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    I read the article. The connection to these people and this freedom City seems very tenuous. Yes, they invested in some VC funding related to AI technology for finding metals, but I didn’t see the evidence that they’re deliberately intentionally investing in this freedom City

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      Yeah, that would be totally out of character for Gates. Even if you hate the guy, I’m pretty sure he votes blue these days, and spends a lot of time thinking about places like Greenland as more than an asset.

      I’ve never heard of this website.

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    What the hell? Greenland is a sovereign country, and these greedy ducks are already fighting over the spoils of Trump’s potential invasion and associated destruction of NATO. This is absolutely outrageous. Their businesses should be boycotted and they should be ostracised, Craven ghouls…

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    They are pretending that these are going to be advanced technological cities, but what they really want are government free zones where Sociopathic Oligarchs can set their own rules, import third world labor, and operate their own sweat shops, free from government interference, oversight, and regulation.

    Trump is looking at Venezuela that way. He gets to own a sovereign country where he calls all the shots, including no extradition to the US. It’s sitting on an ocean of oil, but it’s tropical, so it’s much nicer than the Saudis’ dumb desert, and much bigger than Jeffrey’s island.

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    Greenland would be wise to keep them and all Americans out. The US is directly emulating hitler, so any US residents there could be used like the germans in the sudentland in czeckoslavakia. A pretext. Or more recently like Putin with the russians living in Ukraine.

    It does not matter maybe, if the US wants to do it they will find an excuse. But nothing good will come from letting billionaires start colonies. If they moved people in en masse and outvoted the sparse natives, well, those natives might not appreciate the poisoned water and air and despoilation for no benefit to them, to enrich billionaires actively talking shit corrupting their politics.

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      The ethnic Russians whose oppression Putin used in his justification for invading Ukraine were not Russian citizens, they were Ukrainian citizens whose families had lived in those areas for generations. They weren’t settlers sent to provoke a response, they were legitimate residents of those areas.

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        Yeah that was the same thing with that the Germans in sudentland that were his cause.

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    Start with work unions, join them, create them, then organize strikes in all workplaces. Bring the entire american economy to a standstill for a day, to start with. That’s literally the only thing they care about, so hit em where it hurts. Then u can start to make demands: the dissolution of ICE and this government, jail trump, tax the rich, national healthcare, fair wages and to break the stranglehold of billionaire tech companies’ influence over our government

    Biggest umbrella union: AFL-CIO wiki
    For healthcare, cleaning/janitorial, public sector or broader service jobs: SEIU wiki
    for car industry, tech, academics: UAW wiki
    For transport, logistics, warehouses (UPS, Amazon): Teamsters wiki

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      The circle of requiring unions is complete. A period of Good, Followed by a period of bad. Unionise, Create a better… Environiment for the workers. Start the circle again

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      We need broader unions as well. Just citizen unions, consumer unions, investors’ unions. In addition to those workers unions.

      Plus a general strike. Any protest actions should have federated groups signing people up to cooperate on what they agree on on general forum citizen, et al unions. Just marching will achieve little at this point.

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        People can absolutely unionize in the USA. I think joining a union is a great idea and everyone possible should do it. We have to take it one step at a time. Increasing the percentage of people in unions is a good first step.

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        We unionized before and we will do it again. We just need new unions and new leadership. After the 1971 business roundtable made a long game to pervert liberal democracy and undo the new deal and proceeding reforms, they infected the unions with organized crime, corrupted their leadership with ivy league corporate nihlist types, and poisoned both parties they captured against them.

        We need to revamp them, to rethink new unions, like citizens, consumer, investor as well as work, cooperate on a general forum outside silicon valley parasites, and like all government, business, and organization across the west, we need new leadership, up and down the line.

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            Well that is something to keep in mind, but the Federation is key, having a bunch of smaller groups confederated onto a general forum, to prevent the entire thing from getting shut down from anyone case they can bring. But the union could even be secret for that matter if unions are illegal.

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    Americans are obsessed with “Freedom.” The USA is the greatest imperialist power, the occupier and exploiter of all nations. The USA is not freedom, the USA is synonymous with repression. Great Britain at the height of its imperialist power could not conquer, steal (yes, steal) or kill other nations and countries without a shred of remorse as the USA does today. “Freedom from the USA” is true freedom for all nations.

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      Remember the line: “if you have to say you are the King perhaps you aren’t”? It is like that.

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    These dudes rape and kill children how much more freedom do they need while they strip all of ours away? This basically means they are going to rape more working class children there

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    Praxis is a start-up that is looking to build a technologically advanced freedom city that’s described as an “internet-native nation” and could hold up to 10,000 people. Backed by PayPal’s Peter Thiel, Altman, and even the Winklevoss twins, potential Praxis locations have been scouted in the Mediterranean and Greenland.

    It sounds like they’re trying to be the bad guys in a Young Adult fiction novel.

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    Funny story…if you take all the letters in “Greenland” and change them around…get rid of a few and trade them for other letters, you get “Epstein’s Island”

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      If you rearrange them you can get Neergdanl. Which sounds like but isn’t a Scandinavian word that means “Epstein didn’t kill himself”

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    completely honestly, i can’t believe none of the plebs around these monsters haven’t done what needs to be done.

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      That’s basically a death sentence for the person doing it. This stuff becomes a lot more real when it’s you whose life would be over.

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        i totally get it. and i’m no longer a young man with nothing to lose, for sure. i’m just surprised, statistically, there hasn’t been at least one.

        it’s notable how much of a hero to the ppl Luigi has become, which is such an indictment against capitalist society today.

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    The specific claim appears to be unsubstantiated. They are attempting to invest in Greenland however.