Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus

I don't blame him for taking advantage of the system. What I blame him for is all of his supposed altruistic bloviating. No different than a Russian oligarch.

Re: Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus

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Post by cblconfederate » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 6:30 PM UTC

im3w1l wrote: post #5

> it has become mired in so many scandals that the Cypriot government announced last month that it was to be shut down. Guess it's FOMO-driven rather than election driven then.

nope the shutdown was unexpected, it came after the al-jazeera reports

Re: Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus

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Post by cblconfederate » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 6:30 PM UTC

I wouldn't be surprised if it's not his second passport

Re: Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus

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Post by cblconfederate » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 6:32 PM UTC

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #6

I don't blame him for taking advantage of the system. What I blame him for is all of his supposed altruistic bloviating. No different than a Russian oligarch.

Why do people think this is a "bad thing"? It's no different than buying an expensive home anywhere in the world, except it comes with a citizenship. I doubt he can use the favorable taxation - he would have to renounce his US citizenship for that.

Re: Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus

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Post by pinewurst » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 6:34 PM UTC

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #6

I don't blame him for taking advantage of the system. What I blame him for is all of his supposed altruistic bloviating. No different than a Russian oligarch.

Thanks for writing that - he's such a supreme hypocrite, but why expect more from the originator of, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

So many of his own peccadilloes are out there too, despite his personal attempts to delete them from Google.