There goes our spring break in Dubai

[Anonymous]

Karma for electing leisure in a slave state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ignorance on this thread is stunning. I lived and worked in Dubai for years. Most women I knew loved Dubai, they felt totally safe. And women do work in the Emirates, at all levels. As Arab countries go, the Emirates is pretty progressive. Yes, I can laugh at aspects of Dubai materialism, as do many Emiratis who remember the old days. But the transformation and nation building is phenomenal. There's lots of things to do, not just malls. Beaches, Desert safaris, day trips to Oman, exploring old souks and bazaars, a shockingly cosmopolitan society with food from all over the world. And yes, the over the top architecture is fun to see. I love old historic cities but Dubai is still worth seeing.

Where is the ignorance? I have no desire to visit Dubai. Does this make me ignorant? I've been to the Middle East a couple times. With the way things are currently, i don't see myself going there anytime soon.

Are you really too dumb to follow the conversation?

Nobody cares if you personally want to visit Dubai, dear. Your travel preferences are not the ignorance on display in this thread…

You’re the poster that raged at another for saying Dubai and Doha are similar! Guess what, they are very much alike. Dubai is less conservative, by ME standards, but otherwise…pretty similar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean. What were you going to do there as a family? Buy gold bars from a vending machine and stay at a 7 star hotel?

DP, not rich, but my kids absolutely loved Dubai.

lol. “Not rich” by DCUM standards…your kids have been to Dubai. You are plenty rich.

DP here. A lot of people have stops in Dubai on the way to Asia or Africa.

Sometimes you can get a longer layover and get a chance to get a hotel and visit Dubai for a day or two. I wouldn't classify these people as rich. I took several of these trips with my Mom growing up, but they were the only times I traveled as a kid and they were spaced every few years as it took a lot of saving. Costs once we got to our destination weren't much as we always stayed with various family members for the summer.

[Anonymous]

Please don't vacation in the UAE.

Not sure if it has been mentioned so far, but the UAE supports the RSF in Sudan. The RSF rapes babies. They gang rape women and are conducting a genocide. All with the backing of the UAE.


https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/ahrc6177-sudan-hallmarks-genocide-el-fasher-report-independent
https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-releases/van-hollen-jacobs-confirm-uae-providing-weapons-to-rsf-in-sudan-in-contradiction-to-its-assurances-to-us

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ignorance on this thread is stunning. I lived and worked in Dubai for years. Most women I knew loved Dubai, they felt totally safe. And women do work in the Emirates, at all levels. As Arab countries go, the Emirates is pretty progressive. Yes, I can laugh at aspects of Dubai materialism, as do many Emiratis who remember the old days. But the transformation and nation building is phenomenal. There's lots of things to do, not just malls. Beaches, Desert safaris, day trips to Oman, exploring old souks and bazaars, a shockingly cosmopolitan society with food from all over the world. And yes, the over the top architecture is fun to see. I love old historic cities but Dubai is still worth seeing.

Where is the ignorance? I have no desire to visit Dubai. Does this make me ignorant? I've been to the Middle East a couple times. With the way things are currently, i don't see myself going there anytime soon.

Are you really too dumb to follow the conversation?

Nobody cares if you personally want to visit Dubai, dear. Your travel preferences are not the ignorance on display in this thread…

You’re the poster that raged at another for saying Dubai and Doha are similar! Guess what, they are very much alike. Dubai is less conservative, by ME standards, but otherwise…pretty similar.

I've lived in both cities. They are very different. There are some commonalities but no one in the Gulf would confuse the two cities or countries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ignorance on this thread is stunning. I lived and worked in Dubai for years. Most women I knew loved Dubai, they felt totally safe. And women do work in the Emirates, at all levels. As Arab countries go, the Emirates is pretty progressive. Yes, I can laugh at aspects of Dubai materialism, as do many Emiratis who remember the old days. But the transformation and nation building is phenomenal. There's lots of things to do, not just malls. Beaches, Desert safaris, day trips to Oman, exploring old souks and bazaars, a shockingly cosmopolitan society with food from all over the world. And yes, the over the top architecture is fun to see. I love old historic cities but Dubai is still worth seeing.

