Originally Posted by
Adam1222
Today in unawareness/entitlement - in re threats of imprisonment for people who support Qatar in the UAE, no criticism whatsoever of totalitarianism, just a post with no actual judgment, just " Hopefully it’s okay that I still consider Qatar Airways’ new business class to be slightly better than Emirates’ business class. ��"
Yes, this whole situation is so funny, Ben. All those people who will be arrested or imprisoned are cute, but you like the new lie-flats.
The UAE isn't a totalitarian state; it's an authoritarian state with a federal system run by a collection of monarchs and the favorite family members and friends of such. What does OMAAT gain for its business by cannon-balling into a pool of domestic or international politics? How does the publicly-identified principal's self-interest in travel get advanced by engaging in acts that may cause the individual a problem during travels to or via a place?
He seems to have awareness about the systems in which he operates.
Publicly expressing judgmental opinions in the most explicit way someone else may desire isn't a necessary requirement to have judgmental opinions. But not being so explicit may be a way to stay out of trouble, even in places like Denmark, France, Germany, Turkey, the UK, the US, or many other such places where verbal or written expressions can attract adverse law enforcement attention and action.
Some could take his mention about QR being better than EK and whether or not that may be ok in the current environment as part of a dig against the UAE's crackdown on people defending Qatar against attacks of sort coming from Trumplandia, the KSA and the UAE.