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Do..do you know how to recognise jokes?
I think it was a genuine whoosh and OP did not deserve the down votes on their comment.
A real gaymer moment.
Woooshed so hard
He did try again. Epstein asked his assistant to get rid of him. Search Elon wild party
We need to be real careful here. I'm not defending Gates but let's not throw logic out the window here.
Those files include everything. Including things that the dude who wears diapers and a tinfoil hat in his mom's basement has reported to the FBI.
It would be so, so, soooo easy for the DOJ to salt the files with some wild stuff and bait everyone, then turn around, prove it wrong, and then use that as justification for ignoring everything else.
Obviously there's too much smoke for there not to be a fire, but we HAVE to assume bad faith on the part of the DOJ and MAGA and proceed accordingly.
Looks like Bill Gates should see trial. He should have immediately come to the FBI about this if he had any conscience.
He betrayed one of his closest friends to become the biggest software company in the world.
I’m guessing no.
He also donated 99% of his income to charity including bringing food, water, and medicine to impoverished all across Africa and the middle east. He pressured many other wealthy to do the same.
He needs to see trial for his crimes but you can't blame people for thinking he is the best billionaire.
The guy that thought union-busting was the key to improving education and campaigned hard to keep Covid vaccines under patent?
Yeah, man, keep licking those billionaire boots.
If by campaigned hard you mean backpedaled immediately then yes, that's the guy. His foundation also paid billions to distribute the vaccine at no cost.
They initially opposed a WHO resolution which would have member nations pause or withdraw patents over the Covid19 vaccine but they backpedaled on that shortly after and have spent billions producing and distributing those vaccines.
When I was a kid, I had a Scrooge McDuck comic book in which Scrooge had a serious problem - he was accumulating money faster than he could build vaults to hold it all. So he took Donald, and the nephews Hewey, Dewey, and Louie, on a cross country road trip, to try and spend as much money as they could.
They threw money around everywhere they went. If they got a bug on the windshield, they'd buy a new car. When they got hungry, they'd eat in the most expensive restaurants they could find. Once, they even invited an entire Duck Scouts troop to eat with them.
When they finally got home, Scrooge found his company officers in a crisis. While Scrooge was on vacation with his family, it seemed that someone had traveled across the country, buying luxury cars at Scrooge's car dealerships, eating enormous expensive meals in his restaurants, etc. Now they had even more money than before, and his financial "crisis" had only increased.
Scrooge's attempt at spending a significant amount of his money had only resulted in creating even more wealth. Modern billionaires are a lot like that. They have so much, they can't get rid of it if they tried.
Every billionaire residing in or visiting America should have to pay a million dollars a day in rent to United States, to be used to fund Medicare 4 All and UBI, over and above their tax burden.
Is he still a billionair? Then he didn't give enough.
We shouldn't even expect it, we have to tax the rich.
I can't blame them for falling for the propaganda, yes. After all, it was designed to deceive as many people as possible.
His "propoganda" helped people, saved millions from death or suffering. If you think my statement was false then who do you believe is the best out of all the billionaires?
Microsoft could have shared the company's wealth with the employees who actually EARNED the money and made the company successful, but instead it all accumulated with the guy who mostly said "That's a good idea, go do that," (while only being successful about 50% of the time), and kept ALL the money for that "work," while paying the people who did the actual work as little as he could legally get away with.
So, the thing about that assertion is, Bill Gates wealth came from his ownership of shares of the company, Microsoft.
It's not that Bill has been funneling all the income of the company into his pockets, no, it's that when he sells shares of the company then other people are willing to pay massive sums for it because everyone has collectively agreed the company is extremely valuable.
This sort of wealth is why the DNC propose an unrealized gains tax for the rich.
He also donated 99% of his income to charity
Income? He has wealth, not a job.
Selling stocks is also income, the statement is in past tense, to date Bill has donated hundreds of billions of dollars.
Then why didn't Bezos Ex do something about the state of the world?
Never is a pretty strong word, plenty of powerful people got roped into Epstein's prostitution ring and continued associating with him long after the fact. I want to clarify my stance that while Bill needs to see trial over these allegations, especially if minors were involved, that it does not cancel out the good things his foundation has done for the world.
I don’t know enough about the whole Bill Gates tied into Epstein saga. But I will say this=> it kinda reads like “oh noez, I messed up, better do some good in the world to clean up my image preemptively”.
That kinda money just doesn’t happen squaky clean. It doesn’t. Visiting Epstein’s island… at that point he should’ve known he was treading onto the wrong side of history.
