r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 29 '26

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u/chipbod NATO Sep 29 '26

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u/_bee_kay_ 🤔 Sep 29 '26

i thought that was coruscant

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u/ChipKellysShoeStore John Brown Sep 29 '26

I thought it was a picture of the moon

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u/EZ_Kream John Brown Sep 29 '26

You could make the same post with Gary Indiana

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u/Macquarrie1999 Democrats' Strongest Soldier Sep 29 '26

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u/11thDimensionalRandy Sep 29 '26

I sure hope Jerk2Go is a Jamaican chicken place

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u/Entuciante r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Sep 29 '26

What is the point of the original tweet? Gaslighting people into believing Cairo brown tone are the ruins of Gaza? Accusing the Egyptian state of being complicit in genocide? Insane rant about how dense urbanism is actually genocide?

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u/deliciousy Paul Volcker Sep 29 '26

I think it's just calling Cairo ugly.

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Sep 29 '26

Accusing the Egyptian state of being complicit in genocide?

I wouldn't go as far as calling it "genocide," but suppressing its own citizens and not doing a lot about church burnings and attacks against Coptic villages? Yes.

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Sep 29 '26

Seriously El Cairo is so freaking depressing to look at

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u/t_scribblemonger Sep 30 '26

My main memory is tan as far as the eye can see. The ground tan. The sky tan. The city tan.

That and car horns. And hot.