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One More Fat Nerd posted:This is a hot take for C-SPAM, but "no really, there are no good billionaires, being super rich actually breaks your brain" is pretty good info to be pushing out to the general population. it's a hot take because Giridharadas isn't taking as an affirmative statement as you are. Unless this is a bit, he's still phrasing like a question, as if he can't quite believe it yet. And his prior work: quote:In 2018, Giridharadas published Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World in which he argues that members of the global elite, though sometimes engaged in philanthropy, use their wealth and influence to preserve systems that concentrate wealth at the top at the expense of societal progress https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aanandwrites%20davos&src=typed_query suggests that he really should know better
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Captain Billy Pissboy posted:A lot of people who otherwise hate the rich have an irrational soft spot for Bill Gates. I think it's a result of heavy propaganda about the Gates foundation and a desire to believe that not all rich people are evil If you can't conceive of mass popular power independent of money, then you have to believe that some rich rear end in a top hat is salvageable or you have no hope, and most people really like to have hope.
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Captain Billy Pissboy posted:A lot of people who otherwise hate the rich have an irrational soft spot for Bill Gates. I think it's a result of heavy propaganda about the Gates foundation and a desire to believe that not all rich people are evil It's genuinely incredible how much his popular image changed after he started giving piles of money to every major media outlet.
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Captain Billy Pissboy posted:A lot of people who otherwise hate the rich have an irrational soft spot for Bill Gates. I think it's a result of heavy propaganda about the Gates foundation and a desire to believe that not all rich people are evil It's weird how so many people forget what a conplete rear end in a top hat he was in the 80s and 90s. I suppose he still is but he used to have the widespread rep also
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Goon Danton posted:It's genuinely incredible how much his popular image changed after he started giving piles of money to every major media outlet. A week or two ago I walked in on my roommate watching some new Bill Gates fluff piece and at the time I had choice things to bring up about how he's not great and on top of that he'd clearly paid for it to make him look good And it wasn't even the association with Epstein but I don't remember what I brought up because there's too much now in general
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an actual dog posted:it is absolutely "you did a racism" look at this. she was making fun of marie kondo what is this *stimpack noise* aw yeah that's the stuff
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Nov 7, 2019 18:06
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Goon Danton posted:It's pretty clearly "but billionaires are the best of us, what hope do we have if even the richest are greedy fucks?" but did you know Warren Buffett still lives in a lovely two-story house???
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Grasping at every penny you can get and not even enjoying your ill gotten gains might somehow be more perverted than the megayacht arms race tbh
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Nov 7, 2019 18:13
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listen to the 2 citations needed episodes on bill gates to learn how lovely he is
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Goon Danton posted:Grasping at every penny you can get and not even enjoying your ill gotten gains might somehow be more perverted than the megayacht arms race tbh it's infinitely loving worse, nobody should be able to afford a megayacht in the first place when there's thousands of people sleeping under bridges in their town, but at least having been presented with that money they're recirculating it back to people who work for a living. Wealth hoarders are just destroying the stuff everyone else needs to live for the thrill of it.
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Cnidaria posted:hmm gonna need to see the math on this one it says 1:113 at the time of posting, so: a hell of a ratio
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Nov 7, 2019 18:41
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well, i guess all those holocaust deniers are right now that bill gates undid it
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Cnidaria posted:hmm gonna need to see the math on this one It's not terribly implausible. Preventable illness and absolutely trivial nutritional gaps kill tens of millions of people a year. And global capitalism leaves billions exposed to both through extreme poverty
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ikanreed posted:It's not terribly implausible. Preventable illness and absolutely trivial nutritional gaps kill tens of millions of people a year. And global capitalism leaves billions exposed to both through extreme poverty and what is gates doing to fight global capitalism?
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ikanreed posted:It's not terribly implausible. Preventable illness and absolutely trivial nutritional gaps kill tens of millions of people a year. And global capitalism leaves billions exposed to both through extreme poverty well that's good. I'm happy that bill gates has managed to retroactively undo the holocaust through his philanthropic acumen
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although for real philanthropy just exists to generate positive PR for billionaires and to funnel money from the government into their own pockets
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Cnidaria posted:well that's good. I'm happy that bill gates has managed to retroactively undo the holocaust through his philanthropic acumen Man I'm not defending the original hot take just the questions of math
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Your honor, while my client did murder the victim, you'll find that he then in fact father a child. As shown in the case of Evens V Stevens, this case should be dismissed.
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i love it when right wingers make appeals to ancient history that are so loving wrong on even a wikipedia level
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got any sevens posted:and what is gates doing to fight global capitalism? this is part of why it's a clever piece of PR - curing malaria is mildly helpful to capitalism, even if it's something that capital won't invest in for its own sake, but it's also a pretty hard to contradict good
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Nov 7, 2019 18:59
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weren't 11 million people murdered in the holocaust
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:weren't 11 million people murdered in the holocaust Some of them were socialist therefore deserved to die. / :usa:
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:weren't 11 million people murdered in the holocaust what they always told us in sunday school was 6 million jews/6 million gentiles
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kingcobweb posted:what they always told us in sunday school was 6 million jews/6 million gentiles perfectly balanced
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Jose posted:https://twitter.com/kgr00/status/1192523243082715144?s=20  innovation
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Jonathan Fisk posted:look, I don’t deny the life saving happened, I’m just skeptical about the count lol
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kingcobweb posted:https://twitter.com/panarin_misha/status/1191699815211634690 Genocide explainer had a twitter account?
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kingcobweb posted:https://twitter.com/panarin_misha/status/1191699815211634690 we're getting some real bangers today
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"china committing genocide isn't real" isn't even one hot take, i see it coooonstantly from the tankies i follow. it's real gross
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kingcobweb posted:"everything i don't like is cia propaganda" is genuinely hilarious though I couldn't find any evidence from their TL that they ever check first hand reports from living people so it's just utterly hollow to act like they've got special insight into what is and isn't propaganda.
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Jonathan Fisk posted:look, I don’t deny the life saving happened, I’m just skeptical about the count aahhahahaha
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