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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] twistypencil@lemmy.world 33 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 5 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 7 points 15 hours ago

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"

[–] saimen@feddit.org 16 points 18 hours ago

Fredoom (to rape children) City

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 24 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ineedmorecoffee@lemmy.cafe 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Don’t forget: fuck children.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 20 hours ago

Valid. Slaves of all type will be common, but sex slaves will be a big part of their Freedom Zones.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Spaniard@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

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

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 62 points 1 day ago

Jesus Christ. These billionaires must be dealt with.

[–] Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (13 children)

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

[–] ThereIsNoEscape@leminal.space 5 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 16 hours ago

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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[–] shapeofthings@piefed.ca 35 points 1 day ago

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...

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 3 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 38 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Gates too? I thought he had some redeeming qualities. Maybe I just didn't look past the surface PR.

Oh, fuck, that dude has spent his entire career lying and pouring money into making you think so.

Wasn't the rumor that his wife left him over Epstein ties, like way before these days?

[–] hector@lemmy.today 9 points 16 hours ago

Gates has long been a piece of shit. Even when he's trying to do the right thing he systematically poisons the earth. ie pesiticide proponent, buying genetic engineering arguments at face value, to engineer plants to take more pesticides, and systematically poison every living thing as a result. Is into geo engineering, spraying aerosols into the upper atmosphere to blot out the sun. The fucking arrogance and hubris in thinking you are smart enough to know the consequences of something like that is astounding.

Fuck Bill Gates. He also fought to keep covid vaccines all private and not develop open source ones, early in 2020. Melinda knew what she was doing divorcing him.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 73 points 1 day ago

Bill Gates is an absolute fucking ghoul.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 11 points 19 hours ago

Maybe it was Melinda Gates that was the ethical part of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They divorced 5 years ago and I think it's fair to say that Bill Gates' focus has changed in that time frame.

[–] CubitOom 48 points 1 day ago

He's in the Epstein files btw.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He didn't, all of the BS "philanthropy" was always a tax deduction maneuver and to funnel money into industries that he was personally vested in.

The same goes for all the other billionaires that pretend to give out money for good causes, remember when Meta ratboy said he was going to give away all but a small percentage of his money? Yeah, did people actually believe him and that it wasn't a tax evasion scheme? Jesus christ, don't trust the Greeks even when they come bringing you huge wooden horses that make no sense and that you don't even know what to do with.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

People forgot how hated Gates was in the 90s. Microsoft under his leadership went into all kinds of monopolistic and anti-competitive shenanigans (they still do but it was way worse back then).

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

MS did so many shitty things it is hard to keep track. They destroyed computer OS diversity every chance they got. This is why there were never any successful alternatives. It wasn't because Windows was GUD.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah. The deal he made to have new PCs come with windows installed was super anti-competitive and is the reason they basically own the OS market now. It also set back Linux as a competitor.

The push he made for the Internet Browser market was also quite anti-competitive and is the reason Firefox was born. Firefox was created as a pushback to Internet Explorer, long before Chrome was a thing.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Yeah I think the whole monoculture for computing was a very bad thing at the time and we were all deprived of the diversity that could have been. I remember OS/2 rather fondly as it was way better than Windows at the time.

Things change, and now the Linux and XNU kernel run the majority of the computing devices people use. Between being the backbone of the Internet and used in the majority of consumer faced internet devices, Linux has truly dominated.

I suppose it would also be dominate on the desktop if it wasn't for Windows. Not that MS isn't doing everything in their power to make it happen with their current anti-user agenda.

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[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 5 points 19 hours ago

You haven't been paying close attention. Even his foundation is doing shady business to benefit Gates' bottom line all the time.

[–] wicked@programming.dev 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

As far as I can tell, his involvement is investing in a rare earth mineral company as part of a green energy initiative. I don't see anything connecting him to some "freedom city". That's Peter Thiel: https://www.insidehook.com/internet/peter-thiel-praxis-next-great-city-greenland

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[–] Gudl@feddit.org 12 points 22 hours ago

Get Them down! By force!! Eat these fuckers! All of them!

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 5 points 19 hours ago

Freedom(fromtaxesandregulationsforbillionaires) City

[–] MOARbid1@piefed.social 22 points 1 day ago

Get all these ghouls in one place and nuke it.

[–] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

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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