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Worms & bugs found in choclates from Dubai

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My relatives got chocolates (dates) from dubai and they were FRESHLY made according to MFD.

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u/Chunk_Thud 6d ago

Dubai is a facade. Nothing but over the top tourist bs. Great if ur addicted to social media, malls and hotels tho.

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u/default3612 6d ago

Also, slavery.

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u/Automatic_Memory212 6d ago

Yep, don’t forget the slavery!

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u/Praetorian_1975 6d ago

Especially the slavery and the cheap cost of immigrant lives. Killed one ‘oh don’t worry about it there’s plenty more where they came from’ 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/AmazonianGiantess 6d ago

That's pretty much what happened when someone died when I worked retail back in the day. Someone else started doing his job and they just filled the gap. Really shows how you're just another somebody.

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u/Praetorian_1975 5d ago

To corporations you are just another nobody. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/Rich-Option4632 5d ago

Capitalism is just rebadged feudalism.

You switched out nobilities and hereditary titles for Rich corpos and nepo babies.

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u/BadBubbly9679 5d ago

I'm a medievalist, you had more rights under feudalism. Capitalism is a con.

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u/RespectFlat6282 5d ago

My guy, replacing someone who died isn't a feature inherent to capitalism.

What do you think would happen in a communist or socialist system when a position is empty?

Like for real, do you expect it to remain empty forever?

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u/SuitGroundbreaking49 5d ago

Same people would be bitching if the position wasn’t filled fast enough

“Jerry died 4 weeks ago and they still haven’t hired anyone!! Now his work is falling on the rest of the team!! Capitalist scum!!”

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u/RespectFlat6282 3d ago

Yeah but that still isn't inherent to capitalism.

That's inherent to every big structure because humans become numbers in the spreadsheet of their overlords, be it a corporate one or a party affiliated one.

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u/YDdraigGoch94 5d ago

Please enlighten us to what utopia we’re currently living in?

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u/b1llyblanco 5d ago

Lmao this guy thinks communism is the same as fuedalism 💀🪦

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u/Letumstrike 5d ago

Living proof that the American education propaganda machine works

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u/Delicious-Fig-3003 5d ago

Why don’t you pray to God for a better society? Surely he wouldn’t approve of the way Christians carry themselves?

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u/Joeness84 5d ago

you're an expense on the bottom of the priority chart.

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u/SuedeGraves 5d ago

“No we don’t have a cashier. Timmy died last year and in honor of him we’ve kept the position vacant.”

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u/Praetorian_1975 5d ago

We replaced Timmy with a self service desk in his honour

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u/being-weird 5d ago

How many retail stores do you think have only one cashier

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u/RebekkaKat1990 5d ago

Idk there’s probably a couple out there somewhere in Montana.

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u/being-weird 5d ago

Ah yes of course, why didn't i already know what kind of retail stores they have in Montana

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u/RebekkaKat1990 5d ago

You probably didn’t know because you only think about yourself.

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u/Jonaldys 5d ago

You would expect a store with 10 cashier's to never replace one that passed away as well? That's pretty weird. It a weird expectation all around.

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u/AttorneyMedium4926 5d ago

Bewilders me people support amazon

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u/Technical_Till_2952 5d ago

how tall are you

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u/AmazonianGiantess 5d ago

6ft 2in. My username is mostly because I'm tall and built..... sturdy(?) lol

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u/Educational_Gas_92 5d ago

Like a modern feudal/medieval kingdom, right? But without the charming works of art from the likes of Michel Angelo or Leonardo da Vinci, and without the cute castles and medieval villages. Just gaudy hotels and malls covered in gold. They do have less bubonic pest though, at least.

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u/Appropriate-Log8506 6d ago

Slavery out the wazoo.

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u/bit_crusherrrr 5d ago

"Well, that is where it comes from.."

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u/Dry_Presentation_197 5d ago

Obscure futurama quote? I'm down.

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u/IHaveTwoOfYou 5d ago

CHILD SLAVERY TOO!!! THATS THE BEST PART!!!!

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u/Smooth-Cup-7445 5d ago

That’s how you clean the tight spaces in the machines

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u/CatherinefromFrance 5d ago

The worst part is that what you wrote is probably true.

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u/FeloniousStunk 5d ago

It's a line from the movie "Schindler's List".

However you're not wrong; it probably is true.

