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A comment on Croatia demolished houses of libertarian project “Liberland”, seized property. Parent comment

Re:Croatia demolished houses of libertarian project “Liberla... by lolinder on Sunday September 24, 2023 @04:17PM (#37636723)
Define "scam"? Who is trying to scam who in this situation? The Liberlanders feel more like a LARP group than any sort of pyramid scheme, and it's not like there was any serious risk of them actually receiving recognition and depriving the actual nations nearby of the (as you point out) worthless land.

Edit: Replying to people by editing your own post is bad form. It makes the conversation very hard to follow.

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Re:Croatia demolished houses of libertarian project “Liberla... by leereeves on Sunday September 24, 2023 @08:35PM (#37638483)
People apparently took it seriously enough to move there and build buildings.
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Re:Croatia demolished houses of libertarian project “Liberla... by lolinder on Sunday September 24, 2023 @08:44PM (#37638524)
Look at the pictures in the article: those buildings weren't ever intended to be permanent structures. They're built with bare lumber directly on unprepared dirt, with no attempt at a foundation, in an area that OP points out is regularly flooded. If Croatia hadn't torn them down they'd have washed away.

It looks like a fun project, but I wouldn't consider it evidence that anyone there was fooled by the founder into thinking they could actually live there permanently.

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Re:Croatia demolished houses of libertarian project “Liberla... by petre on Monday September 25, 2023 @01:54AM (#37640067)
Better to build a boat or a floating structure then.
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