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 agoTheir pr firm seems to function very well at least.
Guess you’re going to whitewash bezos, musk and zuckerberg next?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Valmond@lemmy.world 23 hours 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.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 23 hours ago
Sure, and where is your proof that Bill needs one, let alone uses one?
Valmond@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
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?
Valmond@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Every dictator did “some good work”, are you thinking they are good people?
IMO your moral compass need maintenance.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 19 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?
Valmond@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I don’t think you realise the bad things he did (and still does, like patenting everything he ‘funds’ in research) versus the “some good” things coming out of it, that’s about it I think. That’s why your comments make me feel like you excuse an execrable people "just because ‘some good’ came out of it.
BTW I had to scroll throug the whole original post, Connect (the lemmy soft) lost your answers, so if you answer to this I might not be able to respond.
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.
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
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Welcome to Lemmy, heh.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I didn’t compare them, but in your mind you understood it that way.
I used Hitler as an example, an extreme one, but still an example of “the ends justify the means”.
could have use any number of examples, but I went with one I thought everyone could relate to. clearly I miscalculated the selfishness of modern day philosophies.
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.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 day ago
seems like a justification to me dude. you’re literally justifying his indiscretions, that you even call out, by saying the charity he heads “has done some good work”.
I don’t know if you’re actually being misleading or confusing by accident but calling attention to it being “nuanced” is a clear indicator that your argument supports that the “ends justify the means”.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It capitalized Wash because spell checker is the leaf on the wind.