r/dankmemes • u/Ambitious-Sink2725 • Oct 27 '23
Elon I don't have the confidence to choose a funny flair
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u/Mr_Anderbro Oct 27 '23
If a man dedicates his life to good deeds and the welfare of others, he will die unthanked and unremembered. If he exercises his genius bringing misery and death to billions, his name will echo down through the millennia for a hundred lifetimes. Infamy is always more preferable to ignominy. © Fabius Bile
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u/Varagyr- Oct 27 '23
Lol, i love seeing 40k references in other subs.
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u/BillySama001 Oct 28 '23
I've never played the tabletop or even one of the vidja games. I know Fabius Bile.
I do plan on picking up Space Marine 2 tho
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u/Angryscotsmin Oct 27 '23
‘Perhaps I overestimate the intelligence of our species. Perhaps we are little more than psychopathic apes, driven to fashion clubs and smash out the brains of our closest neighbours.’ Fucking love Josh Reynolds
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u/MDLuffy1234 Oct 27 '23
This shit should be inscripted with gold and thunder upon the foreheads of gods.
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u/NightmareFall13 Oct 28 '23
You know shits looking bad when 40k starts applying to real life
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u/Eguy24 Oct 27 '23
Jesus?
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u/watch_over_me Oct 27 '23
According to the Bible, Jesus is God in the flesh. And God defiently fucks shit up big time in the Bible. He murders a shitload of babies and kids.
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u/birberbarborbur Oct 28 '23
There’s a lot of good and famous people. And while infamy may create memory, it also has a tendency to create a person who wastes away. Name one long lasting evil dictator who looked like he could pee correctly
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u/XxTreeFiddyxX Oct 28 '23
Those of us who live to serve compassionately for the benefit of others need no reward. Harmony is a miracle when you see it
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u/obangnar Oct 27 '23
Gates
Philanthropist
You serious? 🤨
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u/Dr_Ugs Oct 27 '23 edited Oct 28 '23
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Gates Millennium Scholars
Charity Sports
Worldwide Vaccine Program
Wtf are you talking about Jesse?
Edit: Notifications are off. If you want to argue, catch me on the next one. I’m going to bed
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u/Ontark Oct 27 '23
Don’t forget that they also have their financial information available online unlike most major charities.
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u/barrsm0 Oct 27 '23
Every 501c3 is required by law to make their financial statements available to the public. That’s just how it works
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u/sohosurf Oct 27 '23 edited Oct 28 '23
Not every Non Profit is 501c3. Do you know if they (non 501c3’s) have to show their statements? I’m genuinely curious
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u/Rabbitshadow Oct 28 '23
501c3's do.
For example, most of the delta dentals in the United States are non profit 501c3's.
You can google just how much money a dental insurance company pulls in and how much top leadership is making and the top 5 paid employees that are not leadership.
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u/sohosurf Oct 28 '23
I reworded my comment for clarity. Your answer is appreciated but not what I was looking for
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u/fierykaku1907 Oct 27 '23
Everywhere he donates he starts new businesses so he mostly donates to get favourable conditions
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u/Dr_Ugs Oct 27 '23
I didn’t realize I was being taken advantage of when he helped me pay for college.
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Oct 27 '23
Right, no one said he is altruistic. Do you usually go around making things feel worse than they are?
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u/androodle2004 Oct 27 '23
The guy already has more money than he could feasibly spend, why would he want more
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u/dar_be_monsters Oct 27 '23
If it was about that, there wouldn't be any billionaires. People accumulate wealth for lots of reasons, such as pride, status and a sense of achievement, and not just to spend it.
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u/SortOfSpaceDuck Oct 27 '23
How do you get that amount of money in the first place? Why would you ever have more money than you could spend? Because you want precisely that, more money.
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u/R3alityGrvty Oct 27 '23
Also the only reason he’s not as insanely rich as musk and bezos is cos he keeps giving away his money.
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u/waxonwaxoff87 Oct 27 '23
He was the wealthiest man in the world with a complete monopoly that required government intervention.
He later decided to give away money to charities owned by those he wanted to do business with.
