Sorry, I fell asleep about two sentences into your boring-ass rant about how great the shithole of STL is. And, sure. He could have bought an NFL team on Mars too. Hard to buy things that don’t exist.

I don’t understand.

Stanford is anti gun

A gun free zone is private property that doesn’t allow guns, or places where guns are banned by law (like federal buildings) . It’s not a hard concept to understand.
Why do you trust the data that you published, then? It was all done by politically motivated individuals. Acknowledging one, but not the other just makes…

I say this every time: as a St. Louisan, I want them gone. I don’t want my city and state on the hook for half a billion dollars. I don’t want people pushed out of their homes to make way for a new stadium. I don’t want Jay Nixon or Francis Slay to win this round.

Maybe you should take a statistics class as well. Almost all mass shootings happen in gun free zones. Statistics show that guns deter and prevent crime.

I will just leave these here:

If you were to make one of those composite images of every old, white, entitled, male, American econo-parasite, it would come out looking something like this.

It is so easy to talk about a bright, sunny future full of potential when you’re so awash in privilege that comparing your parents’ wealth to the common people is like comparing the Pacific Ocean to the puddle in my driveway after it rained last night.

Why can’t mass shootings happen at NFL owners meetings, preferably in the boardroom, with all the controlling-stake owners present, and no non-owners present?

So you’re point is “look at the nice words and accept them as being nice words?”

The open letter, the easiest way to share opinions nobody cared about or asked for.

He’s planning to disburse 99% of his shares of Facebook (currently valued at $45bn) over his lifetime, often to privately held LLCs under his control according to his plan. Keeping control of your money by giving it to other LLCs you control is not necessarily “giving it away.” I also believe saying that he is giving…

I’ll second what one commenter said. This is not a charity. This is an LLC, per their own SEC filing. That means a) they can do whatever they want with their money and b) don’t have to tell you what they do with it. Contrast to all the regulations and best practices real, IRS-recognized charities go through (including…

According to the SEC filing, it’s going to investment and lobbying. This is as much a charitable organization like Zuckerberg’s salary is $1. Accurate on its face, but there’s a lot going on behind the curtain that belies that.

Hey, if some good is being done with the money thats great but you also shouldnt conflate nobility with giving away a bunch of money you couldnt possibly spend in a thousand lifetimes.

So what? Its not like hes taking a vow of poverty and going to live in a cabin in the woods.

Look at the wording of that...99% of shares during our lives. He’s not actually giving anything up and this is all a marketing/PR play (note: that was my immediate reaction seeing this story on the news, I’m not just parroting this piece). But all this stuff sounds great and looks amazing on paper, but in actuality is…

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a charity. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, LLC is a for-profit corporation. It may give money to charity, but they have also indicated that they will use it to invest in other corporations.

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