I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize.
Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness.
Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding.
He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history.
The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future.
A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite.
That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.
🚨🗳️🇫🇷 SIGNALEMENT : Nawal Ridouh (@NawalR__9), n°5 de la liste « 18e vivant et solidaire » (@REVPourLeVivant) d' @CaronAymericoff pour les élections municipales à Paris, est une militante pro-palestinienne 🇵🇸 qui publie depuis plus de 13 ans sur ses réseaux sociaux des propos antisémites d’une violence inouïe.
Soutien affiché de Dieudonné et d’Alain Soral, complotisme obsessionnel, clichés et caricatures antisémites, insultes sur la Shoah, apologie du terrorisme : une véritable orgie de haine diffusée depuis des années sur l’ensemble de ses réseaux sociaux.
⚠️ Nawal Ridouh est également connue pour avoir divulgué l’adresse personnelle et les numéros de téléphone d’un dentiste juif et de son épouse, à la suite d’une agression de rue à laquelle elle était impliquée.
Aucune surprise de retrouver un tel profil antisémite et anti-républicain sur la liste du passionnément antisémite @CaronAymericoff et Catherine Teinturier pour les #electionsmunicipales2026
⚖️ Nawal Ridouh doit être poursuivie en justice et sévèrement condamnée.
🚔 cc @PoliceNationale@Interieur_Gouv@prefpolice@mairieparis18@justice_gouv@NunezLaurent@prefetpolice@Association_OJE@ObservatoireOjf
Trump is just the trigger.
There are deep historical forces:
The dismantling of the FCC fairness doctrine by Reagan, the resulting emergence of Fox News, conservative talk radio, and other propaganda outlets, the removal of guardrails for the influence of money in politics (e.g. Citizen United), the continuous reduction of taxes on high incomes, the ever-increasing wealth and income inequalities enabled by the above, the stagnation of working class income despite continued increase in productivity (and corporate profits), the total lack of social protection and benefits compared to other developed countries.
People in the middle class and below have been screwed for 40 years and are angry.
They should be angry at Republicans.
But the Republican party has managed to deflect their anger towards immigrants, non-Christians, non-whites, liberals, LGBT, China, academia, intellectual "elites", scientists, journalists, and non-existent scarecrows like Antifa.
I attended the most elite undergrad math institution in the world (the École Normale Supérieure, which produced more Fields medal than the entire continent of Asia), and the number of kids who knew their IQ was exactly ZERO.
@RimaHas "Et là tu vois Rima c’est en 1982 quand j’avais fait exploser la voiture d’un fonctionnaire de l’Ambassade d’Israël devant un lycée ! Il y avait eu 51 blessés dont 4 graves…"
"The Jews must get out of Germany. But that will take time. First we must make their existence in Germany impossible... The Jews are to feel the anger of the people." - Jospeh Goebbels, 1938
🚨✈️📹 ALERTE – AFFAIRE ROISSY CDG :
L’homme qui a filmé, humilié et exposé publiquement des enfants juifs à l’aéroport Paris–CDG a enfin été retracé !
La vidéo, tournée le 25 juin 2025 au Terminal 2B, n’a été publiée que ce 19 décembre expliquant pourquoi elle a refait surface que maintenant. La publication était accompagnée du hashtag #freepalestine...
📱 Les éléments disponibles renvoient à un ressortissant britannique 🇬🇧, actif sur TikTok sous le compte @ saint._17, probablement originaire d'Hackney, quartier à l'Est de Londres 🏴, ce qui expliquerait son accent.
⚖️ Les parents des deux enfants disposent désormais d’éléments concrets pour déposer plainte : un visage et un compte.
❗ Les faits ayant été commis sur le sol français 🇫🇷, il appartient maintenant aux autorités françaises de saisir officiellement leurs homologues britanniques 🇬🇧 afin d’identifier l’auteur dans le cadre légal de la coopération judiciaire internationale.
🚔 🇫🇷 @PoliceNationale@Interieur_Gouv @ParquetdeParis @prefpolice@NunezLaurent
🚔 🇬🇧 @metpoliceuk@MetCC
cc @HenMazzig@StopAntisemites@mishtal