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devotech2 on scored.co
2 months ago14 points(+0/-0/+14Score on mirror)1 child
It's done on purpose so that you give in to the absurd bureaucracy and start shilling out bribes to the police and agents who will gladly take them to give your shit back (or demand more). But the police at least can't state that explicitly, because it's de jure illegal. So they just pull some fucked nonsense out of nowhere in hopes that you'll fork over money to make them stop. Other agencies besides the police will openly demand money for shit.
I have a family member who went to Egypt twice. Once during Gamal Abdel Nasser's rule and once after Anwar Sadat in the 1980s. The experience was night and day. Egypt destroyed itself after their attitude change towards Israel specifically because it became an anti-people government at that moment. They have had 3 revolutions, 1 coup d'état, and 1 presidential assassination since then because their people loathe their government. Theyve been in a constant back and forth "cold Civil war" with themselves since the 80s. They also do this to their own people, but tourists are suspected of inciting people to do this, and also present a money making opportunity. Ergo this behavior. They want you to either pay up to line their pockets or fuck off and leave the country.
And nobody gives a fuck that tourism contributes to the country's wealth either, because they will *never* see a single red fucking cent of it go anywhere besides the change purse of some morally repugnant general, israel, or a politician. So they don't care, as long as, as I said, you pay up or fuck off. To the police seeking a bribe to the scam tourist trap operators, it's all the same as if nobody ever goes there again, and they're correct in that assumption
Oh it's worse than that. A lot of the fees and shit you have to pay for such as, filling out official looking documents with your information are 100% part of a scam, the thievery is very organised.
I have a family member who went to Egypt twice. Once during Gamal Abdel Nasser's rule and once after Anwar Sadat in the 1980s. The experience was night and day. Egypt destroyed itself after their attitude change towards Israel specifically because it became an anti-people government at that moment. They have had 3 revolutions, 1 coup d'état, and 1 presidential assassination since then because their people loathe their government. Theyve been in a constant back and forth "cold Civil war" with themselves since the 80s. They also do this to their own people, but tourists are suspected of inciting people to do this, and also present a money making opportunity. Ergo this behavior. They want you to either pay up to line their pockets or fuck off and leave the country.
And nobody gives a fuck that tourism contributes to the country's wealth either, because they will *never* see a single red fucking cent of it go anywhere besides the change purse of some morally repugnant general, israel, or a politician. So they don't care, as long as, as I said, you pay up or fuck off. To the police seeking a bribe to the scam tourist trap operators, it's all the same as if nobody ever goes there again, and they're correct in that assumption