Bill Gates calls Elon Musk’s embrace of far-right politicians abroad ‘insane shit’

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His philanthropy, while objectively good, is a measured pr effort that does not impact his overall obscene wealth and basically never has

Like with almost every billionaire.

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yeah he's so good... at fucking up the education system. seriously fuck this guy and his wife for what they did in the name of so-called education reform, he's just like the rest of them thinking just because he made a lot of money gaming the system he suddenly knows so much about everything. and fuck the united states for allowing these maniacs completely shape the country however they want.

I thought it was foolish that they allowed gates to do education reform, but then I thought it was insane they allowed reelon the troglodyte to make tunnels for his fucking explody cars. but that wasn't enough apparently so now they give him the keys to the entire kingdom.

un-fucking-believable.

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'Global South' sounds like some right-wing term. LMIC (low middle-income country) is better.

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What's bad did heritage foundation to you? /s

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Isn’t he no longer in control of MS?

Who? 'fascist state of Israel' or genocide?

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They rule 'the party'

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philanthropist

If he was one, he wouldn't be a billionaire

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It's not insane at all. It sucks but it's completely logical. Musk is just protecting his capital as best he can within a global capitalist system.

It's like corporate "greedflation" during Covid. Of course they jacked up prices and lied about wholesale costs, thereby wildly inflating profits, because profit motives are what drive our world.

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The global south is a real thing, look it up.

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Gates is a "lesser evil" billionaire but he advocated to not revoke patents on Covid-19 vaccines during the height of the pandemic. I understand the need for innovation, but screw him for still being greedy in the face of immediate crisis. He is two-faced nonetheless.

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Money would also attract grifters who want to create fake scandals for the payoff. I agree with you that there is absolutely some reprehensible shit going down behind closed doors at Xitter, and at Meta too for that matter, but if Gates or anyone else offered a financial incentive to come forward, finding something that actually happened amid all the reports they received would be like finding a needle in a haystack blindfolded and without a magnet. Especially now that everybody has access to several LLMs to write the fake scandal reports for them. Yes, most would be easy to identify as fake, but someone would still have to take the time to read them. So-called AI detectors aren't worth anything.

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That's a separate point. As long as the result benefits people, the motivation doesn't matter. Gates's problem isn't that he helps fight disease for the wrong reasons. His problem is that he hoards more wealth than anyone could ever need and only helps with a small fraction of the resources he could help with if he really wanted to. But if his tax evasion saves people from painful death by disease, I say it's a good thing. Most billionaires evade taxes without saving anyone else from anything.

He deserves a guillotine with a freshly sharpened and well lubricated blade. Musk deserves a rusty blade that will need to be dropped thrice to get the job done.

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Untrue. Most don't engage in actual philantropy at all, but donate only to causes that will directly benefit their bottom line, such as sectors that depend on their products, or for scholarships in fields where their companies hire heavily. That isn't actually donating. It's just tax-exempt investing. In this sense, Gates is a cut above other billionaires.

His actions merit a freshly sharpened blade on his guillotine. Musk can have the rusty one that we'll need to drop thrice to get the job done.

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Apart from Australia and New Zealand, the Southern hemisphere houses pretty much just the poorest countries. Poverty also correlates strongly with average temperature, so it increases as you approach the Equator from either side (oil-rich Sultanates included, since the countries are rich but the people are still poor).

For what it's worth, many people here in Brazil use the phrase "global south" as a better alternative to "third world", an expression which no longer makes sense since the fall of the USSR, and I haven't ever seen anyone on the Left here be offended or bothered by it.

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Ya, that does make sense. Rewards bring out a lot of fake shit.

And ya, definitely Meta too. They've been at it so long, I imagine it would dwarf anything we find out about Twitter.

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Colin Powell was one of the two Republicans I respected. Then he went on TV and lied to the nation to start Iraq 2.

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He's a greater evil billionaire with a good PR team.

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It’s not insane at all. It sucks but it’s completely logical. Musk is just protecting his capital as best he can within a global capitalist system.

No, it's absolutely insane, and short sighted. You know how much his capital will be in the event of WWIII? Assuming he doesn't get himself assassinated first by people that actually care about democracy. The absolute BEST thing to protect his capital is a strong spending class in the US, which would require the economy to not collapse. You gut social services, there is exactly one logical outcome and it is social unrest followed by either class war or civil war.

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Gates had two lawyers for parents, one of whom served on a board of directors with the CEO of IBM. IBM had been continually fighting an antitrust suit with the government for years, so they knew they had to tread carefully with the operating system for their first personal computers. It's no surprise they hired Gates to do that work. Also, because of the antitrust case, they directed Gates to buy QDOS instead of buying it themselves. As for the contract that gave Gates a very sweet deal when it came to selling DOS to for non-IBM computers... I wonder if his two lawyer parents might have been involved in that contract.

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Put him on a starcraft tourney

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Bill Gates calls Elon Musk’s embrace of far-right politicians abroad ‘insane shit’