r/interestingasfuck • u/eliseereclusvivre • 1d ago

From 2014 to 2025, Mark Zuckerberg bought over 1,400 acres on Kauai Island and stole any land the natives wouldn't sell him, earning the moniker 'the face of neocolonialism.' r/all

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u/-AMARYANA- 1d ago edited 1d ago

I live in Kauai and I had the opportunity to work at this property for $25/hr. I got the hiring packet and it was 80 pages! Mostly an NDA to not discuss what I saw anywhere, with anyone. I didn't fill it out and I already knew what was going through the grapevine.

He is building a bunker to survive whatever is coming. Does he not realize that if food runs low, his workers would probably turn on him. He would have to take care of all of them and arm them to prevent the locals from raiding his property if things get really bad one day.

He is currently trying to redeem his image by doing things like serving food on Christmas, going on JRE with his jewfro and gold chain.

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u/Jimmbones 1d ago

I feel like Hawaii isn't where I would want to be in case of a world order disaster, could be wrong though. Never been, .

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u/bombayblue 1d ago

The islands are heavily dependent on a complex global supply chain which doesn't even require a world order disaster in order to be heavily disrupted. The vast majority of the Hawaiian islands (including Hawaii) have far more people than they could ever support with subsistence farming. Hell half of Kauai arguably isnt habitable.

You really don't want to be on these islands if an actual world order disaster occurs.

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u/-AMARYANA- 1d ago

In Kauai there is a lot of fresh produce, plenty of fish to catch, sunshine, fresh water, a strong sober community (I don't drink or smoke anymore), solar power, StarLink. I just need the basics and the power/wifi to work remotely. I currently live in a nice house with lots of food growing around it and maintained by the owners and one of my roommates runs a farm.

I left Maui after the fires, so all this LA stuff really hits home. I know the feeling. I had to risk everything on a leap of faith moving from Maui to Kauai. I'm grateful that 14 months later, I am mostly okay. I just need to find a few more quality clients and I'll be solvent for the 1st half of '25. No point in thinking too far into the future, best to focus on the present and enjoy What Is.

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u/Trimson-Grondag 1d ago

Don’t forget the chickens…an unending supply.

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u/milwaukeejazz 1d ago

Starlink wouldn’t last in case of apocalypse.

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u/nothreattoyou 1d ago

I love the island and people there, but I feel so isolated and almost claustrophobic being there. If sh*t ever hit the fan, I'd want to be mobile, not stuck on an overcrowded island.

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u/manokpsa 1d ago

If shit hit the fan, I'd want to be in Hawaii. Food grows year round, you can't freeze to death, all of the locals know how to fish, and sharing is ingrained in the culture. Those people will not let you starve. I had to get around by bus the first few months I lived on Kauai. Lots of homeless people hang out in Lihue at the main bus stop and people bring them food every day. They always offered me some, too.

And when I say food grows year round, I mean it's everywhere. Go for a walk and try not to trip on a papaya or get hit in the head by a lilikoi dropping out of the sky.

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u/nothreattoyou 1d ago

I respectfully disagree. In a zero support situation, the resources of a 619sq mile island would dwindle rapidly with 70k+ people (number closer to 80-85k with avg. tourists) drawing from it. I've thought this through on my 6hr flights there and back while staring at the worlds largest ocean. Haha. Peak anxiety thoughts.

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u/Mission_Adagio4566 1d ago

It's also not particularly far from the massively overpopulated (in a doomsday scenario) Oahu.

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u/Heavy-Nectarine-4252 1d ago

If the apocalypse happens, Hawaiians will force him to share, he won't have a choice.

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u/-AMARYANA- 1d ago

It'll be funny to see how he reacts when they snatch his chain.

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u/Heavy-Nectarine-4252 1d ago

I've seen what local boys do when haolies think they can get away with crimes and abusing people. Hawaiians are kind but a warrior culture. The police dept usually sides with locals too.