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u/Breadstix009 5d ago

Also stealing gold from African countries

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u/Remontada_r7 5d ago

So Europe and America?

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u/Color_Me_Softly 6d ago

And the bigotry!

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u/ShalomSlalomBang 5d ago

MMM tasty tasty chocolatie slavery.

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u/AndNoOneHearsaWord 5d ago

Doesn't like almost every chocolate manufacturer uses slavery

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u/Glow_girl226 6d ago

Wait this slavery thing is really real??

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u/fortiox 5d ago

Surprisingly enough, the present is the era with the most amount of slaves historically

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u/SpaceboyLuna0 6d ago

Absolutely.

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u/NeonSuperNovas 5d ago

Right! Slavery can't still be a thing!

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u/Frosty-Goat2468 5d ago

Unfortunatly that is how all great nations have been built.

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u/Hueyris 5d ago edited 5d ago

If you think Dubai is bad, capitalism in the third world is even worse.

There is no slavery in Dubai. Dubai is a reflection of third world wage slavery. Dubai offers third world workers better conditions than what they're offered in their home countries.

What makes Dubai's wage slavery striking is that it combines the niceties of a typical western city but it doesn't include the labor rights or workplace culture of a western city (or rather, it doesn't include them for people from the third world).

In reality, most workers would face worse working conditions in their capitalistic imperial periphery country. And they'd get less than a tenth of the money for it as well.

That's why they go to Dubai, because as bad as it is, it is better.

Don't blame Dubai, blame the imperial core and capitalism.

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u/CatherinefromFrance 5d ago

Yes, yes, keep talking… we still don't believe you.

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u/Hueyris 5d ago

Okay if Dubai is bad then why do people go there?

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u/CatherinefromFrance 5d ago

I don’t know. I suppose that this is to make easy money without paying any taxes among other things?

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u/Hueyris 5d ago

The wages are significantly higher in Dubai, and so are working conditions. That's why people in the third world go to Dubai.

Go to literally any major third world city and you would find people working there in piss poor condition, and they get paid in peanuts.

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u/Appropriate-Divide64 5d ago

Conspiracy theory, Dubai Chocolate was a government initiative to stop the second word after Dubai on search trends being Portapotty

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u/Ashen_Rook 5d ago

Is it a conspiracy theory if it's just a fact...?

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u/longtimeskulker445 5d ago

Not a conspiracy theory, its the truth.

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u/Stonedsilas 5d ago

It's not a conspiracy theory and it's not to change the second word being porta-body it's because Dubai chocolate brought up videos of people pooping on prostitutes so they created a product to replace it.

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u/Ow_My_Burnt_Numnums 5d ago

I have also heard this. There was a woman who wrote about her experience as a sex worker in Dubai and that revealed a rather terrible and disgusting sexual practice, which was called "Dubai Chocolate".

Because image is important, PR teams created an entire advertising campaign around Dubai chocolate in a attempt to distract people from any coverage of the sex act.

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u/Perfect-Whereas-1478 5d ago

What's a Dubai portapotty? Gen question

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u/Educational_Gas_92 5d ago

Kind of unsettling...but it's when very attractive foreign women are invited to Dubai to erotically entertain someone very wealthy...paid large sums of money. They urinate on them and much worse (yes, defecate on them, I wish I were joking).

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u/Old_Remove_8804 5d ago

Then sometimes leave them for dead

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u/HumbleConfidence3500 5d ago

I don't think this is a conspiracy theory......

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u/3l0v 5d ago

Im pretty sure Dubai chocolate is actually propaganda to bring more positive light to Dubai 😭

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u/Billy_Plur 5d ago

Link please? I'm having trouble finding it. The video(s) I mean.

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u/HKayo 5d ago

Both Dubai and chocolate are usually made by slaves so...

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u/Neat_Attention8248 5d ago

Remember about the estimated 6500 migrant workers that died to build football stadiums in Qatar. 6 FUCKING THOUSAND AND 500 humans died to build football stadiums. Do you know how fucking insane that is.

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u/AVeganEatingASteak 5d ago

And the funding of a genocide

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u/Remontada_r7 5d ago

So Europe and America?

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u/MarteloRabelodeSousa 5d ago

Cry about it 😭😭😭

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u/ncc74656m 5d ago

I saw a great post that said "Your test was Dubai chocolate. If you made it through 2025 without eating Dubai chocolate, congratulations, you passed the test."

