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Bloomberg Opinion writer. Elected "top neoliberal shill" of 2018. Occasionally posts anime gifs.

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    1. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 11

      Decades of funding fundamentalism and terrorism throughout the world, decades of horrifically repressive misogynist laws, years of war in Yemen, and we're just now realizing that Saudi Arabia is bad. Well, better late than never I guess.

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    2. James R Williamson‏ @jrwill9 Oct 11
      Replying to @Noahpinion

      I’ve been hearing they’re bad at least since 2001. Are there any explanations for why they are so bad?

      4 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    3. James R Williamson‏ @jrwill9 Oct 11
      Replying to @jrwill9 @Noahpinion

      Is it an inevitable consequence of the badass Bedouin culture they come from?

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    4. James R Williamson‏ @jrwill9 Oct 11
      Replying to @jrwill9 @Noahpinion

      Is it all explained by Wahhabism, which is a modernist twist on Islam? Is it due to the corrupting influence of all that oil wealth?

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      Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 11
      Replying to @jrwill9

      I think it's the oil. Around 1979-80 Iran went fundamentalist, shot up the hajj, and threatened to take Saudi's oil. They were militarily weak and sparsely populated so they embraced Wahhabism to counter the Iranian threat.

      10:25 PM - 11 Oct 2018
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        1. Andrew‏ @AVSIllini Oct 12
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          It’s a grand bargain between House of Saud and clergy. Saud trades social control to clerics in return for no questions asked about political power and control of state economics. It’s been that way for a long time, predates 1979.

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        2. Tom Streithorst‏ @tomstreithorst Oct 11
          Replying to @Noahpinion @jrwill9

          Read a great bio of St. John Philby, Kim’s Dad, who was with Ibn Saud during WWI, when he was just a minor desert sheikh./1

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        3. Tom Streithorst‏ @tomstreithorst Oct 11
          Replying to @tomstreithorst @Noahpinion @jrwill9

          Even then the military muscle of the Saud family was wacko jihadists who would slaughter whole villages for not being devout enough./2

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        4. Tom Streithorst‏ @tomstreithorst Oct 11
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          Sadly, wacko violent fundamentalism seems baked into Saudi DNA./3

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