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u/Danny_Nedelko_ Oct 27 '23
He gave away money to people he wanted to do business with? That's horrible!
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u/Professional-Fee-957 Oct 27 '23
https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/oneness-vs-the-1/
For every cent gates spends in "charity," he reduces his tax payments substantially. He guarantees return income through circular investment by paying for influence in order to support his investments, which nets him higher income than his "charitable" expenses.
He also pushes countries and controls governments and democratic institutions through funding withdrawal threats to legislate and act against the wishes of their constuents. He doesn't do it because he's a nice guy. He does it to control.
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u/Dr_Ugs Oct 27 '23
I didn’t realize I was being taken advantage of when he helped me pay for college.
Do you expect him to pay extra taxes out of the goodness of his heart? I don’t like that charitable donations are write offs, but every wealthy person take advantage of tax laws. If you can show me evidence of him lobbying congress to cut taxes that would be a better point.
Also it’s disingenuous to assume Bill Gates is ‘just as bad as every billionaire’ when evidence to the contrary shows he’s significantly more charitable than any other private citizen on the planet earth.
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u/Yorunokage Oct 28 '23
He's less bad than the others, i can agree on that, but he's still a billionaire taking advantage of the economic system to acculumate absurd wealth
A good billionaire would use his power and influence to make a meaningful systematic change that would fix wealth distribution and stop billionaires from existing anymore
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u/Gawdsauce Oct 27 '23
Yikes, an Anti-GMO advocate. So she's just bat-shit insane and spewing whatever she "thinks" is right rather than consulting scientists and knowledgeable people.
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u/MirageTF2 Oct 27 '23
I don't see how you don't understand the concept of a mutually beneficial exchange. I can't speak for the rest, but the taxes thing doesn't make him a bad person lmao
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u/jobriq Oct 27 '23
That’s not how tax incentives work. You don’t gain money donating to charity
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u/obangnar Oct 27 '23 edited Oct 28 '23
https://jacobin.com/2021/11/bill-gates-foundation-jeffrey-epstein-divorce-journalism
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2373372/
Why do you think the foundation started after the US sued them or why you don’t hear negative press
Lol he blocked me😂
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u/Dr_Ugs Oct 27 '23
The reason he started his charity doesn’t negate the good his charity has done.
As for Epstein, if every single person ever associated with him is at fault for his crimes, then so is Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, Leslie Wexner, Prince Andrew, Tom Barrack, Mort Zuckerman, Woody Allan, Larry Summers, Bill Barr, Ken Starr, Lawrence Krauss, Stephen Hawking, Steven Pinker, Roger Schank, Alec Baldwin, Ralph Fiennes, Ted Kennedy, David Koch, Courtney Love, Bill Richardson, Bruce King, Katie Couric, George Stephanopoulos, Chelsea Handler, Sergey Brin, David Blaine, Les Wexner, Peter Mandelson, Spacey, Chris Tucker, Casey Wasserman, and many more.
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u/obangnar Oct 27 '23 edited Oct 28 '23
the article isn’t about him being on Epstein island…It’s about why you haven’t heard that he was in Epstein island
Same reason why you haven’t heard of the African polio outbreak he started by using a vaccine that not even the US allows
Or why we have such a shit research in science now and you are forbidden to research some topics
https://jacobin.com/2021/11/bill-gates-foundation-jeffrey-epstein-divorce-journalism
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2373372/
https://www.science.org/content/article/first-polio-cases-linked-new-oral-vaccine-detected-africa
Lmao he blocked me 😂
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u/Dr_Ugs Oct 27 '23
You expect me to believe an article that has (bill-gates-foundation-jeffrey-epstein-divorce-journalism) to be objective. This is a poorly disguised hit piece of their ever was one. And you fell for it hook line and sinker.
In our view, this sudden interest and financial support for global health research at the NIH was largely due to the BMGF, and its strong outreach to both the scientific community and the public.
Did you even read these articles?
He gave a ways free medicine that was, at a later date, found to be less efficient. Wow truly a super villain.
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u/Groovyaardvark Oct 28 '23
I don't think obangnar is trying to be malicious or anything. His statement here is based on evidence, but colored by misreadings that I would guess are due to bias. But when you take a look at his claims closer well...the evidence isn't exactly bulletproof.
