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[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 83 points 1 year ago

Why the fuck are these idiots so weirdly obsessed with Gates. He's a fuckin' retired OS monger, not a supermegapolyscientist

[-] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

His foundation is heavily invested in vaccinating populations in the global south. On paper at least – I don't trust billionaires or their foundations, most of it is tax evasion anyway.

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Say what you want about bill gates, but that guy is the second highest donor to the world health organization, only behind the USA (yes, the country). Beats even all the other countries

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

billg knows how to spend it.

[-] MrSqueezles@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

I'd rather tax the rich and let the people decide what to do with their money than trust all billionaires to do the right things.

This particular person is on a mission to do to malaria what science and governments did to smallpox, eliminate it from existence forever. You don't spend 80 billion dollars to save on your taxes. He's no perfect saint, but there are rich people who are more selfish.

[-] TwoGems@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Because if you notice, the conspiracy theories tell them to hate anyone that's mildly helpful to humanity and celebrate sociopaths like Trump. Gates isn't perfect but as far as philanthropy related work, he did some decent things sometimes.

[-] devils_advocate@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

JFK conspiracy theorists would disagree.

You can't logically lump all conspiracies together like that.

[-] teuast@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

he's really rich and has paid lip service to liberal ideas, that's enough

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Gives them someone other than themselves to hate.

[-] FormerlyChucks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

He was also very friendly with Epstein...

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 13 points 1 year ago

Honestly at this point what rich cunt isn't

[-] SaveComengs@lemmy.federa.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

god i hate gates and wish he never did this whitewashing bullshit but these vaccine dumbasses have as many brain cells as their iq value

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