That's nonsequitur to my comment, I'm saying despite his crimes and being a criminal, he is at least more moral than any other billionaire in existence, to say he has never had any conscience is not accurate.
Also, the new information released has, afaik, not mentioned any specifics about places, times, or identities of the girls involved, so as of yet we don't know that he has ever been to the island.
It's one thing to say "This man is a criminal who needs to be brought to trial" and a completely different thing to say "This man is pure unconscionable evil."
Tons of racists and conspiracy theorists have been railing on Bill Gates for decades because of how he's spent his money: saving dark skinned people.
even if they were of age, i wouldn't call it consent when there's such an extreme power differential. there's a reason why billionaires mostly target working class women and girls to rape
i have similar thoughts and to me it's really just about the balance of power. It could just as easily be a billionaire woman and a working man. I think in any kind of relationship (the broad term, not the dating term) each person needs to be accountable to each other. Good outcomes can still happen when somebody is unaccountable, but there is massive risk. And I go by the motto that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. If somebody has a lot of power, they will use it for evil. One goal of society should be to make that impossible.
In a perfectly balanced, evenly powered world where everyone had adequate housing, food, and all the necessities of life, transactional sex is fine. Because no one's life depends on it. There is no power imbalance, no coersion.
But we don't live in that world. Billionaires can and often do make your life a living hell if they don't get what they want from you. And people, generally, do not have all the necessities of life. 99+% of them require money to live. And these women are no exception. Heck, this doesn't apply to even just billionaires or men. Sex workers NEED that money to live, so it is inherently exploitative.
That is the problem, like it or not. But billionaires only compound the issue multiple times over, because they can also apply power greater than others. And they can stop being a billionaire at any point.
Hell, let's take that line of reasoning a bit further
On average, men are significantly stronger than women so there's a power imbalance there too. That would mean that on average, heterosexual relationships are non-consensual
Even though she could say no?
a lot of them did say no years after the fact but I have a feeling you're the type of person who wouldn't understand that consent works like this
And desperate women from impoverished countries.
Of age and consenting does not equal willingness or a lack of explorationexploitation. There was a victim who has done some interviews, she was of age, and one could argue she did consent. But she was heavily pressured. She found herself being brought to the island by a girl she was on a modeling shoot with. I can't remember all of the details but essentially she was made to feel like participation was expected and everyone just did it. Eventually this led to a relationship where she was trafficked to other men.
Hearing her speak, she sounded like she felt obligated. And when she didn't return calls or other communications, they would escalate to harassment levels of contact.
The women who were of age were still kids. I think about where I was at 25, I didn't know shit. An 18 y/o newly on her own, in a place she's never been, without close friends or family, could easily be exploited.
But they are not of age and not consenting??
Ok, thats a good premise. But it really.doesnt sound like you support legal prostitution.
I haven't seen the actual documents being talked about in these articles, yet, but they may have actually been of age.
Definitely not consenting if they worked for Epstein, though. He was a human trafficker.
This is a draft email from Epstein to himself. We don't have the actual emails that prove any of this.
Seconding request for proof. Or delete if you don't have it.
If the guy never updates or responds, this should be ignored for the reasons in my other comment.
This article doesn't seem to claim that, do you have a link?
He donated money after he got STDs? That doesn't add up. Wouldn't he be upset about that?
Blackmail payment
Seems this might be the reference.
The New Yorker story also implicated multi-billion dollar philanthropist Bill Gates. The emails between Ito and Epstein showed that Gates was “directed by Epstein” to donate $2 million to the research lab in October 2014, six years after Epstein was found guilty of soliciting prostitution from a minor.
I think theres been enough information over thw years to produce doubt on Bill, his occasional meetings with Epstein and the timing of his divorce, but you make a good point that these quotes produce a lot more questions than answers. Who were they, how old where they where were they, etc.
Doubt, sure. Those files should definitely be investigated further. But I don't think we've seen very concrete evidence yet, have we?
Sure, but it's a bit of a jump to "he tried to secretly dose Melinda with antibiotics to treat the STDs he gave her from screwing underage Russian girls".
Surely it's malaria practice!
Hindustantimes.....isnt that a bullshit clickbait site?
Account that’s less than a day old replying to an account that’s less than 2 days old both attacking the source despite the source being a document from the file dump that is easily sourced and one of epsteins emails
The people of Hindustan would be so disappointed in you lol
Guillotine
Lmao yeah bro my post history is 100% Bill Gates funded and my statement that he should go to trial is absolutely what he wants.
His endgame is a work release program from prison.
Block em
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He was probably relying on ineffective Microsoft antivirus protection.
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