Remember when he lobbied against sharing vaccine IP at the height of the pandemic?
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
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The parent is being a bit hyperbolic, which isn't useful, but that's not Alex Jones-level tinfoil hattery, even if it appears similar at first glance. Of course you're right that he was an Epstein bud because he liked to fuck the classmates he couldn't in school. At the same time it's also true and provable that uncle Bill spends his money lobbying various domestic and international organizations to further his and by proxy the owner class'es interest. I distinctly remember for example good uncle Bill lobbying the US government and the WHO against IP sharing at the height of the COVID crisis:
Global health czar Bill Gates had other thoughts. Maintaining his steadfast commitment to intellectual property rights, Gates pushed for a plan that would permit companies to hold exclusive rights to lifesaving medicines, no matter how much they benefited from public funding. Given the enormous influence Gates has in the global public health world, his vision ultimately won out in the Covax program—which enshrines monopoly patent rights and relies on the charitable whims of rich countries and pharmaceutical giants to provide vaccines to most of the world. A chorus of support from pharmaceutical companies and the Trump administration didn’t hurt.
Source: Wired Magazine
PS: Being an Epstein bud could help if you want to lobby big names with words and capital. People pay good money to sit at the table and talk to some big shots at various places.
Billionaire philanthropy is like doing 100 damage to humanity, then returning 5 health. Then the 5 health gets amplified by information channels and it gets to feel much bigger in the collective consciousness. It gets a further boost when there's other prominent billionaires that don't give any hp back making it stand out as the good guy. So you end up in a bizarre position where objectively the philanthropist is the good guy compared to the rest, but the vast majority of us have no hp left.
Many are new blood having no idea what Microsoft used to be. Add to that the modern good-guy MS face, funding (usefu for theml) open source and all that, and it gets difficult to convey how things used to be.
Could be worse - Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell.
Food should be OK, no? I guess everything helps if you need to pay more for non-food items.
Someone stockpiling in Canada and Mexico, some of what isn't delivered in LA, would make a killing. We should be putting an export tax on Chinese made goods going to the US unless we want to follow the coyote. 😂
I see. Thanks!
What's Hyprland?
This rings true.
Stay woke ✊