Qatar’s whole society works on this. They’re one of the richest countries because almost all citizens are the aristocracy, while everything is run with migrant labor. They outlawed slavery, in 1952. They replaced that with the Kafala system, which is as you describe. Don’t worry though, they outlawed Kafala in 2016.

hereditary lawmaker

It’s pretty bad when an American looks at your government and thinks, damn that’s backward AF.

You cannot read Western coverage of Palestine without learning about Ermon and Chomsky’s “five filters of media”. It’s like a decoder ring.

Wild, this is like an episode of Ozark.

If you want to keep your planes secret, maybe don’t showcase them to the public?

I mean come on! this would be very different if they were filming operations at a military base and not a show put on by the goddamn military.

we live in a society where men abandon their families every day and nobody blinks, because it’s all part of the plan. But when a woman does the same thing, everybody looses their minds!

This was supposed to be the work of a master negotiator, not a “will they or won’t they” from a shitty sitcom.

I’m just going to point out the contradiction in Israeli society where sexual violence by Hamas drives the population to apoplectic spasms while the rape of a citizen by a public figure gets the shrug of the shoulders and “she’s just doing it for attention/money”.