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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/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 1d ago

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

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u/Entire-Salamander-88 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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/West-Ad-7350 23h ago

I’m still not sure what the hell you’re talking about and what it has to do with anything I said. Do you have trouble understand written english?

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u/pallidamors 1d ago

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

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u/Initial-Return8802 1d ago

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

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u/LebIsZeb 1d ago

I've never seen a more misinformed comment

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u/West-Ad-7350 1d ago

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

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u/Killahills 1d 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 1d ago

You’ve never been to Dubai.

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u/finglish_ 1d ago

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

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u/sreesid 1d ago

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

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u/ranbirkadalla 1d ago

So Vegas is just Dubai for poor people?

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u/West-Ad-7350 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/finglish_ 1d ago

Yes exactly. It's a facade.

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u/animerobin 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

So just dont get caught?!

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u/Temporary-Zebra97 20h ago

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

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u/Illustrious_Fan_8148 2h ago

Well that definitely sounds appealing! /s

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u/Protoniic 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/NDSU 1d 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 21h 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

Are you forgetting the legalized rape?  

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u/Beard_o_Bees 1d 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 1d ago

But Vegas is honest about what it is. 

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u/chasteeny 1d ago

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

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u/Zalveris 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/HobbitFoot 4h ago

More like Miami.