@TrueFawaz@AvrahamPetrovic@ElectricSockets AlSaud is from Hijaz? ๐๐ Literally wtf are you smoking? Theyโre from Wadi Hanifa in Diriyah, Najd.
Iโm not gonna bother reply to the rest of the fascistic nonsense in your tweet.
@TrueFawaz@AvrahamPetrovic@ElectricSockets Najd and Hejaz are not identical dude wtf are you smoking? We lived under different empires for centuries. Hell we werenโt even united under the Rashidun because of the Ridda wars lmao.
@moshaker132@ElectricSockets Itโs a bedrock of the petrodollar system. The money our monarchy gets from oil flows back to the US financial system in the form of US Treasuries, stocks, or as you said weapons deals. Weโre basically a US colony in all but name.
@AvrahamPetrovic@TrueFawaz@ElectricSockets Canโt give you a definitive answer because we have no polls in Saudi. But yes I think itโs safe to say that Najdis in general feel emboldened to insult others because the royal family is from Najd.
@TrueFawaz@ElectricSockets For non-Arabic speakers, he called me โvomit of the seaโ which is basically a derogatory term racial puritans from the Najd region use to insult Hejazis due to the regionโs diverse population and cosmopolitan culture (thanks to centuries of pilgrims mixing with the locals).
@TrueFawaz@ElectricSockets Nope. Iโm neither. Fully saudi here. You can insult me all you want for going against the government narrative and expressing my independent thought. I have nothing to prove to you.
@ElectricSockets Not just Egypt. Iraqโs Hashemite monarchy was also violently overthrown in 1958. The Yemeni imamate fell to military officers in 1962. And Libyaโs monarchy fell to Qaddafi's officers in 1969. Since then, Saudi has implemented what political scientists call "coup-proofing."
@ElectricSockets Here's an explanation from an actual Saudi: it's by design. Our monarchy never wanted a strong organized military, fearing a repeat of Egypt in 1952 when the military led by Nasser toppled King Farouk.
@KNO3_GaN@ElectricSockets No morale, because what are we fighting for really? A bunch of manmade borders arbitrarily drawn by a bunch of drunk British and French officers? Fuck that.