• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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      Realistically there are two reasons you’re going there, one is because you have a business obligation or potential contract which incentivizes going there, and two is because you got conned by tourist bait ads that try to hush hush all this stuff because it drives people away.

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    My gay buddy wants to go to Dubai I’m like bruh they don’t drink, arrest gays, and it’s a fucking cardboard movie set city. It’s omega lame af.

    Just go to Vietnam or Thailand instead. Great food, cheap af, and they party.

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    Why would anyone want to visit this shit ass petrol state?

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      They seem to get all the major sports championships.

      2004 Asian Men's Handball Championship - hosted in Qatar.  
      2004 ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships - hosted in Qatar.  
      2005 West Asian Games - hosted in Qatar.  
      1998 Men's World Open Squash Championship.   
      2002 Women's World Open Squash Championship.  
      2004 Men's World Open Squash Championship.  
      FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™.  
      Qatar Grand Prix (Formula 1).  
      IAAF World Athletics Championships.  
      AFC Asian Cup.  
      Qatar motogp.  
      WTA Qatar Open (tennis).  
      
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        Thats because the organizers take bribes from the petrol state

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        I feel like homosexuality and making fun of religion might get you into hot water regardless of gender.

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    I’m not inheritly against different cultures wanting to maintain their values, but I definitely wish people could freely enter and leave their culture.

    In the case of Qatar, I can imagine not many women would be interested in staying if it was super easy to switch cultures, but at the same time cultures around the world are beautiful, even if different, and it’s a shame that they can’t be preserved.

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      Cultures evolve like anything else. Even language is constantly evolving. Preserving cultures is for museums, not for a growing society. I think that’s part of the reason we are in such a shitty place everywhere. 2024 and there’s still racist homophobic idiots everywhere trying to preserve the “good ol days”