local politics and they can understand it or take a picture of it and have it translated... you’re fucked. That situation can land you a maximum 3 year sentence, depending on the explicitness of what you say, with the possibility of deportation from the country after the sentence. That has rarely happened in the past by expats living here, but rest assured, if it did happen, the authorities will most certainly make an example out of you.
think that will make any difference if I ever get caught, hopefully the authorities will sympathize with me based on my intentions, and not try to condemn me based solely on my actions.
I have no interest in targeting local politics or religion openly because it would just be completely idiotic and it’s also something I personally have no interest in doing. So most of what I try to write hovers around it and is aimed more at existential things that apply to everyone regardless or their politics or religious views. If I do touch on anything political, it’s pretty much directed towards the global political environment, and not what’s going on in the country locally. To try to minimize any possible trouble I might get into,I write on construction elements and not private property. Even though I don’t
Dubai as a city is ephemeral in nature itself. It’s still constantly under construction and development, the likes of which I have never seen anywhere else in the world. The landscape is constantly morphing and mutating. A few months ago, the road from work to my apartment block changed about 3 times. It’s absolutely insane. So in a way, the fact that the stuff I’m writing on is soon to disappear too isn’t really that important to me because it’s just how things are here and what I’m used to. Roads come, roads go, buildings appear out of nowhere, people appear, people
How long do you generally manage to stay up, and how important is the ephemeral nature of graffiti to the points you’re making.