This is TERRIBLE now that RICH People are Effected!
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2026
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There really is an xkcd for everything 😂
Exactly what i was thinking as i commented hahaha
Won't some targeting system please think of the rich.
Shame if a few got shot down.
Seriously, if Dubai gets razed to the ground, nothing not value would be lost. Dubia is a collection of luxury cars, private jets, billionaire babies and luxury items, and basically nothing more
They have basically an entire caste system of lower-class migrant workers or indentured servants of a sorts populating large swaths of the region, all the people who actually run the cities and manage the services and clean the streets and bathrooms and unload the grocery trucks, and they're the only ones who can't afford private flights out of the cities, so guess who's going to die when the missiles rain down.
It sure as shit ain't going to be Saudi princes.
I've had it explained by Middle Eastern businessmen that I've worked with. The workers are either Indian or Filipino. One of them is significantly better, but they are also more expensive. They sign contracts, and have to work long hours and stay cooped up in tight fitting bunks, like on a ship. It's a pretty awful existence for little money.
Those rich Dubai kids aren't going to do those jobs.
I've had connections to people who did that kind of work also, they tell a lot of stories about people who have their passports or other vital documentation or cash savings confiscated on arriving and then they're not allowed to leave and forced to work long, dangerous hours or not get paid or fed. These are often people from poor families or with little means to get out on their own.
I lived in that part of the world for a few years. It's even worse than you describe it. Along with signing contracts, the workers are required to hand over their passports to their employers, so if they're trying to escape a rapist boss or are forced into debt slavery, they can't escape.
If they ever do the Olympics in the UAE, maid-rape will be a demonstration sport.
The working hours are very long, they pay is shit, and the working conditions abusive.
Along with the Indians and Filipinos, there are lots of Egyptians and Eritreans in low-paid jobs. You'll find Lebanese, Palestinians and other Levantines in middle management: their living and working conditions are much less horrendous. The local Gulfies and Saudis are seldom seen doing any real work, they're just rentiers who come into the office occasionally to remind everyone else who owns the place.
In Saudi Arabia, there are (relatively) poor Saudis, but they get government money, trucks, medical care, education and housing and generally don't do any real work. I'd occasionally run into Saudi Bedouins running cafes or small farms, or trading commodities like spices. They were generally good people, unlike the urban parasitic layabouts.
Great response! Thanks!
sounds like a great opportunity to rise up and make sure those flights never land...
LadyButterfly usually posts the good news around here but glad too see others are Inspired to do so.
this war is so fuckin stupid, but this does bring a smile to my face.
Funny how quickly it's exposed as a hollow city with no real population and culture.
Saudi Arabia, Dubai, UAE, all those who play nice with us just want money. We're a big piggy bank to break open on occasion to them.
Hmmm, Dubai is going to get bombed to rubble, as Kushner builds Gaza into the Jewish Dubai, and takes all that money that Dubai is losing.
Indian / Filipino ~~slave~~ guest workers now is the time to rise up, the leadership of your oppressors is gone, now is the time of revolution.
During the scond Gulf War, the story was that the Saudi king got on the radio and said that he was prepared to defend the country to the last Filipino.
I appreciate the article's punny title, but they could have taken it further. "Bad Buy Dubai: Private Jet Prices Soar as Wealthy Take Flight from Dubai"
Wonder why the wealthy aren't interested in private submarines. Seems safer from an escapism and survival perspective and probably cost just as much as a flimsy easy-target Gulfstream.
Fuck the rich. Glass Dubai.
"We commit to protect our citizens around the world with all the resources we have available. Unfortunately, due to a bench of a*-holes having evaded taxes by moving to Dubai, these resources are currently depleted, please stand by while we figure a budget including saving you. This may take some time but we're doing everything we can to deliver you the assistance you deserve.
I'm sure you understand!
Good luck!!"
Fuck Dubai
Fuck all of them. If you give dubai money by going there on vacation, you deserve all of this.
So where is your airplane now, Dubai? Oh yeah, that's right, you gave it to the Cheeto to bribe him and he said fuck you, smiled, and kicked you square in the balls.
Why do people still try to apease this psychopath
That was Qatar. Different country…
I'm also pretty sure they (Dubai or Qatar) have more than ONE airplane.
Oh frack, you're right.
Eh, what’s a jet here or there between friends!
They actually have a lot of airplanes.
You think they might have 2?