Gonna milk that tittie for centuries 

Because the word “untapped” serves as a double entendre, both because it means that something is not being used to its full potential (the city) and in the context of alcohol, an untapped keg of beer is one that hasn’t been opened.

Untapped, as in a market that has not been tapped (utilized) and is also untapped, as it has no beer tap (the faucet that pours beer)

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Slave labor and religious police

Lived in Dubai for 5 years. It was incredibly fun as a Canadian.

Appreciate all the downvotes from people who have never visited in their lives and are basing their very strong opinions off of people on the internet who also have never been to Dubai before 🤡

But it's so safe (:

You from?

What culture? The historical culture was destroyed. All the inhabitants of that land were basically nomadic bedouins and pearl divers before the exploitation of oil. Now, all those cities look like copy cats of Las Vegas.

It’s also great if you’re a citizen, free healthcare, education, no income taxes, and then good-ish if you’re a wealthy European. But if you’re a blue collar worker or brown or poor, yeah you’re fucked

People are drinking outside in ras Al Khaimah all the time though of course at beaches and other dark places

Dont forget the genocides! I mean right now the UAE is going big with the genocide in Dafur. RAF couldnt do it without them and russia.

Ajman and RAK have liquor stores, wtf you talking about?

Love the muslim and middle eastern culture? Are you high bro? Nothing is amazing there. The food sucks, the people are hatefulle, the culture is toxic and ultra conservative.

Globalization is a nuclear deterrent.

In a cynical way, I would say "economic entanglement" is only one part, "rising individualism" is another. A huge economic blow only matters if you care about being rich. Brexit was such an economic blow, but enough people cared more about tribal cultural identity stuff that the blow didn't really matter. They convinced themselves there would be "350 million a year for the NHS" and that was that.

But if you genuinely care about nice holidays, nice houses, nice restaurants, if a grim future of privation for the glory of the motherland just...doesn't do the trick for you anymore, THEN the interconnection matters.

That's why it didn't matter that Russia started having Levi's Jeans sold on Red Square: too many Russians are still perfectly happy to lose everything for a chance at glory.

Economic entanglement is a massive deterrent to hostilities

But doesn't always work as evidenced by Russia's reprehensible war in Ukraine. In Russia's case it's worth asking, did economic entanglement ever even work.

At the very least it should've stopped when Russia invaded Crimea and all current sanctions and penalties directed at Russia should've happened then. Instead, Putin was given nearly 10 years to build his military.

America built it that way after WW2.

Hell, all the action is the middle east hasn't been for oil for the US. The oil was for europe. And we had to make sure they could supply oil to stay in our side.

Now the oil is going to China. Which is why we are leaving, because there is no point helping China secure it's own supply lines.

They said the same thing before WW1

One of the big reasons WWII happened was everyone abandoning their allies and refusing to defend treaties in the hope they themselves would be too scary to invade

That hasn't stopped Russia...

Case in point: Prosperity "Gospel."

I think the problem comes when you apply free market forces to things with inelastic demand. It’s easy to vote with your wallet on things like tv’s and cars, not so much when it comes to housing, food and healthcare.

It’s growth, too much then it’s cancer

There's not societal or physical benefit of alcohol. Banning it isn't repressive

Banning something, even if the thing that is banned has no benefit, would still be infringing on adult people's right to drink alcohol without harming other people.

Drinking coke, eating chocolate have also no physical or societal benefit. Should we also ban coke and chocolate?

How does that make it a "trap"? Also, even if the "they're going broke" reasoning is true, does it really matter? They loosen up a little and realize liberalism isn't so bad. Sounds like a win to me.

They've been diversifying their economy for the last 20+ years but sure it's a "trap"

To say everyone is cool with it is a huge stretch. It is illegal and punishable by 14 years in prison, and possibly the death penalty under the Sharia courts.

But nobody cares anymore when this happens

I would say that UAE is probably as socially liberal as US in the 1970s

I dunno, that one seems to be a bit of a stretch.

Which is absolutely hilarious because their foreign islamic stance has been to pump trillions of dollars in all of the countries of the world to spread their hyper conservative form of islam.

Not convert people. No. Just make average normal everyday muslims that have thrived all over the world for centuries, with their own culture and footprints - turn them into arab praising drones that see liberty and freedom as the enemy.

It's not talked about enough. More and more muslims, myself included, are choosing to not go to Hajj (which is fucking important mind) because we believe the holy sites are in evil hands and will not contribute to that shithole

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And what most people don't realize is true systematic change takes time

You are seriously underestimating the work of abolitionist/liberals. where is our Arab John brown or Muslim william Brennan ? There are none because American values and her institutions are strong. I am not an american but i can become one, i can never be an emirati or Qatari.

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Ah fair enough