I don’t know who this woman thinks she is, but Minna Häkkinen is the only Finnish public official I'll recognize as representing Finland. 

sorry your mommy didn’t win the election after being the shittiest possible candidate such that a fucking ghoul like trump could roll in and win

She got re-elected, that’s all she cared about.

FIFY:

Tell me you’re bitter about not getting into GATE without telling me you didn’t get into GATE.

Must have felt really good to see Halpert working at Dunder Mifflin, eh?

The depiction of the Pete and Chasten relationship is among the least specific portraits of a marriage I’ve ever seen in any movie, nonfiction or otherwise.

This is what I don’t understand. The Gate Foundation is huge and well known. If you want to write a hit piece there is easily google-able real things to burn them on:

Gates Foundation has also done a lot to eradicate polio (a disease which remains a problem in developing countries) and to control HIV. It also works to reduce poverty, provide educational resources, all kinds of stuff. It’s not a purely performative charity, though I get why someone who doesn’t know might think so.

I don’t really think they can, or want, to do better than this. They can’t gain readership by writing pieces that are thought-provoking, informative, or investigative anymore. So they go along with the lazy snark that will contradict itself week after week, because it gets clicks and comments.

Yes. Computers in libraries for public use was big in the 90's. Thanks to the Gates fund.

I don’t think Joan can.

The Gates Foundation and other anti-Malaria groups have HALVED the annual death-toll from Malaria since 2000. These groups are currently saving about 400,000 people a year and climbing.

Yep. It’s a hit piece just to be a hit piece. The Gates Foundation has been investing a _lot_ of money into things that have the potential to improve quality of life for a lot of people. Drinking water, electric power, all sorts of things.

Yeah, not knowing what the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is, is not something to brag about. It’s one of the best charities in the world. They’ve done more the near eradication of malaria than any government or charity in the world.

Ok poke a little fun at Bill Gates the geek, sure, but to pretend the Gates Foundation does nothing is lazy writing.

This. Whatever he’s like personally, his foundation - which, Jesus, Jezebel, do some research before you casually dismiss the Gates Foundation - has done an incredible amount to transform living conditions in the developing world.

the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which does something I’m sure. I just couldn’t tell any of you what exactly.

Is there really a need to shit on Bill Gates? I’ve seen enough of it from right wing sources and now this one too?

It may be because I’m super-old, but one of the first things I remember about the Gates Foundation after it formed was all the mosquito netting it provided to countries in Africa and its dedication to family planning. This isn’t just another Bezos, folks, even if you do not like the man.

Republicans be like: “Women of the United States, behold your fate!”