Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever

• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Their pr firm seems to function very well at least.

  Guess you’re going to whitewash bezos, musk and zuckerberg next?

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  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nope. And I sure as hell don’t white WASH Bill Gates. You don’t get to that level of wealth and dominance without cracking skulls and ruining lives every step of the way. He is not a good person. But the Foundation has done some good work. Surely this isn’t too nuanced for you to understand?

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Every dictator did “some good work”, are you thinking they are good people?

      IMO your moral compass need maintenance.

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      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No. I never said anything like that. That’s an absurd thing to say.

        Are we just going to keep going back-and-forth with you keep telling me what I believe while you ignore what I actually say?

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      the ends don’t justify the means.

      Hitler experimented on hundreds of thousands of Jews and the medical world benefited from it greatly.

      does that mean you’re going to nuance the Nazi regime because they “did some good”?

      no amount of good is worth the ounce of evil used to make it.

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      • Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I hate billionaires as much as the next gal, but I think comparing Bill Gates to Hitler is a bit extreme

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      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        When did I say the ends justified the means? I explicitly said that Bill Gates is a bad person. I don’t think you understand what that phrase means.

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    • FauxPseudo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It capitalized Wash because spell checker is the leaf on the wind.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Lol no. Of all the sleazy and greasy millionaires, Gates is one of the few whose actions speaks for themselves. Dude has been doing noble causes for most of my life.

    I’m all for talking shit about the rich, but it better be true.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      His pr firm really works well.

      Check out when elon ditched his pr firm. He went frm that loved lil crazy fun type to what he really is.

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      • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Sure, and where is your proof that Bill needs one, let alone uses one?

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Name one bad historical person that didn’t do at least some good.

  Your moral compass is broken.

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  • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The charity did more than some good though.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s not how it works, it’s not like “I do some good, now I can do some bad”. It does not even out.

      Bad people doesn’t become good because “some good things came out of it”.

      If you do bad, then you are bad.

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      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You’re right, that isn’t how it works. Which is why I would never say that.

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