r/interestingasfuck • u/Saad5400 • 3h ago
Saudi Arabia flies in conjoined twins from all over the world and separates them entirely for free
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u/Connect_Ordinary6752 3h ago
“Alright you pull this way and I pull that way”
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u/Killentyme55 3h ago
It's too bad the "Make a Wish" foundation already took the name.
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u/bingbong12494362847 2h ago
Took a minute to get
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u/2lodo 2h ago
I don’t get it
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u/Guilty_Fix_1086 2h ago
Wishbone
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u/gerryt32 2h ago
What does a dog who loves books have to do with this?
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u/Guilty_Fix_1086 2h ago
Assuming you aren't making a joke, the first definition you get "According to a popular custom, this bone from a cooked bird is broken by two people and the holder of the longer portion is then entitled to make a wish."
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u/el_torko 2h ago
Yoooooo I shouldn’t have laughed as hard as I did. See ya in hell, friend.
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u/Cucumberneck 2h ago
I dont get it.
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u/el_torko 2h ago
In America, on Thanksgiving, it’s a tradition that two people make a wish and break the wishbone. Whoever gets the bigger piece supposedly has their wish come true. It’s a grotesque joke about just pulling them apart like they were a wish bone. But I laughed very hard when I first read it.
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u/dallasandcowboys 2h ago
You're going to hell. How do I know this? I'm holding the door for you, and still laughing at this comment too probably.
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u/Hamhockthegizzard 3h ago
Wow that’s crazy and I never would’ve found out about this
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u/tenaciousdeev 2h ago
If you found yourself having conjoined twins, I have a feeling you'd find it.
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u/ForWhomTheBoneBones 2h ago
They cut Jamal Khashoggi in half for free!
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u/sleepingdeep 2h ago
not many things on the internet get a reaction out of me anymore, but this.. this got an inaudible "oh my god" from me.
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u/HauntingHarmony 1h ago
Good, that means you didnt have the correct assosiations already with saudia arabia and MBS.
And now hopefully you will remember that the next time.
That being said, its weird when countries or people who are in lack of a better word completely evil, does something good.
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u/murphmobile 3h ago
This is truly “interesting as fuck”
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u/geckotatgirl 3h ago
Yes, this definitely fits the sub. As another user said, I'd not have known about this, otherwise. It's interesting what gets shared and what is withheld by various media to maintain whatever perspective they want us to buy into.
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u/CaraCicartix 3h ago
Look at the comment section. The bots are in full attack mode.
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u/chilling_hedgehog 3h ago
You mean because they upvote this shameless propaganda that sweeps over KSA being a slave economy?
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u/Cute_Skill_4536 2h ago
I mean... it is..
But this is still cool as fuck and absolutely interesting
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u/Rat_Stick_Blues 2h ago
No one said praise the Saudis, only that it's interesting as fuck. You're going to want to watch where you spend your money very carefully over the next few years, the Saudis have their hand in everything.
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u/holyflurkingsnit 2h ago
Does it sweep over it, or is it completely unrelated to the subject at hand? How would they even have shoehorned that into the post? It's about conjoined twins, not about how rad Saudi Arabia is and how we shouldn't look any closer at their economy.
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u/Randomly-Germinated 3h ago
OP posting the feelgood Saudi story and then arguing in defense of the crown in the comments really makes me want to see the rest of his five-year hidden post history.
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u/Present_Chocolate218 2h ago
They really did hide post history and comments so bots could florish here.. didn't they
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u/Randomly-Germinated 1h ago
to be fair, I do believe that OP is a shill, not a bot.
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u/TruckDouglas 3h ago
You can search their username and go from there. It’s exactly what you would expect.
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u/moonpangler 2h ago
That stopped working for me after the last app update. Is it just me?
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u/AFRIKKAN 2h ago
They keep moving my popular and stuff to the side bar and it’s been pissing me off.
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u/TheSorceIsFrong 1h ago
And keep showing me stupid “streak” or “hey look at this post you’ve emver seen” notifications even if I turn them off. Very close to ditching reddit
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u/marcaygol 1h ago
You can see their post history (including deleted posts) using this tool:
https://ihsoyct.github.io/?backend=artic_shift&mode=submissions&author=Saad5400&limit=100&sort=desc
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u/Brief_Series_3462 2h ago edited 2h ago
To everyone who wants to have a look, you’re welcome.
https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=saad5400&type=comments&sort=new
https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=saad5400&type=posts&sort=new
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u/Bestavailablename 3h ago
I'm sure it's wonderful for the patients, but this is just a long-running PR stunt for a country with insane human rights violations
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u/CVGPi 3h ago
The PR stunt is a bonus. More like "We pay the patients so our doctors can be experienced and produce more value for the society later for more than we pay".
