Saudi Arabia is falling, It's all over

[Rev. Rye]

This is why I love you Atlas. I love the news out of Saudi. Hopefully all of the Fascist Imams and TV personalities they fund will starve to death now because they won't be able to get real jobs. They deserve it for the hate they've spread.

But "cheap version of Las Vegas"? Weren't you just telling us how expensive Saudi is? Hopefully you are not impacted too much. If you ask me, which nobody has, I think Mecca should be an independent city like Singapore, or more like the Vatican. No country should control Mecca. It's best for everyone.

I think he's talking about the image he put in the OP,

It's the third-tallest building in the world, and kind of ruins the whole aesthetic of the Kaabah, even if it is probably the best way of accommodating the whole "millions of people converging on an ancient city simultaneously for a few days every year" thing.

But "cheap version of Las Vegas?" It really looks more like something from my hometown of Chicago, like The Wrigley Building


Back to the OP, however, it has the possibility of going two ways: either they make the transition towards a functioning, Western-style democracy, or they do what every Middle Eastern state has done in the past few decades when a serious regime change happens: radicalise. I'm honestly not looking forward to the result.