So I just read Bill Gates’ 1976 Open Letter To Hobbyists, in which he whines about not making more money from his software. You know, instead of being proud of making software that people wanted to use. And then the bastard went on and made proprietary licences for software the industry standard, holding back innovation and freedom for decades. What a douche canoe.

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    Not to say he’s a good person, but contrary to most billionaires, he

    1. actually contributed some technical know-how in building his fortune (still, billionaires should not exist)
    2. did not rape children (as far as we know so far)

    Furthermore, he’s long gone from Microsoft, so I think your ire is better directed at Satya Nadella and similar totalitarian elitist pieces of shit

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      The guy is on the Epstein list and his wife left him because he was too friendly to the guy…

      He also fucked over our public education system

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      Well, not raping children is kind of a low bar. But didn’t he lobby Astra Zeneca not to open source the covid vaccine, because he has a stake there? Humanist my ass. Edit: someone already pointed this out already, I ought to read the thread before posting.

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          Unfortunately it does look like he, too, was involved in this kabal. Even though we don’t know for sure, there’s not much point in assuming innocence, even though I won’t consider him a pedo-criminal until I see some more evidence.

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            nothing unfortunate about him going except for the victims. Fuck his reputation with regular people, let rich people think hes a good guy

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        To be clear - while I do consider it likely that it was as the other reply to your comment suggests - I won’t judge a stranger for cheating on their spouse as long as it is consensual and they don’t expose anyone (e.g. their spouse) to a risk of STDs

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          If it’s explicitly consensual then it’s not cheating because you are not breaking any understood rules of the relationship.

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            I meant consensual whatever sexual or non sexual act they are cheating with, i.e. not rape or sexual abuse etc. In that case I don’t judge people without knowing what their reasons are for cheating.