injinji
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I'm a NPR nerd too. Also watch the Newshour daily. It's on YouTube if you don't do TV.
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PJ Diaz
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If you look at the situation in it's totality based on what is known about Epstein and Gates, it is the most likely scenario. I defend Gates in this like I'd defend Trudeau, innocent until proven guilty. There is no reason to assume it was anything but philanthropy, I'm not the one calling his character into question. I do hate this kind of character assassination by association though and find it offensive. It's in a league with Qanon conspiracies and supported by as much evidence.
We are speculating here, nothing more and my bias is on the side of character, the best predictor of future performance is past behavior. Gates was never known to the best of my knowledge to be particularly oversexed or obsessed with it. One anecdote about Bill says a lot about his Asperger's, he made his sister sign a contract as a kid to play with his toys.
DIY-HP-LED
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Sure seems to be a lot of stuff leaking to the press about Bill in the middle of his divorce, doesn't there? I wonder how come none of this stuff was known before? Who is the source of this stuff? All these stories appear to stem from a single source, I'm not saying they're not true, they were most likely verified by the journalists. We don't really know how long their marriage was on the rocks do we? As far as I know they are still married and Bill appears to be looking for dates from women he knows.
Looking for pussy outside a marriage that's on the rocks, is a long way from saying he's a pervert connected to Jeffery Epstein and underaged girls though. There a big between being perfect and being a pervert.
Do you think Bill is putting micro chips in vaccines? This is how this started remember, you weren't sure if Bill was microchipping vaccines.
CunningCanuk
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You’re quite the advocate for Bill Gates. I hope he appreciates your support.
DIY-HP-LED
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There is a big difference between having an an affair at work and being an "associate" of Jeffery Epstein. Who's perfect? You smoke dope and for some people (who probably drink) that would be sufficient grounds to remove your child from your home, it was in the recent past. Because you are a drug user, are you an unfit parent? One thing does not lead to another, because a man is a thief, does not mean he is also a murder.
My point is that while Gates is not perfect, it does not mean he was a pervert. We don't know the state of Bill's marriage, my guess is that like many marriages, they held it together for the sake of the kids. It says a lot that he set up his company and board to have the power to kick him off, not quite in the same league as Roger Ails and Foxnews is it? Also, unlike many very wealth men, he didn't have his wife sign a prenuptial agreement, since he was one of the wealthiest men in the world before he got married.
I'm defending a philanthropist not a philanderer and if Gates was just looking for a warm body, he wouldn't have had a long term affair. He seems like a fairly normal man to me, like many that I've known, not perfect and not evil either.
CunningCanuk
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I don’t give a fuck about Bill Gates personal life. I even admire the work he’s done through his philanthropy.
I just think it’s funny how quick you are to defend him and how quick you are to condemn others in similar situations.
DIY-HP-LED
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Like I said, he's giving away great gobs of money and like you his personal life is not a great concern of mine. Guilt by association and character assassination while going through a divorce are distasteful to me. Also anti vaccers using his personal misfortune to try an advance a fruitcake narrative is an issue too.
I try to look at men like Gates, Bezos and Musk with with some perspective, all are divorced or getting divorced because they had affairs or for other reasons. Being very wealthy is hard on a marriage, you can be ugly as a toad, but some women will throw themselves at you, or at least find you "interesting". For a wealthy man free pussy ain't hard to find at all. Of the three men I mentioned, only Gates is giving almost all of his fortune away and that started before he got married. The wealthier you become, the greedier you become, this is a truism backed up by data. It takes some measure of character to give that up and the process started with Gates when his mom died and he and his father started on the path to philanthropy.
injinji
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He was just trying to give it away.
DIY-HP-LED
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It sure looks like some "source" is trying to give it to Bill, maybe the legal firm his wife hired is getting a piece of the action. I mean look at the cluster of stories all released at once, smells like a messy divorce to me. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation money is all locked in and control is split between them, even though Bill contributed all the money. Other money however appears to be up for grabs and someone looks to be softening up old Bill for a settlement, either that or his wife is bitter about things. Someone is suddenly providing information about Bill's private life, sounds like she had a private eye on his case and is leaking the report.
injinji
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I wouldn't be surprised if the Russian/Right Wing disinformation bureaus are at work here. For some reason a rich guy giving his money away is super scary to those guys.
DIY-HP-LED
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Bill has made enemies on the right, but I think this is a case of his wife leaking info to the press. There was a dump last week trying to associate him with Epstein and only things his wife would know. This week there are more juicy tidbits about a long term affair with a software engineer and later of ones of Bill hitting on other women he worked with. No reports of arm twisting or harassment as far as I can see and everything seems to center around his infidelity, classic divorced wife stuff!
There is other money involved here besides the philanthropic foundation that they are splitting control of and whom neither can make much money from. I would imagine Bill has a few hundred million squirreled away for his personal use until he dies, I believe the kids are already taken care of from what I can gather.
This is just a messy divorce from what I can see and Bill was getting some pussy outside of his marriage, possibly because he stopped getting it in the marriage. Or maybe Bill was just horney like most men, but unlike most men he had plenty of opportunity to stray. I usually take a dim view of marital infidelity, but life has taught me there are plenty of extenuating circumstances in many cases.
injinji
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That other head has a mind of it's own.
DIY-HP-LED
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Poor Bill, he seems to be attracted to strong, smart women and everybody knows that women with brains are not just trouble, they are a pain in the ass too!
hanimmal
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Only if you have one that reeeally knows what they are doing.Poor Bill, he seems to be attracted to strong, smart women and everybody knows that women with brains are not just trouble, they are a pain in the ass too!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/17/bill-gates-affair-investigation/
PJ Diaz
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I never said anything of the sort. Prove me wrong, and show me where I said that, you liar.
DIY-HP-LED
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Hey, I'm like Tucker, just asking questions, you had the hard on for Bill because he's a vaccine advocate. You are always too eager to promote the lie that vaccines are bad and dangerous.
PJ Diaz
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You are confusing what I posted in the other thread (which I have been locked out of -- gotta love censorship, eh?). I'm fairly certain that I never said anything about Bill's association with vaccines. As usual you are lying again, and projecting things onto me that I never said, so yeah I guess you are just like Tucker.
You're the one with a hard on for Bill, not me. I simply said this, and it turns out that I was right:
DIY-HP-LED
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The reason you were locked out was because you were constantly posting antivaccer bullshit that helps get people killed.
potroastV2
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Naw, that's not it.
I just like to hear pigs whine.
He sounds like the hillbilly on Deliverance.
PJ Diaz
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Yeah well call it whatever you want. I call it bias censorship, which is clearly evident by the fact that I was locked out of the thread simply for posting links to articles, while @rollitup's favorite troll gets to make posts in like this in the very same thread:Naw, that's not it.
I just like to hear pigs whine.
He sounds like the hillbilly on Deliverance.
