Peter Thiel's move to Argentina reflects a growing trend among billionaires seeking a 'plan B' abroad (www.businessinsider.com)
from EatingOnions@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 08:01
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trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works on 02 Jun 08:03 next collapse

Nazis fleeing to Argentinia before the war is over? This branch of reality is broken in so many ways.

LittleBorat3@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 10:22 next collapse

Maybe they learn from their mistakes

BooBees@fedinsfw.app on 02 Jun 10:52 next collapse

🤣

trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works on 02 Jun 11:13 collapse

The overwhelming majority of the Nazis who fled to South America after WW2 fared quite well there, so it wasn’t that much of a mistake on their part.

LittleBorat3@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 11:59 collapse

I mean this time they don’t book the last minute ticket

prex@aussie.zone on 02 Jun 11:26 collapse

He’ll be among friends:

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YellowParenti@lemmy.wtf on 02 Jun 08:08 next collapse

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gh0stb4tz@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 10:59 next collapse

TLDW/R?

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 11:48 collapse

Magneto catching up to some Nazis in X-Men: First Class.

scops@reddthat.com on 02 Jun 13:05 collapse

Relevantly, in Argentina.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca on 03 Jun 17:56 collapse

MOSAD spent two decades hunting Nazis in Argentina and Canada.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca on 03 Jun 17:55 collapse

but he was just a pig farmer!

tirateimas@lemmy.pt on 02 Jun 08:23 next collapse

Yes, mess things up at home, then fly away when they get out of control. What a classic.

EatingOnions@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 08:27 next collapse

Isn’t it part of Project 2025 to collapse economy so they can shaft it for quick profit?

CitizenKong@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 08:34 collapse

Also collapse the current system to establish cyberpunkian corporate city states.

aarch0x40@piefed.social on 02 Jun 09:47 next collapse

Home for Thiel though would more likely be South West Africa. A place where the population would openly greet each other ā€œHeil Hitlerā€ after the war was over.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca on 02 Jun 11:21 collapse

Every month there are thousand more white south africans brought into the usa within the terms of the trump/musk slow-walk takeover of the country. /s

Flower@sh.itjust.works on 02 Jun 10:32 collapse

And that after they’ve been telling everyone you can’t tax or limit the rich in any way or they might move and that’ll ruin the economy.

SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml on 02 Jun 08:33 next collapse

Let’s make it a new rule: It you don’t live here you can’t own anything here.

Houses, businessis, real estate, data centers…

Cherry@piefed.social on 02 Jun 08:49 next collapse

Houses, businessis, real estate, data centers…politicians

SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml on 02 Jun 09:40 next collapse

If I had known how cheap politicians were I would have bought a few of them myself but NOW I have to buy them after Russia has overinflated their worth.

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 11:48 collapse

Can we Go Fund Me some politicians? Maybe a Trump-based pardon, or two?

frongt@lemmy.zip on 02 Jun 12:29 collapse

That’s called a PAC

MrShankles@reddthat.com on 02 Jun 20:48 collapse

I still love the idea of politicians having to display their sponsors like a NASCAR driver

SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml on 02 Jun 22:54 collapse

Is the crotch area ā€œprimeā€ real estate?

Do you pay extra to advertise there?

MrShankles@reddthat.com on 02 Jun 23:08 collapse

You don’t pay money for that area of sponsorship

SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml on 02 Jun 23:40 collapse

It’s a good spot for LGBTQ+ info

Footer1998@crazypeople.online on 03 Jun 07:38 collapse

no one should ever be allowed to own land or buildings. they should always remain the property of all humans everywhere, and be allocated for use according to need. when that need is no longer there, it should return to be reallocated.

ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 08:56 next collapse

Man, some things don’t change… Western Europeans anywhere outside of Europe have historically been a cause for strife, conflict and suffering. They should be contained in their continent, we can even all move out of Europe as long as you stay over there, being wolves to your fellow Europeans instead of everyone else. Maybe that would finally give them the push to become moral and prosocial. Meh.

binux@sh.itjust.works on 02 Jun 11:10 collapse

This is a very sane and rational idea with no fascistic undertones whatsoever

ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 11:35 collapse

Idea? It’s a fantasy social experiment that would benefit everyone but will never take place, Western civilization as it has been since the days of Rome requires everyone else’s exploitation.

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 16:32 collapse

would benefit everyone

Define ā€œeveryoneā€.

Eternal192@anarchist.nexus on 02 Jun 08:59 next collapse

This bastards parents should have used plan b to spare us all the trouble and bullshit he has done.

Yliaster@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 11:25 collapse

Generational issue, likely, I’m afraid.

Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works on 02 Jun 10:05 next collapse

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juice702@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 19:09 collapse

As all billionaires should be.

DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works on 02 Jun 11:03 next collapse

All we had to do to get him to leave was enact a 5% wealth tax and a pied-Ć -terre tax? Shit, we could’ve done this years ago.

modernangel@sh.itjust.works on 02 Jun 11:10 next collapse

Made America so great that now it’s someplace to flee if you’re rich enough.

stickyprimer@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 21:02 collapse

Think of all the job creation he’s going to spark in Argentina though. /s

No1@aussie.zone on 03 Jun 03:04 collapse

Yes! The trickle down will be enormous! /s

LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml on 02 Jun 12:10 next collapse

But… What happens when money becomes worthless and the bunker is running out of food, how to keep the waitstaff in line? Are explosive collars really a viable solution? Maaaaaybe…,

idiomaddict@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 16:14 next collapse

I’d like to think I’d take one for the team if there are explosive collars involved and the other option is that billionaires enslave humanity even after money is worthless. I suspect most people would (like to think that, that is).

It only takes one to actually do it.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 03 Jun 07:24 collapse

if only they can willingly get the "slaves’ to wear without being killed first.

LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml on 03 Jun 09:55 collapse

Oh we don’t call them ā€˜slaves’ no ha ha ha no they are human capital stock and willingly enter service for the great Perks of employment like guaranteed blocks of insect based foodbar protein, and if they behave, it’s flavored!

Prove_your_argument@piefed.social on 02 Jun 12:27 next collapse

They know the US is about to have an economic collapse, possible policitical coup or uprising, and that billionaires’ and their wealth are the target of the opposition party.

Wealth tax is terrifying, almost as much as jail or dying. Way cheaper to hire a huge PMC tier security team and ride it out in a foreign country that will be less affected by the US.

rayyy@piefed.social on 02 Jun 20:59 next collapse

The upcoming election doesn’t bode well for the Epstein elite so maybe he is jumping ship early.

Prove_your_argument@piefed.social on 03 Jun 15:27 collapse

Maybe but I haven’t really followed the gerrymandering closely. After the SC decided to remove the black caucus i’m not sure where it all stands. I doubt democrats will have majority in both houses under any circumstance though as long as the judicial branch of the government is compromised.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 03 Jun 07:24 collapse

thats why russia, and billionaires are hastily funding all the conservative groups as much as they can to stave it off.

GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 13:16 next collapse

They think its going to save them.

couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip on 02 Jun 13:27 next collapse

Spoiler:

spoiler

he’s not going to spend much of his time in Argentina

treehugger6@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 13:31 next collapse

Is he going to learn Spanish?

Witchfire@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 17:17 next collapse

He seems like the kind of person to complain that no one speaks English

treehugger6@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 17:59 collapse

Exactly

rustydrd@sh.itjust.works on 02 Jun 19:08 collapse

I’ve read somewhere that Argentina has a thriving community of German speakers for some reason.

FreddiesLantern@leminal.space on 02 Jun 13:34 next collapse

Theory out there: he’s going there to try stuff over there first to perfect it and bring it back. Don’t celebrate just yet.

zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 02 Jun 14:19 next collapse

Why do the Nazis always flee to Argentina?

entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org on 02 Jun 15:42 collapse

No extradition

Smaile@lemmy.ca on 03 Jun 03:37 collapse

at some point we may just not give a shit…

Reygle@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 16:00 next collapse

Argentinians! Please take careful note of the location, and any underground facilities’ air intake locations. When needed we may ask you go fill them with concrete.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 03 Jun 07:22 collapse

they have to get rid milei first, i dont see that happening.

Reygle@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 16:11 collapse

I’m not sure Melei has much to do with normal people who might know a guy who knows a guy who owns a concrete company, etc etc. More of an open-source idea in my mind. One I would be extremely thankful and willing to help contribute to.

Sanctus@anarchist.nexus on 02 Jun 17:31 next collapse

When the revolution hits and its time to bring all of these lost ones home for the feast

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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 03 Jun 07:22 collapse

remember magneto hunted them down in FIRST class.

rustydrd@sh.itjust.works on 02 Jun 19:07 next collapse

The billionaire equivalent of a 14-year-old shouting ā€œI’m running away!ā€ at their parents. He’ll be back, and until then, he won’t be missed.

lemmylump@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 19:24 next collapse

We hunted these fuck there once before and we will hunt them again.

ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 03 Jun 04:03 next collapse

Why? NASA barely exists these days.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 03 Jun 07:21 collapse

this the time the hUNTERS became the hunted.

Folstar@lemmus.org on 02 Jun 19:39 next collapse

Yes, because these people are not bound by nations. They are part of a global community that very much wants to keep itself free from global government for, more or less, the same reason bandits operate away from cities.

tehn00bi@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 22:43 collapse

You mean cabal. Ultra wealthy using their power to oppress those beneath them.

