In a wide-ranging interview with NPR, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates expressed concern about the new administration's recent steps to pull back from approach to public health but says he's optimistic about the future and wants to find common ground with the White House.
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“Expressed concern” means I’m packing my bags and wondering if the FAA has been screwed for sea travel or if I only have to be cautious about booking an American flight
There is no common ground with the Nazi hateful - there is only HOPE in the Resistence
The individual consequences still matter to each person harmed. To them it is their life, not a transition. Beating hearts, some people have them.
“Fight the billionaires NEEDS to be our slogan” if we want to be taken seriously as a bulwark against the fash.
better focus on other countries that have a huge void now that the felon has left them to rot
Jesus can we stop asking billionaires what they think? Or letting them have any control?
Fucking billionaires always willing to give other billionaire another chance, despite the damage done to us little folk. Bill Gates has lost all moral credibility.
Trump's about to defund NPR while NPR continues to use language of normalcy for Trump🤔
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5092973-bill-gates-donald-trump-meeting/
I've got 70 gallons of my own urine collected in mason jars and 36 lbs. of toenail clippings. If the world burns, I should be OK.
It's not like he's going to actually, you know, suffer.
Let he be grandpa simpson yelling at the clouds, we don't need his opinions.
We don’t give a damn about how billionaires feel about anything.
Read the room, ffs.
What common ground might that be?
That air is good? No wait can’t even agree there bc Dems want clean air and Ra just want $$$
Fuck Bill Gates. Fuck this sanewashing of literal Nazis.
Celebrities and people of note should be speaking out now. We need that momentum.
No billionaire cares about anything other than themselves.
Billionaires shouldn't exist. They should be taxed out of existence.
You know what adventurers do to dragons sitting on piles of gold?
Fucking slay.
No, but that callous response really said a lot about their care and prioritization.
Bill Gates was really shitty during his ascent to billionaire status.
Yeah his outlook is good
We're counting on you to do better NPR.
“Man with unlimited resources chooses selfish, magical thinking instead of empathy and action during coup.”
#EatthefuckingRich
respectfully, did y’all ask him about the problems that come along with his having been allowed to accumulate and horde such a truly obscene amount of money?
genuinely curious.
#NotToBeRude
You’re in bed with them
You’re gonna go down with them when they fail just like Hitler did
He’s one of them
1. Not a rocket billionaire
2. In favor of higher taxes for billionaires (over 60%)
3. Second largest donor for WHO (after Germany)
Those are really different from Elons, Trumps and Jeffs.
Now list all the shitty things he did to fuck over his employees and family and, well, the world
He’s one of them
Just not as newsworthy atm
But the major difference between him and Buffet to the Elons is that the first two are in favor of much higher taxes.
.....specifically in the countries that USAID just abandoned
so he's being all diplomatic to try and get back some of this aid
but I doubt he'll suceed
you never heard of Microsoft.....?
such statements debase the whole discussion
Fuck you. You and your billionaire friends are the only ones who are optimistic right now. The rest of us are getting angry.
The rest of us are alarmed by how damn fast Project 2025 is moving.
Not that we didn't warn people!