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[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 216 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Who were the last to escape to Argentina ? 🤔

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 120 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Hmm maybe he did nazi the connection?

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 36 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

~~Top tip, change "didn't" to "did" then the pun works better.~~

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago
[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Some Germans. Maybe an Austrian.

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[–] scytale@piefed.zip 86 points 3 days ago (6 children)

The future that he helped steer towards? Typical. Ruins everything for everyone else then leaves so they don’t suffer the consequences of their doing.

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[–] nightlily@leminal.space 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is misdirection. Thiel literally bought a NZ citizenship and is trying to build a bunker there.

[–] tixnou@feddit.cl 12 points 3 days ago

It sickens me that these people are really building bunkers to escape from problems they themselves helped cause. The french devices can't come soon enough

[–] ryokimball@infosec.pub 120 points 3 days ago

He's concerned about his future in the United States, he doesn't give a rat's ass about the nation itself.

[–] ChetManly@lemmy.world 97 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What is with nazis and south america

[–] halloween_spookster@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You can't call them Nazis in South America. It's sparkling fascism there

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[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

Nazis gonna Nazi.

[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 100 points 3 days ago (1 children)

he’s fleeing the shithole he’s helped to create.

[–] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 50 points 3 days ago

Every Republican's dream

[–] Snowies@lemmy.zip 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Well historically speaking that is where Nazis tend to go ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[–] discocactus@lemmy.world 53 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can't put my finger on it but...

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Old Nazi habit

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He always wanted the end of Democracy. Claiming it was incompatible with freedom.

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 54 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

concerned about the future of the US

Considering his business is in surveillance, he must be catching on that billionaires are rapidly approaching 18th-century french aristocracy-levels of popularity.

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 66 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] alexc@lemmy.world 47 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Let him go and charge him 50% of his wealth as a processing fee

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

Too much and he might stay?

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 33 points 3 days ago

Trump's bailout of the Argentinian government was him buying a hiding place for his new American Nazis.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 38 points 3 days ago

Move fast and break another country

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 34 points 3 days ago

This bodes well.

I see a lot of doomerism on the left, but I'm happy to hear that Thiel and I agree on this one thing: his project is not going as well as he had hoped.

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Argentina may be an unlikely place for a billionaire looking for stability. The country has careened through nearly a century of instability, marred by military coups and spectacular financial collapses epitomized by triple-digit inflation.

My thoughts exactly, NYT.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 23 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Inflation doesn't matter if your wealth is in a (relatively) stable currency.

Even the relatively fast currency crashes are tracked in Forex quite closely, and nowadays even pedestrian banks us mere wage slaves can use offer near real-time exchange on e.g. card purchases. Billionaire's banks offer even better rates and closer tracking... so it doesn't matter if the local currency loses half its value overnight, and prices double - since the US dollar would remain relatively stable, a loaf of bread would still be $1, regardless if it cost 3000 coins in local currency or 6000 the next day.

Plus he can afford to pay 2-3-10x price for stuff. Thiel could spend as much a day as my annual salary every day for a year and still come out richer than he was...

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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The US would be a better place if all billionaires fucked off, they are leeches on civilization who spread poverty and suffering and death wherever they go

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Hell, the world. The US as a nation has absolutely failed its people and the rest of the planet

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

All billionaires should be sent to the moon

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[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 22 points 3 days ago

Isn’t he a big player in the destruction of the US? Will he be an asset in Argentina?

[–] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 17 points 3 days ago

Lemme guess, he bought this place..

Like hell we should let him, anyone know where he is

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 17 points 3 days ago

Fleeing the consequences of his own actions, how sad /s

Step 1: Profit
Step 2: Destroy the system that made you rich
Step 3: ???

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago
[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 days ago
[–] bender223@lemmy.today 11 points 3 days ago
[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hopefully those in Argentina will be as pissed at him as the rest of us, and do us all a favor.

Clean your own trash

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Oh thank fuck. Sorry Argentina, but we really must be rid of him

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