The US doesn't have the moral high ground either. Every country has issues.
As a German who's currently in Dubai, I find it amusing when an American judges the UAE.
The US has tons of undocumented/illegal immigrants which live in horrible conditions, but companies still employ them because they're cheap. How's that not modern slavery?
How about all the H1B abuses?
In the UAE some companies may abuse the situation of foreign workers too, but the government clearly says you should not hand out your passport.
My American coworkers get taxed on their worldwide income, which basically only one other country does. Dictatorship?
The US started killed so many innocent people in the Middle East to get their hands on the oil.
To be very clear, to me the NSA or UAE NESA are one in the same. I wasn't pointing out one side being better than the other. He went from one, to another. NO government has any moral high ground, or character in my book. A state is a state. A state seeks to control and manipulate it's populace and others for it's own means. Period. And any government employee doing something as "just a job" for a state which infringes on any rights of a citizen is in the same book to me. For example, an IRS worker isn't any better than an NSA. One is spying on your finances and stealing your money, the other is surveiliing in the name of whatever hot-button lie of the month/year is up next. CSAM today!
As a German who's currently in Dubai, I find it amusing when an American judges the UAE.
The US has tons of undocumented/illegal immigrants which live in horrible conditions, but companies still employ them because they're cheap. How's that not modern slavery? How about all the H1B abuses?
In the UAE some companies may abuse the situation of foreign workers too, but the government clearly says you should not hand out your passport.
My American coworkers get taxed on their worldwide income, which basically only one other country does. Dictatorship?
The US started killed so many innocent people in the Middle East to get their hands on the oil.