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u/goatfuckersupreme 1d ago

yall have this random internet dude's support when the time comes

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u/Same_Recipe2729 1d ago

Good luck going up against his automated turrets and swarms of self replicating kamikaze drones.

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u/WhoriaEstafan 1d ago

Exactly! Some rich foreigners have done the same in the South Island in New Zealand. Like all the NZ workers who built it don’t know exactly where it is and how it works.

Their bunkers won’t save them, community is what helps in times of crisis.

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u/-AMARYANA- 1d ago

I can sense what’s coming will make the French Revolution look like a Disney movie. The working class has reached a tipping point and consequences are inevitable. The wealthy know this, they are hoarding and preparing.

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u/Capital_Pay_4459 1d ago

There aren't any bunkers.

Are there big homes with basements and store rooms, sure. But there is no literal nuke bunkers in NZ that could withstand nuclear fallout and sustain long-term underground living. All plans need to be consented, and all plans are documented with councils and easily searchable on council websites.

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u/gqtrees 1d ago

why hawaii? is it because the volcano will create more land in the future? is it just paranoia and away from the states but still protected by the states?

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u/-AMARYANA- 1d ago

It is the most remote land mass on Earth, so a giant moat called the Pacific Ocean keeping 95% of the world away. Only 1% or so can buy real estate here. So if you have massive plot of land to grow food and have animals (he has both), a bomb proof shelter with high fences and cameras (he has both), and multiple modes of transportation (he has many)…you are pretty much set.

The only thing he doesn’t have is the love and support of humanity. Anyone who can think for themselves knows this dude is a sociopath from a very privileged background who sold all of us out for him to have all this.

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u/Megaton69 1d ago

Hahaha I worked on a “bunker” type property for a very rich well known person in British Columbia, Canada. I did sign papers not to talk about it and I will honour that but holy crap… the amount of staff required to run that place, and how dependent they are on regular food deliveries… just lol. They definitely aren’t surviving an apocalypse there, just a fantasy to throw money into I guess.

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u/rainbowtwist 1d ago

Yeah I don't think he has any clue how island justice works. If he's ever in a situation where he needs serious help from locals he's gonna find out.

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u/coke_and_coffee 1d ago

He is building a bunker to survive whatever is coming.

What is coming?

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u/Bobby_Marks3 1d ago

Honestly, billionaires are not privately stupid, and they are all planning for the same thing: climate change to push hundreds of millions or billions of people out of their home countries.

It's not about building prepper bunkers that are entirely self-sufficient, but about building something secure in a place where migrants will never be tolerated in the first place. When the going gets tough, guys this rich could float a whole island economy by themselves, much less together, and maintain a supply chain by air or sea that keeps them supplied with enough to survive on. They have the cash, and they have the ~~military~~ private security presence to keep their "local" economy stable.

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u/KommunizmaVedyot 1d ago

"Jewfro"? 🧐

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u/Ballersock 1d ago

The goofiest, least serious looking haircut ever. It's usually very young person's haircut because it requires literally no styling, no cutting, etc.

Considering he has tried to make himself look like Augustus Caesar for the past 10 plus years, and is absolutely obsessed with Augustus, his hairstyle is almost certainly a choice to make him look less like a freak and less threatening.

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u/JamboAus 1d ago

Well, yeah.

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u/KommunizmaVedyot 1d ago

Got it - so if a few Jews said it, I guess it's completely kosher. Impeccable logic!

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u/Puzzled-Gur8619 1d ago

That's kinda how life works brotha

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u/herropreee 1d ago

Do you get to say the n word?

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u/ConsistentWriting0 1d ago

My immediate thought was to wonder what he and the other oligarchs are doing over there. This makes sense.

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u/DelightfulDolphin 1d ago

There he is w his jewfro and then there's Priscilla, cutting her hair. An abomination for Hawaiian women..