I find it HUGELY ironic that people are commenting on Saudi human rights history, when very recently posters were creaming themselves on the prospect of a Chinese takeover!
Double standards!
Were these the self-same people? Because if not, kindly explain to me the huge irony and double standards on display in this thread.
There seem to me to be more bemoaning the impediment of personal principles, scruples, a sense of honour and empathy for the disenfranchised and oppressed, to our chances of
gitting summa dat.
"No one's whiter than white!", cry all the most willing participants in an ethical race to the bottom. Why would we refuse to be paid off with stolen nazi gold? It's all the same, nobody's innocent, might as well get ahead any which way you can. I can play the false equivalence game too.