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[–] SleafordMod@feddit.uk 3 points 10 minutes ago (1 children)

I got downvoted on Lemmy the other day because I said that I prefer Bill Gates to Musk.

Maybe there are things about Gates I don't know. Maybe he is actually quite an evil person; I don't know. But he does at least spend billions of dollars helping vulnerable people, right? And Bill's stances on global politics are far more sensible than those of Musk.

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

I mean Gates donated his own money to help the poorest people in the world. Elon spent his money to become president so he could steal money from the poor at people in the world.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 10 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

so this is what he meant by eliminated world hunger, by killing them directly or indirectly.

[–] Aux@feddit.uk 1 points 43 minutes ago

The only way to get rid of poverty is to get rid of the poor.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It's logical: no people -> no hunger.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 55 minutes ago

and that's how you know it didn't even occur to him. he just did it for the sake of cruelty.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 34 points 9 hours ago (6 children)

How many children died because Bill Gates lobbied for the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine to be patented?

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

Idk how many people have died from Covid 19 vax? I keep taking it and my cock is huge, no other side effects

[–] MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 3 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)

Your claim seems a bit BS. It was apparently to have a better distribution and quality.

AstraZeneca claimed not to get profits from the vaccine sales. This seems kind of fair knowing that doses were sold at about $4 USD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%E2%80%93AstraZeneca_COVID-19_vaccine#Early_development - https://reliefweb.int/report/world/uk-donates-20-million-more-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccines-countries-need)

Unless you're talking about the side effects?

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 2 points 35 minutes ago

4$ per dose is quite a lot of money for African countries. Not patenting it would allow them to create their own, which he blocked based on bullshit reasoning.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 9 points 5 hours ago

Gates is always whitewashing his own future or past actions when he does something philanthropic tbh

[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago

This. Thank you.

That was a villain level move from Gates. The behaviour of the rich nations towards the LICs over covid vaccines was absolutely shameful and destroyed the illusion of Gates' benevolence.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago

i heard about that, he advocated for expensive equipment, medicaiton only produced by the us.

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 24 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I really do think it would be fun to compile all of the billionaires in the world and just have them fight to the death in a gladiator kind of rig. Would be awesome.

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like the only way it would work is if they got to keep the money of whoever they killed as long as that person had over a billion dollars... and I would almost be OK with that.

I like to imagine it would reduce the collateral damage the rest of society faces when these people have a dick waving contest.

Roided out billionaires with their hearts exploding out their chests from experimental steroids would really mix things up in a good way. He'll maybe we'd get some truly sick cybernetic out of it too.

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 1 points 19 minutes ago

Y...yeah .. sure. Yeah totally. The last one standing totally gets to keep everything and will absolutely be leaving the arena alive. Yup. That's how we'll do it.

[–] minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Kat and Kropp get in an argument over the war as they rest from an hour’s worth of drill (occasioned by Tjaden’s not saluting a major properly). Kat believes the war would be over if leaders gave all the participants “the same grub and the same pay,” as he says in a rhyme. Kropp believes the leaders of each country should fight each other in an arena to settle the war; the “wrong” people currently do the fighting.

Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front 1929

[–] the_q@lemm.ee 68 points 17 hours ago (26 children)

Remember there are no good billionaires. No amount of "good" they do will ever be enough.

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Chuck Feeney is the closest we will ever get to a "good" billionaire. Donated over 99% of his wealth and spent his retirement being only worth $2 million.

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[–] seeigel@feddit.org 29 points 15 hours ago

No need for envy. He owns enough farmland that he can easily top Musk by rising prices to let many more children starve to death.

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