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Your points here are quite shocking. You've no idea how or why the author of the blog post ended up in the country they were in in the position they were in; it

Your points here are quite shocking. You've no idea how or why the author of the blog post ended up in the country they were in in the position they were in; it's not stated in the blog post or here in the author's comments in this discussion. This apparent need to push the discussion away from the issue being presented and instead engage in some moral grandstanding on an irrelevant point comes across as suspect. If you were presented with an example of a walled garden causing distress to someone in a nice, white Western country, you'd presumably rush forward with your sympathy, would you?

damnitbuilds 1y ago
Your comprehension here is quite shocking. You seem unable to parse my statement "Sympathy will be limited when that country is also a repressive dictatorship, if you have gone there of your own accord." You seem unable to comprehend that the OP complained about some policy choices of his phone's provider, when what actually "can kill" here is the health service of the evil, oppressive country he lives in. This apparent need to push the discussion away from the issue being presented and instead try and make it a race issue comes across as you being a demented defender of a disgusting regime. Suspect indeed. https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/united-arab-emirates https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/unite...
- -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago
  You're ignoring my main point completely by instead picking one word out of my comment and using that to misrepresent me. I didn't "make it a race issue". I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that you employ such a puerile tactic, as it's exactly what you're doing with the original article - picking out an irrelevant detail and focusing on that and then acting like you've "won" some sort of argument, which in fact is only taking place in your head. My very simple point - which you've done nothing to address - is that the article was about the difficulties and stresses which can arise when digital services are arbitrarily blocked off from one region to the next, and that you're simply sidestepping that to make an irrelevant point. Neither the article, nor I in my comments, make any point about the human rights situation in the UAE. It simply is not germane. From my browsing of the comments here, it seems like no other reader of the article has gone off on a tangent in any way similar to yours - do you think there's any chance that your reading comprehension skills are at fault here, or is it just that no one is on your level?

damnitbuilds 1y ago

Your comprehension here is quite shocking. You seem unable to parse my statement "Sympathy will be limited when that country is also a repressive dictatorship, if you have gone there of your own accord." You seem unable to comprehend that the OP complained about some policy choices of his phone's provider, when what actually "can kill" here is the health service of the evil, oppressive country he lives in. This apparent need to push the discussion away from the issue being presented and instead try and make it a race issue comes across as you being a demented defender of a disgusting regime. Suspect indeed. https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/united-arab-emirates https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/unite...

-__---____-ZXyw 1y ago
You're ignoring my main point completely by instead picking one word out of my comment and using that to misrepresent me. I didn't "make it a race issue". I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that you employ such a puerile tactic, as it's exactly what you're doing with the original article - picking out an irrelevant detail and focusing on that and then acting like you've "won" some sort of argument, which in fact is only taking place in your head. My very simple point - which you've done nothing to address - is that the article was about the difficulties and stresses which can arise when digital services are arbitrarily blocked off from one region to the next, and that you're simply sidestepping that to make an irrelevant point. Neither the article, nor I in my comments, make any point about the human rights situation in the UAE. It simply is not germane. From my browsing of the comments here, it seems like no other reader of the article has gone off on a tangent in any way similar to yours - do you think there's any chance that your reading comprehension skills are at fault here, or is it just that no one is on your level?