Did not have “Bill Gates is a hero” as a 2025 prediction but here we are & I guess Microsoft deserves their kudos. Unless I missed a donation to the inaugural fund somewhere in the news.
Except for his escapades with Epstein, Gates has been a pretty good billionaire. See, e.g., the Gates Foundation. As a Seattlite since 1977, I have a fair amount of respect for him. Unlike those groveling at that felon's feet.
He talked with him about continued health funding and then turned around and removed the US from the WHO.
Gates either doesn’t really care about these things and just uses them for virtue-signalling or Trump just fucking ignored him.
Either way, THE BILLIONAIRES ARE NOT GOING TO SAVE YOU.
Research before you post… Bill Gates was there to discuss one of his charitable foundation’s goal which is to advance vaccines & other health research his foundation is doing. Trying to get that scum’s support rather than outright opposing him which at the moment will go to nowhere is smart!
If you are gonna make a claim, make the actual claim and back it up with evidence. Saying “research the real reason…” just makes you sound like a vague conspiracy theorist who doesn’t even know what theory you’re promoting.
What? Where did you get that idea? How is Gates indefensible? You don’t sound like you know anything about his philanthropy. Perhaps you should read more.
Every time you assume you can deal/negotiate/break bread with these awful people you are fooling yourself. They will use those moments to legitimize their awful plans.
“Research” is what got everyone into this mess. I prefer to read books and think.
Research & think are good! I agree it’s a waste to think they’d do the right thing but he had to try- get that part out of the way so he can make the next move. Try sugar before salt as they say.
Gates didn't lobby Biden about H5N1. Biden bombed on that. With Bobby Kennedy everyone knows vaccines are finished. So Gates was bending the knee pretending he was doing philanthropy, oldest billionaire move in the book. He was "frankly impressed".
I read some interview years back in which Gates recalls that Trump seemed to know way too much about Gates’s then-20-year-old daughter, and Gates was creeped out.
As a softie myself, I’m no fan of Satya, but I’m glad he’s not (apparently, at least) kissing the ring. And I’ve never seen the cultish behavior described by that blog inside the Outlook org.
I mostly don’t like him because of the layoffs so frequent that some term it as being “Satya’d”. And the AI
y'all have a very low bar, multi billion corps and billionaires only supporting him implicitly and not explicitly is apparently a good thing, no wonder we're doomed
it's disappointing to see someone criticizing a historical figure without providing any credible evidence to back up their claims. bill gates was a young man at the time and had no involvement in that particular event. let's focus on promoting positive change rather than spreading misinformation.
I don’t know if I’m surprised with the amount of propaganda going around about him , when it fist started! That he was for getting rid of the population, he had his minions wanting to 💀him
Bill Gates in an interview about his three hour dinner with Trump says we had a lot of subjects and he is very pro world health
This was maybe two days before Trump inaug and pulled this out of the world health org
He got scammed by a bullshit artist from New York City
Oldest trick
This is pretty reductive. GF hasn’t only done good; they’ve made some pretty serious errors. And many others have done plenty of good. Gates personally has done some serious harm, in addition to good things.
I'm guessing the news that OpenAI can now run on non Azure infra if Microsoft doesn't want to/have the infra for a particular workload includes the Oracle broom closets
The early 1990s me is having a very hard time coming to terms with the reality that Microsoft might be as close as we get to a good guy among the big tech companies right now.
Even if Microsoft wasn't present at the inauguration, Bill Gates had dinner with DJT at Mar-a-lago in the last week and stated that he was so impressed with DJT, fawning all over the experience. Ugh! 🙄 Don't worry, "Microsoft" will be getting their share of our country, too!
True - but they still influence a lot of Americans. But I don't think it's about that, TBH. All of the platforms represented at the inauguration are being squeezed by the EU, legislatively and in the courtrooms. They want Trump to fight that, as Zuck has said.
The same EU laws apply to Microsoft. Microsoft has come a long way since the 'browser wars'. During the pandemic, they acted responsibly and continue to do so.
Yes, yes! I'm just pointing out that Altman and Cook donated out of their own pockets, which is even more disturbing than if their companies had donated. And I was surprised Altman wasn't there because he's bought a ticket.
Gates merely approved the launch of a censored search engine approved by the Chinese govt.. which is still working perfectly after many years. So there's that...
I didn’t think we were defending Trump in his cohort. I thought we were calling out gates for not being the greatest person on earth. Bill Clinton is on the list too.
“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump booms from a speakerphone. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/
I suspect however, it's because he's in the stage where all he cares about really, is his "legacy". He spent the last two decades trying to undo all of the hatred he engendered through his years at Microsoft. He's still a bastard, always has been, and is meticulously looking for his Carnegie status.
