Bill Gates this week admitted to having two affairs with Russian women while married to Melinda French Gates and apologized to staff at his charity for his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein — while maintaining he was not part of anything "illicit"
Idk, I’m willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt because, despite the bullshit with Microsoft, he did some great charity work and raised his children well, which hints at some decency if it wasn’t his wife pushing him into it. There’s also reason to believe that some people will be named who were not guilty, but that’s only while nothing comes of the files or anything of the sort, because otherwise he squashes like a bug.
His so-called charity work is extremely suspect and I would highly suggest you investigate further before giving him too many kudos. Also I’m not sure why you’ve given him the benefit of the doubt considering he’s lied about this before. Absolutely no reason to think he isn’t lying again now.
I’m not “giving him too many kudos” any more than I’m not saying he’s guilty of being a pedophile until there’s proof. I’m not sure why Lemmy insists on reading more into what I’m saying than what I’m really saying every time.
His charities are a tax evasion tool that happen to be helpful at some level.
And if he was half as honest, he wouldn’t have waited for the proof to be out there before admitting what he did.
What I suspect now is there might be more, but it hasn’t been released, so he won’t mentioned it.
And about his decency: he abused Microsoft leading position to enact all kinds of dirty and shady tricks. MS lost quite some lawsuits because of that, but he knew very well whatever downfall would happen way too late to fix things.
Keep in mind, this is just what he’s actually admitting to. Like with all liars and cheats, the reality is usually much, much worse
He calls them women. Today maybe, but what were they back then?
Idk, I’m willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt because, despite the bullshit with Microsoft, he did some great charity work and raised his children well, which hints at some decency if it wasn’t his wife pushing him into it. There’s also reason to believe that some people will be named who were not guilty, but that’s only while nothing comes of the files or anything of the sort, because otherwise he squashes like a bug.
His so-called charity work is extremely suspect and I would highly suggest you investigate further before giving him too many kudos. Also I’m not sure why you’ve given him the benefit of the doubt considering he’s lied about this before. Absolutely no reason to think he isn’t lying again now.
I’m not “giving him too many kudos” any more than I’m not saying he’s guilty of being a pedophile until there’s proof. I’m not sure why Lemmy insists on reading more into what I’m saying than what I’m really saying every time.
His charities are a tax evasion tool that happen to be helpful at some level.
And if he was half as honest, he wouldn’t have waited for the proof to be out there before admitting what he did.
What I suspect now is there might be more, but it hasn’t been released, so he won’t mentioned it.
And about his decency: he abused Microsoft leading position to enact all kinds of dirty and shady tricks. MS lost quite some lawsuits because of that, but he knew very well whatever downfall would happen way too late to fix things.
That’s not how taxes and charity works.
If you spend $100 minutes on charity and “write it off”, that saves you $30 on taxes. You’re still down $70.
(You only can claim itemized deductions if you have more than, roughly $12k of them, 24k if you’re married.)
Yeah except those charities all happen to need to spend 90% of Bill’s donations on Microsoft products.
But if you own and control that charity then all you have done is move $100 from one pocket to another, avoiding giving $30 to the government.
https://cagj.org/2020/04/the-nation-bill-gatess-charity-paradox/
You still assumes big money operates like commoners. That’s never the case.