A major concern with Gates, among other things, is he’s positioned himself as the single largest farmland owner in the United States and he did so pretty much without anyone realizing it.
I happen to enjoy conspiracy theories. They’ve proven to be spoiler alerts as of late.People love them a conspiracy. Makes them feel smarter and superior to those not in on the joke.
Gates has always been a controversial figure, firstly as a ruthless businessman who built a very successful empire, now as a philanthropist. He's become one of the more popular dog whistles of propagandists, who fabricate stories, most of which don't hold up on investigation, a few do, but mostly it's baloney that gets preached and accepted uncritically as holy writ. Like so many "titans of industry" before him, Gates will be a controversial figure who's done both bad and good. In the meantime, the dog whistles are blowing. And the faithful dogs are running to them.Gates turned into the biggest and arguably greatest philanthropist in living memory. The things the B&M Gates Foundation do for development of the third world, public health, sanitation, energy are spectacular. I remember hearing in an interview, the concept not who was on it, could’ve been Gates, that after WW2 the US leaders realised there is much to be had for having strong and rich Japan and Germany as allies, for both the US’s and the rest of the world’s benefit, hence the massive help given towards rebuilding. I feel Gates’s foundation is aiming to do the same but for African countries.
For me Gates is on another level compared with other super-rich.
an example or two?I happen to enjoy conspiracy theories. They’ve proven to be spoiler alerts as of late.
Politics aren’t allowed so I’ll let you find out for yourself there chief.an example or two?
Gates has been the Asperger's poster child for decades. What that partly means is that the ability to read and develop normal social cues is limited, sometimes severely so. If one hasn't actually worked with people who have this condition they don't have a clue. Expecting the same sense of recognition of social norms from someone on the spectrum is clueless.Regarding Gates, I had an extended conversation with a guy who was a high level Microsoft exec virtually from the start, and for many years.
Whenever Bill took an interest in some project-or-other and ordered the people connected to it to report to his office, the standard procedure was to put those people through a psychologist-staffed interactive demo & role-playing workshop to prepare them for the encounter.
Gates is on The Spectrum (as its known these days), you see, but since he was also the world's richest man and his name was the company, he could do whatever he damn well pleased. And did.
He was outrageously childish and abusive, and at the end of the "exchange" the call-ins would usually end up being fired. When they were, he would order whoever had hired them be fired as well.
The packaged-for-the-public version of Gates is just that. A PR team's product.
It's an old story. The inventors/creators of massive wealth are protected, coddled, and dealt with however they must be by those who share in the riches. Whatever it takes to keep the golden goose happy and laying golden eggs.
Based on how he treats people in actual, on-the-ground, face-to-face situations, I wouldn't trust the the man wash my car without stealing the windshield wipers or deliberately scratch the paint out of spite.
Run vast, secretive global enterprises and assume they were for anyone's good but his own?
I enjoy good conspiracy research...no need for theorizing...there is plenty of solid documentation.I happen to enjoy conspiracy theories. They’ve proven to be spoiler alerts as of late.
Conspiracy theories fascinate me, because so many otherwise reasonable people profess their faith in the unseen, unproven, and undocumented.I enjoy good conspiracy research...no need for theorizing...there is plenty of solid documentation.
Please read this (especially the section about off label and experimental uses, specifically anti-asthma, anti-inflammatory, and anti-viral ones), educate yourself, and stop regurgitating the same nonsense over and over.horse wormer
Conspiracy theories fascinate me, because so many otherwise reasonable people profess their faith in the unseen, unproven, and undocumented.
Yesterday, the most elderly member of our Wednesday night skeet shooting crowd announced he had Covid, on a group text.
Several members offered thoughts and prayers, which can’t ever hurt.
One, who has survived three bouts of Covid, advised Irvermectin.
Only one brave soul, advised he see a doctor for Paxlovid, what he’d taken when he was sick with it, which the sufferer replied he’d taken already and it seemed to be working.
I decided it was an unpolitically correct time to advise getting the full series of five shots, and avoiding getting sick, and it was too damned cold to shoot skeet, anyhow, so I wished everyone a Merry Christmas, and we’d try shooting next Wednesday.
Every last one of us is fully vaccinated against polio, but just me against Covid.
The odds are I’ve had Covid too, but didn’t know it.
But maybe it’s because I’m the only pipe smoker.
The Paradox of the Low Prevalence of Current Smokers Among COVID-19 Patients Hospitalized in Nonintensive Care Wards: Results From an Italian Multicenter Case–Control Study
AbstractIntroduction. COVID-19, a respiratory illness due to SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, was first described in December 2019 in Wuhan, rapidly evolving into aacademic.oup.com
High levels of Vitamin N seems preferable to taking horse wormer, to me.
I like that very much. I saw a recent interview, that I circulated to a few friends, of Jordan Peterson and Pierce Morgan. Albeit with a bit more detail, Peterson said the same thing.Some general purpose thought food about the recent dramatic increase in Western countries regarding the perceived importance of a person accepting the Latest Thing.
Meaning ideas and opinions about what is considered true. (What constitutes a woman being a good example)
It's especially relevant given the recent Twitter situation.
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Yes that gets to the heart of the matter. But other terms would work just as well as "communist"...it could be fascist or globalist, or whatever....it's all the same thing which is authoritarianism.Some general purpose thought food about the recent dramatic increase in Western countries regarding the perceived importance of a person accepting the Latest Thing.
Meaning ideas and opinions about what is considered true. (What constitutes a woman being a good example)
It's especially relevant given the recent Twitter situation.
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