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[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

a materialistic hellhole built by slaves in a desert is apparently a metric for success

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 4 points 6 days ago
[–] menas@lemmy.wtf 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] witx@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] menas@lemmy.wtf 2 points 6 days ago

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

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 160 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Also all the oil money.

Mostly the oil money, I think.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 1 points 5 days ago

Selling oil is also not woke.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I assure you they are not rich because of oil anymore than they are rich because of pearl.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Dubai

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

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.

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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 133 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

For those rich fucks, being rich is success. They dgaf about the people.

A quote commonly attributed to Sheikh Rashid reflected his concern that Dubai's oil, which was discovered in 1966 and which began production in 1969, would run out within a few generations.

"My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel",[5][6][note 1]

He therefore worked to develop the economy of Dubai so that it could survive after the end of oil production, and was a driving force behind a number of major infrastructure projects to promote Dubai as a regional hub for trade

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_bin_Saeed_Al_Maktoum#Development_of_Dubai

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

there are people who do want to live there (criminals wanted by their home countries with enough money to stay afloat, as long as uae decides to not extradite them)

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 1 points 5 days ago

I'd argue they don't actually want to live there, it's just that they've run out of other options.

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 77 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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...)

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 62 points 1 week ago

Well he isn't wrong, having slaves isn't very woke

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 59 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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?

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Oil makes up 30% of UAE’s GDP and an even smaller percentage of Dubai’s: only 1% according to this Wikipedia article. Dubai is one of seven emirates that make up the UAE. Dubai has existed prior to the discovery of oil as a fishing and trade port, and has been rich before due to pearl diving. It was a major source of pearls before the Japanese invented cultured pearls.

For thousands of years, most seawater pearls were retrieved by divers working in the Indian Ocean, in areas such as the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and in the Gulf of Mannar (between Sri Lanka and India).[10] A fragment of Isidore of Charax's Parthian itinerary was preserved in Athenaeus's 3rd-century Sophists at Dinner, recording freediving for pearls around an island in the Persian Gulf.[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_hunting

The following map shows Bronze Age trade routes in purple:

Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/roads-of-arabia-presents-hundreds-of-recent-finds-that-recast-the-regions-history-127324646/

There are good reasons to hate the UAE such as hosting US soldiers and normalizing with Israel. No need to lie about their history and origin.

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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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[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Dubai without oil would just be no different from Afghanistan.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It is no secret that a large proportion of the wealth accumulated by Dubai merchants comes from smuggling gold bullion (mostly from Britain), Swiss watches and Japanese cloth into Pakistan and...

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/1970/06/06/golden-dubai

Gold flown from London’s bullion houses like Johnson Matthey and Samuel Montagu to the The British Bank of the Middle East and the First national Bank in Dubai played a significant part in making Dubai what it is today. Shipped out by Arabs, Pakistanis and Indians in dhows to Bombay and other ports like Kutch and Calicut in western India, it brought much wealth to the merchants and the larger business community of expatriates who had made Dubai, home. The narrative of oil in the Persian Gulf has largely overshadowed that of gold and underplayed its significance in linking Dubai to the international economy.

https://mei.nus.edu.sg/think_in/gold-smuggling-between-dubai-and-bombay/

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[–] Saleh@feddit.org 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Yes it would. Dubai is a small coastal emirate. Afghanistan is a large landlocked country in one of the highest mountainous regions of the world.

Afghanistans largest ethnic groups are Iranian ethnicities (Persian) and the historical and cultural background are very different from the Emiratis who are Arabs.

What you said would be like saying "Italy without Pasta would just be like Denmark."

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[–] loomy@lemy.lol 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Isn't that the same thing?

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pretty sure being anti-slavery is woke at this point

[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 35 points 1 week ago (4 children)

UAE is also massacring civilians including women and children in Sudan

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 0 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago

They can do that because they don't have any wokeness

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[–] Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago

That or maybe the slavery.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Oil. I wonder if this guy really believes his own bs.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At its core he's likely a religious fundamentalist, so yeah he does believe his own bs.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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:

  1. Spreads and promotes Islamophobia
  2. Justifies Zionism and the genocide in Gaza
  3. 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. They are classist and socially conservative, but you don't need religion for that. You can get that even from atheists.

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[–] Zess@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They also don't have sewage infrastructure.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Aka woke pipes

/s

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You mean an oil state that is destined to run out of their sole economic value of oil in a few decades.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You are in for a disappointment then because their economy is not oil based. Oil makes up only 1% of the GDP of Dubai a lesser share than some Western European countries, and the US and Canada. For the UAE as a whole, i.e. Dubai plus the 6 other emirates, oil makes up 30% of their GDP.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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