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Adam Cheklat's avatar

The UAE is but a gilded façade. And its rulers but a cabal of slavers and global pillagers.

Tim Long's avatar

Jesus. Leave it to the Irish to see tyranny's sails coming across the horizon. Centuries of 'training' and experience, I think.

Cromwell, with the ability to read all your conversations and interpret them with a paranoid Muskian mindset. I appreciate how this piece starts out in the innocuous language of (name your country / state / local govt) chamber of commerce 'pitch' and moves right into the dystopia of Terry Gilliam's "Brazil". Rightfully so.

No thanks. Count me as another Guy Montag character, moving away from these systems of certainty; a 'savage' off the reservation; a human being seeking real community.

Brilliant. Thanks for the warning.

Tim Long, Just Up the Hill from Lock 15.

Adam Cheklat's avatar

Well, they did suffer under the British boot for 700 years.

Tim Long's avatar

Indeed; and, precisely to my point.

The Irish Politics Newsletter's avatar

We know a bit about that here in Ireland, Adam.

Adam Cheklat's avatar

That i have no doubt.

Becky's avatar

How are these people not bored out of their minds? It is no wonder that the ultra rich become deviant and dangerous. For all of their brilliance and innovation humans can’t escape the trait for self destruction. If nature can’t cull the human herd with disease and disaster it will use hubris and ignorance. None of us get out of here alive.

The Irish Politics Newsletter's avatar

It’s a souless existence Becky.

Radaghast's avatar

Frightening to think that this or something like it is what Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are trying to create in the (formerly) United States.

Michael Logan's avatar

To misquote W C Fields

" first prize is a day in UAE, second prize a week in UAE"

I can think of few places i'd rather not be.