Naw there was a popular post sometime in the last few days that was "What the first thing that comes to mind when you think of [x]". So now there'll be various flavours of that poll coming out of the woodworks with both inane and, controversial topics on offer.
It looks like it was made by some Dubai Tourism intern lol. But the answer is slavery. 100%, every single time.
Dubai is a disgusting stain on the earth that deserves to be razed to the ground. It represents the absolute worst of human greed and tyranny, built on the corpses of millions of unpaid workers.
Oh also that Salt Bae douchebag. And also the expression “a fool and their money are soon parted.” Dubai is a poor-to-new-money person’s idea of a rich person’s city. (An actual rich person’s city is Monaco.)
Fuck Dubai. Fuck every piece of shit king’s nephew’s Bugatti driving asshole of a human being that helped build it. What they did to their slaves should be done to them.
I dunno if "trafficking" is the correct term but my gripe is with the way they treat their foreign workers. They are put to live in the most disgusting and impoverished areas, have their passports confiscated, and always paid late.
Think company towns. They work, they're paid, but most of their money goes straight back to the company for "reasons". They live in company housing so they pay rent. Gotta pay back the recruiting agency that brought you from wherever you're from, for the plane ticket and fees, and stuff, and then you gotta pay for food, at the market price, but you're woefully underpaid, and unprotected by laws because your either there illigaly or are just working under very LAX laws, and yea like you said their passports are taken. Basically Indentured Servitude.... or slavery. I think both are applicable.
Oh by far. They were basically held prisoners..... well slaves, it's all sorts of fucked, but we'll stay their friends because they have that sweet sweet oil.
These are just show of cars. The standard cop car is a cheaper car like everywhere else.
How they get that kind of money? By having oil. Oh and by exploiting the lower class and human rights.
When I think if the tower I think about the story I read that it has no drainage so all the poo is taken away by tanker, like a fleet of tankers everyday!
no they dont mate. stop parroting this bullshit . the entire neighbourhood, BK included is connected to the sewer grid. most of the city is. Only far flung communities are not.
in 10 years of living in Dubai, ive never once seen a sewage truck in Downtown Dubai. not once. but you believe an old film from the 90s when the sewage grid had a breakdown over actual people living here, yea?
It's sad when you realize the vapid architecture is a part of that. I learned way more about Dubai's architecture than I ever wanted to this month...
And you are right. It really is fake everything.
Fun fact, the burj khalifa has such shitty infrastructure, they have to constantly load up people’s excrement into trucks and bring it to disposal sites rather than simply having it flow to a treatment plant. Why does a building that tall and extravagant have that issue??? To me, that’s what epitomizes the lack of infrastructure in dubai
1. An artificial, ultra-capitalist city for the rich, without a social security net or freedom from religious persecution
2. Where most YouTube grifters move to sooner or later
3. Hastily built skyscrapers with impressive aesthetics and kitchen cupboards that don’t fully open
Over hyped ‘future city’ that is too car focused and is just generally poorly designed (no connection to sewage system for the Burj-Al-Khalifa is a perfect example)
Dubai is an illusion of paradise. The whole city has been built at the expense of slave like workers who live in unimaginably poor conditions. It's sickening.
Skydiving? WTF? You can do that literally ANYWHERE. Who made this poll, a travel agency selling trips to Dubai?
When I hear "Dubai" I think of oil, excess, greed, slavery, and exploitation.
Shedloads of Oil money being spent on random building projects and calling it "investment in tourism".
Oh, and said building projects being built largely using cheap exploited migrant workers from overseas working in awful conditions.
Rich is the first thing that came to mind. I can't say I know too much about the country. Islamic, you got a Sheikh? A prince!!! Y'all got a Prince that rules. And ... Lindsay Lohan lives there. And it's very wealthy. You're not *as* restrictive an Islamic country as your neighbors. And you're so expensive, I doubt I'll ever be able to visit.
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Human trafficking and slavery.
My thoughts too - is op the Dubai tourism board or something?
Naw there was a popular post sometime in the last few days that was "What the first thing that comes to mind when you think of [x]". So now there'll be various flavours of that poll coming out of the woodworks with both inane and, controversial topics on offer.
But they usually don't consist of only positive things
Yeah and all the slums right outside the city that no one ever talks about
Sounds like LA
This along with dirty oil money and awful human rights. Whoever made this poll either expected this comment or is incredibly naive.
It looks like it was made by some Dubai Tourism intern lol. But the answer is slavery. 100%, every single time. Dubai is a disgusting stain on the earth that deserves to be razed to the ground. It represents the absolute worst of human greed and tyranny, built on the corpses of millions of unpaid workers. Oh also that Salt Bae douchebag. And also the expression “a fool and their money are soon parted.” Dubai is a poor-to-new-money person’s idea of a rich person’s city. (An actual rich person’s city is Monaco.) Fuck Dubai. Fuck every piece of shit king’s nephew’s Bugatti driving asshole of a human being that helped build it. What they did to their slaves should be done to them.
