Summing up the Gates haters
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Like mask protesters, i feel no need to circle wagons with people I have never personally met. As always, the fringe makes the news and produces the dopamine response in those whose bias that the other tribe is crazy has been confirmed. Include Nazis, KKK, etc in all that. We can agree it's crazy, we don't agree it's meaningful.
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I would agree with you if the poll had indicated it was fringe. It seems more like the modal FoxNews watcher.
FWIW I have trouble believing the data myself.
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@jon-nyc said in Summing up the Gates haters:
40% of Republicans and half of Fox News viewers believe this shit? Seems exaggerated, if the number were that high we would have seen some of the usual suspects here at least flirting with the idea.
But still, fucking hell.
Over the last three years how many people believed insane stuff about Trump that was proven wrong the following week and then virtually ignored by the media.
How can you be shocked by this. It’s the Rosetta Stone of your own tribe.
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Jon, you're smarter than this. The Left believes Trump said to inject clorox, so you counter with "the right believes Gates is bringing on the mark of the beast, and attack Fox News viewers. To quote Joe Biden... "Come on, man!"
First, you should watch Fox News more yourself. It's the only news media you can trust these days. Second, no, the right doesn't believe Gates is 666.
I expect this kind of silly shit out of Ax, but you know better.
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No I posted poll results. The only opining I did was to say that surely they are exaggerated.
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@Larry said in Summing up the Gates haters:
I didn't even know there were any Gates haters.
Fvcker put a chip in my head. I am quite sure of it. Heard I can inject bleach to kill the chip. Serves that Dickhead right, thinks he’s so goddamn right and clever.
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The existence of internet memes appears to be sufficient justification for left wing sneering at how crazy the right tends to be. In seriousness, the Russians and any other professional or avocational trolls can very easily use that. American culture is so easy to troll because individuals are so eager to have their tribal biases confirmed.
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@Mik said in Summing up the Gates haters:
I just cannot understand the Gates haters. Here is a guy who has pledged his fortune and his life to the betterment of life here on earth. He has done immense good for possibly millions already.
I cannot imagine having that wealth and not doing that.
I agree.
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@taiwan_girl said in Summing up the Gates haters:
@Mik said in Summing up the Gates haters:
I just cannot understand the Gates haters. Here is a guy who has pledged his fortune and his life to the betterment of life here on earth. He has done immense good for possibly millions already.
I cannot imagine having that wealth and not doing that.
I agree.
A big part of it has to do with the manner that Gates acquired his wealth. Let's face it, the guy did fvck over an awful lot of his competitors on his way to the top including stealing innovations. The guy bullied his employees and many of his vendors. The guy may have pulled a complete 180, but he did build quite a reputation as an asshole and a lot of people have long memories.
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@Mik said in Summing up the Gates haters:
I just cannot understand the Gates haters.
Windows 3.1.1.
How soon you forget.
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Gates has funded many ideas and influenced way beyond expectations. He interjects his ideas, or support, via his massive checkbook. Some ideas work, some don't.
He initiated the "houses" concept in public high schools, his "small schools initiative" concept inside of large comprehensive high schools. It was not a research based initiative, but boy, when he brings out that checkbook! It did not work, it was considered a very bad idea for a number of reasons. Lasted for several years (sorry kids), and is no longer around.
Gates checkbook was involved and was a catalyst for Common Core State Standards. He funded via Achieve Inc., without his heavy influence, Common Core would not have gotten off the ground. Coleman et al. were paid indirectly, by Gates, to write and implement the CCSS, as well as his funding of PARCC as well as SBAC, the testing which made Common Core a curriculum. That's the most influential thing one can do in society: curriculum for the public schools.
Anyway, my point is that people like Gates and Soros and the rest, can change society and regions of the world, via their checkbooks. Sometimes it's a good idea, sometimes it's not.
Money changes everything.
But, I never voted for Gates. And that bothers me the most.
