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Neom is a textbook example of a concentration camp. Cramped, compacted quarters in the middle of a fucking desert with nowhere to escape to for hundreds of KM in any direction, and no cover to hide from pursuers in even if you DID manage to escape.
And no transportation allowed so that you can't escape leave.
What could possibly go wrong? imagine your cell err, umm, I mean apartment is 1500 feet above the floor of a trackless desert. You are dependent on the State to get EVERYTHING you need to survive delivered to you, because if it's more than a 5 minute walk, you either die or get arrested for being out of your section of the barracks without authorization from the Kommandant...
Nope, sounds like a really BAD idea to me. And I thought the fact that the Saudis take your passport upon arrival so that you have to have permission to leave their idyllic oasis was a dickhead, controlling move ... but little did I know that it could get even worse, or just how much worse it could get....
That's right - you have to have permission to enter just about every nation on Earth, but Saudi Arabia is one of those entertaining places you have to get permission to LEAVE!
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Neom is a textbook example of a concentration camp. Cramped, compacted quarters in the middle of a fucking desert with nowhere to escape to for hundreds of KM in any direction, and no cover to hide from pursuers in even if you DID manage to escape.
And no transportation allowed so that you can't escape leave.
What could possibly go wrong? imagine your cell err, umm, I mean apartment is 1500 feet above the floor of a trackless desert. You are dependent on the State to get EVERYTHING you need to survive delivered to you, because if it's more than a 5 minute walk, you either die or get arrested for being out of your section of the barracks without authorization from the Kommandant...
Nope, sounds like a really BAD idea to me. And I thought the fact that the Saudis take your passport upon arrival so that you have to have permission to leave their idyllic oasis was a dickhead, controlling move ... but little did I know that it could get even worse, or just how much worse it could get....
That's right - you have to have permission to enter just about every nation on Earth, but Saudi Arabia is one of those entertaining places you have to get permission to LEAVE!
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