• Greddan@feddit.org
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    1 month ago

    A reminder not to travel to shithole countries who will arrest people and use them as political leverage. Turkey, israel, Iran etc.

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      1 month ago

      Turkey has ton of cheap tourism coming from Europe I hear, but they basically just take you from the airport to the hotel and you don’t move from it.

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    1 month ago

    Kinda reminds me of this guy who traveled to North Korea and ended up getting tortured into a brain damaged state and died shortly after.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Warmbier

    Like come on. It’s hard to feel sympathy for someone that does something that stupid. These guys aren’t much different.