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link to article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/climate/uae-cop28-documents-al-jaber.html
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image transcription:

meme has two parts. upper and lower.
on upper part is a screenshot of an article's title(by new york times) that reads:

Files Suggest Climate Summit’s Leader Is Using Event to Promote Fossil Fuels
A leaked document has talking points for the president of the United Nations climate conference, who is an oil executive in the United Arab Emirates, to advance oil and gas deals.

on bottom part is Pepe the Frog^1^ inhaling from an oxygen tank labelled "copium", aka the copium meme^2^.
accompanied to pepe is the text, "it's over, Bros."
and behind pepe is faded logo of cop28 summit.

1: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepe-the-frog
2: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/copium

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not necessarily a bad place, but definitely one with a huge oil industry

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Huge? UAE's blood is oil. It's a capital of eastern luxury and one of remaining monarchies because they sell oil. They are still a partner to everyone in spite of murdering journalists and whoever they dislike - because they sell oil. They build these absurd skyscapers, ski resorts in a desert, all their places are extremely air-conditioned to be tourists-friendly, all thanks to selling oil. Even including them there is an embarassment, because they grew up that vulgarly unsustainable thanks to oil money. It reads like an Onion article.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I wasn't arguing with you, but adding to your point (:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Fair enough :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Did UAE murder journalists? I know Saudi Arabia did.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The latest case I recall is them helping Saudis to kill Jamal Khashoggi. While the killing was on Saudis, AUE put Pegasus on their phones and later detained a lawyer on this case, an american citizen.