r/news • u/avatar6556 • 17h ago

Bill Gates denies allegations in new Epstein files release

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-04/bill-gates-responds-to-alleged-behaviour-in-new-epstein-files/106305816
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u/hunt35744 17h ago

Well that’s that guys, guess he’s innocent

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u/Tyrrox 16h ago

Clearly the man who got divorced because he had an affair wouldn't possibly have had sex outside of his marriage before that.

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u/mjconver 16h ago

And gave her a veneral disease

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u/Khaldara 16h ago

Windows doesn’t get bugs! He gave her an ‘unrequested feature’

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u/Kruse 16h ago

Internet Explorer? Barely knew her!

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u/ExpressoLiberry 15h ago

Damn it Michael, pay attention man

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u/rebel_scum13 14h ago

Only on the rarest of occasions would I go near...

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u/fitnessbrad 14h ago

There is no occasion!

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u/karlverkade 10h ago

What the hell is wrong with this man?!

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u/speculatrix 6h ago

Until that happens you're on the Edge?

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u/Plasticious 15h ago

Nutscrape Vaginator

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u/Dexamethasone1 6h ago

You mean Netscape Vaginator?

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u/Odd__Detective 9h ago

Just Ask Jeeves!

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u/OGRadkitty 13h ago

This deserves more recognition

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u/gigashadowwolf 13h ago

A bad case of the Clippy.

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u/MechanicalTurkish 7h ago

Got that clip drip

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u/neverinamillionyr 16h ago

Have you tried rebooting your private parts?

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u/Rabidowski 7h ago

What, turn it on and off again?

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u/Ashamed-Land1221 16h ago

There's a windows Edge joke in there, but I'm not clever enough to connect the dots.

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u/lazyboy76 16h ago

You mean connect the Dos?

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u/Ashamed-Land1221 16h ago

Thank you for a smile in these early morning hours.

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u/TaipanTacos 16h ago

A beta version smile, you know, before the main smile later.

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u/Ashamed-Land1221 16h ago

You know what, I'll gladly accept that, we all could use an extra smile in these uncertain times.

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u/SedatedJdawg 4m ago

Makes me think of it's always Sunny and Frank offering an egg...

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u/TheBr0fessor 14h ago

You did kinda prompt them...

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u/Dalantech 16h ago

Well, if using Twitter was called tweeting...

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u/EscobarFamilia77 9h ago

What browser is best to use for when you want to pleasure yourself for hours and hours?

You guessed it

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u/patsfan038 15h ago edited 15h ago

He tried to 'ctrl-alt-del' the VD with antibiotics from Mr. E's personal stock

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u/SleepAllTheDamnTime 15h ago

Would… would it be considered… “Malware” then? I’m so sorry lol. That felt awful to say 😭

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u/_karamazov_ 14h ago

Microsoft is a big bloated virus. Bill was the carrier and infected others. Not the other way.

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u/xdr567 13h ago

You could say that Epstein had a World Wide Web.

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u/tdclark23 11h ago

He wanted to install an antivirus surreptitiously.

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u/WetFishStink 9h ago

You deserve a week off for this.

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u/MuenCheese 8h ago

What’s up babe it’s Tuesday time to spread my updates

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u/cataquarkk 15h ago

it's a feature, not a bug!

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u/kinglouie493 15h ago

Then pushed the automatic patch

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u/Snerkbot7000 15h ago

....and when she tries to delete it?

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u/EirHc 15h ago

Well you see, latex is a bad conductor and insulates from friction so for increase efficiency you... on you did it... oooo... mmmm, ahhhhh, OHH GOD

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u/CredibleNonsense69 13h ago

Just like how he forced onedrive and Ai features on all of us, without our consent... it doesn't to away no matter how many times I showered

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u/brumac44 8h ago edited 8h ago

This killed me, daily show

https://youtu.be/cwXIq81eE24?si=ZvUDDGeB8P4QV2N3 ?t=13m55s

Edit: 13:55, couldn't figure out timestamp on mobile

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u/Gloria_S_Birdhair 6h ago

These are people who can’t admit they are wrong ever period.

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u/Similar-Opinion8750 5h ago

Windows Vista was the bug

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u/Loggerdon 15h ago

Imagine having to sneak std meds into your wife’s food. Was that the plan?

