Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites build mega-families, testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them

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    Oh look, rich people being absolute pieces of shit…yet again. On an unrelated note, Free Luigi.

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    Of course, what rich person hasn’t had the idea of stealing Genghis Khan’s behavior that left around 8% of modern day China his ancestor.

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    What the fuck? Well no worries Trump about to get his way and outlaw that in America. But goddamn what’s the end game here?

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      Billionaires

      I think you missed this part. Trump’s more likely to try to make it illegal to criticize them

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      The endgame is to build a dynasty. With a 100 kids and billions of dollars he can basically play Queen Victoria and put his kids in positions of power. He can give his kids the best education at the most prestigious schools where they meet the kids of the other elites. He can basically build a massive old boys network within his own family. In the future some of his kids will be leaders of industry, lobbyists and even politicians.

      And with so many kids and money good chance one becomes a US senator or even the president

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    Given current political distractions being thrown about to make us lose sight of the Epstein Files, I presume the timing and flavor of this article is the WSJ working to support ending birthright citizenship in the US in aid of the racist fucks in charge of the US government.

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    He said he hoped to have 20 or so U.S.-born children through surrogacy—boys, because they’re superior to girls—to one day take over his business.

    Several of his kids were being raised by nannies in nearby Irvine as they awaited paperwork to travel to China. He hadn’t yet met them, he told the judge, because work had been busy.

    Goes on to describe many such cases.

    China currently has a 3 child max policy, at which point I don’t see the need for a limit. This is something else though.

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      Hey I was about to post about Irvine. The guy that was getting downvoted is kind of right about “farm house”, but not really. It’s more of a tourism kind of things, they come when they are closing to delivery.

      Live close to Irvine. It’s kind of like the rumor that goes around neighboring cities.

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    Ok, but have they considered having Canadian babies? American baby values have to be tanking right now.

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      Right now America is probably the best country in the whole world if you’re a billionaire, whole fucking place is being sold around us…

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    When I lived in hacienda heights I saw tons of pregnant women that didn’t speak any English. It was suspected that most of the townhomes/condos in the area were citizenship farms.

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            The HOA was involved in working with officials and I don’t remember the details but it wasn’t simply a rumor. I tried looking up the news story about it but it’s impossible to search for anything without getting pages of current news.

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            It’s not being racist, yes it does sound racist, but this has been happening in different OC cities. Irvine is or was a huge one. There was a news article and arrest for that exact thing. It was more a citizenship tourism kind of thing.

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    You think some asshole who made billions of dollars on VIDEO GAMES would be more chill, but they’re all assholes I guess.

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    If anything could convince libs of supporting the end of birthright, it’s the threat of hundreds of chinese babies being born to US citizenship.

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      Its probably a lot more effective at convincing folks that we shouldn’t have billionaires

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        It’s already a bi-partisan consensus that China shouldn’t have billionaires

        Fortunately for them, they can’t do anything about the billionaire problem - so instead they’ll focus on the xenophobia

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      Race has nothing to do with this. Take “Chinese” out and replace it with literally anything else. They’re still billionaires exploiting loopholes.

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        Birthright isnt a loophole.

        If you want to abolish billionaires, you dont need to deal in xenophobic scaremongering to do it; but if you want to abolish birthright, you gotta play all the notes of xenophobia. The billionaire flair is just the lib-spin.

        The WSJ publishing this story should tell you everything you need to know about its intent

        Edit: otherwise they would be writing about how billionaires are exploiting inheritance