squandering her divorce settlement on worthy NGO's all over the world without micromanaging or telling them how to spend it = classic
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
Yeah she's done it right. Essentially releasing half of Bezos's money up to that point into the world.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:22 (one year ago) link
Despite her massive first round of donations (another is to follow), she still came out ahead since Amazon stock went up so much during the pandemic
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:31 (one year ago) link
proving the only good billionaire is the billionaire who doesn't want to be a billionaire
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:50 (one year ago) link
(but she should likely try harder)
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:51 (one year ago) link
Gates Foundation is not bad but they're definitely a more traditional philanthropic foundation, they expect reporting
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:55 (one year ago) link
Looks like everyone who watches Elonjet on Twitch is getting reported and suspended for glorifying violence
What the fuck are you talking about. Where have I ever said anything like this. This is super bullshit. pic.twitter.com/4jLixKmbGE— carter. (banned arc) (@CarterForNow) December 16, 2022
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:57 (one year ago) link
The gates foundation is very bad actually
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 17 December 2022 01:06 (one year ago) link
i was gonna say, when the revolution comes we empty the gates foundation's pockets
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Saturday, 17 December 2022 01:12 (one year ago) link
srsly, the worst example possible
― sleeve, Saturday, 17 December 2022 03:54 (one year ago) link
The Gates Foundation gave us the microchips in the vaccine, so there's that. (The m in mRNA stands for Microsoft.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 17 December 2022 04:12 (one year ago) link
NBC has responded to Musk banning reporters by… suspending a reporter who was critical of Musk.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 17 December 2022 04:19 (one year ago) link
xp no we're not joking abt Gates
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation doesn’t just spend its own money. As much as 40 percent of a foundation’s assets represent funds that otherwise would have been collected by governments as income and estate taxes.
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/is-the-gates-foundation-out-of-control/
― sleeve, Saturday, 17 December 2022 04:20 (one year ago) link
also helping to eradicate polio but whatever
― jaymc, Saturday, 17 December 2022 04:30 (one year ago) link
If we took his money we could use it to eradicate polio without his pet project of union busting teachers coming along for the ride.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 17 December 2022 04:33 (one year ago) link
Keep caping for Epstein’s bro, though.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 17 December 2022 04:34 (one year ago) link
i don't think "we" could do that, actually
― jaymc, Saturday, 17 December 2022 04:38 (one year ago) link
Linsey McGoey's book No Such Thing as a Free Gift gets into the details as to why the Gates Foundation is bad - it's from 2015 and needs a post-covid update but this interview from July is up to date: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/07/how-bill-gates-makes-the-world-worse-off
Looking forward to Tim Schwab's book on Gates due out next year. His twitter is a constant stream on how Gates sucks.Recent article from him: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gates-foundation-colonialism/
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 17 December 2022 05:57 (one year ago) link
if you'd like to witness something truly deranged I would encourage you to check out the frequency with which Elon Musk replies to an unaffiliated twitter blue account called "musk university" that just quotes him https://t.co/a8pwrPak8T pic.twitter.com/z3FtAePOPL— inverted vibe curve: burgertown must be defended (@PatBlanchfield) December 17, 2022
― just sayin, Saturday, 17 December 2022 07:15 (one year ago) link
The current top read article on English Wikipedia is the one on the Streisand Effect btw
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Saturday, 17 December 2022 09:53 (one year ago) link
Well, until Musk buys Wikipedia
― Vinnie, Saturday, 17 December 2022 10:36 (one year ago) link
gates is a monster who has killed far more people than musk has yet and his PR is somehow more insidious since normal people seem to buy it without necessarily becoming stans - something that seems impossible for musk to achieve especially now
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Saturday, 17 December 2022 11:52 (one year ago) link
lol at people defending Gates
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Saturday, 17 December 2022 12:27 (one year ago) link
the shit they pulled around commercializing the covid vaccine was real bad
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 12:49 (one year ago) link
bill gates is the most powerful person in public health, because hes good at computer
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 12:54 (one year ago) link
every billionaire is a policy failure and an assassination co-ordinate (parody)
― mark s, Saturday, 17 December 2022 12:59 (one year ago) link
THE ILXOR FILES: matt taibbi identifies the posters who work for the fbi but you already know who you are 🚓
― mark s, Saturday, 17 December 2022 13:00 (one year ago) link
even when an ultra rich entity gives their money away in a way thats not an exercise in extending their political power, which it almost always is see bill gates, they are still unwilling to address the fundamental problem theyve caused which is that they and their cronies are hoarding the worlds resources, in fact they think they deserve to do it and its good, and we should be grateful for whatever they give back however they decide to do it, which is why effective altruism is so silly theyre never actually willing to do the effective thing
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 13:01 (one year ago) link
I have zero interest in defending Bill Gates the individual, I don't think billionaires should exist, and I recognize some of the inherent problems in large-scale philanthropy as it is often practiced. That said, I find some of the dismissiveness of the Gates Foundation, which employs hundreds of people who are working to improve health, education, and economic outcomes around the world and partners with other organizations to increase its impact, rather annoyingly smug.
― jaymc, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
just imagine how annoying it must be for us to see you uncritically repeating corporate pr
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
why not read about their commitment to intellectual property over all that human life they claim to be saving https://thebaffler.com/latest/who-owns-vaccines-neumann
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
Fine, I won't talk about it anymore
― jaymc, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
I wanna be a billionaire just to show you fucking ilxor bozos it can be done correct. musk send me money pls
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
thats effective altruism
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
we shd poll which ilxor is the most effective recipient (its me)
― mark s, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:21 (one year ago) link
listen even if i dont win i think whoever wins should give me a million dollars, i just want a taste, just need to get my beak wet
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
hes really trying hard to sell this thing that no one wants in a way that no one cares about
Twitter will start incorporating mute & block signals from Blue Verified (not Legacy Blue) as downvotes— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 17, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:28 (one year ago) link
anyway as far as my plans for the money i will use it to kill every other billionaire then with whatevers left over i will go on a world noodle tour
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
lol
Tesla’s most prominent investors now openly feuding with Elno. pic.twitter.com/vXMTWsGrke— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) December 17, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link
And as predicted, while all the mainstream journalists who were banned come back, the indies who specifically track the far-right are still suspended. https://t.co/0rnBOUTSRs pic.twitter.com/7QPnXpWBHv— AZ Right Wing Watch (Kolektiva.social/@AZRWW) (@az_rww) December 17, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
My brother used to say, if he became a millionaire/billionaire, he'd buy St Mirren FC and have a statue of our pet dog outside the stadium recreating a famous photo of him wearing our dad's glasses.
― Gulf VAR Syndrome (Tom D.), Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
Shit if I got given one million bucks I'd just pay off all my family's debt and keep driving the same car.
Paying off debt like an aphrodisiac
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
sorry but my family needs to learn personal responsibility
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
I’d pay off debts but tithe 10% to myself for a stupid fund and see if I could buy all the props from Rob Zombie’s Munsters.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:32 (one year ago) link
I touch computers for a living and have no children so I already have enough money for everything I want, being a billionaire has no appeal rly
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 17 December 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
Walking around handing out $100s to every person I encounter would be fun.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 17 December 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day— Thing Bad (@Merman_Melville) January 24, 2019
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
John D. Rockefeller used to do this! Except he passed out shiny dimes.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 17 December 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
new bil, who dis
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Saturday, 17 December 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
the guy who just retired? his days are numbered
🧐 Much will come to light as Fauci loses power.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
― frogbs, Sunday, 18 December 2022 02:56 (one year ago) link