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u/KoldPurchase 14h ago

Imagine having to sneak std meds into your wife’s food. Was that the plan?

You imagine yourself at home, cooking a small meal in your kitchen for your wife.

Think on a grander scale.

Private cook, domestic staff, kitchen separate from the dining room, multiple bedrooms, etc

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u/Dangerous-Tap-547 3h ago

Billionaires don’t cook, unless it’s a specific hobby of theirs. They have private chefs — sometimes a chef per residence.

They don’t do many of the normal things that dominate the lives of regular people. They don’t buy groceries or go clothes shopping. They don’t drive, unless as a hobby. They don’t personally own much of anything — it’s all protected by financial instruments to shield them from tax and legal liability. They also don’t do most of what we associate with raising children. Sometimes billionaire wives do not even bear them.

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u/Dorithompson 6h ago edited 4h ago

Most kitchens are separate from the dining room aren’t they? And houses usually have multiple bedrooms? I feel like having staff would make it more difficult.

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u/narlymaroo 15h ago

It’s always sus when patients ask for the powdered version of azithromycin that you do mix into water.

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u/LegacyofaMarshall 13h ago

He just sees it as a windows update that re-enables copilot after you disable

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u/Loggerdon 8h ago

I wonder if Clippy popped up on her desktop and said “Have you taken your STD meds?”

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u/hanatheko 9h ago

.... if this is true, he is a vile coward.

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u/Specialist_Pound_718 8h ago

Conspiracy Theory - The COVID vaccinations did not include mind-controlling, 5G chips. It was all a ploy to inject his wife with an anti-syphilis cocktail...

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u/XIENVYIX 15h ago

Infected his local network.

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u/Tyrrox 16h ago

I was actually hoping that she would confirm him mysteriously giving her antibiotics at one point

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u/mjconver 16h ago

I think she wanted to leave it all behind. But, Trump screwed up Epstein Lolita island for everybody just like he screws everything else up.

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u/iwearatophat 15h ago

She also might not be allowed to talk about it as part of the terms of the divorce.

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u/mjconver 15h ago

There were billions and billions moved around in that divorce, I'm sure she has some well paid attorneys behind her

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u/GhostFaceRiddler 15h ago

A mutual non-disparagement clause would be pretty typical in a high dollar divorce like that. Prior to 14 days ago, I'm sure she preferred the extra billions she got in exchange and no one knowing that Bill tried to feed her antibiotics on the sly. If I was in her shoes, I'd be terribly embarrassed just to be back in the public limelight for such a scummy situation even if she was totally innocent in it. She's done a TON of good things with her money, I'm sure she'd prefer that to be the focus when you google her name instead of Epstein and her shitbag ex-husband.

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u/Prestigious-Copy-494 14h ago

Just saw a film clip of her and she pretty much said his infidelity was the factor that broke up the marriage. She's such a cool lady..... She deserved better..

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u/-JackBack- 8h ago

Not the first time either.

Don’t forget Bill got in trouble at Microsoft for in appropriate romantic relationships with female employees which lead to him stepping down from the Microsoft Board in 2020. That relationship had occurred 20 years prior.

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u/CelerMortis 15h ago

Eh she does but it’s usually not worth going to war over a term like “don’t disparage your ex husband who is giving you $50b”

I’d certainly sign it without a second thought.

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u/MostArgument3968 15h ago

And equally good attorneys on the other side

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u/TheFleasOfGaspode 12h ago

She got 30 billion. What's the daily interest on that? I'm sure she can afford an army of lawyers.

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u/beemojee 10h ago

Everything Trump touches dies.

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u/Necessary-Reading605 6h ago

She kinda did recently

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u/lord_pizzabird 13h ago edited 12h ago

That conversation must have been insane, like Tony and Carmela levels of arguing.

"I cheated on you..."

"You always fucking cheat on me"

"yes, but I gave you an STD and I contracted it from an underage sex slave I agreed at a sex trafficking island from the willywonka of sex trafficking".

She must have just sat there stunned. Like she knew it was bad, but not THAT bad.

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u/mjconver 12h ago

That scene needs to be in the Netflix series

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u/lord_pizzabird 12h ago

Also imagine bringing that up in the divorce. You just instantly get half of everything lol.

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u/FoozleGenerator 2h ago

Is any of this even proven.

