Batting for Billionaires
Batting for Billionaires
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Throughout the 90s Microsoft was the company equivalent of a serial killer, so Gates had to really step up his public relations. Goldfish-brained liberal techies ate it up, and love him now.
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Many are new blood having no idea what Microsoft used to be. Add to that the modern good-guy MS face, funding (usefu for theml) open source and all that, and it gets difficult to convey how things used to be.
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you know that batman quote "you either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain"? well with billionaires its backwards apparently, you throw enough money on PR campaigns and you're literally worshipped
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Pretty much all of Reddit right now
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Kind of surprised that Lemmy fell for it too.
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Fell for what? From all publicly available information, Bill Gates is an objectively better person that is putting his money to far better good than Elon and is an example of how billionaires should behave.
Does that mean that he's overall a net "good" person in the grand, karmic, life total sense? Hard to say, given the abuse that Microsoft perpetuated to become Microsoft, probably not, but that doesn't change any of the first part.
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What we fall for?
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Bill Gates? The Epstein guy?
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An Epstein guy.
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Now to be fair, they're both Epstein guys.
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The only road to being a billionaire is through exploitation. If you aren’t willing to sacrifice your morals somewhere along the path to get there, your journey to being a billionaire ends. Like it or not, that’s the reality. Gates is no better than the others. He just has better PR. There’s more to being a good member of humanity than giving away money for the tax breaks and PR. Working class folks defending billionaires in 2025 is some goldfish brain type shit.
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He's developed this Mr. Rogers persona
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That's called being a class traitor.
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He isnt doing it for the tax break… like think about that logically if he normally spends 10m a year then he pays taxes on that 10m if he sells 100B of stock and donates it he doesn’t have to pay taxes on the amount he donates but still is out the 100B.
There are degrees of evil, a person who spits on a person is not as bad as someone who kills a person. A billionaire who feels bad as he ages and tries to give that money to charity is not as bad as someone using that money to fund Nazi groups.
Like I am not saying spitting on people is okay but to lump someone who spits on people with someone who kills a persons as “no better than the others” is wrong and if anything we should be encouraging more billionaires to donate their money as it’s at least better than them hoarding it
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I want to like Bill Gates, you're probably right about PR. Even though I use Linux I still think he's been a positive for humanity.
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Bill Gates the farmer?
Just trying to find a decent link led me past so many deceptive headlines like Bill Gates owns a lot of American farmland, but not the majority.
So... he's the largest private owner of US farmland , but he doesn't own a majority-- What a relief /s
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Wow that AP article is insanely deceptive. They make a fact look like a conspiracy theory and then "debunk" it with a strawman.
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libs not falling for the lesser evil challenge LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE
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I hope you remember what Bill Gates did to corona vaccinations
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Can you remind me? I'm afraid the microchip conspiracy theory people have taken over that portion of my brain
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation fought to tooth and nail to prevent a patent free vaccination
I'm too drunk to find a better source: https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-world-loses-under-bill-gates-vaccine-colonialism/
Gates’ argument about the TRIPS waiver—and the one being vociferously lobbied by pharmaceutical companies—is that waiving patent rights would not help poor countries scale up manufacturing and would instead eliminate incentives for future research.
This coming from the guy who has preached for population control for decades is pretty grim
Rapid population growth in some of Africa’s poorest countries could put at risk future progress towards reducing global poverty and improving health, according to a report by the philanthropic foundation of Bill Gates.
Bill Gates is just as much a fascist as Elon Musk
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Anyone with billions of dollars or even multi millions who isn't using most of the amount to aid humanity is an asshole, regardless of what their political views are
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literally the first episode of the citations needed podcast details how Bill Gates uses his "charitable" foundation to support the privatization of education via charter schools
they have another two parter episode later on about how his "charitable" foundation uses "partnerships" with media organizations to launder its own reputation even as it spends to influence government policy across the entirety of Africa
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As if one of them isn't a piece of shit?
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All billionaires are shit, but Gates is only an elephants diarrhoea, whereas musk is the sick triceratops' shitmound from Jurassic Park.
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I love how the conversation went from "all billionaires are bad eat the rich!!" to "hey this good billionaire is talking smack about a bad billionaire, time to defend them from criticism because they did good thing"
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that's liberals for ya
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Want to do something about it? Come protest with me at the Billionaire's SummerCamp in Sun Valley Idaho on July 6th. This yearly conference, AKA the Sun Valley Conference, is where the parasitic rich meet each year to consolidate the new and old media, and to plan the coming years news narrative. It is attended by several former CIA Directors and all the media Billionaires.
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Its like the billionaires pass the ball from Elon to bill so Elon can go back to the bench and take a break and get some Gatorade.
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Bill gates is an actual scumbag but yeah none of you have ever met him so how would you know
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I don’t care for bill gates. It’s because of him that I have to use Windows at work.
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