• smeenz@lemmy.nz
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    1 day ago

    He purchased citizenship in New Zealand. Please take him back. Please ?

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      1 day ago

      Oh, he’s back to NZ now? I thought he moved to Argentina earlier this year, or at least he moved his family. For some reason I thought he pulled out of the bunker-in-NZ thing a while back.

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        1 day ago

        Sorry, that was a terrible post…now edited. He bribed the DIA to give him NZ citizenship back in 2011 and then tried to build a multimillion dollar bunker in wanaka, but the council refused building consent and he abandoned the idea. Unfortunately he still holds citizenship and can come here at any time, which is the point I poorly made above.

        A quick search reveals he did indeed move both himself and his family to Buenos Aires, earlier this year.

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          the council refused building consent

          Oh, I love that. I guess in some places, people still have the right to tell someone like Thiel to fuck off.

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            18 hours ago

            The reason the council gave was that his plans would spoil the view for others.

            Imagine that…the needs of the many winning over that of one billionaire