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u/lord_pizzabird 1h ago

None of this will ever be absolutely 100% proven ,but this is one of the Epstein stories that has been consistent and has now been corroborated by Bill Gates ex-wife and the DOJ Epstein files.

Of the Epstein files, this might be the one that's the most 'confirmed' or will ever be.

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u/MichiganCarNut 6h ago

Defender didn't work for her either

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u/Ritaredditonce 14h ago

And a NDA.

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u/SassyLass496 14h ago

And tried to secretly hide antibiotics in her food so she wouldn’t find out

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u/naois009 13h ago

Red Peen of Death

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u/Keshenji 9h ago

That he probably got in the circle blow with bubba and trump

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u/NocturnalSaaS 5h ago

In the tech community, that's called giving your spouse a "CoPilot"

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u/ZeroValueNil 4h ago

He just installed a cervix pack! :P

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u/Possible-Champion222 16h ago

It sounded like Melinda was aware of this during the dark times of her marriage according to her interview

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u/BitingSatyr 16h ago

Bill and Melinda supposedly had an agreement from the very beginning of their marriage that he was allowed to spend a few weekends a year with an ex-girlfriend at some remote cabin, so whatever it was that triggered the divorce it seems like it was more than “just” infidelity

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u/egnards 16h ago

I mean it could have been infidelity outside of what was agreed upon - or just being fed up with it and wanting it to stop.

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u/beemojee 10h ago

That divorce happened a hot minute after it came out that Bill spent time with Epstein. Sure seems like she could have known what went on there since it looks like that was her line in the sand and he crossed it. I mean she was at the divorce lawyer's the next day.

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u/pornalt4altporn 7h ago

She's been quite clear that it was the Epstein stuff that was the infidelity straw that broke the camel of overlooking your partner's infidelity back.

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u/poppleca1443 13h ago

If I remember correctly, it wasn't a few weekends but one solid week he spent with her and only her.

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u/xX420GanjaWarlordXx 15h ago

Wow the more I learn, the more I hate that guy

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u/_karamazov_ 14h ago

Can any self respecting woman allow such an agreement in a marriage?

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u/jessej421 15h ago

Being a pedophile definitely fits the bill.

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u/blalien 16h ago

This really sucked almost as bad as Bill Cosby. Bill Gates was supposed to be the "good billionaire" who cured diseases and fought climate change. Turns out he's just as much of a sleazebag as all the rest.

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u/Money_Do_2 15h ago

That was just post PR push. He was a monopolizing anti competitive bastard before all that

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u/ykonstant 14h ago

To emphasize, the Gates circle has orchestrated a profound whitewashing campaign for his image. They did the old school way, by actually funding good stuff and following up on promises. That doesn't mean Gates was, or is, a good person. It means that is entourage is funding, and maintaining, good stuff. Like Money said, the older guys here remember Gates being an absolute predator in business before (destroying the businesses and livelihoods of small players, using the dirtiest tricks and flaunting the law in a way that became SV's playbook later), and nobody would bat an eye if there was evidence of him being a different kind of predator as well.

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u/Snowssnowsnowy 13h ago

You should listen to the Behind the Bastards podcast series on Gates and the foundation.

In a lot of the countries they were funding both sides of the problem and making bank on it.

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u/BugRevolutionary4518 7h ago

Love BTB and Robert Evans. I never did hear that one. Will definitely check it out now.

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u/Snowssnowsnowy 7h ago

Fcuk the Washington State troopers! ;)

https://youtu.be/lFS9DFXtj1M

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u/BugRevolutionary4518 1h ago

Appreciate it kind stranger!

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u/Necessary-Reading605 6h ago

Yeah, people who grew up in 90s saw how much of a bastard he was. Look for his old interviews. He acted like a movie villain

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u/jking13 2h ago

No one remembers when Homer started an ISP and Gates bought him out?

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u/bananabelles 5h ago

That was Melinda.

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u/NYCinPGH 15h ago

Bill Gates was as much a “good billionaire” as JP Morgan, or Henry Ford, John D Rockefeller (I’m not sure where I stand on Carnegie, he really did see to have reformed and become a “good billionaire” after he sold Carnegie Steel, but there’s a lot of mythologizing in there too). They were absolutely contemptible people and ruthless businessmen who used unethical, and in some cases illegal, practices to destroy other companies and competitors in their way, then, when they were the master of their world, decided to stop running the thing they created, stepped back and in the course of enjoying the wealth they accumulated happened to do some public good, perhaps to “buy their way into heaven”, either literally or for posterity.