Unfortunately most governments fail to see the benefits after the next election and does stuff based on "what today?"
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u/Practical-Sleep4259 3h ago
They are developing a skillset that is probably unique only to them.
In america that is poverty for life no matter how much money you got, 20+ hours and 40+ doctors.
I'm pretty sure that's if money is no object.
Now the real fucked up part is the surgery probably only cost 10 - 20 thousand in real resources, it's the labor and hospital fees that = 10 million.
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u/Ok-Disk-2191 2h ago
it's the labor and hospital fees that = 10 million.
you also might want to add that the healthcare price is also artificially increased because of insurance, adding on administration fees, doing deals to make the numbers look big on paper to push premiums up, If you do a bit of research, you'll also find a lot of the big private healthcare insurance companies hold major shares of pharmaceutical companies. The push for profit is insane.
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u/Thanosmiss234 2h ago
PR stunt or not. I would definitely use the program if needed. The high morale people aren’t separating my kids! They talk the talk but don’t walk the walk.
You want people to stop going them….. offer the same service for free!
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u/silver-fusion 3h ago
How long is the list of very rich countries that don't have insane human rights violations?
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u/Bestavailablename 3h ago
I'd say it's non-existent. There's blood on the hands of just about every country. But I don't think that's a reason to not talk about it
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u/Odd-Scientist-2529 2h ago
Those surgeons are doing what almost no surgeon can do. So if they get PR out of it then good for them. Two of the doctors on the team are women. So let’s not make blanket statements.
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u/godly_stand_2643 2h ago
This may be the most interesting thing I've ever seen. They have photos of the twins before and after, along with notes on what organs they shared, how long they spent in surgery, how old they were in surgery.
Imagine being attached to another human being for 2 years and then waking up one day and you're your own person.
I couldn't believe the photo of the two twins that shared a skull and a brain before they were separated
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u/BrightNooblar 2h ago
Well, looks like the Saudis understand the point of medical outreach. So that's one more country ahead of us right now.
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u/lokland 3h ago
That’s super cool, what about the babies they bomb in Yemen though?
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u/mycarisafooked 3h ago
I mean if they bomb conjoined babies I guess they're still offering a similar service
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u/troy_tanmoy 3h ago
They also separate journalists from their heads entirely for free
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u/yeahsurebuddystfu 3h ago
But they do not fly them in, so there's still room for improvement
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u/NotAStatistic2 3h ago
Why stop there? They do the same for women AFTER sexually assaulting them.
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u/MorningMission9547 3h ago edited 3h ago
That's so random but its cool
EDIT: after reading the wars in the comments, obviously your opinion on an evil country shouldn't change just because of this sort of thing which is clearly a marketing campaign but im sure glad they didn't spend it to do something worse so can we just appreciate that kids are being helped?
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u/DharmaCub 3h ago
It's not random, it's reputation-washing. They've been doing this for decades now on different fronts, including sports and comedy.
Without meaningful political change, Saudi Arabia is still just as totalitarian and horrifying as it ever was.
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u/BoatMajestic 3h ago
Honestly, there are far better ways to wash a reputation than just making a program for a super rare disease and never talking about it. My guess would be that in the 90’s, some twins in the royale family were conjoined and since then the family take it personally, because it’s a very rare condition and they struggled to find help.
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u/idkkkkkkk 3h ago
It's because there's a world-renowned Saudi pediatrics surgeon who specializes in complex conjoined twin separation surgeries.
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u/jittery_raccoon 2h ago
Or someone lobbied for the cause and they were like sure. Someone's research area. Then once it becomes a thing, it grows into a whole program. Even countries with evil heads of state have universities, research, and humanitarian programs
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u/thmrja 2h ago
I don't know what is it with westerners and virtue signaling.. Would i find you passionately talking about how the western "Democracies" invaded Afghanistan, Iraq and bombed Libya, Syria, Iran yemen destabilizing the region and spreading extremism all over the world by killing and wounding thousands of civilians as collateral damage?
Fix your shit first then talk about others.. you have child rapists as leaders.
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u/MorningMission9547 3h ago
Well maybe, i guess yeah it makes sense its a positive commercial but as long as it helps the people its cool.
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u/Apprehensive-Lack-32 3h ago
It's working clearly
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u/blackcray 2h ago
"Country that typically does lots of bad things does a good thing for once" it doesn't nullify the bad, but this is still an objectively good outcome.
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u/IAmATriceratopsAMA 1h ago
In order to restore balance and make sure Saudi Arabia doesn't make any positive changes in the world, I'm going to fly around the country gluing twins back together. That'll teach them.