Where is the ignorance? I have no desire to visit Dubai. Does this make me ignorant? I've been to the Middle East a couple times. With the way things are currently, i don't see myself going there anytime soon.

Are you really too dumb to follow the conversation?

Nobody cares if you personally want to visit Dubai, dear. Your travel preferences are not the ignorance on display in this thread…

You’re the poster that raged at another for saying Dubai and Doha are similar! Guess what, they are very much alike. Dubai is less conservative, by ME standards, but otherwise…pretty similar.

I've lived in both cities. They are very different. There are some commonalities but no one in the Gulf would confuse the two cities or countries.

Splitting hairs. No, they aren’t the same, but they share a lot of similarities.

[Anonymous]

US Department of State telling citizens to Leave Now from the Middle East, including UAE.

Here’s the post:
https://x.com/AsstSecStateCA/status/2028588420403241021

[Anonymous]

I hope no dcum members are stranded there, sounds horrible. Even those few lucky enough to get out are at risk, there aren’t enough flight attendants so the few flights home are pilot only. USA citizens being ordered to leave asap but no way out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:US Department of State telling citizens to Leave Now from the Middle East, including UAE.

Here’s the post:
https://x.com/AsstSecStateCA/status/2028588420403241021

Funny, there’s no way out. Airports struck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The ignorance on this thread is stunning. I lived and worked in Dubai for years. Most women I knew loved Dubai, they felt totally safe. And women do work in the Emirates, at all levels. As Arab countries go, the Emirates is pretty progressive. Yes, I can laugh at aspects of Dubai materialism, as do many Emiratis who remember the old days. But the transformation and nation building is phenomenal. There's lots of things to do, not just malls. Beaches, Desert safaris, day trips to Oman, exploring old souks and bazaars, a shockingly cosmopolitan society with food from all over the world. And yes, the over the top architecture is fun to see. I love old historic cities but Dubai is still worth seeing.

"Most women I know loved Dubai" = majority of white women voted for Trump.
In other words, there are lots of women that are willing to overlook an unpleasant underbelly of misogyny because they have a relative level of privilege and think that it won't really affect them.
Signed, a privileged white woman

[Anonymous]

The only people I know that vacation here are awful people generally

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ignorance on this thread is stunning. I lived and worked in Dubai for years. Most women I knew loved Dubai, they felt totally safe. And women do work in the Emirates, at all levels. As Arab countries go, the Emirates is pretty progressive. Yes, I can laugh at aspects of Dubai materialism, as do many Emiratis who remember the old days. But the transformation and nation building is phenomenal. There's lots of things to do, not just malls. Beaches, Desert safaris, day trips to Oman, exploring old souks and bazaars, a shockingly cosmopolitan society with food from all over the world. And yes, the over the top architecture is fun to see. I love old historic cities but Dubai is still worth seeing.

"Most women I know loved Dubai" = majority of white women voted for Trump.
In other words, there are lots of women that are willing to overlook an unpleasant underbelly of misogyny because they have a relative level of privilege and think that it won't really affect them.
Signed, a privileged white woman

MAGA voters are not foreign travel people. Sorry, we have to own that some of these misogyny supporters voted blue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only people I know that vacation here are awful people generally

Quite a generalization. What is awful about the only people you know who vacation in Dubai?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean. What were you going to do there as a family? Buy gold bars from a vending machine and stay at a 7 star hotel?

DP, not rich, but my kids absolutely loved Dubai.

lol. “Not rich” by DCUM standards…your kids have been to Dubai. You are plenty rich.

DP here. A lot of people have stops in Dubai on the way to Asia or Africa.

Sometimes you can get a longer layover and get a chance to get a hotel and visit Dubai for a day or two. I wouldn't classify these people as rich. I took several of these trips with my Mom growing up, but they were the only times I traveled as a kid and they were spaced every few years as it took a lot of saving. Costs once we got to our destination weren't much as we always stayed with various family members for the summer.

I grew up actual middle class. Not DCUM “not rich.” I was an adult the first time I flew and it wasn’t with my family. We never flew anywhere was a family and never took more than 1 driving vacation a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only people I know that vacation here are awful people generally

Quite a generalization. What is awful about the only people you know who vacation in Dubai?

DP here. I’m guessing they are just the insufferable performative traveler types.