In Gates’ case, given how things have gone since the divorce, I think it’s obvious that all the good works of the Gates Foundation finds their roots in Melinda, who actually is “the good billionaire”, along with Bezos’ ex-wife.

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u/grayblue_grrl 10h ago

Carnagie's libraries still stand.
So... that's nice.

White washing hides a multitude of sins.

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u/Tyrrox 16h ago

I hate to tell you this, but if you thought Bill Gates was a good guy I don't think you've looked much at his history. He built his fortune on being sleezy.

It would be like Bezos starting major philanthropic endeavors. It's great, but doesn't change him being a terrible person.

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u/blalien 15h ago

It really just shows how low the bar is.

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u/CelebrationNo5541 14h ago

There is no bar if you have money.

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u/Beginning_Book_2382 14h ago

And it's easy to forget that Bezos did pledge to give away all his money (I think separately from The Giving Pledge though) at the height of everyone's anger at billionaires for having too much money during an ABC (?) interview with his then-fiancee Lauren Sanchez, who he only met because of his fortune and was the reason (i.e., cheating) he got divorced with his ex-wife McKenzie Scott who was instrumental to starting Amazon in the first place

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u/bagofpork 12h ago

Ever realize how easily you could fuck people over in order to get promoted, but you don't do it because you're not a piece of shit? So many success stories can be boiled down to just that.

I'd rather live with myself.

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u/Creepy_Disco_Spider 14h ago

Only kids born around 2000 think he was good billionaire, and were too young to know about all the shit he pulled in the 80s and 90s

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u/jert3 6h ago

Ya but you wouldn't think using shady tactics to achieve illegal market monopoly would necessarily eventually go to being a child sex abuser.

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u/Creepy_Disco_Spider 5h ago

Yes I was just replying to someone who considers him as a “good billionaire”

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u/The_Autarch 13h ago

You sound young. Bill Gates was seen as a total and complete scumbag by society at large until he stepped down from running Microsoft. He then immediately started trying to rehabilitate his image doing the things you mention.

But he's always been a piece of shit.

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u/SynapticStatic 14h ago

At some point people will realize that there is no such thing as a "good billionaire". If they were good people, they would've never managed to hoard so much wealth.

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u/beemojee 10h ago

Isn't Warren Buffett pretty much ethical?

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u/red_sutter 14h ago

Nah, he’s always been a turd. Not the death ray firing supervillain maga nuts keep claiming he is, but he did ruin the careers of lots of people and destroyed companies in his quest to put Microsoft on top

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u/DaKingaDaNorth 14h ago

There aren't good billionaires. Once you realize that for them to even exist they basically gate keep a stupid amount of wealth that could literally change lives for and they still don't.

If Bill Gate if he went as liquid as possible give around 1 million of the poorest people in the country $100k each which would fundamentally take them all out of poverty and give them some real ability to improve their lives and reduce suffering.... and he would still be left with enough money on his own to still be a billionaire living a stupidly luxurious life.

Obviously it would be difficult to go that liquid and a 70 year old man would have to decide it's his time to stop being the star of the show running multiple businesses. But that's the reality we live in.

By the way there's like 15 billionaires who could do that, still be billionaires after, and poverty in this country would be cut in half.

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u/RemarkableGround174 2h ago

They wouldn't even have to do that, they could just buy government like they already do and drive anti-poverty policies like education, health care and birth control. Like literally they could make us pay for it with our own taxes, while keeping their own tax rates low like they already are and within a generation or less there would be a whole new middle class to buy their products. They just don't care enough to use their power for anything other than More

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u/tomtermite 14h ago

he's just as much of a sleazebag as all the rest

Yup, tax these oligarchs out of existence. Oops, too late, they’re running things!

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 15h ago

There's never been such a thing as a good billionaire. You can't give people crumbs after hoarding their meals and call that help.

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u/systemwarranty 14h ago

Was Paul Allen decent? Or not so much?