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u/Wide_Open_Buttcheeks 3h ago
We can praise them for this and still condemn them for the atrocities they do.
Not everything needs to be black or white, left or right.
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u/Adams5thaccount 56m ago
Gen Z hasn't figured this out yet.
Theyre borderung on Walter Sobchak territory til they do.
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u/Glenmarththe3rd 3h ago
that's an extremely niche field to use for reputation washing
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u/fluffywabbit88 3h ago
And to do it 35 years straight
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u/Glenmarththe3rd 3h ago
Yeah I don’t think they would have cared about their rep in the 80s and 90s
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u/Uvoheart 3h ago
I think that’s the point. conjoined twins are extremely rare. In this case, you get a fuckton of positive karma for about 67 surgeries over 30+ years
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u/TAssociate77 3h ago
No no, you don't understand, everything we do with our lives as Saudis is to appease and whitewash our reputation with our Western overlords.
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u/billy_teats 3h ago
Is it washing or can an entire nation do good things at the same time it does bad things? Is th US reputation washing by providing aid and military defense to dozens of countries? I know the saudis are throwing money at sports to increase their reputation but this is advancing medicine which has a noticeable benefit to society. An entire nation can do good and bad at the same time, like killing folks while attempting to enforce laws.
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u/segflt 3h ago
It sucks yes but also enables fast and huge change, for better or worse, like adding this program. Decision by committee takes ages for better or worse.
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u/No_Fairweathers 3h ago
Yeah it can be bad that they are just trying to cover up their atrocities, but it doesn't undo the actual positive acts being done, either.
It's better for good things to be done for the wrong reasons than to not be done at all.
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u/bemo_10 3h ago
Maybe you Americans should do some good reputation washing instead of electing pedophiles.
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u/iriepuff 3h ago
Also surgeons need to keep up their skills with enough cases and given that conjoined twins is so rare, it’s helping the specialist surgeons maintain their skills - needed in a country which has the highest rate of congenital defects due to cousin marriage.
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u/yuje 3h ago
I’m ok with them doing good things for the world to try to improve their reputation.
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u/Searchingforgoodnews 3h ago
I'm sure the parents and kids that are helped don't care if it's reputation-washing.
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u/Future_Armadillo6410 2h ago
It’s not “reputation washing” it’s the uncomfortable truth that an otherwise evil entity sometimes does good things.
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u/Jumboliva 3h ago
I mean, attempt to improve your reputation by doing reputable things is good
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u/Visible_Pair3017 2h ago edited 1h ago
I can't help but feel that there's a hint of racism in believing that everything positive the brown people do is to appease us white people, but any USAID grant ever was because the USA was a beacon of democracy, not to whitewash its decades long support of genocides and war, for example.
For some reason i never see, when a white country does something humanitarian, a "yeah but remember that they do that bad thing".
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u/Chonky-Bukwas 3h ago
They love the twins. Unless they’re towers.
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u/JackSquirts 3h ago
Now of they could stop committing genocide against the Yemenis, that'd be great too.
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u/thebluerayxx 2h ago
Awesome outcome with a terrible motive. I dont think this is out of the kindness of their hearts. This is a clear attempt to garner good will for a terrible regime. I support the procedures but I do not support Mohammed Bonesaw.
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u/KenDanger2 2h ago
I think it is more nuanced than that. Like, yeah, the funding is coming from a place of cynicism, an attempt to improve their reputation. But the doctors likely are very committed and passionate about helping people.
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u/HarryLewisPot 2h ago edited 2h ago
If it started recently, I’d agree with you but considering it’s been ongoing for 35 years, before Saudi Arabia even cared about its reputation, I’d argue the opposite.
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u/Live_Angle4621 32m ago
You don’t think there can’t be nice people in the country too
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u/ImissDigg_jk 3h ago
Turns out that if you send them to the US, it will also get done for no cost since ICE loves to separate families.
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u/Kingken130 1h ago
Judging from the comment, everyone would’ve been happier if this was done in the west🤣
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u/seattlereign001 3h ago
If the Saudis are good at one thing, it’s ripping families apart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Khashoggi
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u/chilling_hedgehog 3h ago
Slaves in the roman empire had at times more rights than literally anyone who is not an MBS sucking saudi male in this murder kingdom. Women, queers, journalists, all kinds of "workers, home helpers and servants" (slaves) - you name it, worthless in the eyes of the state. So unload your PR for authoritarianism somewhere else.
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u/bcoolbmac 3h ago
I’d like to say you read my mind, but you said it better than I ever could have. Thank you
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u/Ok_Replacement4702 3h ago
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be
Journalists
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u/Fluffybudgierearend 3h ago
I am happy to see the comments not forgetting what else the Saudis get up to
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u/Bdenergy1776 3h ago
Its annoying tbh. I wanna hear about what this program is, why it exists... etc. Etc but people want easy karma.
