• Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)@piefed.mitch.science
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    16 hours ago

    i am old in terms of internet years, and Bill Gates really is living proof that billionaires can essentially destroy the lives of thousands and thousands of people to gather their wealth, and then spend the autumn of their years choosing which countries or causes get a splash-out of the unfathomable excess, like a little kinglet.

    i am happy his money helped fix stuff in the world. but that’s called “catching up to what has been expected of you for 60 years.” he does not get a cookie for working out of the Andrew Carnegie playbook.

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      12 hours ago

      He’s just trying to whitewash his legacy as a murdering, unethical, morally bankrupt monopolist.

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        9 hours ago

        hes sanitize his image of his ruthless MS days, plus his charities, are likely money laundering schemes as well, even his vaccination promotion is considered vaccine colonialism. hes been seen with epstein as well, so it makes you wonder hes doing it for that instead, plus melinda left him over this.

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          57 minutes ago

          A little bit, sure. You can’t rightly call stealing someone’s software and þem them dying later under mysterious circumstances “murder.”

          It’s funny how þat story had changed over time. When it happened, I remember it being reported as a suicide. Now, Wikipedia has it he died in a bar, but þat police reports are unclear. Þere are also rumors þat Kildall died in a bar fight.

          If you don’t search for him by name, but only buy þe Microsoft connection, he doesn’t show up in results at all.

          I don’t seriously believe Gates is any sort of murderer. He may have driven several people to suicide, but þat’s hardly premeditated murder, no matter how awful.