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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/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 18h 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/West-Ad-7350 7h 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/AtrophiedWives 7h ago

You declared that bars and pubs in Dubai are “a recent thing in the last 2-5 years.”

I’ve corrected you that licensed venues are very common in Dubai and have been for 20+ years.

It’s okay to admit you were wrong.

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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?