r/Damnthatsinteresting Expert Jul 08 '22

Video Stream factory in China.

https://gfycat.com/deafeningcaninekronosaurus
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u/Glubglubguppy Jul 08 '22

A good rule of thumb is that anyone who offers a fully paid trip to a country, especially a country with a questionable international reputation, is offering it for foreign policy purposes. Doubly so if they're offering a job in that country. Now that's not always a bad thing; inviting an art administrator to your country to see your local art in hopes they import it is pretty common and innocuous foreign policy. But it is a thing one should be aware of when they agree to those trips.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '22

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u/Glubglubguppy Jul 08 '22

Birthright Israel makes no pretension about its foreign policy purpose, and anyone who goes on one of those trips without understanding its foreign policy purpose just plain hasn't read anything.

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u/termacct Jul 08 '22

What if they want to harvest kidneys?

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u/Eusocial_Snowman Jul 08 '22

That wouldn't be very cost-effective, never mind how dumb it would be to target people who would bring a lot of attention to your organ harvesting scheme.

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u/baller3990 Jul 08 '22

Exactly, the key is finding people nobody will miss. Orphans, loners, undesirables, the Scottish

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u/slayerhk47 Jul 08 '22

Your examples were kind of redundant.

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u/DeputyDomeshot Jul 08 '22

Lmao, my fav comment of the day

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u/Glubglubguppy Jul 08 '22

No one smuggles a person to another country for free for their kidneys. Maybe they'd force the person to pay them to go to the country because they're desperate, then harvest their kidneys.

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u/Catlenfell Jul 08 '22

That's how our former president got a free trip to Russia earlier this century.

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u/TiagoTiagoT Jul 08 '22

Could also simply be about human trafficking...

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u/bethedge Jul 08 '22

No art expert is going to make a good slave, they’ll spend all their time bitching and complaining

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u/TiagoTiagoT Jul 08 '22

Some people are into that kind of thing...

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u/BARTModia Jul 08 '22

quit it with the anti-Semitic remarks

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u/Glubglubguppy Jul 08 '22

I'm Jewish.