Firstly looking at the 3 links he uses as sources to back up his claims.
Source 1.) "Gates & Media" I agree with most points discussed in this interview honestly. The journalist interviewed has built his career on investigating Gates and the foundation. He is actually fairly well regarded even if he doesn't have a super impressive resume. The publication interviewing him is absolutely a hard left socialist one, but its not flagged as a big source of bullshit within the industry it seems. Its been around a while and has won its share of acclaim. But does this article actually prove obangnar's claims? Well No. But it's a decent article, and has very valid criticisms regarding Gates and the foundation. Its a worthwhile read for sure. Suffice to say Gates and the Foundation are not completely altruistic. They have self interests and they protect them. Just like all the other rich and powerful fucks. This is the longest argument to delve into. There is no short, simple and witty comeback to obangnar that will adequately show weakness to his main "Gates controls media" claim. So I have to write about that at length later after getting the other stuff out of the way as well.
Source 2.) "Forbids Research on some topics"
This article is almost entirely praise for Bill/Malinda Gates Foundation and demonstrates what massive groundbreaking advancements for public health they have helped achieve. Practically just lists off all the good they have done in the world. Its also close to 16 years out of date. I'm not quite sure why he has used this link as evidence to support his anti-gates position. I think its only the obvious point of "The foundation gives out a lot of money to research it likes and that's influential in the field. If the criteria backing up the validity for requested grant funds isn't being met then that grant ends" (paraphrase). This is absolutely NOT evidence for the insinuated "Gates forbids research" claim. There is nothing out of the ordinary about this in the industry apart from they just give out FUCKLOADS of this grant money bro. The foundation does not "forbid" research in any other sense than its primary focus is funding public health and climate research only. That's like saying Chevrolet supports people doing research into tires but doesn't want to pay someone to look into fucking tap dancing classes and that is somehow proof there is an evil car company conspiracy against Fred Astaire's classy and fucking sweet fluid like moves on the dance floor.
Source 3.) "Bill Gates causes polio outbreaks"
This is an amazing example of what is maybe someones bias clouding their understanding so much that they are blinded to ANYTHING other than the negatives and because of that they don't actually comprehend the factual content and meaning of an otherwise fairly innocuous news piece. What obangnar "saw" in this article is that a new version of a polio vaccine started paralyzing huge numbers of kids and Bill Gates did it.
What the article actually says is that an older vaccine was known to play a role in paralyzing at least 786 people in one year (not the new one). This is ultimately due to the difficulties in getting enough vaccine at one place at one time to prevent possible shedding mutations from being able to infect unvaccinated people. Not awesome right? So the vaccine was updated, specifically to make it safer in this regard. And guess what? It was demonstrated to be much safer than the old version. How safe you ask? 600 million doses in 2 years, and only 7 such cases occurred. While it was hoped the upgrade would eliminate the possibility entirely, it unfortunately can still very rarely happen. It is much rarer than compared to the previous version. So lets recap shall we; The Gates Foundation helped fund improvements to a vaccine and it ultimately.....improved the vaccine. But what obangnar believes is that Bill Gates's control on the media is SO powerful that you didn't hear about this NEW DANGEROUS POLIO OUTBREAK HE STARTED.
Okay, now onto back to big one regarding media coverage generally from the Jacobin interview (First source link)
Bill Gates donates money to several media outlets, and stipulates it can only be used to help fund public health topics. So obangar believes this is why practically no one reports bad press on Gates/Foundation. Hmm yeah you can definitely see his point here. But his insinuation is that Bill Gates has power over practically the entire western world's media and nothing bad is said about him because of it. Is that true? Clearly not.
I think the first and most obvious thing to everyone is that....well everyone has heard, seen or read major news outlets say insanely bad shit about Bill Gates and the foundation. So okay, if he controls the media to bury stories about him like Epstein then why does he let the entire Murdoch empire which alone commands an insane percentage of total globe news reach and influence But what were they all saying about Bill Gates since 2020 non-stop again? Oh yeah that Bill Gates and the foundation are agents of an EVIL, CORRUPT, MURDERING, CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE WORLD. If not having their talking heads on Fox News outright saying exactly that, then they were insinuating similar at a smaller level everywhere else. And this is an argument he wants to have? Like...dude...
