a materialistic hellhole built by slaves in a desert is apparently a metric for success
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UAE is also massacring civilians including women and children in Sudan
They can do that because they don't have any wokeness
okay, so if I want my country to become successful, I should establish slavery and start massacring children in Sudan. Got it!
brb, making Switzerland into a world power!
Don’t forget Project Raven.
Never forget Project Raven.
Liberals told me Joe Biden isn’t guilty of the genocide in Gaza because he personally isn’t in charge of Israel. By the same logic, the UAE’s support of the RSF in the Sudanese Civil War doesn’t mean they are guilty of the war crimes the RSF has committed.
Personally I believe both are guilty. Who supplies the weapons and funds and who commits the crimes.
Slavery as in actual people owning others as property or more like slave wages? I always thought it was just oil.
They bring in workers from Nepal and Bangladesh etc, and take their passports and then stuff 30-40 into a little apartment with no ac. They charge them thousands for the privilege to come work in Dubai and they have to live there until they pay off their debt
Closer to indentured servitude, which is a form of slavery.
No different really to the US' "post-slavery" sharecropping.
And oil
Well, we can't deny that the silencing the opposition (like wokists) help to maintain a slavery society. So both are actually right. But one is a shitty fascist
Wut?
The lack of wokeness in Dubai may be one of the condition for it's slavery system to exist. Both actors are reading the event from their point of view: a woke one, and a fascist one
This is true, according to Spec Ops: The Line.
Also all the oil money.
Mostly the oil money, I think.
Selling oil is also not woke.
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Dubai isn’t successful, it’s a rich fucks playground but no one wants to actually live in the shithole country.
A successful country is one where human rights are enjoyed by all, where people are happy, free, and safe. Where the needs are met, and people don’t die unnecessarily.
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As someone who grew up in Dubai I can tell you it is slavery.
Also as someone who grew up in Dubai and remembers the 'Dubai! The city that cares!' Ads on the radio I wonder if those fuckers considered that woke or not.
Also the children's magazine Majjid added a female police officer to their police comic some time in the 2000s. I don't remember when, but apparently the Hitler stache wearing sidekick goof cop is still there being a moron (yes...)
Got any pics of that Majjid comic? Google and DDG are coming empty
I looked up the wayback machine. I did find some stuff, but I am on my phone and I need my real machine to properly get them. I'll report back in several hours. Stay tuned!
Looks like it's Majid with one "j". Found this page; which seems to show the character OP mentioned, Lieutenant Maryam. Can't find when she was first featured—wikipedia just says she was added later.
Yes you even have the Hitler stache guy in it.
Damn... they REALLY changed their art style since the 90s or even 2000s.
Well he isn't wrong, having slaves isn't very woke
And the oil. Everything in Dubai is funded by oil either directly because of subsidies or indirectly because it brings people to a region that is otherwise essentially an enormous empty desert.
Do you think people would go to las Vegas if there weren't casinos there?
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Behold; the epitome of success!
EDIT: first pictures were not Dubai so i changed them. Sorry!
(https://uae-dubai-pesci.weebly.com/poverty-and-policies.html)
(Worker/builders)
Dripping with success. The people who risk their lives building skyscrapers even get their own bed (sometimes)
That first photo is a very famous one of the Paraisópolis favela and the Morumbi district in São Paulo. (Source)
The second photo is of the Naya Nagar neighbourhood in Mumbai’s Dharavi area. (Source)
The third one is, however, actually what you purport it to be. (Source)
I imagine you're not trying to deceive people and I agree with the points you're trying to make but please make sure that you check your sources before spreading info
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