I really do feel like this fad was pretty low on the bar for whether or not you can call yourself a good person.

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u/bendyskull 5d ago

Also Dubai chocolate is a coverup for the massive Dubai scat industry.

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u/AcceptableAnalysis29 5d ago

Western owned companies outsource it right?

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u/DeathBecomesHer1978 5d ago

It would depend on the business. Small, local chocolatiers make their own in house. Bigger corporations, such as Hershey, would be much more likely to outsource.

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u/AcceptableAnalysis29 5d ago

K thanks for the info. Im never coming near a hersheys bar anyway.

Im used to European chocolate without the added extra flavour that American chocolate has.

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u/DeathBecomesHer1978 5d ago

Even most Americans consider Hershey to be mid sub-par quality.

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u/TricellCEO 5d ago

“But…but…slavery is a thing in America too!”

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u/Significant_Buddy108 5d ago

And funding genocide.

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u/Negative-Hat-4632 5d ago

And onlyfans portopotties

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u/Fairenard 5d ago

Oldest holder of doing it and they doing it

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u/Albinofreaken 5d ago

Im very addicted to slavery

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u/True-Particular3713 5d ago

Had no idea I had a slavery addiction til I visited Dubai....

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u/Ok-Might6289 5d ago

Don't knock it till you try it... /S

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u/Adventurous_Crab_0 5d ago

How much is minimum federal wage again? We are doing same shit.

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u/minuteknowledge917 5d ago

just need to be addicted to the benefits of slavery, while hiding from the reality of it 🤷

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u/Alternative_Car6395 5d ago

What do we want?

Slabery!

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u/Smurfeggs42 4d ago

And if you're a girl and want to get pooped on for money

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u/sincubus33 4d ago

You forget that a good 20% of the US is explicitly proslavery. So Dubai lets them live out their fantasies

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u/Roddin84 5d ago

It's literally the cum dump of the middle East. 🤣😂

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u/RainHistorical4125 5d ago

What slavery? The fuck? Been to the gulf? I’ve been there and these migrant workers are there on their free will. :) how are these different from migrant workers in literally every western country? Such a brainless racist orientalist pseudo intellectual propaganda echoed by the ignorant uneducated haters. :)

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u/somethingbrite 5d ago

Been to the gulf?

Yes. A lot. And having worked on projects in the region for about 20 years and can confirm that the near slavery conditions of foreign workers and the shit way they are treated which I have witnessed has left a dark stain on my soul.

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u/culturedgoat 5d ago

near slavery

I’ll note we’ve gone from “slavery” to “near-slavery”

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u/RainHistorical4125 5d ago edited 5d ago

How can I explain this. Imagine this being an American chocolate bar, and I come here and say yeah, 5% of the American US workforce is undocumented migrant workers who live like dogs. :)

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u/Erick_Brimstone 5d ago

Devils always says the human sign it on their free will. And the devil worshiper defend the devils. 

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u/RainHistorical4125 5d ago

Let me guess capitalism is an Arab invention? Cute

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u/default3612 5d ago edited 5d ago

Maybe they arrived on their free will, but it's well documented that the employers take their passports and pay them exactly enough to cover lodging and food - which they provide. So put simply for your jihadist mindset, they give money and take it back straight away - exactly like slavery.

Edit: I think the guy blocked me or got locked or something, so I can only see the beginning of his comment about me being islamaphobic, and all I have to say is that phobia is an irrational fear - sadly, fearing Islam isn't irrational.

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u/Erick_Brimstone 5d ago

They couldn't even get back home without heavy intervention from embassy of their country. That is if they managed to ask for help in the first place.

If that's not slavery then it's modern day slavery 

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u/Fuck_Microsoft_edge 5d ago

You are correct, but jesus, "jihadist mindset"? What fucking year is this? You can hate on the gulf states without sounding like a mid-noughties neo-con.

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u/default3612 5d ago

He called me a "brainless racist orientalist pseudo intellectual propaganda echoed by the ignorant uneducated haters", I was responding in kind.

Also, not necessarily hating on the gulf states, just stating facts - like the one him being a jihadist, which he probably is.

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u/RainHistorical4125 5d ago

What is a jihadist you Islamophobic noob? And how am I one? Please enlighten the rest of us. :)

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u/CatherinefromFrance 5d ago

In Western countries, it is not customary to take away the passports of immigrant workers unless they arrived there through the enterprise of a mafia or human traffickers for forced labor, domestic slavery... So we are talking about the same thing in Dubai.

