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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.
Right. Like what are we supposed to miss? The taxes they don’t pay? The money they’ve stolen? Who cares?
I mean “job creators” is such bunk. They harvest worker’s lives for personal gain. There’d be a rough transition period if they vanished but well… we’re used to it.
They have this vain idea that the world would grind to a halt without them, but they’re parasites. I’m sure we’d flourish.
These articles talk like we all aren't already suffering day in and out. Like we're all just say slap happy to be sharing a nation with 65 ~~billionaires~~ psychopaths and should be grateful for their presence. Fuck off, and take your election tampering and social engineering with you.
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.
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 forcibly 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.
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.
Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire who served as the sugar daddy for GOP vice presidential hopeful JD Vance’s Senate run, who helped kill Gawker, and who names his companies after bits of JRR Tolkein lore, said he's considered leaving the US.
Thiel appeared on a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience and told the comic-turned-podcaster that he had recently moved from San Francisco to LA, and was also considering leaving California or the country altogether.
So a nothing burger? Fucking baby billionaire psychopath is going to leave the US because the fascist dictator won't be elected?
The funny thing is he isn't going to leave, it's just because he wanted to get a buzz out of it. To magahats this is a clear sign the government is "weak" and hates successful people.
Where the fuck is he going to go that's progressive enough to not be hostile to his homosexuality but conservative enough not to tax his ungodly hoard. The u.s. is as good as it gets for people like him.
The homosexuality part is a poor person problem. You can be rich and gay anywhere.
Billionaires don't live in nations. They don't know what it means to actually live somewhere, their mental state is so warped. The whole world is their playground.
He's spouting propaganda, plain and simple.
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)?
Basically because he thinks he can't totally fuck up this country any more, he want to storm off in a huff and fuck up a different country? Okay then.
The mental gymnastics this guy does to justify his ideology. "California is prosperous despite not following my dumb pet economic theories and so is Saudi Arabia. They must be the same thing."
Like that's an aggressive form of terminal stupidity. Keep this up and he'll be eating glue before the years out.
And how does a libertarian justify a billion dollar baleout when silicon valley bank went insolvant.
This isn’t an airport. You don’t need to let us know you’re taking off.
Yeah. Ok. Fuckity bye.
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.
Little sobbing baby bribed Donald to pick the absolute most hated person possible for VP. Now it's time to whine since the fascism isn't going great. Fuck off to New Zealand, then, bye, Peter.
He is one of the worst people on the planet. The world would be better if he left existence instead of just America.
"Eccentric" is a weird word for the man whose writing inspired both Nick Lang and Mencius Moldbug.
I rarely use the word because it cheapens its impact but the man is a modern protofascist and should be identified as at least the forefather of the modern right wing anti-liberalism movement.
Where? Europe? Japan? Canada? where policies are more progressive than the US?
Don't come to Europe, asshat
Peter Thiel needs to get more public acknowledgement for being a slimy, miserable, financier of evil who should accident himself out a 45th story window.
Bye bitch
Bye, mother fucker.
Be sure to take Jorgin Depeanus Vance with you, asshole.
Yeah, bye.
GET THE FUCK OUT
I'm giving this the same reaction I give Elon Musk articles:
K.
like they say: don't threaten me with a good time
Well I for one hope he hurries the fuck up.
Bye, Felicia.
Compared California liberalism to Saudi Wahhabism, like he isn't just gonna move to The Line if it ever gets built.
So every billionaire’s “eccentric”?
He can leave for Russia. I hear they have great real estate. Big windows. To fall for.
Good. Get the fuck out. And take your couch-fucking house boy with you. Vile piece of shit.
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?fine to college there? Taken advantage innovation culture there?
I’ve also got to admit I like some of the philanthropies listed there. It’s unfortunate that he got lost somewhere
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.
I love how Americas think they can just “go and live” anywhere. lol. Learn about citizenship, The process. Good luck with your life in Vanuatu.
He's a billionaire. He can probably pull some strings.
Yeah, billionaires literally can do this. This isn't an American being ignorant of immigration process, this is a non-American being ignorant about what billionaires are allowed to do, that no one else is.
He was born in Germany, and holds dual US/NZ citizenship. You're right that he's rich enough to live anywhere in the world. He lives by completely different rules than basically everyone else.