Thread by @brooklynmarie

A monument to unearned egos envisioned without irony by trust-fund babies who somehow forgot to put in full and equal rights for women and journalists not getting torture-murdered while they're happily planning their weddings 🖕

wsj.com/articles/a-pri…

I hope everyone involved is forced to live there

“This should be an automated city where we can watch everything,” Neom’s MBS-led founding board said, according to the documents—a city “where a computer can notify crimes without having to report them or where all citizens can be tracked.”

Fuuuuuuuuck yooooooou

"Tasked by the crown prince, known as MBS, to help turn his imaginary city into a reality, the consultants created an expensive mix of science fiction and corporate buzzwords interrupted by uncomfortable realities: Local tribes would be forcibly relocated."

"A court system developed by law firm Latham & Watkins and labeled “independent” would have judges reporting directly to the king, and operating under Sharia law, or Islamic jurisprudence."

Here's the consulting group involved. hahahahahaha I guess we know what their plan is bcg.com