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What you're saying sounds like a Russel Brand "don't vote they all the same" kind of argument. Fortunately even theocracies (and nut jobs) come in different flavors and varying degrees of nuttiness.
...a kit kat and a picnic are both chocolate bars, but obviously one is nutty as all fuck.
(, Fri 23 Jan 2015, 1:29, Reply)
House of Saud...
... Before they took power what is now Saudi Arabia was not a bad place in the grand scheme of things.
This is what happens when magic book thumping illiterate bumpkins take over a country.
Rarely has such as small group fucked up so much of the world and not been waged war upon.
(, Fri 23 Jan 2015, 9:29, Reply)
I'm not sure making a comparisson to Russell Brand is appropriate,
given that Saudi Arabia doesn't even have any pretense at elections or democracy.
(, Fri 23 Jan 2015, 10:11, Reply)
yeah could'nt see how he'd been drug into this argument either...
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lustreboy making himself laugh since 1973 (tm), Fri 23 Jan 2015, 10:22,
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Er, it does.
King Abdullah recently introduced elections. They're obviously utterly meaningless, but the pretence is very much there.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 23 Jan 2015, 11:06,
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Oh yes, but only for local government.
They certainly haven't bothered pretending elsewhere.
(, Fri 23 Jan 2015, 12:18, Reply)