Oil. I wonder if this guy really believes his own bs.
At its core he’s likely a religious fundamentalist, so yeah he does believe his own bs.
You don’t know Dubai if you think he’s a religious fundamentalist
For those who are unaware, the UAE among many things, does the following:
- Spreads and promotes Islamophobia
- Justifies Zionism and the genocide in Gaza
- Fights leftist and Islamist resistance groups
That should make it clear they aren’t Islamists or Islamic fundamentalists or whatever you think they may be.
No, not oil.
Impressive diversification, funded by oil.
Different countries do different things with their oil revenue. It could have been worse.
The broke mind virus strikes again!
They also don’t have sewage infrastructure.
Aka woke pipes
/s
Well that’s good. It’s always good to have sewage infrastructure.
Its like a stage magician saying, “I do magic” and they get mad if some yells out how they do the trick.
Hey, that’s unfair to magicians. The whole point of stage magic is that you are purposefully suspending disbelief in order to enjoy an entertainment show. Of course magic isn’t real, the magician knows it, everyone in the audience knows it. That’s not the point. The point is to relive childhood wonder via escapism. At the end of the day, what the magician does on the stage takes time, practice, dedication, skill, knowledge, showmanship and ingenuity to pull off properly. All feats to be celebrated and admired. Screaming how the trick is done ruins the experience for yourself, the magician and the entire audience. Like cheating at board games, or heckling a comedian, it’s a bad faith transgression into the social contract of a show.
What this POS refers to in Dubai is causing human suffering at a massive scale, it’s not an well meaning or heartfelt illusion. Calling it out is a protest. It’s not equivalent at all.
It provokes anger
Dubai without oil would just be no different from Afghanistan.
I think it would be less flashy than today but actually a minor success. It was already on the rise before oil.
And it’s perfectly positioned for flying between Africa, Europe and Asia. There’s a good reason so many major airlines are from the Gulf.But their airport and national airline were build with oil money. Could Dubai have become a major travel hub without oil, maybe. But surely not as quickly as they have done with oil.
If Japan never invented cultured pearls. That’s what got them rich before oil and gave them the experience that a major revenue source could be lost at any moment. The Emirate of Dubai lead the UAE and the rest of the GCC in moving away from oil.
well i imagine the average temperature would be slightly higher but i’m not even sure about that.
The temperature would be lower, because all that asphalt, glass and concrete create heat islands that traps heat and makes everything more miserable. It would smell nicer too, since Dubai has no sewers and garbage collection is awful, so the whole city smells like shit and putrefaction.
I was gonna say that Dubai is what you get if you give Afghanistan more money but that’s kinda the same sentiment
I wish, that would be an improvement. Instead they are US and Israel vassals. Their economy though is not oil based. The UAE as a whole is only 30% dependent on oil for its GDP, the percentage is lower for Dubai.
In the past they were rich from pearl before Japan destroyed their pearl-based economy.
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That or maybe the slavery.
And oil
a materialistic hellhole built by slaves in a desert is apparently a metric for success
Would it have been better if built on stolen indigenous lands? say perhaps in North America?
Whataboutism, what a fucking classic move, with the downside of showing literally anyone with slightly more of a half of a braincell that you don’t have any other real arguments. 👍
Whataboutism is such a cope. You would rather your hypocrisy not be called out.
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
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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
Pretty sure being anti-slavery is woke at this point
Ya, its some wokeism to not love slavery. Massively woke. So woke, you’ll be tired of wokeing.
Woke doesn’t have a real definition outside of “anything fascists don’t like”, so of course anti-slavery would be termed woke.
I’ve long looked for a succinct definition of the pejorative sense of the word. Wikipedia delivers:
Insincere form of performative activism
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Some leftists, such as writer Daniel Bernabé and philosopher Susan Neiman, criticize wokeness as a form of tribalism which divides the working class and distracts from the universalist class struggle
Though to be fair, tribalism is really hard to escape. Everyone seems to have a tribe.
I personally don’t identify with any of the large social movements taking place right now, on the right or the left. I do have a group of similar, like-minded friends. Now it seems like they’re my tribe.
I personally don’t identify with any of the large social movements taking place right now, on the right or the left. I do have a group of similar, like-minded friends. Now it seems like they’re my tribe.
This sounds like it makes you feel very safe. The fascists will likely come for you last.
No it doesn’t make me feel safe at all. It feels like 1920s Germany all over again!
This is why right wind douche canoes who go onto talk shows and news panels are always coming up short when asked what “woke” actually means. Because without a couple of paragraphs of obfuscating bullshit to attempt to offset the actual meaning, their points of view come off like Nazi racist assholery. And if they actually just described the real definition they would find the audience agreeing with being “woke”.
Funny enough, it was the rightwing conspiracy theorists who used the term first. It’s one of the few terms that actually moved from the right to the left.
This isn’t even remotely true.
Remember “wake up sheeple”?
Yeah, that was only around 10 to 15 years ago. The usage of “woke” by left wing anti-racist anti-distlcrimation activists dates back over 50 years.
Tomato; Tomato
UAE is also massacring civilians including women and children in Sudan
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.
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!
They can do that because they don’t have any wokeness
Don’t forget Project Raven.
Never forget Project Raven.
I have yet to hear anything good about Dubai except from people who live there or are stupidly rich and live in a completely different reality than a normal person.
I have not done this myself but from what I’ve heard, it is cheaper for Indians to fly to Dubai, buy stuff like flagship smartphones, laptops, gaming consoles, cameras, watches, perfumes etc., and return to India.
Yeah, our customs/taxes are that exorbitant.
I remember a time this was true here in Europe, some folks booked flights for New York for a shopping week-end and that saved them money
Shouldn’t the people who live there be an authority on the matter?
Also all the oil money.
Mostly the oil money, I think.
I assure you they are not rich because of oil anymore than they are rich because of pearl.
Even if the oil is only 1% of GDP recently it was still 50% of GDP back when they were building all of their ports, airlines, banks, and hotels. They’ve also proven as recently as 2020 that they can flood the market with so much oil that it dips into negative cosr per barrel in other nations like the USA and Russia.
Selling oil is also not woke.
Kind of fucking weird to say slavery is the source of their success when they have so goddamn much oil money tbh.
Who do you think is working the refineries?
And cleaning the compounds, being nannies, groundskeeping, chauffeuring, tutoring…
ding ding ding!
Well paid professional native Arabs and foreign experts because it’s a notoriously dangerous and sabotage prone industry?
You’re talking about an industry where you can throw a water bottle into a chemical vat and kill everyone in the building or loosen a valve and set an oil rig on fire lmao.
Slaves under the kafala system are used in domestic duties, construction, and service (or “service”) jobs. Not jobs that require significant trust and knowledge.
You need well treated wage slaves that think they’re free for those.
