He’s trying to satisfy people by admitting to a smaller thing rather than the worse things he did. Classic PR.
Slightly better than Spacey suddenly deciding to come out as a proud gay man, but not by much
or saying his job was tied to COVID.
Soon enough the two Russian women will in fact be two Russian girls.
If he gives his fortune away to a good charity and commits seppuku then I will think about some sympathy
How about bad charities that he uses to enrich himself while millions die, like he did with Covid?
Sympathy going to happen.
Edit; I just noticed that I didn’t write “isn’t”…
I mean really there’s no way I could have sympathy for him. Death to all the abusers
didn’t he try to convince one of the makers of the COVID vaccine to sell it at a profit, instead of giving it away free? Or was that something/someone else?
That was Bill. There were two vaccine projects. One was going to be open source, and then the one Bill convinced the University doing the research to replace the first one with.
Ahhh guys, he apologized. I mean, it’s only a bit of foreign blackmail targeting a man with unbearable weight on global tech. He said he was sorry!
And almost 300k acres of farmland?
No sympathy here. If he is admitting to that, no reason to believe him on the kid stuff, better do a very deep look.
He can keep the cell warm for Trump as far as I’m concerned.
It’s not the same severity, but it reminds me of when Kevin Spacey was having rape allegations or something. So he came out and said he was finally coming out of the closet.
It was like, “yeah … okay … what about the other stuff … ?”
Kevin who? He is unemployed and poor now, where he should be.
and then he tried to say he lost his job “like other people” due to covid. most of his ACCUSERS either died, or dint have enough evidence. RAPP eventhough he wasnt succcesful in suing him, help “cancel” at the least.
and his PR stunts, for the last few decades was pretty obvious he wasnt doing out of sincerity.
Yeah, this comes across as admitting to a small thing to try and avoid consequences for the big thing. If we’re already in a place where we’re talking about a man with a life of elicit affairs while spending time around a child sex trafficker, it is absurdly unbelievable that at no point did those wires get crossed or that he was unaware of what he was getting himself into.
The term for this is “trickle truthing”, and it’s a common tactic when someone gets caught doing something terrible.
Of course there’s a name for it
its also testing the waters to gauge reactions, so the “offender” can react accordingly.
It infuriates me that these things are simultaneously common, yet effective on the majority of civilization.
“I apologize to other people who are drawn into this because of the mistake I made,” he said. “It definitely is the opposite of the values of the Foundation and the goals of the Foundation.”
It’s not though. The foundation is a way to spread his influence, bolster his ego, and pay less in taxes. Wasn’t that why he was pals with the pedo kingpin?
also to partially shield himself from Epsteins fallout apparently.
In one email, dated July 2013 and written by Epstein about Gates, the late pedophile alleges the billionaire sought to conceal from his wife Melinda French Gates a sexually transmitted disease he contracted after having sex with “Russian girls.”
The email claims Gates sought antibiotics to secretly give her. It is not clear whether the email was sent to Gates, but he denied the allegation as “completely false” via a spokesperson in late January.
In his call on Tuesday, however, Gates confirmed he had extramarital relationships during his 27-year marriage with two Russian women.
“I did have affairs, one with a Russian bridge player who met me at bridge events, and one with a Russian nuclear physicist who I met through business activities,” he said.
During the call, Gates acknowledged flying on a private plane with Epstein and spending time with him in the U.S. and abroad — but insisted that he had not witnessed or participated in illegal activity.
“I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit,” Gates reportedly told staff. “To be clear, I never spent any time with the victims, the women around him.”
Gates said he first met Epstein in 2011, after the financier’s Florida conviction for procuring a child for prostitution, and continued to socialize with him despite concerns raised by his then-wife.
A physicist and a Bridge player…
Sure, we believe that Bill, we just need you to answer a few more questions. Maybe some pointed questions about this and a few other subjects. Maybe even edged questions if you will.
The bridge that was played :
“despite concerns raised by his then-wife” so he knew and still hung out with him.
And he at minimum thought Epstein was a good person to ask about illicit sex-related problems. So it wasn’t just “Melinda thinks this guy has a bad vibe”, it means he would absolutely have known about the conviction for pedophilia. And he was close enough to Epstein that he felt comfortable revealing a potentially damaging secret and reveal he intended to commit a crime against his wife.
It’s weird how everyone has his number, even if their reasoning was off. The Slashdot penguinheads thought he a literal Sith lord, the Q-nuts thought he, Soros and Fauci were running 5G vaccine chip biolabs, and now it turns out he was an Epstein Island frequent flyer.
The slashdotters likely remember when Gates literally tried to make the web proprietary with IE6 and ActiveX, among other sleazy BS.
He can get wrecked.
We do.
Source: I have a 5 digit slashdot user ID.Yeah, reflecting back on the hell he made my life with all that antitrust shit recently really got me ashamed I’d ever slipped and given him any generous thoughts at all. The dude is a piece of shit, through and through.
He was an asshole in business, got fabulously wealthy, cheated on his wife, all very normal rich things from what we knew at the time. We gave him generous thoughts because he had mostly gotten out of the business and started plilanthropy.
Giving him some credit at that point was warranted, given what we thought we knew. Who were we to guess?
Now, the real question, from my perspective: Did all the rich/elite 100% know he was trafficking? Were everyone in all those pictures complicit? I’m inclined to say yes. I don’t think they ‘close friends’ just stayed till the end of the party for the “eyes wide shut” shit.
Never give a billionaire credit for philanthropy. It’s either a PR scheme, tax evasion loophole, or vanity project for them. You don’t get that kind of money in the first place by being anything other than a sociopath and that’s not something that can be cured.
tried to make the web proprietary
/me eyes EME
Admitting to the lesser deed to deflect from the greater crime.
We all see you Bill. We know what you did.
He’s sorry he got an STI from an underage Russian prostitute and he gave it to Melinda, then asked Epstein how to slip her antibiotics without her knowing.
“affair”. fuck right off Bill.
There are no underage prostitutes. They’re children being exploited and abused. He’s sorry he got caught raping children.
Don’t believe him. It was probably MORE.
“Sowwy I got caught being a pervert.” -Bill Gates
during his 27-year marriage with two Russian women.
What?
He’s a bigamist as well!
Would this not be called a trigamist? The two russian pros and Melinda?
Yes those nobel-prize-winning russian underage physicists. Suuuuure. Totally believable.
Russian women or Russian girls? Even now, he’s trying to soft-pedal his abuses.
Fuck that fucking fucking guy.
To be fair, if it wasn’t, would you expect him to say so?
He can say that under oath. Then we can talk about an apology for staying friends with a convicted child molestor.
True, people who understand the law wouldnt say anything self- incriminating. Their goal is to take their secrets to their grave.
young girl, not woman.
