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If Bill Gates get involved in a scandal, is it now called a Billgate?

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Submitted ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

Context: Scandals are commonly appended by the suffix -gate, named after the Watergate Scandal

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  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    wait until you find out that if the same happens to Elon Musk, Elongate will be really drawn out

    ba dum tss

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  • justsquigglez@leminal.space ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nah, it’s gonna be the Gatesgate

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    • squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If it involves a gator at a gate it’s gonna be Gates Gator Gate Gate

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    • myrmidex@belgae.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Obligatory Mitchell&Webb

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  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I want it to be named Gatesgate.

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  • jcorvera@quokk.au ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We really need to stop affixing -gate on to every conspiracy and scandal.

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    • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can’t just take it away - ya gotta come up with a good replacement that’ll catch on even better so people will switch.

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      • rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        -slop seems to have already caught on

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    • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The problem isn’t the -gate suffix, it’s that we’ve had a once-in-a-decade scandal each month for the last 10 years.

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      • jcorvera@quokk.au ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thing is, the most recent findings go back almost 15 or more…

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  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Have an upvote.

    Now dadjokes is over there.

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    • 5PACEBAR@piefed.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      where? 😭

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      • squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        !dadjokes@lemmy.world

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      • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Under there

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  • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If???

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    • expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      i guess has to be one that stands out above the others, so could be referred as the gates’ gate

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  • devolution@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No. Blowing bubba is a billgate.

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  • ik5pvx@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gate^2

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  • Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Only if it happened at the Billgate hotel. Otherwise it’s a 9/11

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  • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    *Throws angry up-vote at OP.*

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  • Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’d be the Gategate. It would only be called Billgate if Bill was a woman.

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  • Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For you, the day a billionaire is involved in a scandal is a big thing. For me, it’s a Wednesday.

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