• huppakee@piefed.social
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    I always wondered why Bill Gates pledged to give away all his money before the end of his life, this must be it.

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      Cheap PR while he’s alive. Whenever he does a shitty thing, his supporters can just point to that promise. Meanwhile, while he’s alive, he’s kept the covid vaccine he was involved with privately owned, running directly counter to the precedent set by Jonas Salk with the polio vaccine.

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      Loophole! Can also use this on poor people you hate - give them a million dollars on their deathbed so they’ll go to Hell!

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          Do the powers that be know that? Do they adjust the threshold over the years? Could someone be a single cent over it and end up in Hell?? This just raises further questions!