What was abu gharib exactly? Bombing fisherman, destabalizing dozens of countries leading to civil wars, etc. Etc. No big deal i guess idk
Lets try not to throw rocks from our glass mansion
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u/Confused_Firefly 2h ago
Nah, you don't get it, the U.S. has issues but it's a great country! Americans live there and they're good people!
Clearly Saudi Arabia is instead a monolith and the actions of the government are inherently evil and represent every single Saudi.
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u/tittysprinkles112 2h ago
That's great, but Saudi Arabia still holds public executions with swords.
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u/Confused_Firefly 2h ago
I mean, the swords are different, but you don't see every single post about the U.S. remind everyone that they have the death penalty, their intelligence agencies are known to experiment on their own population and have a kill list, and their federal officers are happily shooting people on the streets for protesting illegal kidnappings. Why are countries only a monolith of evil-evil-evil if they're eastern?
You know if someone wrote what I wrote above under a post titled "Washington D.C. doctors fly in conjoined twins for free" etc. it'd be downvoted to hell.
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u/jo_nigiri 2h ago
I highly respect the doctors and medical personnel responsible for making this happen :)
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u/IkilledRichieWhelan 2h ago
Don’t try to sanitize this regime. There’s nothing noble about them.
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u/Acceptable_Buy2087 2h ago
Yup. Whilst I’m completely in support of this particular program (every human should be able to access free healthcare), it should be noted that the Saudi regime is a horrible, evil, and murderous regime. No matter how hard they try to change their image (whether it’s sport washing in sports like football) people should always remember the Saudi’s for what they are.
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u/trung2607 3h ago
Its like MR Beast but on a global scale with OIL MONEY. All spectacle, still horrible people who do horrible shi.
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u/TheDitz42 2h ago
Cool story, still a country ran my murderous religious lunatics.
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u/jormugandr 3h ago
Saudi Arabia does not give a flying fuck about children. Stuff like this is pure PR for them. They are spending billions on trying to look less evil, but never forget that they are FUCKING EVIL.
Whoever posted this is obviously a Saudi shill.
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u/Capnducki 3h ago
You'll see a lot of this kinda stuff on reddit. I've noticed a lot of China propaganda.
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u/CommercialComputer15 3h ago
That’s actually very kind and generous
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u/squirrelcop3305 3h ago
Certainly beats assassinating journalists.
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u/ShadowsOfTheBreeze 3h ago
Or oppressing women
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u/birdsword 3h ago
Or killing homosexuals
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u/Speak_To_Wuk_Lamat 3h ago
Or enslaving people.
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u/kkklat 1h ago
I’m baffled and astonished by the amount of people from different countries that hate Saudi Arabia and only try to mention negative stuff about the country.
Some of the comments are coming from people whose country has done some horrific atrocities but they would rather dig their neighbor’s backyard forgetting the skeletons in their own.
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u/Ozymandia5 3h ago
Looking at the comments, it’s abundantly clear that OP has a script and that he is NOT allowed to deviate from it. PR bots can fuck off.
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u/-marijuanaut- 3h ago
Yes, let’s cheer on the PR campaign to whitewash the atrocities of the Saudis. Let us join hands with our fellow bots and fly to the desert to watch our favorite comedians with these good samaritans
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u/IFunkymonkey 3h ago
Good for the kids and their parents - but is that the new way of 'green washing'? Wtf
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u/Giraffesarehigh 3h ago edited 3h ago
What a fucking xenophobic/racist comment section. This entire hospital is run by volunteers and doctors who believe in this cause and have been doing it for 35 years straight but apparently because they’re Saudi’s (they didnt choose where they were born btw) they’re evil disgusting brown people (/s) who are incapable of doing anything good and they ulterior motives. If this was in the USA you people would be flooding the comments with good will but no because you don’t like the government you decide to judge random saudi people doing good deeds by the actions of said government.
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u/uncle-brucie 3h ago
Almost makes up for 9/11 and the bone saw haircuts.
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u/Giraffesarehigh 3h ago
Wonder when USA will starting making up for their crimes.
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u/Pol_Potamus 3h ago
I mean, we used to give out lots of free international medical aid to whitewash our image, too. But as of a year ago, our foreign aid is reserved strictly for ethno-nationalist religious apartheid states.
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u/SmashingK 3h ago
Some good of all that oil money for a change.
Certainly better than those silly vanity projects they seem to love.
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u/broadarrow39 3h ago
I'm intrigued to know how the passport situation works when you fly home