3vnull 36 minutes ago [-]
Not "just as much".
The more functional the democracy, the less "just as much".
mjd 40 minutes ago [-]
Yes, but a democracy isn't stuck with the moron until he dies.
sigmarule 1 hours ago [-]
Less so functional ones.
QuantumNomad_ 1 hours ago [-]
It’s functional until it isn’t.
fakedang 1 hours ago [-]
Perhaps he was trying to get line of sight into the desert by building the line...
Fun fact, MBS is a big fan of Age of Empires 2 and plays it in the mornings. Also funny story, I once saw a match being played, around US night time, where one player built a line of houses into the enemy territory so that the opponent was forced to micro their soldiers manually. Think of that what you may.
pelagicAustral 1 hours ago [-]
the king has no clothes and stuff, yeah...
gaiagraphia 1 hours ago [-]
Insane how the plans dove straight into being so grand and expensive.
The location itself is kinda decent for development. It could've been pretty feasible if the plan was to pump desalled water up the mountains and let it flow down like rivers through smaller developments, while pumping out water laterally for irrigation.
Could've slowly greened their side of the Red Sea, hooked themselves up with a bridge to Sharm (and onwards to Cairo I believe with Egypt's HSR plans), built a few marinas, resorts, and stuff, and become quite a popular destination for a fraction of the cost.
Didn't they have a whole plan for processing the brine into concrete for development, too?
chris_wot 1 hours ago [-]
A king? My man, you can just get a President who does the same thing.
lukan 1 hours ago [-]
But he would have been allmost king by now, if his wars would have succeeded. And obviously his wars did not succeeded because he did not get the support a king deserves!
Trump is not a king and is destroying the country.
Charles is a king and is doing a great job.
padjo 1 hours ago [-]
Yeah king is the wrong word really. Having an unaccountable autocrat is really the problem.
bigcat12345678 1 hours ago [-]
Yep, same for a president, who we all know started a 10× worse version of Yemen war.
Someone called Putin started 100× worse war and enjoyed the close to unanimous support domestically.
Someone committed genocide in Palestine who cannot not be voted down.
I think I really don't see any better political systems.
citrin_ru 19 minutes ago [-]
> enjoyed the close to unanimous support domestically
That’s what Russian propaganda wants you to believe. And I see no reasons to trust it. Assessing public opinion in an autocracy is from hard to impossible - people afraid to tell what they think and they have good reasons for this.
grebc 57 minutes ago [-]
It takes work by the citizenry to keep the political class in check, regardless of the configuration. Kings don’t rule in isolation, nor do elected governments. In a lot of countries we’ve abdicated that responsibility, likewise the political class has abdicated its responsibility to its citizens.
Read any government document from almost any department and the language for citizen has become customer. Language matters, I’m not a customer, but no one cares.
lifestyleguru 1 hours ago [-]
> stupidest thing anyone had ever said. But you can’t tell him because he’s the king and he’ll kill you.
"Let's exit one of the largest and most powerful economic and diplomatic unions"
"Let's give away control over our country to real estate agents"
There have been strong stupidest vibes all over in the recent years.
nacozarina 1 hours ago [-]
“All that money and no idea what to do with it.”
kotaKat 40 seconds ago [-]
Keep laundering some of it via the PIF to mobile gaming companies?
Keep getting inundated with Monopoly Go / Scopely ads because McDonald's is funneling money back up the chain for McDonalds Monopoly. It's that time of year again!
thendrill 1 hours ago [-]
You guys ever heard of ideological subversion ....
Coz this is the result of ideological subversion on the saudis and the other GCC countries since 1933...
This whole thing culminated when MBS suddenly packed his family in that hotel about 15 years ago...
You guys have to understand that the people that put people like Trump in power are also the same ones that pull the strings in the middle east...
The greatest achievement of renewable energy will not be averting climate disaster, as people are going to screw up the planet regardless, but rather making retarded arab countries irrelevant
dumberquestions 43 minutes ago [-]
They would still have trillions invested across EU and US, if their relevance bothers you then you should direct your anger at the leaders and voters who made them as relevant.
mono442 28 minutes ago [-]
These investments can be easily taxed or regulated so they don't generate any real profit once the oil countries are irrelevant.
TFNA 14 minutes ago [-]
Those investments are paying for the generous welfare states that keep GCC countries populations pacified. End that and you could end up like Egypt or Syria, a population even more prone to radicalization and even streaming towards Europe in migration waves. That is not in anyone's interest.
mono442 13 minutes ago [-]
The immigrants were let in Europe because politicians wanted to let them in.
gvfsa 44 minutes ago [-]
Personally I feel exactly the same - these peoples simply do not have, on average, the intelligence required to deal with such amounts of wealth and power.
kaishin 38 minutes ago [-]
Humans in general don't have such an intelligence. Look no further than the US.
gvfsa 11 minutes ago [-]
Norway has done it.
kaishin 8 minutes ago [-]
Can you name a single individual who has much power as MBS in Norway? The system prevents that from happening and this has nothing to do with where you come from.
Anyone could have told you his genius ideas like “turn a city into a thin line across desert/mountains” were the stupidest thing anyone had ever said. But you can’t tell him because he’s the king and he’ll kill you.
Can happen in democracies just as much.
The more functional the democracy, the less "just as much".
Fun fact, MBS is a big fan of Age of Empires 2 and plays it in the mornings. Also funny story, I once saw a match being played, around US night time, where one player built a line of houses into the enemy territory so that the opponent was forced to micro their soldiers manually. Think of that what you may.
The location itself is kinda decent for development. It could've been pretty feasible if the plan was to pump desalled water up the mountains and let it flow down like rivers through smaller developments, while pumping out water laterally for irrigation.
Could've slowly greened their side of the Red Sea, hooked themselves up with a bridge to Sharm (and onwards to Cairo I believe with Egypt's HSR plans), built a few marinas, resorts, and stuff, and become quite a popular destination for a fraction of the cost.
Didn't they have a whole plan for processing the brine into concrete for development, too?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Trump_-_...
Someone called Putin started 100× worse war and enjoyed the close to unanimous support domestically.
Someone committed genocide in Palestine who cannot not be voted down.
I think I really don't see any better political systems.
That’s what Russian propaganda wants you to believe. And I see no reasons to trust it. Assessing public opinion in an autocracy is from hard to impossible - people afraid to tell what they think and they have good reasons for this.
Read any government document from almost any department and the language for citizen has become customer. Language matters, I’m not a customer, but no one cares.
"Let's exit one of the largest and most powerful economic and diplomatic unions"
"Let's give away control over our country to real estate agents"
There have been strong stupidest vibes all over in the recent years.
Keep getting inundated with Monopoly Go / Scopely ads because McDonald's is funneling money back up the chain for McDonalds Monopoly. It's that time of year again!
Coz this is the result of ideological subversion on the saudis and the other GCC countries since 1933...
This whole thing culminated when MBS suddenly packed his family in that hotel about 15 years ago...
You guys have to understand that the people that put people like Trump in power are also the same ones that pull the strings in the middle east...
Stop looking at things in vacuum...
Here is a short history lesson for the interested : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Lvv1f5Qu4