Summing up the Gates haters

[Larry]

@Axtremus said in Summing up the Gates haters:

@Rainman said in Summing up the Gates haters:

Impossible to stop the influence, when your hand is out taking their money to begin with. Or is it that a politician can take huge amounts of money and those with "lots of money" expect nothing in return?

So you agree that outsized “big money” influence is (1) not good and (2) hard to get away from. Let’s get working on boosting the marginal income tax rates for the very high brackets, institute a “wealth tax” on the ultra wealthy, boost support for the low income. Basically you want to support policies that reduce wealth inequality and reduce income inequality. That way you reduce “big money” and its power over the rest of society. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders have many good policy ideas along those lines. I hope you find something you like and support them.

That is stupid. Here are some facts for you:

1. Half the people in this country don't pay any tax at all.
2. If you confiscated 100% of the wealth of the "very high brackets" it would run the country for about a week.
3. It would also put millions of people out of a job and collapse the economy.
4. "Wealth inequality" and "income inequality" are dog whistles and nothing more. If you try to "equalize wealth and income" through taxation you WILL achieve it - no one will have any money. Everyone will be equally poor.

Spare us from the idiots who think like you do.

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

[Larry]

I don't know a thing about what Bill Gates is doing, nor do I know the reason some people hate him. What I DO know is that I am against microchipping people, and if someone tries to put one in me he will die a swift death.

[Doctor Phibes]

Why would anybody bother micro-chipping people to track them? They do it for themselves every time they log onto Facebook to complain about it.

[Mik]

They're also carrying their microchip in their pockets.

I don't understand the Gates hatred either. He walked away from Microsoft and dedicated his life and fortune to improving the human condition. The bastard.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Mik said in Summing up the Gates haters:

They're also carrying their microchip in their pockets.

I don't understand the Gates hatred either. He walked away from Microsoft and dedicated his life and fortune to improving the human condition. The bastard.

Let's just be thankful he isn't Jewish as well as everything else. They'd be howling at the freaking moon.

[Copper]

@Horace said in Summing up the Gates haters:

My knee is the smartest part of my body

[Loki]

@Mik said in Summing up the Gates haters:

They're also carrying their microchip in their pockets.

I don't understand the Gates hatred either. He walked away from Microsoft and dedicated his life and fortune to improving the human condition. The bastard.

For me not understanding Gates hatred is not understanding the nexus of whacked out people and rich people who could benefit from making stuff up.

[Horace]

Gates hatred appears on my radar only inasmuch as it's something for people to make fun of. I find that lots of allegedly important ideas are like that. There is power in convincing people that they are smart because "look what all the dumb people in that other tribe think".

[Aqua Letifer]

@Horace said in Summing up the Gates haters:

Gates hatred appears on my radar only inasmuch as it's something for people to make fun of. I find that lots of allegedly important ideas are like that. There is power in convincing people that they are smart because "look what all the dumb people in that other tribe think".

My wife's unfriended a handful of folks over the Gates crap. Aside from the COVID stuff they'd appear to be typical conservatives.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Horace said in Summing up the Gates haters:

Gates hatred appears on my radar only inasmuch as it's something for people to make fun of. I find that lots of allegedly important ideas are like that. There is power in convincing people that they are smart because "look what all the dumb people in that other tribe think".

It's important, though, because otherwise you won't be able to make fun of the people making fun of the people who think Bill Gates is a lizard.

[jon-nyc]

I share Horace’s intuition that the Gates conspiracists are largely members of his tribe.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Summing up the Gates haters:

@Horace said in Summing up the Gates haters:

Gates hatred appears on my radar only inasmuch as it's something for people to make fun of. I find that lots of allegedly important ideas are like that. There is power in convincing people that they are smart because "look what all the dumb people in that other tribe think".

It's important, though, because otherwise you won't be able to make fun of the people making fun of the people who think Bill Gates is a lizard.

Link to video

[Doctor Phibes]

...and then I won't be able to make fun of the people making fun of the people making fun of the...oh, never mind.

[Horace]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Summing up the Gates haters:

@Horace said in Summing up the Gates haters:

Gates hatred appears on my radar only inasmuch as it's something for people to make fun of. I find that lots of allegedly important ideas are like that. There is power in convincing people that they are smart because "look what all the dumb people in that other tribe think".

My wife's unfriended a handful of folks over the Gates crap. Aside from the COVID stuff they'd appear to be typical conservatives.

I might be more privileged and particular about the idea streams I associate with than typical conservatives. That could account for it.

[Mik]

Well, the lizard thing that's true.

[Doctor Phibes]

How the heck did he code MSDOS with those fingernails?

[Doctor Phibes]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Summing up the Gates haters:

@Horace said in Summing up the Gates haters:

Gates hatred appears on my radar only inasmuch as it's something for people to make fun of. I find that lots of allegedly important ideas are like that. There is power in convincing people that they are smart because "look what all the dumb people in that other tribe think".

My wife's unfriended a handful of folks over the Gates crap. Aside from the COVID stuff they'd appear to be typical conservatives.

Hang on a minute, when did you get married? Did I completely miss that?

[jon-nyc]

Don’t worry, even his ‘wife’ missed it.