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Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city
The Guardian ^ | 08/26/2023 | Abené Clayton

Posted on 08/26/2023 8:02:45 AM PDT by Rusty0604

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To: Rusty0604

Well, well, well.

Fruit and orchards for them!

Not sure how successful suing for an “illegal price-fixing conspiracy” will be if they payed multiples of what the land otherwise was going for.


21 posted on 08/26/2023 8:19:11 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Nervous Tick

Lots of that is being replaced by little robots anyway. Not sure they’ll want old-fashioned repair riff-raff penetrating their oasis.


22 posted on 08/26/2023 8:20:20 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: kiryandil
They can block out areas for the tent cities.

"If you build it, they will come"


23 posted on 08/26/2023 8:22:56 AM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: Rusty0604

It actually a pretty smart idea.

map of the land purchased:

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/08/24/15/73828633-12441307-Public_records_show_Flannery_Associates_has_invested_more_than_8-a-3_1692887026706.jpg


24 posted on 08/26/2023 8:25:41 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (ICCPR Article 15 No one shall be held guilty…on account of any act…not a criminal act...at the time…)
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To: Rusty0604; Lazamataz; humblegunner; Allegra
They want their Utopia, a city on a hill where the deplorables and street people have no reach.



They want a secure FOB:


25 posted on 08/26/2023 8:29:11 AM PDT by Candor7 (( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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To: Nervous Tick

“the wankers that live there can do none of those things”

Many affluent people are quite talented.


26 posted on 08/26/2023 8:29:14 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (ICCPR Article 15 No one shall be held guilty…on account of any act…not a criminal act...at the time…)
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To: Rusty0604

How long after starting construction do they Demand the AF Base be closed due to noise?


27 posted on 08/26/2023 8:29:22 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: Rusty0604

Didn’t China build one of those — and it sets empty?

Utopiac until the homeless and criminals arrive. It is, after all, California. If they turn away such, they will get sued out of existence.

Leftists will infiltrate its operation and ruin it.


28 posted on 08/26/2023 8:30:36 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Brian Griffin

It’s flat and boring there. Only thing interesting are the hills to the West where American Canyon is.

What’s really sad is that the a-holes who turned the Santa Clara valley into a nightmare have discovered land North of I-80. If this doesn’t encourage the establishment of the State of Jefferson, I don’t know what will.


29 posted on 08/26/2023 8:31:18 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: TomGuy

They better not put any retail there since shoplifting is de facto legal in CA.


30 posted on 08/26/2023 8:31:43 AM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: Brian Griffin

We should be building new cities. I wish Freepers were less fuddy duddy. As a country we are stuck in the past.

Reflexive opposition to this is exactly what’s wrong with the country. That said, throw in California and Silicon Valley elites and this could well end badly.


31 posted on 08/26/2023 8:31:50 AM PDT by Wayne07
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To: Rusty0604

That’s really terrible. Easier to lockdown. It’s a faux utopia and the retards will love it.


32 posted on 08/26/2023 8:32:22 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Rusty0604

They should set aside areas for homeless and illegals. It’s about equity.


33 posted on 08/26/2023 8:35:53 AM PDT by I got the rope
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To: AndyJackson

Exactly. When I lived in the bay area I had to drive to Sacramento for work sometimes. There were lots of cattle there.


34 posted on 08/26/2023 8:37:53 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (Despthaerately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
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To: AndyJackson

Well, we have enough of a disruption in society right now and enough bad actors, that what you say is entirely possible.


35 posted on 08/26/2023 8:38:48 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: Sam Clements

Exactly.


36 posted on 08/26/2023 8:39:02 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: cgbg

Ha!


37 posted on 08/26/2023 8:39:05 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (Despthaerately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
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To: Steely Tom

Oh this has never been tried before.

Exactly. Flannery is but a subsidiary of Blackrock. Blackrock controls over tens of trillions of dollars in assets. Chinese Yuan as well.

I can easily see a Chinese Ghost City being built here.


38 posted on 08/26/2023 8:40:41 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Lockbox

That exact thing is being discussed here by the prog wankers about Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.

We also have a touch and go field which simulates an aircraft carrier. There are practices after dark on an irregular schedule, and the wankers who bought property cheap because of the aircraft noise are screaming about the noise. F ‘em !


39 posted on 08/26/2023 8:42:19 AM PDT by Senormechanico
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To: sauropod

When I first heard about this deal, it sounded pretty suspicious. After hearing about the plan for the area, I imagine the ultimate result would probably turn out to be about the exact opposite of the proposed plan. Utopian city? Did they get that idea from the Chinese?


40 posted on 08/26/2023 8:43:19 AM PDT by oldtech
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