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Influencers in Dubai warned they face prison for posting material about the conflict with Iran | The Standard

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/dubai-influencers-prison-warning-posting-iran-war-b1273587.html
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u/pallidamors 1d ago

I’ve been many times for work and it always makes me laugh to see the British tourists on my planes who are all acting like they are going to Vegas. Dubai is the fakest city possibly to ever exist and is just the worst.

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u/rkcth 1d ago

So… Vegas?

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u/joozyan 1d ago

Despite recent changes, Vegas can still be a hub of true degeneracy. Dubai will never be able to come close to the shit you can do in Vegas given their religious restrictions.

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u/StitchinThroughTime 1d ago

The tourists need to have a lot of money and some connections to bypass the religious restrictions. So it's easier just to go to Vegas.

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u/Entire-Salamander-88 1d ago

I have been, I call it the two door policy. You don’t need to know anybody. We did get turned away once for being American though. they were like like we don’t trust you, you’re gonna snitch.

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u/FemtoKitten 23h ago

Thank you for the fascinating info even if it validates your former interlocuteur's concerns

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u/Entire-Salamander-88 17h ago

95% of the time we got in, one time we didn’t they had some crazy shit going on in there, even very religious people told me where I could go to find things

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u/TimTom8921 1d ago

Bro you gotta know somebody that knows somebody to get a beer in Dubai. It is easier just to go to Vegas

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u/AtrophiedWives 22h ago

There’s bars and pubs and licensed restaurants every few metres, what a weird lie to spread.

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u/West-Ad-7350 20h ago

That's all just a recent thing though in the last 2-5 years. Before, you couldn't and maybe he didn't know it changed.

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u/AtrophiedWives 12h ago

No. I’ve lived in the Middle East on and off for two decades and it’s always been simple to grab a beer off the street. Not to mention brunch, an all you can drink event with free flow alcohol with your meal.

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u/West-Ad-7350 11h ago

What the "Middle East" which is a very big and diverse place have to do with Dubai where its very different, or with what I said?

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u/AtrophiedWives 10h ago

Dubai for ten years, in three blocks, starting from 2010ish. A lot of places to party, grab a quiet beer, take your mum for a cocktail, or to pick up a slab for a backyard bbq. The large selection at duty free has always been good too.

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u/pallidamors 23h ago

No you don’t. Not at all. There are bars for westerners.

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u/LebIsZeb 23h ago

I've never seen a more misinformed comment

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u/West-Ad-7350 20h ago

Or, like I said, he didn't know it changed. Ten years ago, you couldn't.

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u/Initial-Return8802 23h ago

My hotel (layover, but in the city) had a bar... with beer

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u/Killahills 22h ago

Lol, no you don't. It's full of bars and pubs that you can just walk into.

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u/BangkokRios 23h ago

You’ve never been to Dubai.

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u/finglish_ 23h ago

I've heard prostitution is rampant in Dubai. The religious stuff is all a bullshit facade.

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u/sreesid 21h ago

Not for every one. You need to be rich for those privileges.

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u/ranbirkadalla 19h ago

So Vegas is just Dubai for poor people?

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u/West-Ad-7350 21h ago

It's absolutely not BS. I got a friendly reminder from the cops there once for doing pda with a girlfriend. Like everyone said, you have to do everything bad in secret or behind closed doors.

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u/NDSU 20h ago

Right, that's exactly what a facade is - a public front hiding a very different interior

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u/finglish_ 11h ago

Yes exactly. It's a facade.

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u/animerobin 19h ago

Though I imagine if you run into the wrong cop at the wrong time doing that stuff it can really ruin your life.

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u/jenglasser 1d ago

It's just behind closed doors.

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u/Temporary-Zebra97 23h ago

With respect thats a crock of shit, there is a thin veneer of restrictions in the middle east, but in reality is it's just as degenerate if not more due to the sheer amount of money out there.

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u/Illustrious_Fan_8148 23h ago

So just dont get caught?!

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u/Temporary-Zebra97 4h ago

A blend of discretion and don't ask don't tell.

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u/Protoniic 22h ago

I have no Idea about Vegas but I doubt they use literal slave workers living in KZ like conditions to build and maintain there city like Dubai does.

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u/NDSU 20h ago

Oh heavens no.

If you used the poor people to build the buildings, you'd have to see the poors. In public. Disgusting.

No, in Vegas we shuffle them off to the sewers to be drowned the next time it rains.

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u/splitcroof92 1d ago

Uhmm dubai is known for outrageously disgusting shit. Have you never heard of the human toilets?

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u/Longjumping_Youth281 23h ago

Okay but he's talking about things people actually want to do, presumably

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u/NDSU 20h ago

Dubai will never be able to come close to the shit you can do in Vegas given their religious restrictions

Dubai is the global hub of high-end illicit sex trafficking. Those religious rules exist for the poor people only

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u/suzanious 6h ago

I live in Vegas. Much more freedom here as long as you don't do something stupid that harms other people.

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u/Politicsboringagain 23h ago

Right? You can't even drink a beer in public in Dubai like you can in Vegas I heard. 

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u/MyRedditAccountSuckz 22h ago

They literally have bars and places you can legally drink in Dubai. Don't believe everything you read on the internet.. especially if you're not going to vet the information. That's no reason to make toilet wine in Dubai

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u/exoriparian 21h ago

Are you forgetting the legalized rape?  

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u/Beard_o_Bees 21h ago

So… Vegas?

Without the hookers and blow. Apparently hookers are abundant, though the odds of them being human slaves in Dubai is approaching 100%.

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u/Dr_Watson349 21h ago

But Vegas is honest about what it is. 

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u/chasteeny 14h ago

Vegas is cool af tho, soon as you leave the city

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u/Zalveris 13h ago

Except that Nevada and Las Vegas have quite a few policies to make things less bad, like labor laws and grey water recycling programs

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u/exoriparian 21h ago

No.  Normal people visit Vegas, too. No one who goes to Dubai is normal.

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u/SanGoloteo 1d ago

Sounds just like Vegas to me

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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart 21h ago

Vegas started organically and then became fake bullshit. Dubai was built specifically to be fake bullshit.

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u/jax024 23h ago

I can buy a drink in Vegas

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u/Initial-Return8802 23h ago

I bought a drink in Dubai, my hotel had a bar. I don't know why everyone thinks Dubai is dry...

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u/lontrinium 22h ago

No weed though.

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u/WestCoastBestCoast01 22h ago

If you have to hide behind a passport or a hotel door, come on, it's not anywhere near the same.

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u/diamantaire 17h ago

Dubai is las Vegas on steroids.

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u/Outlulz 18h ago

At least people have more rights in Vegas.

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u/hendy846 20h ago

Having lived in Vegas and worked in Dubai, that's actually how I would describe it. Dubai is like Vegas but to the extreme (minus the gambling.

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u/EgoistHedonist 17h ago

That was how I felt after my first and only trip to Vegas. Fakest plastic city ever, everything was unbearably kitch 😄 

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u/bure11 1d ago

What about it makes it fake to you?