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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
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.
Reminder that $30m is $0.0bn, to the nearest tenth of a billion dollars. Billionaires should not exist.
I thought that the Irish were traditionally not too keen on foreign assholes coming over and taking their stuff?
Fuck that guy
Mark Zuckerberg is a life support system for cringe.
He's a monument of vaginal dryness
Has an unusually punchable face sort of demeanor.
Technofeudalism needs castles for the tech-barons.
Time to get our tech torches and tech storm the gates
Well, to be fair they make pillaging and plundering them much more apropros. I’d feel like a dweeb plundering in the suburbs.
Honestly I'm a little bit impressed, when I imagined the castles of our technofeudalist overlords, I was thinking of some high-tech penthouses high in the skies or enormous yachts in international waters. I never imagined they might actually pick up exactly where the last feudal system left off.
I really wish Ireland would stop hosting Zuckerberg's scammy ad company and all the other useless parasite corporations that hole up there.
Fun fact: Cromwell died from a mosquito bite during one of his campaigns in Ireland.
Dear Mosquitos, you know what to do.
Mosquitos don't suck android fluid though.
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.
This is such a stupid life.
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
Epstein Castle, opening soon.
They will not be "caring for" the property, nor anything else. Let's be honest
Rosie O'Donnell just can't get away from this american largesse.
Time for a siege!
finally
I hope it's full of fairies, banshees, and evil Alabama leprechauns.
May his days there be torture.
might not work on android, as they arnt human.
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.
I wonder how constrained he will be by planning laws.
Fetchez la vache!
yo people who own cropdusters...
Not in Ireland
Walks around saying
"King of the castle"
"King of the castle"
He's going to build some evil rocket based machine under one of those towers. Once it reaches orbit, it would steal everyone's, except his, personal information at once, to accomplish his super vilain dream of the complete destruction of privacy.
Our only hope is a nerd/pirate/trans/furry/tankie elite commando from the Fediverse to arrive at the last minute and make his evil scheme fail, with some fireworks at the end.
Candidatures are open, please bring attack plans suggestions.
go get him, rosie, go get him good.
It’s gonna be guarded by 100 of those new Chinese Kung-Fu robots. A few of them will mow the lawns and maybe milk a cow.
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