Comments by "Angry Kittens" (@AngryKittens) on "Yes Theory" channel.

"We want to be more environmentally conscious" - visits an OPEC country with a long history of brutal repression of women and LGBT people - makes a video on a millionaire's playground created by destroying shallow water habitats (desert sand is not suitable for reclamation) and abusing migrant workers with the kafala system I've never understood why westerners are so tone-deaf when it comes to the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, and especially the Maldives.
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@LennyPongPlays Ah yes. I wonder why no one vlogs or tweets about oppression in a country where people are imprisoned or fined a million dirhams for criticizing the government or worse, "insulting" royalty or Islam. It's the great mystery that no one will ever solve. Maybe try asking Ahmed Mansoor. UAE is so advanced that Alicia Gali had to be jailed for extramarital sex after she was raped. Incredibly advanced that maids are treated like slaves. An absolute paradise for women that beating your wife is completely legal as long as you don't leave bruises. Where a divorce requires permission from a husband. Where the law specifically orders women to obey their husbands. Oh my. I wonder why women from all over the world aren't flocking to Dubai right now. You should be a comedian.
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@LennyPongPlays Oh wow! I didn't realize I was talking to the Designated Speaker for UAE Women. Hahaha. You're funny, habibi.
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Not to mention how awful the treatment of migrant laborers that created the islands was.
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@LennyPongPlays That's hilarious. I'm also pretty sure you're not a woman.
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@manananandofficial Like most tourists, you were probably unaware that Maldives is an Islamic theocracy. Because you actually only spend time in the tourist islands, which is government-owned and segregated from the islands where actual Maldivians live. Only tourists go there, blissfully swimming in skimpy bathing suits, drinking beer, having gay honeymoons, completely unaware that what they are doing is a criminal offense for Maldivian citizens in Maldives proper. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/tourists-blissfully-unaware-of-islamist-tide-in-maldives-1.1898425 https://www.nrc.no/perspectives/2017/where-jihadists-are-heroes/
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@LennyPongPlays https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/02/14/emirati-womans-ordeal-seek-protection-abuse
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@AaronTroy19 I am Filipino too. You're Filipino and you don't know about the abuses of the Kafala? Do you even know what the Kafala system is? The Kafala system ensures that the moment you set foot on an Arab country, your employers own you. You can not leave without them giving permission. You can't go to the police because you don't have papers. You can't leave your job and find another if they abuse you or refuse to pay you. They own you. How many maids have come back in coffins? Most of them allegedly "suicides" even though their bodies clearly show signs of physical abuse? How many have tried jumping from third floors and up just to escape employers? How many people get stranded every year and can't go home because their former employers hold their passports? How many OFWs have been fired with no pay after the pandemic and are now starving? How many maids and migrant workers are on the death row or in prison for defending themselves against r4pe or abuse or even incredibly idiotic "crimes" like "black magic"? How many get falsely accused with crimes like theft or drug smuggling and get punished or executed without even the Arab courts providing translations? Just because your father is treated well, you're now defending them. They treat us like f@cking slaves, and you're fine with it because your dad gets a high enough salary. https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/uae1014_forUpload.pdf
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@AaronTroy19 Congrats! Welcome to the 19th century! LOL Maybe in the next 100 years you'll also realize that "witchcraft" isn't real and isn't a crime; or that people who are dating can hold hands and kiss in public; or that women are actually human beings too. And yeah a filthy rich OPEC country is 100% "eco-friendly", especially when they waste all those billions they earn selling oil on more "eco-friendly" stuff like dredging up shallow water habitats to make a playground for all the rich princes and billionaires!
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@LennyPongPlays "Good" country, based on what standards? Saudi Arabian? lel
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@alfalasi2114 You think I'm a westerner? My motherland was also a victim of colonialism. Yet we remain one of the most gender-equal countries in the world, we've never had a war after WW2, and we don't murder ANYONE regardless of whatever religion they are from.
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@alfalasi2114 Yet Middle Eastern governments execute people (usually by very brutal methods like hanging, stoning, or beheading) for things like "witchcraft" (Saudi Arabia), being gay (almost all Middle Eastern countries), apostasy (almost all Middle Eastern countries), blasphemy (almost all Middle Eastern countries), drinking alcohol (Iran), protesting against the government (Saudi Arabia, Iran), premarital sex or adultery (even victims of r4p3). And even if the government doesn't kill them, someone else will. Vigilantes, ISIS, honor killings. None of them are doing anything different from what Middle Eastern governments do, they just do it more. They kill people using the same reasons. You're probably used to it, but this isn't normal for any other country in the world. Killing is so normalized in Middle Eastern cultures that you even let murderers go if they pay blood money.
