Thiel compared California liberalism to Saudi Arabian Wahabbism — but it was sort of a compliment
There’s been a few of these stories lately, about billionaires “thinking about” leaving the US. Just shut up and do it already. Nobody cares. Good riddance.
You’re wrong. As a New Zealander (where our conservative government bent the rules to make him a citizen), I can only emphasize how strongly I will care if that giant piece of shit moves to reside in my nation. I’m not negating your point (I upvoted you) and I don’t blame you for wanting to lose him, but just because you shovel your shit elsewhere doesn’t mean it don’t stink.
Why would a totalitarian psychopath choose to go to a more progressive country?
I can think of a reason, New Zealand is smaller, and he may think he can gain bigger political influence there.
He paid to position JD Vance where he wanted him, imagine the damage he could do in New Zealand with the kind of money he has.This is how the world can finally come together. We can create a New Old Australia, using the island-building techniques the Chinese government have been trying to develop but instead using it for the benefit of all. Literally no one wants these assholes. Let’s make them their own giant sand island and send them there. No Aborigines or any other nativelanders need be displaced like in the past. We just… Eject them to Billionaire Island and tell them they’ve entered the final level of capitalism, they are allowed no outside resources and must establish for themselves (brilliant and enterprising and egotistical as we reassure them they are) how to become the Ultimate Capitalist. Tell them it’s even televised. Then if they ever get too noisy we obviously need a way to forcible erode the island etc. Engineers can figure out the details.
It’ll never get to island erosion status… just make it a gradual slope so they get to reap the rewards of their environmental abuse as the sea level rises.
And then make it real life Fortnite.
You’re hired
Now that’s what I can battle royale!
Movies/culture are the best things about the US. As long as you’re rich enough to afford them. So they’re really just punishing themselves… Bye, bitch.
He’s not an “eccentric billionaire,” he’s a psychopathic robber baron fascist.
Thanks for letting the IRS know. Now’s the time to hit them with the 90% tax rate please.
Let him move to a small island without modern communication of any sort.
Then just as he leaves the US, tax him 95% of his net worth.
Realistically he would try to go to some island where he can have slaves and doesnt have to respect human rights.
Yeah, I don’t care what he wants. Society deserves compensation for his years of evil shit.
Where? Europe? Japan? Canada? where policies are more progressive than the US?
I would not mind being the person that slams the door as you leave.
Can the door be in the exosphere? Can he leave at escape velocity?
Bye bitch
I just read his bio on Wikipedia / it seems like he’s done pretty well by living in California. Does he really think he would be as wealthy if he hadn’t lived there?
I’ve also got to admit I like some of the philanthropies listed there. It’s unfortunate that but got lost somewhere
It doesn’t matter to him. He can bid everybody else a fond “fuck you, got mine” and start yanking that ladder up behind him.
So every billionaire’s “eccentric”?
I hear the Mariana Trench is lovely this time of year.
He should be stripped of all the riches he has drained from the US, then he should be tarred and feathered and shipped out of the country via raft. Good riddance to that worthless parasite.
Kay bye
He’s not eccentric, he’s fucking evil.
Doesn’t this dude essentially believe democracy is a failure and that he believes the US should be run with something like a CEO (a dictator)?
Yes.
Nope. I vote no unless he agrees to take his whack-job buddy, Curtis Yarvin, and his biodiesel made from poor people, with him. I would demand he take Vance with him, but I suppose he’ll insist on keeping his puppet here.
Yeeeeesh…
They basically want a return to monarchy, and yet they self style as ‘libertarian’. Fuck those losers.