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The Māori have a contentious relationship with the colonialists who took their land. I would not expect them to welcome the very people that are to blame for to

The Māori have a contentious relationship with the colonialists who took their land. I would not expect them to welcome the very people that are to blame for tossing nukes around. They are ferocious warriors and they will take back their islands.

data_maan 4y ago
How would be wonderfully ironic would it be, if a well-known Google shareholder flees to his private NZ residence, only to be finished off by Māori. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58128475.amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-581... I think once an entire, visible class of people from the enemy (e.g. from Russia's view, the Silicon Valley millionaires) flock to a place, the place becomes visible on the global map and probability rises that it might just get a rocket. The safest places are probably also those places that Larry Page would now like, like poor third-world countries that yet have some level of autarky.
krisoft 4y ago
I’m sure there will be all kind of security threats. But you see that is nothing new. If you have that much you need some level of security to protect yourself. I don’t btw how you imagine this btw. It is not like the millionares would arrive with fanfare and start a procession around the island. There won’t be announcements on the news that so and so is now here taking your land. They won’t arrive and start evicting Māori. The land is already theirs. Somewhere in New Zealand there are houses right as we speak (probably very nice ones!) owned by foreign millionaires. This is much more likely to how it will happen: A non-descript jet arrives at an airport where jets arrive all the time. A black car takes the passengers to their own holiday home. Probably a gated compound at the edge of a smaller city. If anyone is watching the place they notice that the lights stay on more often in the last few days. But it is hard to get emotional about that. And then suddenly the news announce that something very bad happened at a far away place. That is it.

data_maan 4y ago

How would be wonderfully ironic would it be, if a well-known Google shareholder flees to his private NZ residence, only to be finished off by Māori. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58128475.amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-581... I think once an entire, visible class of people from the enemy (e.g. from Russia's view, the Silicon Valley millionaires) flock to a place, the place becomes visible on the global map and probability rises that it might just get a rocket. The safest places are probably also those places that Larry Page would now like, like poor third-world countries that yet have some level of autarky.

krisoft 4y ago

I’m sure there will be all kind of security threats. But you see that is nothing new. If you have that much you need some level of security to protect yourself. I don’t btw how you imagine this btw. It is not like the millionares would arrive with fanfare and start a procession around the island. There won’t be announcements on the news that so and so is now here taking your land. They won’t arrive and start evicting Māori. The land is already theirs. Somewhere in New Zealand there are houses right as we speak (probably very nice ones!) owned by foreign millionaires. This is much more likely to how it will happen: A non-descript jet arrives at an airport where jets arrive all the time. A black car takes the passengers to their own holiday home. Probably a gated compound at the edge of a smaller city. If anyone is watching the place they notice that the lights stay on more often in the last few days. But it is hard to get emotional about that. And then suddenly the news announce that something very bad happened at a far away place. That is it.