OT: Bill Gates

[MaroonBells]

I didn't write this but I wish I had.

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Imagine being Bill Gates right now.

You spend 30 years of your life and $50 billion of your own dollars supporting humanitarian causes. You directly save hundreds of thousands of lives in South East Asia by providing anti malaria netting to half of a continent, you drop infant mortality rates throughout the entire developing world by funding vaccine programs including vaccinating 40,000,000 children for polio, and, amongst a plethora of philanthropic endeavors, you fund free educational platforms like Khan Academy so people can have free access to high quality education.

Then after donating half of your wealth to charity and pledging 90% of the remainder to charity in your will. Arguably doing more to better life on earth for humanity than any other human being to ever live.

You then hop on the internet only to find a million scientifically illiterate fucking imbeciles that are using the very computers you pretty much invented in the first place to call you a child murdering arch villian antichrist because they watched a YouTube video made by some other yokel with the comprehension of a fucking potato.
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[Guest]

While Bill G has some things to him that I am not super pleased with the latest stupid stuff isn't it. The guy has done quite a bit to help the planet. 

[Guest]

I'm out of the loop.  What's he being accused of?

[Guest]

@pumpf said:
I'm out of the loop.  What's he being accused of?

Aside from the supposed 5G mind control abd coming vaccine as a cover for microchip implantation? 
No I am not kidding. People believe this shit.

[Guest]

@Mike Olson said:

@pumpf said:
I'm out of the loop.  What's he being accused of?

Aside from the supposed 5G mind control abd coming vaccine as a cover for microchip implantation? 
No I am not kidding. People believe this shit.

There are extremes on both sides,  imo it's not even worth talking about either because some then try and use those positions on here to try and paint opposing posters with that wakadoio point.   Are there radicals out there,  yes,  but they represent a very very small % of those that they align with politically but I think their positions are intentionally brought up at times for a cheap score.

[Guest]

@pumpf said:
I'm out of the loop.  What's he being accused of?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-gates-coronavirus-vaccine-conspiracy_n_5eb9ab7ac5b69358ef8a9803

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-conspiracy-bill-gates-infowars-2020-4?op=1

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2020/04/19/bill-gates-is-now-a-target-of-covid-19-coronavirus-conspiracy-theories/#5cb7cd4e6227

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/coronavirus-bill-gates-conspiracy-theories

[Guest]

@Mike Olson said:

@pumpf said:
I'm out of the loop.  What's he being accused of?

Aside from the supposed 5G mind control abd coming vaccine as a cover for microchip implantation? 
No I am not kidding. People believe this shit.

Yes, they do. When I first read the piece above, I searched my Facebook for posts about Bill Gates among my friends. There were about a dozen. All of which by the same 3 people. Two family, one old friend. All of whom are Trump supporters and conservative evangelicals. 

I don't know what it is about loving Jesus and tax cuts that makes people so naive...this is not something you see on the left. Not to this degree anyway. 

[Guest]

@MaroonBells said:

@Mike Olson said:

@pumpf said:
I'm out of the loop.  What's he being accused of?

Aside from the supposed 5G mind control abd coming vaccine as a cover for microchip implantation? 
No I am not kidding. People believe this shit.

Yes, they do. When I first read the piece above, I searched my Facebook for posts about Bill Gates among my friends. There were about a dozen. All of which by the same 3 people. Two family, one old friend. All of whom are Trump supporters and conservative evangelicals. 

I don't know what it is about loving Jesus and tax cuts that makes people so naive...this is not something you see on the left. Not to this degree anyway. 

yep,  no crazies on the left.   

way to go right after religion,  you just cant help yourself can you?

the "your shit dont stink" shtick is beyond believable some times.

[Guest]

Hmmm people on the left that I think can take a flying leap off a cliff. Susan Sarandon (sp?) and Michael Moore. Also Nina Turner, Cornell West and just about every single Bernie Sanders “spokesperson” (I voted for Bernie in the primary but for a few reasons most would disagree with). 

[Guest]

And to be fair I liked some, maybe even most, of MM’s movies, but he is a trainwreck when he gets in front of a mic and is not helpful at all.