David Bell

So in 2016, he continues both the war in Yemen and his conflict with Mohammed bin Nayef, and he launches a new war against one of the most powerful blocs in the kingdom, the religious police.

Now, the Mutawa, or Haya, as they are also called, had been seen as almost untouchable by his predecessors, right?

These are the police of vice and virtue.

These are the guys who are going around making sure you're not disobeying, like, the religious law, right?

Fun police.

Yeah.

Yeah, these are the literal fun police, right?

And the men in his father's generation and MBM's generation would not fuck with these guys, right?

Like they were scared of them.

They really wanted them in their corner.

But by 2016, things had started to change.

More than 65% of Saudis were under 30.

And the young men of this generation had grown up with access to the internet and social media.

They and their peers shared their frustration with the abuses of the religious police, right?

That were talking to each other about how annoying these fuckers were, right?

They're on the internet.

They're like, hey, everybody else is having fun.

Yeah.

Like, we're learning about fun.

Do other countries have fun police?