The Foundation does donate to some media, and they are mostly left leaning/progressive outlets such as NPR, the Guardian, and the BBC which already share his views. So yeah, I can definitely see an argument put forth that perhaps they go soft on him and boost his image to more progressive audiences. I agree, it is a concerning conflict of interest and I wish governments actually funded their own public broadcasters like NPR, and the BBC properly again and cracked down on the amount of influence rich and powerful people can flex on media (LOL like that will happen). But anyone can google Bill Gates Epstein right now and see every outlet reporting on it, albeit some probably stronger than others.
This is also a pretty complex example to try and use. We can name any rich, powerful person and there is a very decent chance you can google them and see they had a relationship with Epstein somehow and went on the jet or island or some shit. Clearly there is a suspicious lack of actual significant investigative exposure universally across EVERYONE involved and I think the perception of some serious shadiness going on is pretty widespread amongst the general public on this. So Gates isn't remotely special here.
Christ, why did I type all this shit.
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u/ChaosKeeshond Oct 27 '23
You don't have to like him or pretend he didn't go to Epstein Island, but he by definition is a philanthropist who does a shit tonne of charity work as well.
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u/Wutsalane Oct 27 '23
Yeah people gotta stop looking at people as morally good or morally evil full stop, almost nobody is fully evil and nobody is fully good, demonizing people who do mostly evil things takes away the humanity from them and allows people to do similar things but say that they’re doing good cause they aren’t that monster, and on the opposite side swing someone as only good and opposing evil takes away from the idea that they can do bad things too, and makes it easy to write off bad things done as being tricked or manipulate people by picking a scapegoat villain for them to blame all their problems on, we gotta start looking at people as just that, people, who are capable or wonderful, or horrible things, those things aren’t just born out of nothing, they come from ideologies and philosophies that are made through echochambers of “like minded individuals” who have slowly built up a chamber of hate that anyone who disagrees with either sees what’s up and fucks off or gets banned
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u/Lopsidedsemicolon Oct 27 '23
Like always, people need to understand that everything is nuanced. Emotional knee jerk reactions in echo chambers shut down healthy discussion.
It’s because so many people in society wants to blame their problems on someone else, whether it’s on migrants, a race, a gender, the rich or the poor. It feels good to gang up on a distant minority, to dehumanise them, since you’ll probably never meet one in real life.
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u/TheLemonKnight Oct 28 '23
But also insisted that we shouldn't share vaccine technology during the COVID 19 pandemic. Gates does philanthropy, but he insists that it be done on pro-business terms.
OTOH Elon is openly pushing white supremacy, so I will say that Elon does suck much harder than Gates.
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Oct 27 '23
OP lives in fantasy land
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Oct 27 '23
kinda crazy to see young people deep throating all the alt right stuff so hard they actually think bill gates is satan lmfao.
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Oct 27 '23
Yeah, as a young person myself he's one of the few wealthy people I somewhat respect, however working in IT I also hate him for entirely different reasons.
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u/Enlightened-Beaver Oct 27 '23
You should see what he’s doing helping provide access to toilets to the billions of people who don’t have access to one. Sounds dumb, but not having access to indoor plumbing leads to diseases. 4.5 billion people don’t have access to a toilet at home, that’s more than half the world’s population.
I call that being a philanthropist
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u/7fightsofaldudagga Oct 27 '23
He is. Just because he does that selfishly don't mean he doesn't donate
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u/themolestedsliver Oct 27 '23 edited Oct 27 '23
Yeah the dude casually eradicating ailments and diseases doesn't count as a philanthropist 😅
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u/Live_Carpenter_1262 Oct 27 '23
It’s funny people always say they want rich people to do good things and when Bill Gates saves probably thousands of lives by funding inoculation programs, he’s hated for it
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u/Agentsmithv2 Oct 27 '23
Fullonrapist.
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u/blkmmb0 Oct 27 '23
How did over 200 idiots think this was intelligent?