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The funny thing is that the people you picked are from the Philippines... which is right next to Palau, LITERALLY. They share quite a bit of history and culture (both former Spanish colonies, both Austronesian descendants). And with pretty much very similar tropical environments. Hahahaha. I legit thought the video thumbnail was Palawan or Sohoton. The trip is pretty much like just hopping over the backyard fence to the neighbor. XD Not as exotic as it would have been if your guest travelers were from somewhere else. Don't get me wrong though, Palau IS gorgeous.
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I'm from the Philippines. Like the guest travelers are. I'd agree. The tropics for me is every day. So while white sand beaches and blue waters are beautiful, it would be more exciting for us tropical people to visit colder countries. Which is why this video is actually a bit funny. The Philippines and Palau are quite similar, and are next to each other geographically. So this wasn't as exotic to them as Yes Theory probably thought.
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@alfalasi2114 As opposed to your country where only men can divorce their wives when they're tired of them? LOL. And what has that gotten you? Paradise? Nope. A society of violence and brutality, where wars are as common as seasons, where autocratic rulers are the norm, where murder is religiously motivated and you can be killed for something as simple as wearing the wrong clothes. You're complaining about divorce, while you live in the birthplace of terrorism.
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Using the term "advanced technology" like you are doing is misleading. It doesn't mean what you think it means. No ancient machines or anything like that. It is merely a hypothesis that there might be older civilizations before the discovery of agriculture. Where hunter-gatherers may have organized enough to build permanent settlements like this one. And the driving factor might not be agriculture at all, but religion. Basically the hypothesis that it was temples that created the first permanent "cities", not farms.
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He's pretty much the BEST person you could have chosen. He deserves it so much and his enthusiasm is infectious.
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@royalpillows7716 Did you even read them at all? Haha. When the government literally jails you for extramarital sex after being r4ped, then YES that is your government's and your laws' fault. But then again, you live in the Middle East. Your standards of "equality" are so low that even just letting a woman drive seems extremely liberal to you folks.
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@royalpillows7716 Kind of my point. You seem to think because a few of them were released (eventually) and because you have that gender committee thingie, you're now one of the most gender equal countries in the world. LOL. Why the heck were they arrested in the first place? You still have lightyears to go buddy before you even reach basic equality. That's something Arab countries have in common. You're so culturally used to it that you genuinely seem like you don't even really understand the difference. The Arab regions (Middle East and North Africa) has consistently ranked the worst when it comes to the equality (and human rights) as a region. Sure, the UAE is among the better ones among those countries, but being the best among the worst is nothing to brag about. It still ranks way below countries outside the Middle East region.
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@royalpillows7716 The same index that puts Saudi Arabia at #36 where women can't even drive until less than 3 years ago? LOL. I trust Khaleeji Times. I don't trust the GII. The UNDP Gender Inequality Index (GII) is a joke because it actually isn't about gender inequality, ironically enough. Instead it's actually a Human Development Index (HDI) list, as it doesn't measure women's issues. Instead it's a mishmash of women's issues and women vs. men issues, like pregnancy survival, women in politics and literacy, and women in the workforce. It's improperly weighted and thus as long as you have a high GDP and have state-of the-art medical facilities you will always top the list, even if you beat women up every day in your country. It's an experimental ranking, as the previous UNDP Gender Development Index (GDI) also had the same problems of inaccuracy, where the wealth of a country skewed the results so badly that the richest countries were always at the top of the list (hence why countries Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Brunei, Bahrain are at the top of the GII list, despite them clearly being not even remotely close to feminist-friendly). Read: Permanyer, Iñaki (2013). "A Critical Assessment of the UNDP’s Gender Inequality Index." Feminist Economics. 19 (2). pp 1-32. doi: 10.1080/13545701.2013.769687 https://paa2013.princeton.edu/papers/130872 If you want a more accurate and more respected index, go see the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report instead: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GGGR_2020.pdf
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@royalpillows7716 LOL. Did you even read the WEF paper? I don't effing care about Khaleej Times. It's a news agency. It reports what other people say, not study or analyze what the situation actually is. Go read the Global Gender Gap report and stop wasting my time. While you're at it, read this: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2019/country-chapters/united-arab-emirates#d91ede If you can't even acknowledge even a single failing from all of that, then there's no use talking to you. You live in a fantasy world.
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I'd climb them all day.
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22:45 Why do they always depict them as shabbily-dressed, wrapped in rags? This was in the Neolithic. They'd be wearing finely-tailored clothes with lots of decorations. Just look at the traditional clothes of other surviving Neolithic cultures, like among the Inuit and other Native Americans. They wear beautiful clothing, closely sewn to fit the human body, often with bright colors and patterns.
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Poor guy lost his Balenciaga wallet though.
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I'm just glad his grandpa saw value in the statue and gave it to the museum, leading to all the rest of the discoveries. In a lot of other cultures, it would simply have been destroyed because of superstition.
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The grandmas are adorable.
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