Zuckerberg is a douche

GURPS

GURPS

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Facebook's Zuckerberg sues hundreds of Hawaiians to force property sales to him


Zuckberberg-controlled companies filed eight so-called "quiet" title lawsuits in a Kauai court on Dec. 30 requesting the forced sales at public auction to the highest bidder, which would allow him to make his secluded beach-front land on the island's north shore even more private, according the Honolulu Star-Advertiser newspaper.

Currently, owners of the lands, which have been in their families for generations, have the rights to travel across Zuckerberg's property to get to their own lands. Their lands make up slightly more than eight acres.

Many of the defendants in the suits by the social media mogul are living, but some are dead. The defendants may hold just a tiny fraction of ownership in the parcels because they are several generations removed from the original owners, according to the paper's story on the cases.

The defendants had 20 days to respond to the suits, or they forfeited their rights to a say in the proceedings.
 
Clem72

Clem72

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Gurpsy. Did you read your own link? That bit you highlighted is a red herring, as no one has occupied the land (eight whole acres) for years, paid the taxes for decades, or is attempting to access it in any way shape or form. And the last living person who did make use of the land is a co-plaintiff in the lawsuit with Zuckerberg.

The guy has two choices to clear title to his land that encompasses these parcels, wait for 20 years for adverse possession to kick in or "sue" the descendant owners (the overwhelming majority of which had no idea this land existed) forcing them to either pay the back taxes owed and make improvements to the land, or to sell.
 
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tommyjo

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Clem72 said:
Gurpsy. Did you read your own link? .
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Now why would he do that??? That would defeat his propagandist purposes.

Why would anyone listen to what Donald Trump actually said during the primaries? By ignoring what the man said, what the man did to small business owners, how he defrauded students at his "University"...by sticking their fingers in their ears and turning off what little brain power they have...they can claim ignorance when this unqualified person takes office with no plans, no people in position to take the reigns of govt (despite his people having told everyone in appointed positions to GTFO as on 12:01pm today).
 
Clem72

Clem72

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tommyjo said:
Now why would he do that??? That would defeat his propagandist purposes.

Why would anyone listen to what Donald Trump actually said during the primaries? By ignoring what the man said, what the man did to small business owners, how he defrauded students at his "University"...by sticking their fingers in their ears and turning off what little brain power they have...they can claim ignorance when this unqualified person takes office with no plans, no people in position to take the reigns of govt (despite his people having told everyone in appointed positions to GTFO as on 12:01pm today).
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What in the #### does this topic have to do with Trump.
 
GURPS

GURPS

INGSOC
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vraiblonde said:
.... or doing a true land grab. These are ancestral lands and mostly abandoned property.
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so because someone has not visited or makes current use of some family property, someone else has a right to force an auction ?

just seems like a dick move to me ....
if the parcels are so small and no knows who owns the property :shrug: why worry about it .... someone might show up one day and want to drive through ?

it is after all a 'lawsuit' people have to hires lawyers to respond ... and who has the deeper pockets - zuckerberg's comment aside about not wanting to FORCE anyone from their property :shrug: then why force an auction and sue people


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In Hawaii, this is where it gets more complicated. As part of Hawaiian history, in the mid-1800s, small parcels were granted to families, which after generations might now be split among hundreds of descendants. There aren't always clear records, and in many cases descendants who own 1/4% or 1% of a property don't even know they are entitled to anything.

To find all these partial owners so we can pay them their fair share, we filed what is called a "quiet title" action. For most of these folks, they will now receive money for something they never even knew they had. No one will be forced off the land.

We are working with a professor of native Hawaiian studies and long time member of this community, who is participating in this quiet title process with us. It is important to us that we respect Hawaiian history and traditions.
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GURPS

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Zuckerberg Steps In It In Hawaii


It's always fun to watch one segment of socially conscious progressivism light into another segment of socially conscious progressivism. Especially when the socially progressive target is Mark Zuckerberg, the $55 billion net-worth founder and CEO of Facebook who enjoys lecturing his fellow Americans on such topics as climate change and illegal immigration. In April 2016 Zuckerberg delivered a speech implicitly criticizing then-presidential candidate Donald Trump's plan to build a wall along America's southern border to deter illegal crossings. "Instead of building walls, we can help people build bridges," Zuckerberg said.

Which is exactly what happened to Zuckerberg when he filed eight "quiet title" lawsuits against potential kuleana claimants on plots embedded in his Kauai lands. The suits were designed to establish firmly and legally that Zuckerberg and no one else was the sole owner of the full 750 acres. The only known kuleana owners on Zuckerberg's land were the descendants of a man who had owned four kuleana parcels totaling two acres in 1894. Except that there turned out to be about 100 of those descendants, who claimed to have been fishing and raising cattle on the property ever since then—although only one of them was actually living there. They started raising victimological hell, complaining that Zuckerberg was using the suits to strong-arm them into selling their rights to their ancestral property for cheap. "I got a call from a lawyer (representing Zuckerberg), saying I was an heir and I can sell for $500 or I can be summoned to go to court and basically our land would be auctioned from there," one of the descendants told a newspaper reporter. The lawsuit defendants planned to stage an anti-Zuckerberg demonstration on February 4 right outside the already infamous wall.

Stunned by the miserable optics, Zuckerberg first averred that the lawsuits had been designed simply to identify potential co-owners of his land and then compensate them adequately for their property interests. But on January 28 he decided that using the court system had been a mistake and that he was dropping the suits. Henceforth he would "sit down" and "speak with community leaders that represent different groups, including native Hawaiians and environmentalists, to find the best path."

It's hard to keep up when you're socially progressive.
 
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