• Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    Throughout the 90s Microsoft was the company equivalent of a serial killer, so Gates had to really step up his public relations. Goldfish-brained liberal techies ate it up, and love him now.

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      Many are new blood having no idea what Microsoft used to be. Add to that the modern good-guy MS face, funding (usefu for theml) open source and all that, and it gets difficult to convey how things used to be.

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      you know that batman quote “you either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain”? well with billionaires its backwards apparently, you throw enough money on PR campaigns and you’re literally worshipped

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      Wow that AP article is insanely deceptive. They make a fact look like a conspiracy theory and then “debunk” it with a strawman.

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      All billionaires are shit, but Gates is only an elephants diarrhoea, whereas musk is the sick triceratops’ shitmound from Jurassic Park.

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      billionaires shouldn’t exist in the first place. there’s no way such amount of resources is going to efficiently be used by one single person.

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          And Batman doesn’t exist, so the quote still checks out. But, if he did, he shouldn’t either. Absolute Batman has a great take on Batman as a poor, working-class person. I think Batman works better as that. Batman inherently is problematic, as a billionaire playboy beating up mentally-ill people. (This coming from a Batman fan myself).

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    Its like the billionaires pass the ball from Elon to bill so Elon can go back to the bench and take a break and get some Gatorade.

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    Want to do something about it? Come protest with me at the Billionaire’s SummerCamp in Sun Valley Idaho on July 6th. This yearly conference, AKA the Sun Valley Conference, is where the parasitic rich meet each year to consolidate the new and old media, and to plan the coming years news narrative. It is attended by several former CIA Directors and all the media Billionaires.

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    Bill gates is an actual scumbag but yeah none of you have ever met him so how would you know