Summing up the Gates haters
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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.
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@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.
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@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.
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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".
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@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.
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@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.
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I share Horace’s intuition that the Gates conspiracists are largely members of his tribe.
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@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.
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...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.
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@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.
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How the heck did he code MSDOS with those fingernails?
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@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?
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Don’t worry, even his ‘wife’ missed it.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Summing up the Gates haters:
Hang on a minute, when did you get married? Did I completely miss that?
Me, too.