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It sounds like you have never been to a country where money can buy anything you want, including freedom. Many such countries in the world.

AwaAwa 3y ago
You mean all, it's just the amount that differs.
lb1lf 3y ago
Well, money will only buy you freedom in such places until you annoy someone with deeper pockets than you have sufficiently so that they want you to wind up behind bars. Corruption is an equal opportunity weapon.
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- skilled 3y ago
  Sure, but that’s in extreme cases. For small stuff like papers, permits and such - talking to the right people will get you anywhere you want to go. I still remember handing over my passport to a guy on a sports bike in Singapore to get an extended stamp for Indonesia, and only a few years later did it occur to me how sketchy the whole situation was.
dale_glass 3y ago
Such countries exist, but as this case and Andrew Tate show, actually putting it in such frank terms may not be a good idea. Yeah, maybe you can buy yourself out of trouble. But I suspect in many such cases the people involved prefer to be bought quietly. Make things too uncomfortably public or too embarrassing and the same people might well throw the book at you.
- skilled 3y ago
  I don’t know the specifics of his case but it is my understanding that EU isn’t as easily bought as South America or Southeast Asia for example. The latter has a system that doesn’t “include” foreigners, whereas someplace like Romania is a lot more Westernized and offering a bribe carries a lot more risk.
purple_elephant 3y ago
But you don't say these things out loud. Swiss bank ads don't look like this: "Genocidal dictators, we will help you hide your money!"
- someweirdperson 3y ago
  You are just not part of the right target group, so facebook won't show them to you.
  - red-iron-pine 3y ago
    no facebook or phones at all, just handshakes and backrooms in upscale bars

AwaAwa 3y ago

You mean all, it's just the amount that differs.

lb1lf 3y ago

Well, money will only buy you freedom in such places until you annoy someone with deeper pockets than you have sufficiently so that they want you to wind up behind bars. Corruption is an equal opportunity weapon.

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skilled 3y ago
Sure, but that’s in extreme cases. For small stuff like papers, permits and such - talking to the right people will get you anywhere you want to go. I still remember handing over my passport to a guy on a sports bike in Singapore to get an extended stamp for Indonesia, and only a few years later did it occur to me how sketchy the whole situation was.

dale_glass 3y ago

Such countries exist, but as this case and Andrew Tate show, actually putting it in such frank terms may not be a good idea. Yeah, maybe you can buy yourself out of trouble. But I suspect in many such cases the people involved prefer to be bought quietly. Make things too uncomfortably public or too embarrassing and the same people might well throw the book at you.

skilled 3y ago
I don’t know the specifics of his case but it is my understanding that EU isn’t as easily bought as South America or Southeast Asia for example. The latter has a system that doesn’t “include” foreigners, whereas someplace like Romania is a lot more Westernized and offering a bribe carries a lot more risk.

purple_elephant 3y ago

But you don't say these things out loud. Swiss bank ads don't look like this: "Genocidal dictators, we will help you hide your money!"

someweirdperson 3y ago
You are just not part of the right target group, so facebook won't show them to you.
- red-iron-pine 3y ago
  no facebook or phones at all, just handshakes and backrooms in upscale bars