Why is Bill Gates such a RW boogie man?

[captain queeg]

I have a friend who is big on CT. Not necessarily a RW but certainly shares some of their loopier ideas. And he hates trump, so I still talk to him. He sends me videos every now and then. Some are ok, some are sort of leaning crackpot. But now and then, especially when discussing Covid he goes full CT. There’s a lot about his Covid theories that are insane, but when it starts tying in with Bill Gates I stop watching. I just wonder how Gates got such a position in the CT and RW crazo-sphere?

[samnsara]

1. hes an easy target because hes so easy going himself...

...but Im sure he doesnt give a F what the rw has to say.

[Blue_true]

8. Yes. Now he is mission driven, and his personal security and that for his family

is almost sure topnotch.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Because Bill is a Globalist.

He doesn't think in terms of local....his $ and focus is on the entire world. And that makes him a enemy of the Freedumb Folks.

[Elessar Zappa]

3. Bill Gates, George Soros, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

All omnipresent and evil in the RW universe.

[Maraya1969]

4. Yea I was told it was Bill Gates who was microchipping everyone. My question

was, "WHY?"

And "Who cares where you are?"

[Haggard Celine]

5. It's mostly ignorance.

I talked to a man 20 years ago who believed that Bill Gates was in control of the country and possibly the world. He thought Gates could shut down the whole internet with the flick of a switch. I'm not saying I'm a computer whiz; I know very little. But people who have no knowledge about computers are scared to death of them.

Another issue is that CT believers don't trust philanthropists. They think that philanthropists have ulterior and sinister motives. A lot of the Gates bashing got started when Bill Gates started his foundation. Look out, folks! The Gates Foundation is helping the poor. He must be the AntiChrist!

[PCIntern]

6. As an aside...

and I can't post this as an OP except in the Speculation forum...

I'll phrase this carefully: forget about Gates of course, but something's up here. This is not the natural order of things in my opinion. I'm not crazy, I'm not paranoid, and i usually ignore coincidences but something just ain't right with this whole scenario. We may never "know" what, but this just isn't the natural order of things. Just a feeling. and yes...I practiced through the AIDS epidemic, formerly known as GRID (a story for another day) and never felt this way. Something's just plain wrong.

[USALiberal]

12. There is a good reason for that!

[GoCubsGo]

7. He's pumping a whole bunch of money and effort into fighting climate change.

And, other causes that are being perceived as "leftist" causes.

[Blue Owl]

9. Whenever my RWNJ relatives start going off on Bill Gates...

I'm always happy to remind them that Bill is the shining example and end product of their glorious American capitalism -- and that always shuts them up...

[Initech]

10. Because he gave a Ted Talk in 2015 where he basically predicted COVID.

In the talk he said that "the next thing that is going to kill millions of people won't be a war. It will be a virus. Think microbes and not missiles.".

Because of this the conspiracy theorists think he gave us COVID.

[KT2000]

11. Also - in Washington he has called for

a state income tax. R's of course hate that as the poor pay a larger percent of their income in state sales tax than the wealthy. It makes it look like Gates is a Democrat - the enemy.

[comradebillyboy]

13. Bill Gates is a visionary capitalist. He's a big reason why

we all have personal computers. There ought to be statues of Bill Gates in city squares.

[applegrove]

14. Because he is such an amazing humanitarian who wants humans around the

world to live and everyone has a longstanding satisfied customer relationship with him. And if his billions are going to find game changers on renewable energy sources and vaccines, thousands of that is what each person paid him for windows and MS Word. And people might feel good. And the GOP can't have people feeling good for making the world better for all.

[JI7]

15. He believes in science and international cooperation in dealing with issues

conspiracy theory types tend to have some bigotry. Usually against jews .

[Xolodno]

16. He's a philanthropist. Which means he's giving his money away.

The decades of deregulation, tax reductions, etc. by the GOP made him a Billionaire. And now he's giving clean water to people in Africa, major sin in the eyes of GOP voters. He's supposed to be like Steve Jobs, a major asshole.

Not saying Bill Gates is a saint, working the corporate for over 20 years has taught me the top of food chain get there by being assholes. Shit, yesterday, found out two executives who were long life employee's got the boot.

[GopherGal]

19. Bingo.

How dare someone become wealthy and not be a complete and utter sociopath?

He's not playing the game right. He's raising the bar by acting like a human being rather than working to perpetuate the "rich get richer" system he benefited from.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

17. The QOP has been taken over by the idiots who used to bully our schools

They are pissed off that someone that looks and sounds like the ones they used to beat up, and stuff into lockers and trash cans, has succeeded and made it in life. They "won" in high school (or so they think), so seeing the "loser" win in life drives them nucking futs.

It may sound shallow, but, we are talking about a cult that passes itself off as a party full of shallow people.

[BlueNProud]

18. Not a kook.