You are right Gates has spoken out because he knows what he did was wrong. It is also the companies not paying their fair share of tax whilst claiming they would go broke if there was a living wage. A living wage would have prevented the rise of Trumpism. 66% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
It really is. That is what the Republicans and Democrats give as an excuse, there's not enough money. For 40 years they conspired to use the neoliberalist "Poverty as a Policy Choice". and couldn't give a living wage because there's "not enough money". 66% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
You can easily look it up. Billionaires have stolen wages and enriched themselves. 60% of Americans can't get $500 dollars together for a medical emergency. This is widely know.
It’s been debunked over and over and over. Good god stop with that already. Americans are richer than ever and richer than any other population in history. Stop with the doomerism bullshit.
Where are they codesigning? Certainly not in India, where they are absolutely calling the shots on health, especially repro health. They also funded unethical HPV vaccine trials on Indian indigenous women that resulted in women's deaths, and were never held accountable for that.
Sorry, I really was coming from a library space. Today I looked into GF and I learned a lot. I kind of idealised them, I guess. Desperado to believe the narrative of good philanthropy. Just goes to show they should just all be taxed correctly and let the pool be used by and for society.
This is the first I've looked into their contributions to libraries myself! Fully agreed with u re taxing billionaires (preferably into being non billionaires)
Since the WHO came up yesterday, I looked into the budget, and never realized the Gates Foundation is by far the second biggest contributor to the organization, and is on par with the US in voluntary contributions, while outpacing every other country.
WHO did a huge amount of damage. They got HEPA filters & clean air for themselves but didn't let the rest of the world know Covid is airborne. The rest of what they do is excellent.
Philanthropy wouldn't be needed if the cvnts paid their taxes.Most are wealthy from cheating the system, insider information, etc. The least the fucking parasites can do is pay some fucking TAX!!!!
No shit, I’m just remarking on him not performing this one act of fealty. The rest don’t even know they have enough power that they don’t need to obey.
If the FAANG companies went away, so would half the value of the stock market. Retirement funds would go bust. Loans would be due because the collateral is gone. Home values in tech hub cities would plummet. Millions of jobs gone.
The economy would collapse and send the U.S. into like 10th place.
Bill Gates should use his money to buy some tv stations and newspapers to bring some balance to the force. Great that he wasn’t there but it doesn’t change a thing.
It's my understanding that Soros is already on this. I haven't come across actual fruit of his labor yet, but I think buying iHeart was near the top of his list.
I was more thinking along the lines of Fox Network. Or the big newspapers. But I understand that the Murdoch kids are more progressive, so perhaps that is a problem that will fix itself in time.
Bill Gates, while of the world’s .0001% is not about the $. Never mind epic contributions to hardware, software, and business, he has donated a hundred fortunes to improve global health. He will be, and deserves to be, remembered for helping humanity long past when felon-enabler elon if forgotten.
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Trump wants favors from big tech companies, not retired big tech CEOs who run actual charities.
Was Satya Nadella there? MS purchased one of those $1 million tickets. And he has been kissing the ring at Mar-a-Lago.
Gates either doesn’t really care about these things and just uses them for virtue-signalling or Trump just fucking ignored him.
Either way, THE BILLIONAIRES ARE NOT GOING TO SAVE YOU.
Every time you assume you can deal/negotiate/break bread with these awful people you are fooling yourself. They will use those moments to legitimize their awful plans.
“Research” is what got everyone into this mess. I prefer to read books and think.
I mostly don’t like him because of the layoffs so frequent that some term it as being “Satya’d”. And the AI
This was maybe two days before Trump inaug and pulled this out of the world health org
He got scammed by a bullshit artist from New York City
Oldest trick

Unlike all the others.
Microsoft wasn't there.
Apple/Amazon/Facebook/Twitter/Tiktok were.
I’m only doing this to give people perspective of how much they own.
Surprised Altman wasn't there.
As if Trump has that kind of power.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/boeing-microsoft-and-amazon-among-big-donors-to-bidens-inauguration/
Including if she signed a prenup
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-taxes-billionaires-wealth-inequality-american-dream-sanders-philanthropy-2024-10#:~:text=The%20tech%20billionaire%20and%20cofounder,you%20should%20engage%20in%20philanthropy.%22
From this you can see who runs the country.
All other FAANG companies disappear: Bad, but not catastrophic.
MS disappears: Game over, the US stops. -> No Excel
The economy would collapse and send the U.S. into like 10th place.
But your point re stock market and home values are great because both assume you can offload those to someone else and live of the capital.
After Trump neither of those are given (actually before then neither)
They just work for bad people.