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Phoenix61

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36. I don't hate him I'm just not going to heap praise a

Reply to Bengus81 (Reply #35)

Wed Jul 16, 2025, 09:34 AM

Jul 16

on a billionaire who’s done jack shit to change the system that created billionaires. That he’s less of an asshole than another billionaire doesn’t change anything. It’s like praising the slave owner who set his slaves free in his will. He was still a slaveowner.

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'I'm alarmed': Bill Gates op-ed warns GOP risking lives -- and national security [View all] BumRushDaShow Jul 15 OP

Says the billionaire who has benefited for decades Phoenix61 Jul 15 #1

And has given away billions to humanitarian needs instead of a new Yacht Bengus81 Jul 15 #4

He's worth 117 BILLION dollars!!! Phoenix61 Jul 15 #5

Here is a good place to start research on the good Bill and Malinda Gates do... pazzyanne Jul 15 #7

And he just gave almost all of it to his charitable foundation back in May BumRushDaShow Jul 15 #8

And...Bezo's ex wife plans to give away her billions for the same causes by the time she dies Bengus81 Jul 15 #16

They just got married, when? BumRushDaShow Jul 15 #17

No...his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott....not his new wife. So she's worth about $40+ billion Bengus81 Jul 15 #23

Thanks for clarifying! BumRushDaShow Jul 15 #24

Ex wife. Joinfortmill Jul 16 #33

Stop with the making the perfect the enemy of the good. It's a RW kind of mental habit they apply to us when we're in ancianita Jul 15 #9

As I travel in central Africa ... SomewhereInTheMiddle Jul 15 #11

And lets not forget the Carter Foundation milestogo Jul 15 #14

And of course his "Habitat for Humanity" BumRushDaShow Jul 15 #18

☝☝☝☝☝☝ THIS!!!! ☝☝☝☝☝☝ nt wolfie001 Jul 15 #13

And...plans to give ALL of it away to humanitarian aid by 2045. What other Billionaire Bengus81 Jul 15 #15

He will die a billionaire. How exactly is he standing Phoenix61 Jul 15 #19

How the hell would you know who he voted for? Every rich person votes for Trump? Hardly Bengus81 Jul 16 #35

I don't hate him I'm just not going to heap praise a Phoenix61 Jul 16 #36

I could probably give away ten more dollars myself. Torchlight Jul 15 #20

He is planning on giving 99% of it away. applegrove Jul 15 #26

Calling out rePUKES is what matters. Has Bob Dylan ever said a word? Silent as a church mouse wolfie001 Jul 15 #12

"Ha ha. Suckers. It's what we do." - G.O.P. Darkside Kabal BoRaGard Jul 15 #2

We need more influential people to speak out. gab13by13 Jul 15 #3

I agree. riversedge Jul 15 #10

good for him et tu Jul 15 #6

Surely he realizes, with a statement like this... slightlv Jul 15 #21

They've been doing their best trying to turn "empathy" into a dirty word Jack Valentino Jul 15 #28

Not just empathy... but words like kindness and sharing. nt slightlv Jul 15 #29

Now he's upset Miguelito Loveless Jul 15 #22

He's been upset. Let's not eat our own. Joinfortmill Jul 16 #34

He is hardly, Miguelito Loveless Jul 16 #37

Well, ok, then. Joinfortmill Jul 16 #38

the "pro-life Christian" party DOES NOT CARE Skittles Jul 15 #25

Talk is cheap. Shut down ALL their fucking Windows computers as part of a national strike. PERIOD usonian Jul 15 #27

He owns less than 1% of outstanding Microsoft shares fujiyamasan Jul 16 #30

But he must have "friends on the inside" usonian Jul 16 #31

I'm sure he's in touch with Nadella fujiyamasan Jul 17 #39

The GOP are fascists. Joinfortmill Jul 16 #32