• DOE!!!@lemmy.world
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      I kinda disagree, they were probably underaged, I don’t know much about the epstien files, all I know is that most of the people there were preds, minors, etc.

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      Are you familiar with the documents in the files claiming he tried to source antibiotics for something he “caught” from those underage Russian girls, with intention of also secretly slipping his wife the same antibiotics for the STI he likely gave to her? https://www.btimesonline.com/articles/176578/20260201/epstein-files-reveal-bill-gates-caught-an-std-and-asked-for-antibiotics-to-give-wife-melinda-in-secret.htm

      What a guy. /sarcasm /notsorry

      If we were in a different “sub”, I’d also now post a photograph of a wooden assembly using a heavy, sharpened piece of metal that uses gravity to powerfully remove things from other things, but the mods here have previously educated me to the fact they do not allow that. >.>

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        Yeah that’s fucked, but have you seen some of the other shit in those files? It really is tame by comparison.

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        Ofcourse they don’t allow that! That thing is horrible unsave. Feels like they invented in during the French revolution and never gave any thought about operator safety. Who knows how many people died because of this thing?

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        Oh, I’m certainly not afraid of a few guillotines coming out. I’d imagine America could Really help out boosting French trade once they bring up their guillotine industry. No one makes them like they do.

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    “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?

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    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.

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        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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.

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    He’s trying to satisfy people by admitting to a smaller thing rather than the worse things he did. Classic PR.

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      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”…

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        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?

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          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.

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    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!

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    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.

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      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.

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      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 … ?”

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        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.

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    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.

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      There are no underage prostitutes. They’re children being exploited and abused. He’s sorry he got caught raping children.