Folstar@lemmus.org on 03 Jun 17:51 collapse

Good catch. Thanks!

phoenixz@lemmy.ca on 02 Jun 19:40 next collapse

Welp, we destroyed this country, let’s see if we can find another one to destroy

Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 02 Jun 22:21 collapse

Can’t destroy Argentina any more than it already is.

Solrac@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 19:43 next collapse

Wasn’t Argentina also going to originally be invaded by the Pziochopaths before they settled in Palestine?

Mulligrubs@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 21:04 next collapse

Is it really a growing trend… that USA’s billionaires are seeking a plan B? I think instead a billionaire paid the author to say so (through a proxy, of course); seems more likely to me.

Billionaires often have second citizenship in other countries, it’s like Billionaire 101.

(I can’t read the article though so if it proves me wrong do let me know)

Witchfire@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 21:25 collapse

As someone who is in the process of going through their second full immigration process (first was US), it drives me absolutely nuts that they can just buy citizenship elsewhere. Meanwhile us plebes have to be world class champions to even get entered in the lottery for permanent residency elsewhere.

TrippingBalls@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 00:00 next collapse

Or struggle with the cash to renunciate citizenship. It’s the only good Trump has done. Lower the cost to GTFO

JasonDJ@lemmy.zip on 03 Jun 00:07 next collapse

Land of the free

Costs $2350 $450 to leave.

Witchfire@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 00:19 collapse

If they haven’t denaturalized me by the time I get a new citizenship elsewhere, I have considered it numerous times…

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 03 Jun 07:20 collapse

they only need to spend a few million or 10s million to get a instant citizenship.

WanderWisley@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 23:11 next collapse

On brand, I mean his idols all did this too in the late 1940’s…next thing you know is Pete will buy land in Antarctica.

NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world on 02 Jun 23:51 next collapse

Good.

bangupjobasusual@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 00:08 next collapse

Keep him. If you want to do business here you fuck, you’ll pay taxes here.

theacharnian@lemmy.ca on 03 Jun 00:20 next collapse

Tiocfaidh Ɣr lƔ motherfuckers.

Wilco@lemmy.zip on 03 Jun 01:38 next collapse

They need to raise the exit tax, like right now.

MAGA politicians are about to bolt for Argentina… just look at the money they sent there.

HasturInYellow@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 02:52 next collapse

Well we are well known for invading other countries. Maybe we will make a stop over there to collect our stolen goods.

/s

ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 03 Jun 03:59 collapse

I feel like there’s space for reaching across the aisle here. They really want to do brutal colonialist violence against mostly defenseless countries in the global south that have never done anything wrong.

Maybe that’s not always a bad thing?

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 03 Jun 07:19 collapse

Argentina is where the Nazis fled to after the Wwar2, what a coincidence a german nazi(thiel) is going there.

ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 04 Jun 00:03 collapse

Compromise is always a little messy.

Professorozone@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 02:30 next collapse

So long!

Jomega@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 03:17 next collapse

Why is it always Argentina?

Noite_Etion@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 04:19 next collapse

Nazis love the company of other Nazis

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca on 03 Jun 17:54 collapse

Argentina is under a Fascist ruler cucked by Trump.

Smaile@lemmy.ca on 03 Jun 03:34 next collapse

hes leaving before someone takes a shot at him like some of his fellows.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 03 Jun 07:18 collapse

hes also gay, a first target for any fascist govt once they have complete control. He has his puppets(altman, and vance who are also gay) as sacrificial lambs.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 03 Jun 07:17 next collapse

this is after new zealand barred his compound from being completed. hes going to need a supply of young male models and twinks to suck the youth from.

Footer1998@crazypeople.online on 03 Jun 07:41 next collapse

it’s ok, once the people sieze control, we can issue bounties for their arrest and drag them back to stand trial, then execute these enemies of humanity

Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 10:17 collapse

Use palantir to track him and send him hourly pictures of his location and a target confirm screen till he turns himself in.

fodor@lemmy.zip on 03 Jun 07:52 next collapse

Will he stay there? Please?

EvasiveSpecies@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 10:06 collapse

Agree, although I don’t think the Argentinians deserve that. Perhaps he could relocate to Mars like his ghoulish tech buddies keep talking about?

echodot@feddit.uk on 03 Jun 10:35 next collapse

I don’t understand why they want to go and live on Mars. You can’t survive there so they would have to spend the rest of their lives in a tiny bubble habitat. It doesn’t sound like a good time to me.

Canconda@lemmy.ca on 03 Jun 17:58 collapse

Argentineans really need to do something about their government providing asylum to Nazis.

Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 10:16 next collapse

Epstein class are like aliens, they invade and suck up resources. Then move on to the next planet (or country).

Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf on 04 Jun 14:21 collapse

Luigi!

echodot@feddit.uk on 03 Jun 10:34 next collapse

How much more convenient to be located in the same country as your Nazi gold.

Sam_Bass@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 18:03 collapse

coward