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

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nah, it’s gonna be the Gatesgate

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  • squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • myrmidex@belgae.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Obligatory Mitchell&Webb

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• jcorvera@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      -slop seems to have already caught on

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  • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Have an upvote.

  Now dadjokes is over there.

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  • 5PACEBAR@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    where? 😭

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    • squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      !dadjokes@lemmy.world

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    • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Under there

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• hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I want it to be named Gatesgate.

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• Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If???

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  • expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• ik5pvx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Gate^2

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• devolution@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No. Blowing bubba is a billgate.

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• SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  *Throws angry up-vote at OP.*

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• Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• FreddiesLantern@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thing that’s starting to irk me is the bigger picture. To some degree we kinda present the “-gates” as the next thing in the media. Like as if you’re following a television series waiting for the next episode to drop. And that creates this feeling that it’s just a temporary thing that has no impact. Once it’s out of the news cycle it’s resolved and life goes on as usual.

  I think we all know rationally speaking that with everything that’s going on, it’s quite the opposite. It’s not just Epstein/Trump/…-gate. It’s fucking “everything is connected and everything is fucked”-gate.

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• Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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