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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 69 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 34 points 3 months ago (7 children)

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.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

He's developed this Mr. Rogers persona

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

That's called being a class traitor.

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[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 34 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Bill Gates? The Epstein guy?

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 34 points 3 months ago

An Epstein guy.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago

Now to be fair, they're both Epstein guys.

[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago

Wow that AP article is insanely deceptive. They make a fact look like a conspiracy theory and then "debunk" it with a strawman.

[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

billionaires shouldn't exist in the first place. there's no way such amount of resources is going to efficiently be used by one single person.

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[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As if one of them isn't a piece of shit?

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

All billionaires are shit, but Gates is only an elephants diarrhoea, whereas musk is the sick triceratops' shitmound from Jurassic Park.

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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"

[–] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago

that's liberals for ya

[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] webdoodle@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

I don’t care for bill gates. It’s because of him that I have to use Windows at work.

[–] kevin2107@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Bill gates is an actual scumbag but yeah none of you have ever met him so how would you know

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