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[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (17 children)

Please don't invoke the Bill Gates apologists ๐Ÿ˜‘

[โ€“] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 days ago (16 children)
[โ€“] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sadly yes. Ever since he became a "philanthropist", people come out of the woodwork to say he's "one of the good ones". I have to remind them that he may be "good" now but he can still pay his fucking taxes and be better.

[โ€“] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 3 days ago

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation lobbied against waiving intellectual property laws that would've let countries produce the vaccines themselves. Instead, only the pharma companies that owned the IP could produce it, and those vaccines were immediately gobbled up by wealthy countries leaving millions in poorer countries without a vaccine. So no, he's not one of the good ones, his philanthropy is still evil with a hint of good purely to launder his reputation.

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