Summing up the Gates haters

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.

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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.

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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.

Catseye3

@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.

Aqua Letifer

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

@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?

Awhile back, dude! Join the video meetups!

Think of it: she has to put up with me at home throughout all this mess. A tall order!

Doctor Phibes

Well, congratulations anyway. If she starts digging a patio, make your excuses (and a will)

Catseye3

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

If she starts digging a patio, make your excuses (and a will)

Voice of experience?

Aqua Letifer

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

Well, congratulations anyway. If she starts digging a patio, make your excuses (and a will)

Many thanks! (We got married early last year.)

She's very lucky with her job situation. Their re-opening deadline is June.

Doctor Phibes

Back to the Gates haters - the (British) ones I've come across haven't really been political types. They seem to typically be less formally educated folks who think that everybody else is too stupid to see the obvious, and see a lot of conspiracies in a lot of places - anti-vaxxer / homeopathic cancer remedy types, basically. One is a "professional" musician - i.e. she can't afford to do her laundry and passes it of by dressing like something that escaped from Woodstock.

Aqua Letifer

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

Back to the Gates haters - the (British) ones I've come across haven't really been political types. They seem to typically be less formally educated folks who think that everybody else is too stupid to see the obvious, and see a lot of conspiracies in a lot of places - anti-vaxxer / homeopathic cancer remedy types, basically. One is a "professional" musician - i.e. she can't afford to do her laundry and passes it of by dressing like something that escaped from Woodstock.

Same here. I've seen it from a couple of cops, an Army contractor (they're not always the smartest folks but oh boy don't you tell them that), folks like that.

Axtremus

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

My wife's unfriended a handful of folks over the Gates crap.

Wait, you have a wife now? When did you acquire said wife?
In any case, assuming that’s not a typo, congratulations!

Aqua Letifer

@Axtremus said in Summing up the Gates haters:

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

My wife's unfriended a handful of folks over the Gates crap.

Wait, you have a wife now? When did you acquire said wife?
In any case, assuming that’s not a typo, congratulations!

Dude like a year and a half ago. But thanks muchly!

Rainman

Congratulations, Aqua! I didn't know either.

But to tell the truth, my first reaction was wanting to talk to her, to talk to her about what it's like to live with Aqua.

She must be an amazing person!!

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Summing up the Gates haters