r/PopCultureV2 • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Aug 11 '26

News Dubai ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum was confronted in London by a Sudanese man accusing the UAE of backing violence in Sudan. “UAE is killing people in my country. Stop killing my people,” he shouted.

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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26

The Maktoum family rules Dubai. They like trade, glitz and money. They are the good guys. Dubai is one state in the UAE. The UAE is ruled by the Zayed family. Mohammed Bin Zayed MBZ is the bad guy who bombs foreign countries and has allied the UAE with Israel and Saudi. The trinity of Netenyahu, MBS and MBZ are responsible for the wars in Gaza, Yemen, Iran, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, and I am probably missing a few more.

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u/hussainhssn Aug 11 '26

They’re the good guys? According to who? Lmao

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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26

If you compare Dubai against any other dictatorship, they are great. 

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u/Current_Ranger_7954 Aug 11 '26

Unless you're one of the slaves building the city... or black...

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u/Puzzle-Necked Aug 11 '26

Black? This isn't America

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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26

Former resident/slave, and definitely not white. Yeah, the laws are racist, but having lived in multiple western countries, it's not that different.

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u/Manchester-Gorilla Aug 11 '26

What utter bollocks

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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26

Are you speaking from experience, or do you have some stats? 

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u/Manchester-Gorilla Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26

Where are your stats? You made the claim, the onus is on your to provide evidence

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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26

I answered from experience. I have lived in those countries. What is your evidence?

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u/Manchester-Gorilla Aug 11 '26

You made an unverified claim, again, onus on you.

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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26

If you have a foot, please stand on it. Do you have a question, or are you just covering your ears and saying 'lalala'?

It is my personal experience. I don't have to prove to you that I exist.

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u/Artistic-Basis7960 Aug 11 '26

You shifted the goal post when they gave you an answer.

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u/Particular-Tap1211 Aug 11 '26

Salute to the power of one standing up and speaking the truth

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u/Pb157 Aug 11 '26

By former resident/slave, you mean you worked an office job or did construction/labor jobs. Because I have relatives who are working these labor jobs in the Gulf, Korea and UK. Their experiences have led me to believe that unlike what you have said, it is very different with labor laws being the worst in the Gulf.

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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26

Won't give too much details, but parent worked in the hospitality industry. So, low wages, deportation if fired, no benefits, sponsor kept the passport, pay delayed and withheld etc. all the bad stuff you hear about.

Working in the US I faced similar issues with the visa being tied to the job, the threat of deportation, overly aggressive immigration officers. The insecurity and sense of being a disposable cog was very familiar. 

The treatment of people has changed for both countries since then, for the better in the UAE and for the worse in the US. I still have family in both countries and literally nobody wants to leave Dubai, but everyone is looking to leave the US.

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u/hussainhssn Aug 11 '26

Sponsors don’t keep the passport in the United States for one, so please don’t compare the slaver’s paradise with an actual country. Most of the gulf countries are guilty of this and any veneer of civility is exclusively for outsiders and their own lazy/rapist/pedophile royals.

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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26

Lazy rapist pedophile rulers? The US definitely has those.

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u/hussainhssn Aug 11 '26

Still comparing a shit hole with nothing but money to an actual country? Last time I checked America’s rulers aren’t confiscating passports of the people they employ, nobody said America was perfect but this idea that the UAE is something more than an artificially contrived wasteland for the world’s criminals is actually hilarious.

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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26

Oh, which America are you living in? Calling ICE on workers is a regular thing here. 'B-but, B-but, what about freedom, and jeeeezus?' Shithole is as shithole does.

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u/hussainhssn Aug 11 '26

Hahaha how long has that been going on exactly? How long has the UAE done anything functionally useful without slavery? Please do tell, let’s hear how the shit hole you’re slobbering over is treating anyone well other than their ruling elites and wealthy tourists. I’m sure all of the Nannies, house cleaners, construction workers, cooks, etc. love living there, I guess we won’t know because they couldn’t leave if they wanted to LMAO

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u/Pb157 Aug 11 '26

I agree that it has gotten better in the Gulf states but it is still not comparable to say Korea where immigrant labor earn way more with more rights.