• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Musk is doing other things. He’s a mass polluter having launched thousands of rockets each burning a shit load of fuel, distributing heavy mentals into the statosphere, q and punching holes in the Ozone layer.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        11 months ago

        Wealth concentration is bad, so multiple billionaires is better than one super-duper-billionaire.

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      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

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    Uh oh! That’s TERRORISM! if Bill Gates DOESNT want to be a Terrorist MAYBE he should Shoot up a School INSTEAD!

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    11 months ago

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

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      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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        He was until he forced patents onto a vaccine that was supposed to be free to the entire world.

        Gates is responsible for millions of people in the Third World dying or getting long covid.

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        His foundation has done a lot of good, for sure, and he’s actively giving away his billions. I think a lot of people just object to billionaires on principle, I do too TBH

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        He’s an Edison, he’s a Carnegie, he’s a Rockefeller. He’s a robber baron like countless before and that on its own is enough of a condemnation.

        Dude single-handedly ruined many, many foss and other software projects because he couldn’t buy, bully, or otherwise get obscenely rich from. He would use windows’ reach to kill projects. “Windows ain’t done until wordperfect won’t run”

        He played dirty to get his money and now that he’s “won” and has enough money for his family to be generationally wealthy for ever he’s donating amounts that don’t cut into his oligarch lifestyle. Guess he hired a good PR team though, cuz everyone seems to forget what he did to get so filthy rich.

        Not to jump down your throat over it - I just hate that he’s managed to erase the shitty things he’s done by donating the money he got by doing shitty things.

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          You’re exhausting.

          Yes, all billionaires are bad, just like all mountains are big. But some mountains are bigger than others. Amazing concept, I know.

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            👅👢

            Calling a billionaire “benign” then getting pissy when I give evidence to the contrary is weak shit.

            Also, so long as we’re trading insults i think ill go with “Fragile Ego Piss Baby who thinks some boots don’t taste that bad”

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              They said “as benign as it gets” which is not the same thing as “benign.” To give evidence to the contrary, you must find a more benign billionaire than Bill Gates.

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              Your evidence that he is bad is that windows is bad.

              Our evidence that Bill Gates isn’t that bad is that Bill Gates has directly saved millions of lives by donating the vast majority of his wealth to an organization he created to supply medicine, food, and water to the world’s poorest regions namely Africa.

              I feel like we’re not on the same intellectual playing fields.

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                11 months ago

                what about the numerous sexual harassment lawsuits, decades long friendship with Epstein including numerous trips on the lollita express and his longstanding board membership of Berkshire Hathaway which has presided over numerous ethics violations?

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                  The flight logs do not show that Bill Gates has ever visited the island on any plane. The most that has been confirmed is that Bill Gates flew from New Jersey to Florida on a private plane owned by Epstein once and that he had dinner with Epstain exactly once, which in interviews he expressed as a major mistake. I remind you that before 2006 Epstein was a public figure as a professional financier and broker and even until 2019 him and Ghislaine participated in major fundraisers.

                  Furthermore, your claim is one that gets constantly circulated by right wing nutjobs after a particularly viral tweet in 2023.

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                  What friendship. He was never at the island according to records. Unless you have some proof.

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            11 months ago

            Why does society need to have billionaires? Why can’t (e.g.) Bill Gates just participate in society based on his own merits like the rest of us?

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                I’m not suggesting that they be murdered. You’re saying some are worse than others, I’m just saying the concept should die.

                Thanks for agreeing with my sentiment loosely, sorry to trigger you.

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              Why does society need to have billionaires?

              It doesn’t. In an ideal utopian society there wouldn’t be billionaires.

              But, given the reality that billionaires do exist, I’d rather have them using their accumulated wealth on disease curing/prevention than them just sitting on the money or using it to actively fuck over entire populations (like Musk has been doing).

              That doesn’t mean Gatws or Buffet are *good billionaires *, it means they are less bad.

              Shades of grey exist. Nuance is a real auseful ful thing.

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                I’ll reiterate the point from my other comment. Value judgements are a waste of time, energy, and our voices.

                Whether or not Bill Gates is worse than Elon Musk is just as important as to whether Tom Cruise is a better actor than Leonardo DiCaprio. Neither value judgement is worth my breath. It’s a pointless exercise.

                We are reaching a critical junction in our timeline where these billionaires can not and should not exist any longer. We’ve learned our lessons, their benefit and merit is irrelevant because even the best billionaires sit silently and are complicit. They have power, influence, and wealth - all the ingredients needed to directly affect change.

                At best, they throw around pennies that don’t address root causes and play the PR game, or play the blame game by focusing on individuals who are absolutely not responsible for the root causes of various issues that plague our societies.

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        Just not being as bad as Elon doesn’t mean he isn’t bad. It’s like saying that alcoholic drunk asshole husband who beats his wife and kids isn’t as bad as Ted Bundy.

  • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.ee
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    like that time bill gave mone to warren buffet for “investment”. warren buy cheap food in africa, food price soar, kids die, melinda foundation to the help, bill begging for nobel peace award.

    anyway, americans are just greedy pigs no matter what. even if they drown in money to hang out with epstein to abuse children they scumbag as much as possible.

    bill gates maxed out the harm to children; starving them in africa, abusing them on epstein island.

    get fucked americans!

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    Bill gates is always spending his money eradicating diseases. Maybe he can eradicate this musk disease too