Keep in mind, this is just what he’s actually admitting to. Like with all liars and cheats, the reality is usually much, much worse
He calls them women. Today maybe, but what were they back then?
Idk, I’m willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt because, despite the bullshit with Microsoft, he did some great charity work and raised his children well, which hints at some decency if it wasn’t his wife pushing him into it. There’s also reason to believe that some people will be named who were not guilty, but that’s only while nothing comes of the files or anything of the sort, because otherwise he squashes like a bug.
His charities are a tax evasion tool that happen to be helpful at some level.
And if he was half as honest, he wouldn’t have waited for the proof to be out there before admitting what he did.
What I suspect now is there might be more, but it hasn’t been released, so he won’t mentioned it.
And about his decency: he abused Microsoft leading position to enact all kinds of dirty and shady tricks. MS lost quite some lawsuits because of that, but he knew very well whatever downfall would happen way too late to fix things.
That’s not how taxes and charity works.
If you spend $100 minutes on charity and “write it off”, that saves you $30 on taxes. You’re still down $70.
(You only can claim itemized deductions if you have more than, roughly $12k of them, 24k if you’re married.)
https://cagj.org/2020/04/the-nation-bill-gatess-charity-paradox/
You still assumes big money operates like commoners. That’s never the case.
If you spend $100 minutes on charity and “write it off”, that saves you $30 on taxes. You’re still down $70.
But if you own and control that charity then all you have done is move $100 from one pocket to another, avoiding giving $30 to the government.
Yeah except those charities all happen to need to spend 90% of Bill’s donations on Microsoft products.
His so-called charity work is extremely suspect and I would highly suggest you investigate further before giving him too many kudos. Also I’m not sure why you’ve given him the benefit of the doubt considering he’s lied about this before. Absolutely no reason to think he isn’t lying again now.
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he did some great charity work
His so-called charity work is extremely suspect
you’re arguing something I’m not saying.
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I’m sorry, how is that giving him “too many kudos” rather than recognition of his work? And the main topic I’m arguing is giving him the benefit of the doubt of whether he’s a pedophile until evidence comes out.
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Oh but fuck me for defending my point when some of you miss the plot, right. Typical.
I’m honestly not sure why you’re crashing out. You made multiple points: A) building up a case defending his character, which is what was directly challenged and B) that we should reserve judgements of recent accusations until we have real evidence.
By all means, I agree that such accusations should not be taken as fact without evidence, but he is also in fact a piece of shit if you look into his history.
Regardless, I’m not your mother, so feel free to continue crashing out and calling people names. You could, of course, always agree to disagree with others 🤷♀️
I’m not “giving him too many kudos” any more than I’m not saying he’s guilty of being a pedophile until there’s proof. I’m not sure why Lemmy insists on reading more into what I’m saying than what I’m really saying every time.
affair with 2 Russian women
Seriously, how long has Russia been playing this “let’s get the world’s rich and powerful in places where we can blackmail the shit out of them”?
Honeypots are not just Russian. A great many countries and organized crime use this and a wide range of dirty tricks.
Probably as long as Mossad and the CIA.
The economic depression in Eastern Europe during the 90s created a lot of desperate people and vulnerable children that monsters like Epstein could prey upon. That’s why many victims of his trafficking operation were Eastern European.
Just because Gates is claiming that he slept with two supposedly adult Russian women doesn’t mean they were part of a Russian honeypot. Considering these admissions come on the back of the Epstein files release, I’m more inclined to believe it’s a limited hangout intended to soften the blowback from some of the sick shit Bill was alleged to have done with his friend, a known pedophile and child trafficker.
Who among us hasn’t tried to secretly slip their spouse some illegally obtained antibiotics so that they don’t discover you gave them an STD you caught while cheating on them at the home of your pedophile sex trafficking Mossad blackmailer buddy, in an attempt to stop them getting some of your billions of dollars in a divorce? I mean come on, is that really so bad?
There’s more. Keep digging.
I still want an investigation.
Strange he’s apologizing for the women he cheated with but not the crotch rot.
Even if the claim of an STD is the single untruth in a sea of other now-admitted truths relating to his serial adulteries, just the fact that he was that careless should not be going without comment.
She’s well out of that marriage.
“Women.”
Melinda didn’t divorce him because he cheated. That’s par for the billionaire course.
If he is introducing unknown trojans to Melinda, how can we trust Microsoft Windows 12 Copilot ShittyOS-1?
No, no, Trojans would have helped prevent the STIs
Nothing illicit? He thinks random Russian women want to have an affair with a married man for innocent personal reasons?
Not saying hes telling the truth, but I think being a billionaire attracts women on its own
My favorite opener for a while was “would you let bill gates have sex with you whenever he chose, for a full year, for a billion dollars?” It’s a question that got people going.
I knew I could respect anyone who replied affirmatively or questioned why I decided to start the conversation that way. These were reasonable folks who held an understanding of the vastness of a billion dollars, or saw how unsettling I or my question were.
The rare few were revolted by the premise. Either replying homophobically or in disgust at gates himself. These people were usually either not too bright or trying to put on a facade, in one respect or another.
Which is to say, discarding the idea of gaining a large sum of money is just not something that most reasonable people do. And many people view him less as a person and more as a portal to his treasury, until they’re forced to think about him. I agree with you
I would probably do it. Bill Gates is probably not willing to do it that often. I’m probably not his type, and the logistics of him showing up to whenever I am make it even less likely. I’m thinking maybe once or twice in a year, and a billion dollars is a lot of money.
That’s where I settled as well. “Change the world” level money for, at most, a few hundred hours of work. Probably closer to a dozen, if that. You’d be a fool to pass it up
Bro this exact scenario is what Clippy is modeled after. He will keep popping up. Again, and again. His work ethic boning you in a year is like those inspirational speeches, “Sleep? Sleep is for people who are broke.” He usually doesnt enjoy it but he’s getting that ROI.
Sure, but the fact that Epstein was so involved as to be his go to person to find ways to administer the std drugs to his wife is so fucking weird.
Were they just besties with utmost confidence due to their shared love for philanthropy? Or the known human trafficker facilitated or even arranged the affair?
“Affair”
Yeah no this doesn’t go away with a half-assed apology to the wrong people. If he wants absolution he knows what he has to do
So brave.
Treason investigation on top of pedo investigation! Oh wait, this is the US. Land of the corrupt, home of the pedos. Nothing will happen.
whoopsie
So this means he’s donating all his money directly to people suffering financial insecurity, along with education on how to not be immediately taken advantage of by unscrupulous scammers, right? That could be the only possible way this wankstain could earn any amount of actual respect from the rest of society.
