This turd was a titanic asshole in the M$ days and people (particularly those with fuck you money) don’t change in their hearts
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ultranaut@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s funny to see Bill Gates has become a Trump supporter after he spent the past decades pretending to care about a bunch of causes, like vaccination programs in Africa, that Trump has taken a huge dump all over. Or not really funny so much as horrific and disgusting. I always suspected he was faking it to rehab his image.
errer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
lemmeLurk@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I think for a lot of them, they don’t agree with most of his policies, but as CEO of such big companies you can not openly oppose him. They would lose a fortune, so instead they try to get the most out of it for their company.
Also, you gotta see it from their view. They are stuck with him now for 3 more years. In 3 years AI will keep getting bigger and may change a lot, loosing those 3 years because of trying to make a stand, might mean lossing your position on the table and your influence on its development completely.
All that said, I’m not saying it’s good that that’s what they are doing, but I can see some strategy in doing it like that
topherclay@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You skipped the part where they absolutely do not value human life or care about the suffering of others. That explains the most why this is the easiest option for them to continue wielding their power without having to compromise on any ethical or moral value in their life.
You can’t accurately (nor truthfully) look at from their point of view without adopting that specific part of their view.
lemmeLurk@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Imagine you where in their shoes and you do value human life. What would you realistically do? Honest question, I’d like to think I’d do something different then them, but I can not think of a way that does not cut ties completely. I think the best I could do, is secretly support opposition behind the scenes, not sure how much of that is happening though.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You don’t get there with intact morales in any way.
regedit@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I think that’s part of why Bill and Melinda divorced. Melinda was always the philanthropist. They divorced right around the time Bill started buying up farm land in the Midwest, likely to hedge against food shortages he knew would take place as runaway climate change decimates a lot of the country. It was also around 2020, during the height of COVID, so a lot of that land was dirt (pun intended) cheap.
Just speculation on my part, but a lot of his moves around the time of his divorce coincided with his more capitalistic endeavors, including the pressure he put on Moderna and others to withhold releasing the COVID vaccine for free.
zebidiah@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I thought they quietly divorced after Bill’s name showed up on the Epstein flight logs…
regedit@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Maybe both?
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Even those weren’t super great…
In many cases he provided experimental drugs unapproved by the FDA to test them in other countries
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think it was his wife at the time’s doing anyway. She wanted to do all that stuff. Also, trump knows who was in the epstein files, bill gates was on epstein’s plane. This seems like people getting blackmailed. Not sure of what he has on the rest of them.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
That was my first thought when it was noted that gates had been to the island and then his wife divorced him. She probably learned a lot about Bill suddenly
ultranaut@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That is a great point, we know for sure that Gates was friends with Epstein. I recall it even being in the media that one of the reasons his wife divorced him is because she found out about their relationship. It seems very plausible that Trump is blackmailing Gates, and others at that table. I know at least Brin has a reputation and rumors around him. Altman also had that accusation from his sister a few years ago, but it was never substantiated to my knowledge and I believe it turned out she has a life long severe mental illness that makes her delusional. Regardless, these are rich and powerful guys who no doubt have lots of things to hide and Trump is certainly not above coercion, I’d say he even enjoys it.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Nah if that were true, Republican voters wouldn’t hate Bill Gates.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
There’s no rhyme or reason to who they hate. They hate who they’re being lead to hate.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
All companies that are on their way to being replaced in the coming decades.