hikoukihikouki, 20 days ago

@Alon NEOM is a real mixed bag. Yes, it's a quixotic fever dream that is basically going to be a meat grinder for south asian guest workers, but at the same time, it's bankrupting one of the worst regimes in the world right now. Impossible to say if bad or not.

Alon, 20 days ago

@hikoukihikouki On the third hand, if Saudi Arabia wants to Emiratize or Qatarize its demographics, it's more than welcome to. It's a lot less popular in the West than the UAE is...

DiegoBeghin, 21 days ago

@Alon Neom is still entirely fictional AFAIK so I'm going with Noem

acb, 21 days ago

@Alon also, Kristi Neom would make either a great and/or a terrible drag name

acb, 21 days ago

@Alon Noam (Chomsky)

Alon, 21 days ago

@acb Norm (will have to have several options, including social norms, Norman Finkelstein, and two more I haven't thought of yet).

kechpaja, 19 days ago

@Alon @acb The Normans of Normandy are another option. And normalization.

Alon, 19 days ago

@kechpaja @acb No, normalization in context means normalization with Israel and that's going to bring out the trolls. (Finkelstein is irrelevant enough these days that everyone dumps on him.)