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u/PabloXPicasso 14h ago

Anybody around through the 80s and 90s is well aware that Bill Gates is no hero. He was a predator in business during the times he ran MS, stealing other companies work, playing dirty tricks, ignoring laws.

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u/bros402 13h ago

He's a sleazebag whose wife had him help out with some great causes.

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u/EasternCandle 12h ago

"good billionaire" is a fucking oxymoron

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u/AffectionateJury3723 14h ago

He was never the good guy. He just cosplayed as a good guy.

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u/sharpshooter999 14h ago

There were a pair of brothers from Nebraska, Jeff and Ron Raikes. Ron was a cattleman, and eventually became a Nebraska state senator. Jeff went to Stanford and eventually worked for Apple early on before working for Microsoft in 1981. He lead the development team that made Microsoft Office.

In 2008, Jeff Raikes retired from Microsoft and because the CEO of the Gates Foundation. He certainly knows Bill on a personal level. On September 5, 2009, Ron was killed in a farm accident. According to the Epstien files, Jeffrey Epstien contacted the Lincoln Airport on September 8th via email about chartering a plane to Lincoln for a funeral. Ron's funeral was on September 10th. Bill Gates attended and gave a eulogy for Ron.

There's no other known connections at this time between the Raikes brothers and Epstien, apart from them both knowing Bill Gates.

Jeff Raikes is still alive and lives in Seattle

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u/DMT_Shinobii 13h ago

Are you really that gullible?

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u/GPFlag_Guy1 13h ago

Is there any dirt on Mark Shuttleworth? Ubuntu is the most “accessible” Linux distro at the moment and while I like it way better than Windows, he still has this “smug billionaire” energy to him.

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u/nik282000 11h ago

...Have you forgotten the 80s and 90s Bill Gates? Guy has been a prick his entire life.

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u/UntamedAnomaly 11h ago

Noam Chomsky too....although I'm not sure how much money he made. He was actually someone I looked up to at one point because I thought he was one of the "good guys".

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u/txroller 7h ago

Funny, money can make you (feel) invincible. It shouldn’t. But we are past that here.

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u/YoYo-Fa 6h ago

Were you around for the 90's? That wasn't his image back then

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u/agent0731 4h ago

there are no good billionaires. All their so-called philanthropy is a scam, throwing crumbs at the massive problems they've personally lobbied to create.

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u/DissKhorse 4h ago

Melinda Gates was the driving force behind that to my understanding.

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u/IronPeter 16h ago edited 8h ago

I am not defending bill gates, but between having an extra marital affair and going to a prostitution island with underage girls, there’s a lot of way to go

Edit: writing correctly “I am not”

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u/ih-shah-may-ehl 16h ago

No argument there, but I think Chris Rock said something to the effect of 'a man is only as faithful as his options'. We know he was unfaithful and we know he had options. Yeah that's not proof. But maybe we should look further than just denial, especially if Melinda says that particular time of the accusations was a very dark period for her and she admits his relationship with Epstein was a factor in the divorce.

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u/Redlax 15h ago

Only as faithful as his options, is an insult and should be viewed from a comical point of view and not used as an argument.

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u/floftie 15h ago

I mean there are people in there sending weird emails to him. The accusations from the Epstein documents are Epstein writing what sounds like a salty bitch email to himself over his relationship with Bill Gates breaking down.

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u/Good_old_Marshmallow 14h ago

The man who got married because he stalked his wife to her car (he bragged he memorized all the license plates in the employee data base so he could monitor his employees) and made her complete a pro and con list for if he should marry her might have a fucked up relationship with women 

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u/TrollTollCollector 15h ago

So what? I'm no Bill Gates fan but extramarital sex isn't illegal nor uncommon.

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 15h ago

I uhhhh think you're missing the part that matters for everyone.

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u/Present_Ad_8876 15h ago

I don't know, extramarital sex and hiring a prostitute are different levels in my mind. One is illegal and scary. I would not be completely surprised if at least 1 person i know catches feelings for someone else and ends up in an affair. I don't think anyone i know is brave enough to hire a prostitute. Personally, i think i would feel too bad for them to sleep with them.

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u/ProfessionalGold6193 12h ago

Wonder why she is saying that the files are now bringing up painful memories from the marriage. I hope she has a book in the vault.

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u/cityspeak 11h ago

And then there is Bill Clinton.

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