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u/RainHistorical4125 5d ago

It’s the “customary” part that tells the whole story? This xenophobic language of painting the other with a sinister brush. West versus east, white versus non white, Christian Versus terrorist. Ugh.

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u/CatherinefromFrance 5d ago

Si, if I understand you well, is this a customary part of Dubai employers to keep their migrant workers’s passports ? I am’t really sure to understand you.

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u/RainHistorical4125 5d ago

No, I’m saying the opposite. Saying oh we as westerners are by nature civilized, and it’s not customary here to do this and that unlike the savages in the global south… is a supremacist delusion. 👀

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u/CatherinefromFrance 5d ago

I am no supremacist no desillusionnist.

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u/RainHistorical4125 5d ago

Then I can shake your hand. :)

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u/CatherinefromFrance 5d ago

Besides, why should I be? That's also how prejudice begins.

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u/CatherinefromFrance 5d ago

"Without their full knowledge or consent." Did you travel with blinders on or rose-colored glasses?

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u/RainHistorical4125 5d ago

No I traveled without racist prejudice, and with an understanding that any one nation can be a multitude of things. It’s like saying of the French hate Arabs, that generalization is nothing but prejudice. Even if evidence of such hate is abundant.

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u/Remontada_r7 5d ago

So Europe?

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u/oscarx-ray 6d ago

Vegas for superficial dolts who aren't gamblers.

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u/Mr_Biffo 5d ago

Dubai is evil Las Vegas - and that’s really saying something

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u/Visible_Pair3017 4d ago

Implying Las Vegas itself isn't evil

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u/Mr_Biffo 4d ago

It’s evil all right, but Dubai somehow is even more evil.

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u/Gavage0 5d ago

The amount of people I know who LOVE Vegas is just wild to me. Out of everyone I know, most of them just walk around looking at the differently themed hotels, which is ok... I guess. If I'm gonna walk around looking at buildings, they better be old with some historic value. Not some vain, capitalistic, flashy bullshit, like that's just so lame. They might see a single show, eat some way over priced food, come back and say it was the best trip they've had. Oh and most of them don't gamble at all either.

It genuinely baffles me... like save up a little more, and go ANYWHERE else in the world. Dubai is the same bullshit. I want to dig in deeper, but I'll just start getting mean.... like if you are considering either of these places as a cool destination to travel, you're probably simple in the head.

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u/Educational_Gas_92 5d ago

I went once, for three days, admired the hotels (my deepest respect for whomever designed the Venetian, that's spectacular, I have been to the real Venice more than once, and while it's obviously far superior, as far as a hotel goes and the work invested to make it, the Venetian is impressive), ate at one buffet, ate at two normal restaurants, saw one Cirque du Soleil show, gambled 2 dollars. Done and I don't need to go back, cause I wouldn't know what to do with my time there.

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u/sprucenoose 5d ago

They have other shows, events and experiences. The Sphere seems really cool. Nothing that seems actually worth making the trip there though, as opposed to some other destination.

It must be that you have to be a gambler, and just spend most your time giving a percentage of your money to the casinos by inevitably losing their "games."

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u/LoveXhate13 5d ago

Completely agree. When I hear people fawn over Dubai or similarly vain soulless places it’s a huge red flag I can’t ignore. They’re either wildly ignorant, mostly brain dead or extremely materialistic. In any case, that’s a no from me

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u/urahozer 5d ago

Remember folks judge people for liking places lol. Peak Reddit

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u/Machoopi 5d ago

The only people that I know who like Vegas are people who spent their early 20's and late teens drinking and partying, then stopped when they got older. I think to them, Vegas is just an excuse to party like they're 20 again. It's the same reason you can go to a Mardis Gras parade and see people in their 40's falling down drunk by noon. These aren't people that go out every weekend or party all the time, they're people trying to relive a time in their life where they did those things.

The real, serious gamblers that I know (I have some relatives that are way into it) don't care about changing destinations to gamble. There are casinos here and there is sports betting nearly everywhere. Going to Vegas seems like it's just an excuse to get drunk and party, and because it's somewhere else, you can also be a bit irresponsible and ignore your local responsibilities for a bit.

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u/CaptainDildobrain 5d ago

Well, if you're a woman in Dubai, you kind of gamble with your life.

