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> Saudi Barbaria

What do you hope to achieve with petty quips like this?

I hope to call a spade a spade. They throw homosexuals off of rooftops on a regular basis, for being homosexuals.

They're actively bombing Yemen.

They chopped a journalist up last year, and had an episode of "will it blend" with the bits. Then mixed it him with bleach and poured him down the drain.

Let's not sugar coat it.

You're doing the literal opposite of calling a spade a spade. You're calling a spade a shitpade because it fell over and hit your foot. I'm unqualified to judge your opinion on Saudi Arabia but making up an insult Stallman style only makes you sound childish to anybody who doesn't already agree with you.

> You're calling a spade a shitpade because it fell over and hit your foot.

That's a mischaracterisation. He's calling a spade a shitspade because it systematically violates basic human rights.

As well because it is a shitspade.

Let me reiterate, they chopped a man into tiny bits, and flushed him into the sewers of Constantinople.

And then said "yeah, well, whoopsies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

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