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[–] [email protected] 115 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (18 children)

Gates is just as evil as Musk, he is just better at it. Gates played a pivotal role in making sure the vaccine’s stayed under patent. Even when American farma didn’t have the capacity to produce enough and Indian factories had over capacity. The irony is that he did this using his position in the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, that tells you all you need to know about billionaire philanthropy.

[edit] source: https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-world-loses-under-bill-gates-vaccine-colonialism/

[–] [email protected] 76 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Idk who downvoted you, I guess people who think the problem with Musk is that he's cringy or like a cartoon supervillain. No, all billionaires are evil. If you think Gates is a good guy that's because you don't understand what it takes to be a billionaire, what he does with his "charity", or the history of how he's run his business or destroyed antitrust purely because he was embarrassed at how bad he looked under cross examination. He has the charity specifically to launder his image, and as a result he's found ways to be evil using it as cover that he wouldn't have found back in his embrace, extend and extinguish days.

EDIT: Also behind the bastards did episodes on both these absolute jackoffs:

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-ballad-of-bill-83715310/

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-i-do-not-like-63419860/

You don't get featured on that show unless you properly suck.

[–] WorkIsSlow 39 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No clue why you're being down voted. Youre right.

Gates chose to patent life saving medicine during a global pandemic.

The consequences of that decision are essentially withholding lifesaving medicine because it makes him more money.

[–] schema 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I haven't heard of that. Which vaccine did he patent?

The only thing I remember was him speaking out for not lifting ongoing patents on the vaccines, and then reversed course as criticism grew bigger.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Even before any of the vaccines were finished, there were plans to not grant them any patent protection so they can be produced and distributed as widely as possible. Gates and his foundation lobbied hard against that and instead came up with the bullshit plan to have rich countries buy vaccines for poor countries, which helped no one but the insane profits of the pharma companies. In the case of the vaccine developed with public funding by the Oxford University, Gates actively talked them out of releasing it with an open license, so they sold it to AstraZeneca instead.

https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-world-loses-under-bill-gates-vaccine-colonialism/

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Great video about Bill Gates and the lies of billionaire philanthropy

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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[–] dylanTheDeveloper 28 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Louis Armstrong didn't goto the moon for this :(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Lol, well done! I can't tell if you did it on purpose, which makes it funnier for some reasons.

[–] aidan 4 points 11 months ago

You've just convinced me I have early onset dementia. Knew that wasn't his name but couldn't remember at all what it was before looking it up, and could only thing of Lance Armstrong.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

second wojack should have been the crying soyjack holding the smirk mask

[–] sensiblepuffin 23 points 11 months ago

That would imply an unrealistic level of self awareness, imho

[–] Demuniac 26 points 11 months ago

It's funny how these things go sometimes.

At work we had an anti vaccine person who followed her "let them push your body full of these poisons" by going outside to get a smoke.

They usually don't think things through much.

[–] pm_me_your_thoughts 24 points 11 months ago

Lmao this post rustled up some hate feathers

[–] Dkarma 11 points 11 months ago

I'm loving the free $5000 they put on my microchip every month tho, ngl.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

This is 2018 Elon, he looks much more "off" now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I’m reading Stephen King’s The Dark Half right now and I keep imagining George Stark as the blonde guy

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