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PayPal Thiel Moved to USA at age 1, so is forever called German-American. Ha!
Oh wait the cunt is also a NZ citizen, so shouldn't he be called German-Kiwi-American?
Argentine now.
hes going to argentina apparenlty,after nz refused to build his bunker that he will probably filled with young models to suck thier blood.
So he's got citizenship on every continent. How convenient.
He has a Kiwi passport?!? How
Wait until you hear about this one little trick!
Money
Most techbro billionaires are convinced the world is ending and they think that NZ is the best place to build their doomsday bunkers if it does. So a lot of them have effectively bribed the government for passports.
after the apocalypse I hope the maori eat the rich there too.
Broast then in their own bunkers for added flavor!
We'll have a rich people Hangi.
Total coincidence their government pulled hard right in the last decade.
argetina is ironically currently thiels destination.
He straight up bought it, never lived there or anything.
Most of them do. Its majority white, climate resilient, and an island where they can have outsized influence with relatively few mercenaries.
I wonder how they keep the mercenaries from turning on them but that's their problem I guess.
Bomb collars have been considered.
I need to look up if this is a joke or not and that's just the time we live in now 🙄
You really don't.
Not a joke. There was also the idea that the food could be tied to an implant in the billionaire so when they die no food or water could be accessed.
Supposedly being nice and a good employer was suggested but laughed out of the room according to the social specialist hired to help brainstorm their slave control methods.
This might be from a book I remember now. Douglas rushkoff?
Thats the one. Though fun fact if you look up billionaire bunkers now, you get ads for buying into them or listicles about the best countries to pick for yours.
Better not let any of them get close enough to hug.
pretty sure he bought himself at least 4 passports
https://b2bnews.co.nz/news/peter-thiels-exit-from-new-zealand-a-decade-of-investments-controversy-and-unmet-expectations/
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