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This video trashing Dubai has gone viral. They make good points and I dont know if there are valid counterarguments, but its hard to counter no sewer access in their tallest building.
Phoenix61
(17,021 posts)Warpy
(111,380 posts)The one about a self styled alpha male living in Hungary was a scream. He's also really hard on conservatives.
Oh, and he's got a big bug up his butt about Elon Musk. I have to agree with him about the "hyperloop" nonsense. Elon, I know you're on the spectrum and hate crowds as much as I do, but the solution is trains, not scaled up pneumatic tubes with extremely limited capacity.
Haggard Celine
(16,860 posts)That was great!
keithbvadu2
(36,961 posts)Great wealth and modern trappings symbolized by poop trucks because they could not plan/build a sewer system for a pretentious skyscraper.
Submariner
(12,511 posts)and Ras Laffan, the Indians and Filipinos have their passports confiscated, sometimes for years, until all debts are paid. Their below decks living conditions, compared to topside contractors quarters, are shockingly substandard.
And of course, the 800 pound gorilla in the room that we allow to run it like that is Big Oil.
Baitball Blogger
(46,768 posts)Reels you in with humor, and in the end, hits you between the eyes with a truthful conclusion.
ShazamIam
(2,576 posts)llashram
(6,265 posts)for good movie location(s) though...I guess
IronLionZion
(45,562 posts)I especially love how white people are expats, not immigrants.
Even in the US, brown people are immigrants or H1b job stealers, not multigenerational American citizens.