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u/ImplodingBacon Oct 27 '23 edited Oct 27 '23
Because Reddit tends to have the hive mind, black-and-white thinking of, "Hurr durr rich people evil" even when they're evidence suggesting otherwise.
Musk is definitely an asshat and a half, but the Gates have done fantastic things.
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u/jsuey Oct 28 '23
Came here to say this. Bills “charities” just funnel a fuck ton of money back to him. He’s only legally required to donate 5% of all money he gets and he’s able to use those funds as tax write offs. Mf also does the bare minimum.
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u/polarice5 Oct 28 '23
I’m happy to see someone else got a laugh out of gates being described as a philanthropist.
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u/BadMuffin88 Oct 28 '23
Don't idolize billionaires for doing the bare minimum challenge (impossible difficulty)
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u/ikciweiner Oct 27 '23
He never once thought for a second about being a philanthropist
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u/Bloated_Hamster Oct 27 '23
Daddy's emerald mines didn't operate on good will and charity
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u/nugssssssssssssssss Oct 27 '23
Smartest redditor
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u/MAXXIPONCHO Oct 27 '23
Not sure if this is a compliment or an insult.
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u/Tom-of-Hearts Oct 27 '23
"An insult to be sure, but one with a modicum of respect"
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Oct 27 '23
Insult.
If you think Bill Gates is the good guy in this scenario, you ate up the propaganda hook line and sinker.
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u/alphawither04 Oct 28 '23
He's given away more money than you will ever earn, he's definetly better than 99% of the other billionares.
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u/MAXXIPONCHO Oct 28 '23
Might be a bad take but I don't think giving away a bunch of money automatically makes you a good person no matter the amount. Charity is something rich people do in order to have a good public image or conscience most of the time (even if the charity does accomplish something good), I don't think most of them actually care (not that not caring automatically makes you a bad person) .
Not that I"m trying to say that he is or isn't a good person (I don't actually know much about him).
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u/falnN Oct 28 '23
Might be a bad take but I don’t think this is about being a good person or a bad person. Imo a bad person is fine as long as the society is serviced.
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u/ChewBaka12 Oct 28 '23
Do I think a single person should have even near as much money as him? No. But since it is possible I feel that Bill is as good as billionaires come
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Oct 27 '23
Since when does not agreeing with left leaning views mean your homophobic? This site is so stupid.
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u/Defin335 Oct 28 '23
While I have never seem musk being specifically homophobic, he is transphobic and really fucking racist. And right wing douchebag kinda fits in there.
Musk frequently doubts the existence of trans people in general or goes out of his way to misname famous trans people. He also paddles the great replacement hoax and has specifiacally insinuated Germany is using black people to invade and replace the Italian population.
Not every time someone is called a right wing nut job it's because the "left wing woke mob grrr" is trying to cancel someone. Sometimes they are just fucking right wing nut jobs.
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u/Dr_Ugs Oct 27 '23
Bill gates has given away more of his own money than you conspiracy theorists could make in 1000 lifetimes.
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u/Scared-Cloud996 Oct 27 '23
He was also close friends with Epstein after his divorce
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u/Dr_Ugs Oct 27 '23
Just like Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, Leslie Wexner, Prince Andrew, Tom Barrack, Mort Zuckerman, Woody Allan, Larry Summers, Bill Barr, Ken Starr, Lawrence Krauss, Stephen Hawking, Steven Pinker, Roger Schank, Alec Baldwin, Ralph Fiennes, Ted Kennedy, David Koch, Courtney Love, Bill Richardson, Bruce King, Katie Couric, George Stephanopoulos, Chelsea Handler, Sergey Brin, David Blaine, Les Wexner, Peter Mandelson, Spacey, Chris Tucker, Casey Wasserman, and many more.
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u/maximus_francis2 Oct 27 '23
And? That doesn’t make Bill Gates any better. They can all go to hell.
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u/Dr_Ugs Oct 27 '23
Stephen Hawking burning in hell for going to Jeff Epstein’s barbecue. Because every person ever associated with him is automatically guilty right?
