New Zealand Is ‘the Future,’ Peter Thiel Said in His Push for Citizenship

Re:New Zealand Is ‘the Future,’ Peter Thiel Said in His Push... by kweinber on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:14AM (#13540813)

Tldr: New Zealand is corrupt and Peter Thiel bought citizenship without ever living there.

There is no mention of his helping revive the Trump campaign and how you should think "Peter Thiel" and his investments every time an executive action oppresses someone during this administration...so let's not go there.

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Re:New Zealand Is ‘the Future,’ Peter Thiel Said in His Push... by tim333 on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:20AM (#13540861)

They gave him citizenship after he invested $7m and gave $1m to charity there. That's not really corrupt - in most countries you can move there through investing. Corrupt is when you give an envelope of cash to an official. NZ actually ranks joint #1 least corrupt country in the world with Denmark. USA is #18. http://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_percepti...

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Re:New Zealand Is ‘the Future,’ Peter Thiel Said in His Push... by arcticbull on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:24AM (#13540891)

Generally you stop at permanent residency (US EB-5, for instance) and can't really buy citizenship. Notable exception of course being Malta as a path to EU citizenship (pretty cheap, actually, some 650,000EUR [1]

[1] http://csbgroup.com/relocation/citizenship/malta-individual-...

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Re:New Zealand Is ‘the Future,’ Peter Thiel Said in His Push... by charlesdm on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:26AM (#13540902)

If there's a law that allows for requirements to be waived in certain situations ("extraordinary ability"), I don't see how that is corrupt. Unfair? Maybe.

But most countries tend to give passports and/or residency rights to people investing a significant amount of money.

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Re:New Zealand Is ‘the Future,’ Peter Thiel Said in His Push... by tomp on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:25AM (#13540900)

Did you also think "Bill Gates" whenever Obama droned and killed someone (he was one of his supporters/donors)?

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Re:New Zealand Is ‘the Future,’ Peter Thiel Said in His Push... by fighttf on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:30AM (#13540942)

Yes, Obama killed terrorist. He also got Osama. I will not cry for them. There was collateral damage, I feel bad for that. What was your point again?

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Re:New Zealand Is ‘the Future,’ Peter Thiel Said in His Push... by hutzlibu on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:49AM (#13541090)

Nothing, its totally legit to kill people, if there is a cellphone among them, that might belong to somebody opposed the US. Hence the awesome success and ongoing love for US in those areas. Which is easy to counter with more drones, I guess.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/civilian-deaths-drone-st...

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Re:New Zealand Is ‘the Future,’ Peter Thiel Said in His Push... by tomp on Thursday February 02, 2017 @06:22AM (#13549727)

> terrorist [...] I will not cry for them.

Isn't this exactly the same justification that Trump uses?

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