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    “I never knew the man.”

    “Okay I knew him but only casually.”

    “Okay we hung out a bit.”

    “Okay I spent time on his rape island but didn’t partake.”

    “Okay I had consensual sex with women there.” — You are here.

    “Okay they were trafficked sex victims and it was rape.”

    “Okay they were children.”

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    I don’t clear Gates for falling in with Epstein, but this dude is clearly the fall guy for the tech sector. From old media to social media.

    It wasn’t Gates at the front of the inauguration: Meta, Amazon, Google, Twitter. DJT kept all his Epstein stooges close, that’s a consistent. These folx also are all mysteriously missing from the Epstein files.

    Gates is just the easiest target because Microsoft is the enemy of where The Big 4 want the tech sector to go.

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      This scenario isn’t really useful as a ‘fall guy’. He’s just one of many, his culpability does nothing to detract from anyone else’s culpability. In fact, his admissions reinforce the substance of the Epstein files and strengthen any allegations that stem from them about others.

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      Or maybe it’s because Gates is not a CEO anymore?

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        I don’t think it matters. He’s most commonly associated with Microsoft, so that’s what people will associate his actions with when they see / hear him brought up.

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      What do you mean by

      Microsoft is the enemy of where The Big 4 want the tech sector to go

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        It’s Capitalism. Microsoft is still #1 in home computer OS un the US. The faster Microsoft falls out of mainstream OS is when the upper echelon of tech can replace it with their own home spying system. It may/may not be personal, but it’s all Capitalism and control. Imagine Meta releasing their own OS - absolute Black Mirror; but if that’s what they’re able to convince suppliers to ship, people will buy it regardless of politics or policy.

        Microsoft has been struggling in the gaming sector (public opinion). Microsoft has been struggling in the OS sector (public opinion). They’re still a giant in the tech industry, but they’re certainly sliding and it’s only a matter of time. Bill Gates being painted as a pedo is certainly one of those nails in the coffin of public opinion in Microsoft and Microsoft Tech (regardless who’s actually running MS).

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        Microsoft wants you to own a computer and pay for their office app on subscription. The others want you to just let go of hardware and be a part of their AI ecosystems.

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          Microsoft are also toying with renting people cloud desktops they will never own. They’ve already got cloud gaming, and they’re as much in on AI as anyone.

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            They could practically rename themselves Azure at this point, with Office as a product line. Since they have decided to stop naming themselves Copilot at every level I guess. Everything is cloud now with them. Hell I have an Azure VM myself hosting a ton of sites, most cost effective than on-prem for me. Sigh.

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      He admits to the affairs, but denies they had any relation to Epstein. He also denies having any relation or awareness to any of Epstein’s sex crimes. Idk if he’s telling the truth, or if he is doing a partial admission to make it seem as though he is not lying

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    Bill really nearly whitewashed away all the horrible business practices and cutthroat shit he did in the 80s and 90s with the Gates Foundation.

    But man, he looks like he aged a shitload in the short while since all the Epstein stuff really came to light.

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    For anyone that still needs to hear this: there are no good billionaires! ABAB. This dude right here was the poster child for "good billionaires’. I don’t know whether only evil fuckers can become billionaires (probably), but I do know that having access to functionally unlimited wealth and power will inevitably warp your soul.

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      Any good billionaire could donate down to being a hundred-millionaire and live a life of obscene comfort for generations. Why wouldn’t you, if you weren’t trash?

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      This dude right here was the poster child for “good billionaire”

      Really? I mean he tried really hard to whitewash his image with his charity and malaria research, but he was always a piece of absolute shit and the ‘good billionaire’ label was always a scam: DOS deal games, monopoly behavior, billionaire policy capture through his foundation, education meddling, vaccine-IP politics, nothing he did was truly charity, everything was self serving.

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        I fully agree with you. I been team “fuck Bill Gates” forever. I just mean that there’s a whole lot of people that were jock-riding him.

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    The phrase “underage women” is the biggest lie mainstream media has pushed as part of all of this. These scumbags didn’t have sex with “underage women”. The raped children.

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    I once blew $1000 over a weekend as a sp4 turned loose on Deutschland. most weekends were boring $50 in food/drink and vhs flicks. maybe see a movie. drunken debauchery can be expensive. can’t happen in the states for reasons. easy to see how a bunch of repressed/warped by religion, suit-tie culture, American men can be sucked into compromising situations with mostly sex as the lure. whatever you want, a plane ride away with no accountability. oh the cameras? yeah they’re everywhere. surprise! it’s like someone watched candid camera and hatched a plan. ‘affair’, guess that’s the suit-tie acceptable phrase

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    i cannot give this sleezbag tax-evading wealth-hoarding genocidal pedo any benifit of doubt because he’s a billionare and there are no good billionares.
    the first thing a good billionare would do is not become one, and look around the world where their resources could alleviate so much suffering.