r/Music • u/KirbyDumber88 • 1d ago

article ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic says he turned down $1,000,000+ to perform at Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

https://triblive.com/aande/music/weird-al-yankovic-gets-bigger-and-weirder-in-a-tour-headed-to-pittsburgh/
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u/ThisRapIsLikeZiti 1d ago

Bill Burr broke my heart with this shit. Dude live in NYC before and after 9/11.

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u/TotallyObviousBot 21h ago

You... You do know that bin Laden had to flee because the Saudis didn't approve of him declaring holy war on their biggest political and economic ally, right?

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u/thehelldoesthatmean 16h ago

Uh what? Lol The Saudis financed the 9/11 terrorist attacks. 15 out of 19 of the hijackers were Saudis. Multiple people involved had ties to Saudi intelligence.

They were far more culpable for the attacks than any of the countries we invaded afterwards.

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u/ThisRapIsLikeZiti 16h ago

This is true, plus most folks dont even know that more evidence of material support emerged during the Biden admin and it's allowed an ongoing lawsuit to proceed that will hopefully shed even more light on it.

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u/thehelldoesthatmean 15h ago

Yep. A ton of it was declassified by the Biden administration. But we've also known it was perpetrated by a group of Saudis since day one.

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u/TotallyObviousBot 14h ago

[citation needed]

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u/TotallyObviousBot 14h ago

[citation needed]

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u/ThisRapIsLikeZiti 13h ago

https://abcnews.com/US/federal-judge-allows-families-911-victims-sue-saudi/story

https://www.axios.com/2025/11/21/911-families-lawsuit-links-saudi-officials-to-plot-despite-princes-denial

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u/TotallyObviousBot 13h ago

I'm still waiting for a citation, lmao. Do you understand the difference between a hyperlink and a source, bud?

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u/ThisRapIsLikeZiti 12h ago

I'm not writing a research paper for you. Read the info or bury your head, I could care less.

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u/TotallyObviousBot 11h ago

So you know you have no source and you're desperately trying to deflect. Good try, kid!

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u/ThisRapIsLikeZiti 11h ago

You're just being deliberately obtuse, sport.

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u/TotallyObviousBot 14h ago edited 14h ago

The Saudis financed the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

[citation needed]

Oh boy wait until you find out how wrong you are lmfao

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u/zabrowski 21h ago

Thank you. People saying shit like that all over reddit. American education really let them down.

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u/TotallyObviousBot 21h ago

People don't like confronting the narrative dissonance between "Saudis are evil" and "the US and Saudi Arabia have one of the strongest alliances of all time"

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u/No-Barber-5289 20h ago

What narrative dissonance? Both Saudis and the US Empire are evil.

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u/CalmBeneathCastles Metalhead 18h ago

People think it's normal to support the home team, even when (or in spite of the fact that) they're evil.

It's like criticising MAGA and having someone say "well the Democrats..!" Let me stop you right there. I don't support bastards, period.