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Mark Zuckerberg buys 440-acre Strancally castle estate in Ireland
(www.theguardian.com)
I’m sure this is what the IRA fought for. Independence.
“If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs.”
- James Connolly
Build a datacenter right next to it. /s
i just think it's funny a castle costs 10% of a superyacht.
shows you how much these people matter on a historical scale. he's flexing on us but pretty fucking lame compared to billionaires in 2346 who'd have megaships travelling through the cosmos.
take a moment to laugh at this loser. have fun in your castle while you check your smartphone on the toilet, asshole. i can do that in pissant suburbia.
need 500 rooms just to do nothing lol.
Fucking Eejit
*Feckin'
Why is this world news. Who cares.
Fuck that guy
Mark Zuckerberg is a life support system for cringe.
He's a monument of vaginal dryness
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Fun fact: Cromwell died from a mosquito bite during one of his campaigns in Ireland.
Dear Mosquitos, you know what to do.
Someone has proposed building a monumental statue to honor the skeeter.
I remember reading that not too long ago; which is why I know it's definitely not a problem to celebrate the mossie that killed that terrible monster.
Mosquitos don't suck android fluid though.
It's ironic, because that robomofo sucks
i presume this is for tax dodging?
Don't give them so much credit, might turn out to be a very stupid idea like maybe he imagines they can survive in a castle out in the wilderness during an apocalypse.
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Reminder that $30m is $0.0bn, to the nearest tenth of a billion dollars. Billionaires should not exist.
I really wish Ireland would stop hosting Zuckerberg's scammy ad company and all the other useless parasite corporations that hole up there.
Then Ireland fucking dies.
People really do not understand without Irrland being a tax heaven, there is no money in that country.
There's handful of decent jobs in Ireland because of it, other than that, people have no future and are forever riding on benefits. I know enough people who basically haven't held a job in 25 years. While the state shouldn't let people starve, they did get complicit and simply gave up.
I'm sure I'll get downvoted into oblivion for saying it here, lemmy loves to think everyone gets to just do nothing and get money for existing... but reality is, Ireland is fucked. Has been fucked for 20 years. They spiralled into one of the most expensive places to live with no prospects, people can't afford to start new businesses so there's less jobs going around. All the talent fucks off to UK (guess where I am?) Because we as a couple + an extra person couldn't find a place to rent after 3 months of searching. People drop year's worth of rent day 1 to secure a place (it doesn't sound like this has changed much) so we moved.
I miss home, but I'd seriously have to downgrade our lives to move back. I couldn't even dream to be able to do single income and maintain family of 3 in Ireland, even in my high paying field.
Why is ireland expensive to live when at the same time there are no prospects and young people have to leave for job opportunities?
I don't actually know but I've seen this happen in enough cities to suspect lack of affordable housing and rich people fuckery
That is an exaggeration. While I can't comment on housing the economy is built on being a tax haven but isn't just that. There is a lot of employment in IT and Biotech and there are a lot of facilities actually based in Ireland, not just some office jobs for handling the tax evasion (that too of course).
The problem to me doesn't seem that long term unemployed aren't left to starve and die but a wrong housing policy and not even a joke of urban planning. It is what is happening when exploding real estate value is considerey a boon rather than a huge issue.
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I sincerely wish Mark the best of luck for his new home. I hope he spends ten, nay, hundred times as much as he paid for it, on renovating the place and making it fit for him. I hope he truly spends every dime to make this place fit for a modern king.
And then I hope he doesn’t get to live in it for a single day.
I hope he escapes to it when the revolution kicks off, only to find the revolution is in Ireland too, and be gets hung at the doorstep.
Ahh, who am I kidding. Ireland might do it, but he'd never escape there because Americans will never revolt, they'll just elect a bunch of people who claim to be progressive and end up with the same exact party as before while patting themselves on the back.
Plus he already has a bunker in his island in Hawaii, this Ireland castle is really only for holidays
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Technofeudalism needs castles for the tech-barons.
Time to get our tech torches and tech storm the gates
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This is such a stupid life.
And he earned that by.... Making everyone life worse. That was his contribution to society. He fucked us all and got a castle in reward.
Oh he's got a megayacht too.
Epstein Castle, opening soon.
I hope it's full of fairies, banshees, and evil Alabama leprechauns.
May his days there be torture.
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Fuck you Mark Zuckerberg. Just because I haven't said it yet, today.
I thought that the Irish were traditionally not too keen on foreign assholes coming over and taking their stuff?
Apparently they okay with billionaires. All the while Ireland got a housing crisis.
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One notes the absence of a goddamned data center on the property. Good enough for American backyards, not good enough for him.
May it be a curse to him.
30M? Chump change for him. Ireland, get a wealth tax ready just in case
They will absolutely not do that. Ireland has been enjoying being a corporate tax haven for many years now.
They will not be "caring for" the property, nor anything else. Let's be honest
Time for a siege!
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yo people who own cropdusters...
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Fetchez la vache!
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