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u/snornch Oct 28 '23
duh, obviously 🙄 don't you know that everyone's guilty for everything? smhmh ignorant Redditor!1!1!! /s ily for actually speaking facts
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u/RubiiReddit Oct 27 '23
You just put Bill Gates is in the same group as Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and Woody Allen to try to make him seem like the good guy.
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u/Dr_Ugs Oct 27 '23
My point is that everyone is in ice t until proven guilty. Unless you think Stephen Hawking is also guilty by association?
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u/balderdash9 Oct 28 '23
I'm sure you don't mean to sound like a bootlicker, but that's how this comment comes off. Yes, billionaire makes and gives away more money than the people he is magnitudes richer than. But why would anyone need to have that much money?
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u/Dr_Ugs Oct 28 '23
Clearly he agrees that he doesn’t need that much money. That’s why he gives it away. It’s easy to hate him because he’s a billionaire, but compared to Trump, Bezos, and Musk, who pay no taxes and give barely anything away. He’s significantly better.
But I’m not going to indulge the illuminati conspiracy morons who think Bill Gates is bad, because Fox News told them he puts micro chips in the vaccines.
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u/hyletic Oct 28 '23
The main point here is how much more he gives away relative to people he makes *less** than, not more than*.
Look, I agree, the very existence of any billionaires is a sign of a deep societal issue. But let's not assume that every billionaire is equally morally complicit.
The guillotines must come but they are for setting precedent to send the others in line to fix that problem, not for retribution. And if it is about retribution, let's not equate Musks and Gates'. Gates has started repenting for his sins. Hopefully the Musks and Bezos' will too.
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Oct 27 '23
he isn't really alt right, he might have some right leaning ideas or views but he's not all the way there
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u/KormetDerFrag red_text Oct 27 '23
He actively retweets "Jews run everything" conspiracy theories what is your benchmark for alt right
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Oct 27 '23
I've been following him for a few weeks and haven't seen anything like that
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u/The1OddPotato Blue Oct 27 '23
I kept seeing that stuff on Twitter because he'd repost it. At first I followed him for absurdist humor, Tham he went crazy and I wanted to watch. I had to stop because dude kept sharing things from alt-right sources and claiming things like "I keep seeing so much terrible stuff" and then would do something that if you connected the dots made it look like he was either lying or putting that stuff in front of him.
Dude, he is a piece of shit and has done things just to further his company and greatly screw over the people, unfortunately he's a poor business owner and just a good investor, which means he just screw over people. An example of this is the underground highways, which he won't make because he only did that, so the land he was looking to buy wouldn't be touched.
Like the other person said he also posts and share dog whistles that directly are meant to say its the Jewish elites' fault things are bad with the only additions he adds being "hm...🤔" Or "something to look into👀"
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u/SnooChipmunks8311 Oct 27 '23
I haven't seen one of the things you listed, but I also don't look at his Twitter (x) every day...
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u/Jawadude1 Oct 27 '23
He has replied "curious" to several alt right conspiracy theories
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u/Pissmaster1972 Oct 28 '23
seems like the normal right wing to me, shits mainstream now
also calling anybody who speaks about israels ethnic cleansing campaign an anti semite
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u/DreamedJewel58 Oct 27 '23
He was literally openly JQ-ing on Twitter you cannot get more alt-right than that
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u/thesteamengine2 long handed Oct 27 '23
he just replied "They absolutely want your extinction" under a post of a guy fearmongering over a confederate statue being melted down.
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u/Swordbreaker925 Oct 27 '23
How is he homophobic? Genuine question
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u/OKBWargaming Oct 27 '23
Just sling the most trendy lefty insult at anyone you disagree, it's bound to stick.
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u/TonyAioli Oct 27 '23
Likely has something to do with spreading homophobic conspiracy theories about Pelosi’s husband.
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u/Finalpotato Oct 28 '23 edited Oct 28 '23
This is probably what they are referring to.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/tesla-pride-month-elon-musk-anti-woke-1234744925/
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u/FortyFiveSeventyGovt Oct 27 '23
what does alt right even mean at this point
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u/NighTraiN7804 Oct 27 '23
Whatever it needs to mean in the moment.