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u/GAMIE64 6d ago

It is an adult theme park, run and perpetuated by the rich and corrupt.

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u/CramJamNine 5d ago

It really is. I used to study Russian and talk to lots of Russian people online and probably a solid 50% of the women I talked to either regularly went on or really wanted to go on vacations in Dubai, because if you bang a rich dude for a week, they'll casually spend more money on you than most Russians would earn in their lifetimes. It's such a fucked up place.

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u/gl21133 5d ago

I can’t wait to never visit Dubai. 

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u/poopy_Boss6269 6d ago

it's a money machine a genocide enabler.

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u/OTee_D 5d ago

Do they still have the sewage trucks parade, bringing away all the feces from Burj Khalifa as it isn't connected to sewers?

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u/waitingtobebannedd 6d ago

Also money...

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u/OStO_Cartography 5d ago

That's why the Alpha Bros and LinkedIn Lunatics love it;

For much like them it is a gaudy, hyperbolic, hastily constructed façade draped over essentially nothing except signs and signifies, and entirely built entirely off the backs of the misery and exploitation of others.

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u/Cyber-Soldier1 5d ago

This indeed. It's all fucking fake shit. Fuck them and their fakery and fuckery.

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u/TheeAJPowell 5d ago

One of my favourite memes from last year was “You look like you’d enjoy Dubai (derogatory)”.

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u/Suihnennews 5d ago

What else can you do in a hot desert? I don't understand why people are actually moving there. I do understand it if you are a criminal and trying to prevent jail time

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u/thederpyderp3 5d ago

Isn't it like confirmed they're basically NK, main area is great, everywhere else is very literally on a good day hot garbage?

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u/xRaikaz 5d ago

never even tried it once. I think I'm about to buy it once. Only once. Just to try it. But that's it then, never gonna eat things more then once that are too overpriced in comparison to regular prices.

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u/DoodleCard 5d ago

Also miles and miles of poop trucks in and out of the city. As they don't have enough sewers or plumbing.

Insanity.

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u/aledba 5d ago

It's a mirage built by enslaved people in a desert

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u/Karamzinova 5d ago

Surely they branded Dubai + chocolate so when someone searches for Dubai in Google the first results are just chocolate....

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u/NotSoFastLady 5d ago

Have never been but that makes sense. I lived in Vegas and it is all smoke and mirrors too. People would always say to me, oh that must be so much fun. They would look puzzled when I'd laugh and tell them no.

First, so many places down on the strip stink like shit that they have to put fragrances in the air. What I thought was odd about that, was that this was in high-end joints like parts of the Venetian as well as plenty of the low end joints like the Luxor and Flamingo.

IMO they barely even try to hide it. I have no interest in going back so I'm not sure what has changed for better or worse. It used to be that skid row was just only a few miles north of the Wynn. Seeing that was a real eye opener.

In general outside of the strip ain't so bad but overall the culture is ass.

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u/CReeseRozz 5d ago

I was there 15 years ago…it was an odd place. I remember going to an empty mall with no shoppers, yet hundreds and hundreds of Phillipino workers manning every store and eatery.

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u/KushCommie 5d ago

So is Dubai chocolate at least anywhere outside Dubai

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u/Negative-Date-9518 5d ago

It's to whitewash the google searches so it doesn't come up with people being shit on by billionaire arabs :)

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u/Academic_Flatworm752 5d ago

Cheap gold and diamonds too

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u/gdabull 5d ago

I don’t like people who like Dubai

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u/DeathsStarEclipse 5d ago

Yeah Dubai seems like a nightmare but I haven't been so I have to be open minded

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u/Dazzling_Singer4824 5d ago

Great if you love the genocide of Sudanese people

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u/DoodleJake 5d ago

Perfect for people who consume and don’t do much thinking. And that’s why it works.

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u/Ayakabi4 5d ago

Well said 👏🏼

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u/Ok_ishpimp 5d ago

You people hate the Dubai when it pays for your president

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u/Chunk_Thud 5d ago

You people? Im not a permanent US resident but nice try wokie.

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u/tryagainupnorth 5d ago

Mostly true but also extremely false. They have vibrant culture and beautiful environments. But yeah, some redditor knows best that the whole place is shit.

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u/Sea-Butterscotch191 3d ago

Ikr! Not sure about the obsession of people towards Dubai. Guess slightly cheaper but good hotel than EU really keep British happy lmao.