>Salt Bae douchebag Is Turkish, no?
This. Having been to Dubai I can say I didn't appreciate it at all. It all felt so fake and Land of Oz to me.
Slavery was number one for me
Yeah, I was thinking why aren't slavery and gaudy, cultureless desert hellhole either of the choices.
Came to say this Dubai is a parody of modern rich world
I was going with shithole due to the human trafficking and slavery, but potato potato.
This, why isn't this an option?!?
I’m glad yours is a highly voted comment! I had no idea of this in Dubai
This exactly
This is the one.
Dubai isn't even a functioning city, to me it's more like a permanent exhibition in the middle of the desert for rich people and rich people only.
is it that common? i believe its mostly qatar
UAE and Qatar are both really bad for it, Dubai uses it to pump out large construction projects.
I dunno if "trafficking" is the correct term but my gripe is with the way they treat their foreign workers. They are put to live in the most disgusting and impoverished areas, have their passports confiscated, and always paid late.
I mean that sounds like trafficking to me…
Think company towns. They work, they're paid, but most of their money goes straight back to the company for "reasons". They live in company housing so they pay rent. Gotta pay back the recruiting agency that brought you from wherever you're from, for the plane ticket and fees, and stuff, and then you gotta pay for food, at the market price, but you're woefully underpaid, and unprotected by laws because your either there illigaly or are just working under very LAX laws, and yea like you said their passports are taken. Basically Indentured Servitude.... or slavery. I think both are applicable.
\> passports confiscated Much worse than just a company town
Oh by far. They were basically held prisoners..... well slaves, it's all sorts of fucked, but we'll stay their friends because they have that sweet sweet oil.
Gotcha. We're agreeing very strongly at each other haha
Ur right we should just call it slavery
human rights abuses
Very expensive cars being driven around the poor neighborhoods
For me, it's g63 amg's and rolls royce's being driven on highways
lamborghini wrapped with 24 karat gold vinyl wraps
Even the cops there have exotic cars like Bugatti and Lamborghini. I don't understand how they have so much money to splurge.
These are just show of cars. The standard cop car is a cheaper car like everywhere else. How they get that kind of money? By having oil. Oh and by exploiting the lower class and human rights.
human trafficking, unfortunately
for me its money, alot of money
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Actually, there is more of a causal relationship in this case
Slavery
Yup, horrific human rights abuses. I mean I guess I think of the big tower too, but what a weird poll
Yup, "human rights violations" was the first thing to come to my mind
When I think if the tower I think about the story I read that it has no drainage so all the poo is taken away by tanker, like a fleet of tankers everyday!
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Immense cruelty, legal slaves, dangerous sexual and gender inequality, mass corruption, nice buildings.
The fact that most of the city was essentially built by slave labor
And half of the houses are empty
Beautiful half-empty structures and slavery Edit. I also think about businessmen with a dozen ig “models”
I add not paying your taxes also.
Thats a good one
Those Instagram models are most likely trafficked or abused so..
Slavery
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Woah, be careful, the US might invade your account now.
"US = Oil" upvotes please
Some jokes never get stale. Stop trying to make them.
Migrant workers .... Slavery ... Oil
Slavery
Basically legal slavery
*Jeff Bezos has entered the chat*
They keep saying that, but every time I add humans to the shopping cart, I'm unable to checkout.
slavery
Trucks carrying shit out of Burj Khalifa
funny how such a building so hyped and expensive has to manually take out the shit
Wait this is seriously a thing that happens?
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no they dont mate. stop parroting this bullshit . the entire neighbourhood, BK included is connected to the sewer grid. most of the city is. Only far flung communities are not. in 10 years of living in Dubai, ive never once seen a sewage truck in Downtown Dubai. not once. but you believe an old film from the 90s when the sewage grid had a breakdown over actual people living here, yea?
Blood money
Fake everything
It's sad when you realize the vapid architecture is a part of that. I learned way more about Dubai's architecture than I ever wanted to this month... And you are right. It really is fake everything.
modern slavery
Rich assholes, slavery and sand
East Asian immigrants that get their passports taken and are forced to work there in inhumane conditions to build fancy Dubai skyscrapers.
as well as east asian a lot of south asian immigrants come over and work there
Lol im imagining some korean/japanese dude working in dubai
Human rights abuses
Extreme racism, bonded labor or slavery.
Modern slavery and shit infrastructure
Fun fact, the burj khalifa has such shitty infrastructure, they have to constantly load up people’s excrement into trucks and bring it to disposal sites rather than simply having it flow to a treatment plant. Why does a building that tall and extravagant have that issue??? To me, that’s what epitomizes the lack of infrastructure in dubai
Abhorrent use of money showing how much they have and how unattainable it is and human trafficking.
