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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 77 points 6 days ago (1 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...)

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Got any pics of that Majjid comic? Google and DDG are coming empty

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 10 points 6 days ago

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!

[–] mothersprotege@lemm.ee 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago

Yes you even have the Hitler stache guy in it.

Damn... they REALLY changed their art style since the 90s or even 2000s.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 23 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 35 points 6 days ago (4 children)

UAE is also massacring civilians including women and children in Sudan

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 days ago

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

[–] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 days ago

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!

[–] mugen@toast.ooo 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Don’t forget Project Raven.

Never forget Project Raven.

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 23 points 6 days 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.

[–] josefo@leminal.space 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Slavery as in actual people owning others as property or more like slave wages? I always thought it was just oil.

[–] pneumatron@sh.itjust.works 60 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Closer to indentured servitude, which is a form of slavery.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

No different really to the US' "post-slavery" sharecropping.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's exactly what he said x)

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Or forcibly transition them.

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[–] 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

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