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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.
a materialistic hellhole built by slaves in a desert is apparently a metric for success
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?
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:
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.
Yeah, I don't think pearls or trade is making Dubai that rich anyhow any more. Especially after the Suez and like you said "cultured pearls.”
Do you think people would go to las Vegas if there weren't casinos there?
This is an even more apt comparison because the Mafia started setting up those casinos out in the middle of the desert so they could do so in a place where they could control all the laws
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
Fuck, now i feel bad. Really Cant trust the internet these days.
I changed it up and included the one picture i could find that appears authentic but because that picture of mumbai was actually labeled dubai i really dont know anymore.
Thanks for pointing it out.
I also found this one but its the same source as the mislabelled mumbai picture so i cant trust it.
Look on the right side. Graffiti says "Carlos Perez" and the flag has the word "presidente" in it. Neither Dubai nor Mumbai since nobody there would write graffiti in Latin alphabet or in Spanish for that matter.
The fuck.
Basically this entire article is a lie, the author framed it as pictures from their own trip even.
Wait a minute, someone lied on the internet?!?
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.
Dubai without oil would just be no different from Afghanistan.
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/
They also clean gold that is slave mined at gunpoint in Columbia for the cartels.
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."
Pretty sure being anti-slavery is woke at this point
Woke doesn't have a real definition outside of "anything fascists don't like", so of course anti-slavery would be termed woke.
You mean an oil state that is destined to run out of their sole economic value of oil in a few decades.
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.
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.
That's exactly what he said x)
Yea its like when the President of Iran said they don't have gay people there. Everyone was posting about how wrong he must be but I think he meant they don't have any because they execute them.
And oil
Its like a stage magician saying, "I do magic" and they get mad if some yells out how they do the trick.
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