I have mixed feelings about this.
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@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social but you might consider the effect on future commerce.
When a country is being bombed, it seldom has the foresight to think about future commerce.
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@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social but you might consider the effect on future commerce.@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social (Germany at the Moment is doing everything to destroy trust by foreign investors, ExPats, Allys, whatever)
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And yet I can understand that people living expat lives come to believe the rules don't apply to them. I saw it often, Westerners who believed themselves to be above the laws of the country that was hosting them.
And with smart phones it is very easy to think that because you can take a picture of anything, you should and have a right to.
But you don't.
@Remittancegirl during my travels, I eventually learned that when people with uniforms and gyms tell you not to take photos of something, they usually mean it
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Here you're absolutely wrong. Dictators are those who kill; thousands of people or more.
In democracy you might see tear gas or even rubber bullets but no mass shooting by police.
When protesters like Renee Good or Alex Pretti are killed, you know a country took its first step towards a totalitarian regime. The fact that people can still protest against those killings means it was *only* the first step.
@CosminOprescu @Remittancegirl
There's certainly a difference in scale between dictatorships and democracies with respect to how many of their citizens they kill. That doesn't mean people in democracies are *safe* from being shot by their governments.
Tear gas and rubber bullets aren't harmless, and the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti were absolutely not the first step the US took towards fascism. This has been building for decades.
It's not new, and it's not just the US.
https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/lethal_in_disguise_inclo_single_page.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/116221646008456537
I have mixed feelings about this. I spent 20 years living in Vietnam, not photographing the things I was prohibited from photographing.
Because I was visitor. It wasn't my country, and I was allowed to live there under the forbearance of the government. So, you know, I obeyed their laws.
Dubai isn't a democracy. Your rights are whatever the government says they are. If that offends you, go home.
@Remittancegirl I apologize; I hijacked your thread.
You were talking about your mixed feelings WRT being a good guest(?) in another country, and suppression of information (I think).
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@CosminOprescu @Remittancegirl
There's certainly a difference in scale between dictatorships and democracies with respect to how many of their citizens they kill. That doesn't mean people in democracies are *safe* from being shot by their governments.
Tear gas and rubber bullets aren't harmless, and the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti were absolutely not the first step the US took towards fascism. This has been building for decades.
It's not new, and it's not just the US.
https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/lethal_in_disguise_inclo_single_page.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
I agree, and this's why I believe crimes like those committed by ICE are the first sign a wannabe-dictator has started building 'walls'.
Anecdotal data is not reliable, for sure, but it's hard for me not to mention this:
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@EricLawton Outstanding definition
@Remittancegirl @EricLawton Isn't it just? Kinda like how it's not illegal to wear a mask at protests here in Britain...but it *is* illegal to refuse to remove a mask if asked to do at a designated protest location, by police.
Which, of course, makes it 👉🏼de facto👈🏼 illegal to wear a face covering should the cops arbitrarily decide they don't like the look of you.
Police state. 🤷🏻♂️
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I agree, and this's why I believe crimes like those committed by ICE are the first sign a wannabe-dictator has started building 'walls'.
Anecdotal data is not reliable, for sure, but it's hard for me not to mention this:
I live in a country (Ro) that went from a horrific Stalinist dictatorship to being a self titled 'original democracy' to being a full EU member state, and all these in only one generation.
And now I realize the more democratic the country became, the safer protests became.
From machine gun shooting, to isolated incident, to being safe to take a kid to a protest.
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@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social (Germany at the Moment is doing everything to destroy trust by foreign investors, ExPats, Allys, whatever)
@Life_is ?
Sorry, I just don't see the connection.
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@Remittancegirl The law literally changes daily, whatever you thnk the law is ... it isn't
@racingdaily Are you talking about Dubai or elsewhere?
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I live in a country (Ro) that went from a horrific Stalinist dictatorship to being a self titled 'original democracy' to being a full EU member state, and all these in only one generation.
And now I realize the more democratic the country became, the safer protests became.
From machine gun shooting, to isolated incident, to being safe to take a kid to a protest.
@CosminOprescu I remember the fall and winter of '89. With regimes falling and getting more violent ending in the shooting at the end of the Ceausescu era. You have come quite a way.
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@racingdaily Are you talking about Dubai or elsewhere?
@Remittancegirl Saudi, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar. They are all the same, tyrannies where diktats are dreamt up on the fly by the crown ruler. I'm sure they make acceptions in Dubai however, based on the number of zeros in your bank balance. Dont hold hands, for example. Public shows of affection are illegal. Don't pat a friend on the back, you will be looking at a sexual assault charge. Just two lunatic laws
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@evan oh that's awful - I'm so sorry.
It's so important to have the soles of your shoes out on the pavement of your streets. You live among neighbours that way. And should never lose one of your community THIS way. 😩