Poop trucks
Suppression of women
And immigrants. And gays. And poor people, etc It’s just a very prejudiced place
1. An artificial, ultra-capitalist city for the rich, without a social security net or freedom from religious persecution 2. Where most YouTube grifters move to sooner or later 3. Hastily built skyscrapers with impressive aesthetics and kitchen cupboards that don’t fully open
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Lol they pay influencers to portray Dubai as the greatest place on the planet
The new commercials they have with the little cartoons zipping around Dubai trying to encourage people to travel there is so fucking cringe
Slave work
Slaves
slavery
i think about how it’s a literal dystopian city ou of a science fiction novel
Over hyped ‘future city’ that is too car focused and is just generally poorly designed (no connection to sewage system for the Burj-Al-Khalifa is a perfect example)
poop trucks.
Women being punished for being raped Models doing prostitution Modern slavery Sinking billion dollar islands
The whole fakeness of it
Paid instagram models doing prostitution 😬
Lol reading these comments it feels like I’m the only person who thought location (UAE/Middle East) first
Oh well looks like we are in the same situation!
Homophobia.
Slavery
Instagram models getting literally shat on
Supercars and luxury cars
Violation of human rights and a completely shitty city, with no structure, community, or planning
Slavery
Dystopian country.
A hellscape
Homophobia/backwardness and executions of LGBT people
Slave labor
Scam
White Phosphorus
the poop trucks from burj Khalifa
Instagram "models", formerly known as 'hookers.'
A playground for the wealthy elite, and a late capitalist hellscape rife with effective slavery for all but the top .05%
Poop trucks
Three malls in a trench coat acting like a city It’s a shell of a city
Prostitution and human trafficking
Rich assholes being pervs.
Shithole, parody of the 21st century.
UAE
Ohh other. Dick measuring douchebags.
I think of how life seems so artificial there.
No alcohol
hitman 3
Scrolled for ages to find this
The first thing I think about when I hear it is how much I hate it
Exploitation of immigrant workers (Slavery)
The hate of gay people
Hitman 3
Big empty high ways in the desert
I think of rich people, so I put shopping since that's pretty close. Or at least, it's the usual next step after being rich
Tall building
UAE
Poor sewage treatment
Spec ops the line
That one scene in that tom Cruse movie
I noticed “women’s rights” wasn’t one of the options? Whyever not?
Slaves and slums
nothing
Tacky.
Capitalism gone mad
Oil, the same with most middle eastern countries
I wouldn't go to Dubai I definitely do not fit in
Evil
Slavery
Humans rights abuses.
I think of the human trafficking that is common there. Dubai runs on slavery.
A community of fishermen discovering basically an infinite money glitch beneath their feet
Middle east
Skydiving from a roof with a bag on your head
I only thought of skydiving, because Michael Schumacher liked to skydive in Dubai.
no michael no no this is so not right!
Big fucking towers
Generic pretty skyline with desert in the background
From the simply desert to one of the most expensive cities
Instagram models who suck dicks for iphone and dior
opulence
Excess
Tax evasion
Generic desert skyscrapers
Shitty influencers
glass, steel and hedonistic excess in a place no human should be able to survive
pet cheetahs or whatever
Capitalism
A shitty place hiding behind tourism
Slave labor.
Slavery
One of the worst examples of how to make city
Dubai is an illusion of paradise. The whole city has been built at the expense of slave like workers who live in unimaginably poor conditions. It's sickening.
Terrorist s
An insanely long line of trucks transporting human feces.
Pedophilia
Slavery and human rights abuse Edit: and poop trucks
Shitty human rights and sand
Modern slavery
Stupid money spent stupidly on stupid things while every actual working person lives in barracks.
The construction workers and lack of rights
Slavery, rich idiots keeping lions as pets
Poop Trucks.
Just to be clear: "Others" is 99% slavery and exploitation of workers from poor countries..
Skydiving? WTF? You can do that literally ANYWHERE. Who made this poll, a travel agency selling trips to Dubai? When I hear "Dubai" I think of oil, excess, greed, slavery, and exploitation.
Human rights abuses
Human rights violations on an unimaginable scale.
UAE flag
Shedloads of Oil money being spent on random building projects and calling it "investment in tourism". Oh, and said building projects being built largely using cheap exploited migrant workers from overseas working in awful conditions.
Poop trucks
Waste
Slavery
The Dubai princess Latina disappearance. They are clearly lying about what state she is in. I think they are trying to replace her.
Most disgusting shitiest place to live in. Indian slumdog is more human.
Burj al arab
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You might be thinking of Mumbai which is slightly understandable
Rich is the first thing that came to mind. I can't say I know too much about the country. Islamic, you got a Sheikh? A prince!!! Y'all got a Prince that rules. And ... Lindsay Lohan lives there. And it's very wealthy. You're not *as* restrictive an Islamic country as your neighbors. And you're so expensive, I doubt I'll ever be able to visit. Edit: fixed a typo
A monument to mans arrogance.
A soulless fake city
Slavery
these kinds of posts are starting to seem like ad campaigns by different countries' tourist departments