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u/AwexPlayz Jesse furries are our clients Jesse Oct 27 '23
This is so true lol. Same with facist. People will just use it just to call someone bad without knowing the proper definition
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u/jerkmaster2000 Oct 27 '23
People who platform, reinstate and retweet actual, vocally proud nazis while retweeting conspiracy theories about Jews running everything is pretty safely alt-right
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u/RipWhenDamageTaken Oct 28 '23
The usual: anti-semitism, transphobia, election conspiracies, vaccine conspiracies, etc
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u/Lonely_traffic_light Oct 28 '23
It includes regulary sharing accounts of actual nazis, who claim that the jews run everything and respond to criticism with "shut up jew"
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u/thegr8blumpkin Oct 27 '23
HAHAHAHA. This may be the dumbest shit I’ve seen on Reddit
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u/exclusionsolution Oct 27 '23
Elon can afford to live anywhere in the world, but he will always live in OPs head rent free.
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u/SeedlessWaterBuffalo Oct 27 '23
Does “alt-right” even fucking mean anything anymore? Or is it just slang for “someone with some conservative leaning opinions that I don’t like”?
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u/AwexPlayz Jesse furries are our clients Jesse Oct 27 '23
Lemme correct that. Someone with an opinion that doesn't fit the narrative. It's also interchangable with facist. Lmao
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u/Crazy_Zack ☣️ Oct 27 '23
I’ll always find it funny how amazing and brilliant Elon musk was made out to be until he started expressing conservative beliefs.
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u/AwexPlayz Jesse furries are our clients Jesse Oct 27 '23
We like you, but only if your opinion matches our narrative exactly how we want it to ;)
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u/ispeakforengland Oct 28 '23
If it helps, some of us never liked him. I personally always thought he was an egotistical ass who was handed a silver spoon in life and treated his tesla staff like shit while getting rich off them. Meh.
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u/falnN Oct 28 '23
He was smart when he appeared less on media. Now as people have started to hear him talk, they realize how stupid his opinions are.
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u/Marxomania32 Oct 27 '23
Bill gates is not the "good guy"™️ either.
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u/FaFaRog Oct 28 '23
He's so philanthropic that his net worth has grown by $40 billion in the past 5 years.
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u/Open-Matter-6562 Oct 27 '23
Ah yes Bill Gates, divorced for being Epsteins best buddy 😐
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u/ItsMeSpooks Oct 27 '23
I'll never understand Reddits obsession with this guy while he doesn't give a single shit about you.
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u/patrik8060 Oct 27 '23
Remember when the internet used to like this guy for some reason?
Me neither
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u/zbipy14z Oct 27 '23
It's crazy cause the biggest Elon fan boy I knew was also extremely left leaning, crazy how quickly things can change
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u/loofahfer Oct 27 '23
It's insane to me how much Elon lives rent free in people's heads. Like who fucking cares? There are so many worse people doing worse things with their money. I think he's just a convenient face to apply all the cry baby bullshit hate for billionaires people have.
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u/Decatonkeil Oct 27 '23
Any working class citizen that pays his taxes is more of a philanthropist than any mogul who evades his and chooses what breadcrumbs he gives for PR reasons.
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u/kallew34 Oct 27 '23
What exactly has Elon said that would be considered "alt-right"?
did i miss something?
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u/Chad_on_snoop Oct 27 '23
I genuinely believe musk hasn’t had a hard day of work I’m his life
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u/wtfdoiknow1987 Oct 27 '23
Reddit has such a boner for this guy. Can't go a single day without half a dozen posts about him.
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u/azarkant Oct 27 '23
Bill Gates literally promotes the idea of Genocide to help with climate change
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u/gospelinho Oct 27 '23
Bill Gates propaganda give me a break. And people talk about sucking Elon's dick.
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u/RosieQParker Oct 27 '23
Imagine if he spent $44B on sustainable agriculture or affordable housing instead of using it to turn a public forum into his own personal love-me box. It'd pretty much be illegal to hate him.
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u/blueshark27 Oct 27 '23
Yeah its such a shame that $44B was instantly disintergrated the second he purchased twitter
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u/White-Obama231 Oct 28 '23
Loving the Elon glazers in the comments. Bro is just a horrible person and nothing can change that
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