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‘For $5 million, this could be yours,’ Trump says of card available to wealthy immigrants to buy a right to live and work in the U.S.

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[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 hours ago

If you give me the $5 million, I'll take one of the disgusting things off your hands.

Dollars won't be worth much soon anyway.

[–] Minarble@aussie.zone 6 points 11 hours ago

He looks very old

[–] al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 50 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

If you hada disposable five million dollars why would you want to live in the USA?

[–] Apricot@lemm.ee 31 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

To get in on the corruption?

[–] CPMSP@midwest.social 15 points 21 hours ago

Five million to join, and all the exploitative labor practices you want!

Regulations you say? Never heard of em.

Labor laws... What, you need to hire prisoners? They're cheap!!

And better yet, the sorry bastards have to pay so much for health care they're practically indentured to you.

Five million to get in, and all the land we can sell.

This is the darkest timeline.

[–] HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 64 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Not the Onion? Fucking come on already

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 27 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Today's reality is wilder than anything Onion can come up with.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago
[–] Wiz@midwest.social 16 points 21 hours ago

Yeah I 100% expected this to be an Onion article!

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 19 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Other countries do this, too. Here's 18 of them: https://www.globalcitizensolutions.com/golden-visa/

Rich people play by a different set of rules than you do, even in places with slightly less oligarchy.

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 15 points 16 hours ago

The US is already on that list, and the golden visas top out at $100k. This is just another Trump scam.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago

Thanks for that list. Seriously considering some

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 28 points 20 hours ago

Selling citizenship like blue check marks? This sounds familiar.

[–] CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca 14 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I bet it's not a gold card. It's just a painted on piece of toast.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 6 points 20 hours ago

It's bronzer

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

It’s yellow and brown on inkjet paper that says

DO NOT LAMINATE

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

We are slaves for the highest bidders. We have been for a long time but this is just the latest security update for them. This is an offer for people to come to America to live out their corruption in admin-created, perfect poor environment for them to abuse.

[–] MECHAGODZILLA2@midwest.social 4 points 20 hours ago

Hey I always wanted to be Cyprus, said no one ever, including Cyprus (<3)

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 3 points 21 hours ago

Gusanos salivating right now. They never miss an opportunity to get easy US citizenship and flex wealth.