And I realised upon rereading how unkind this remark was and feel a little bad. I suddenly felt towards this person that which many on the site felt towards Melania Trump: what do we do to ourselves to enable these men? How do we preen and pose and which message are we sending to others? Why this trend of presenting…

I wish the article would have shared the greater context for the Israeli police actions. It still sounds grossly excessive to me (the rubber bullets part), but it came after thousands of Arab protestors threw stones at the police. It wasn’t just for shits and giggles as this article would seem to imply.

It’s not at all unreasonable to presume that all rich people are inclined towards sexual perversion and predatory behavior. Think about what all that privilege and luxury does to a person’s sense of norms (and how different they are from all the not-wealthy people). Maybe they’re not all literally pedophiles but its…

So many of these “great men” seem to me to be good at one thing, but think they’re good at everything because that one thing made them hella monies.

>The gist was that wealth makes “Great Men” believe they have some unique wisdom that led to their success, and this knowledge can easily be applied by the filthy masses with identical results.

I’ve met plenty of mouth-breathing trogs, some more qualified than a loser who got a law degree but apparently never practiced like you, who are ready to lick the taint of the system.  Oh and I could spend 5 minutes on twitter trolling for accounts from active practicing lawyers that will tell you that you’re full of…

I just feel like collecting all that personal cell phone data is unnecessary. Knowing the defendant was driving a Versa is all the evidence I need to convict. 

The biggest joke. Part of their success and image relies on enough people believing they are both uniquely smart and uniquely good and that we should all aspire to be a 65 year old white male billionaire who is slightly more charitable than that other middle age white male billionaire or that other one. When…

Interesting. I interpreted the Epstein reference to be ill-gotten wealth not sex crimes. Yeah, Epstein blackmailed wealthy men who committed sex crimes, and Microsoft/Gates are NOT that. But the mentality is the same: excessive wealth at any costs. Both men broke laws to get acquire their wealth.

“The idea of “driving progress” and “giving back” seem as if they can co-exist, but when the progress comes on the terms of the wealthiest men in history, like Gates, we have to assume that progress benefits the wealthy more than anyone else.”

THAT’S IT. Thank you for putting it this way; I am unendingly frustrated by…

One casualty of my office-working days was a super snarky article from the Economist about the advice of “Great Men” like Cook, Gates, Jobs, Bezos, etc. I loved it so much that I laminated it and put it on my individual fridge in the hopes that my clueless agency head would read it and see himself. (He never did…

Still, I may use big words and care about spelling because of my upbringing

Literally having that amount of money is criminal.

Thanks, it definitely makes some good points. Though it seems to focus on the style of reactor the US uses vs newer Indian style ones (which are cheaper), and also seems to either assume some problems the reader can account for (such as nuclear’s ability to add power to a grid regardless of time or weather) or are big…

I'm sure you feel the same way about the FSB and the Chinese intelligence agencies. 

You could have just said “I love coups!”

Also, several of his efforts have had pretty terrible consequences that people just don’t like to talk about. He funds a ton of (patented, profitable) vaccines, which actually restricts vaccine access. He hands out mosquito netting for malaria, which actually gets used for fishing and destroys ecosystems. Her pushes…

the CIA has dismantled many democratically-elected governments throughout the world in order to enrich themselves. this was done with plenty of oversight, generally approved by the president. transparency (which we only have in hindsight) does not change the thousands of people who are dead as a direct result of what…

I guess if I mention what the Gates Foundation has done to hurt public education in this country, I’d be the asshole? I’ll let other people do it instead:

My boss told me about them splitting up while his stepdaughter was in the store, and the 13 year old was like “Oh, isn’t Bill Gates the charity guy?”

And then I shriveled up and died because I am ancient and apparently his rebranding effort worked