Nah. Cynicism would be me saying the Gates Foundation does good, and you saying mostly to Gates.
But you’re simply acknowledging what’s obvious to anybody who knows anything about how the rich keep themselves rich at the expense of everybody else. That’s realism, if anything.
Bill Gates has been working very hard since he retired to make himself look like a nice old man doing good around him spending his money on philanthropy.
But here’s the truth: the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation makes more money through its investments than it disburses through philanthropy, and its tax-exempt status is used by Bill Gates as a vehicle for tax evasion.
Just like all rich fucks’ foundations incidentally: if you ever wondered how comes so many of those psychopaths do philanthropy, that’s why. They don’t give a damn about their fellow man. If they did, they’d pay their fair share of taxes for the good of everybody instead of cherry-picking a few high-profile causes that make them look good. Billionaires philanthropy is all about tax evasion.
And now this.
Make no mistake: Bill Gates today is just as disgusting an individual as you remember him to be when he was running Microsoft.
It is not Greta Thunberg’s flotilla.
I know it’s meant to mean the flotilla Greta Thunberg is part of, but I reckon it’s worth pointing out.
“The bar was so low it was practically a tripping hazard in Hell, yet here’s Trump, limbo dancing with the devil.”
I don’t know where I read that one but I liked it.
Well yeah, but if your argument is that the DoD needed a name that better describes its role, Trump should have renamed it the Department of Pork.
Because that’s mostly what it does: feed the military-industrial complex.
I don’t much like Trump, but for once he’s right: the US Department of Defense is mostly doing war in the world, and very little defense. When was the last time the US armed forces defended the country?
Trump is such an unfunny bore… What a missed opportunity to rename it the Hexagon and troll the hell out of everybody.
Tankie porn… Eew…
A load of shit and a distraction from the Epstein scandal, is what that is.
How that fat wino ever got close enough to a woman to be in a position to assault her in the fisrt place is the most puzzling question in this case. What a repugnant man…
What a terrible, terrible country…
And that’s news?
I’m old enough to remember spotting Michael Jackson’s first album in an obscure record store in SF and wondering if this guy was any good, and I’ve always knows rich people pay less taxes than working stiffs. In fact, I’m almost certain that’s where the idiom to get stiffed comes from.
I also don’t remember a time when I haven’t thought the next time I come across a rich prick, if he’s enough of a prick, I might just slit his throat for the sheer satisfaction of doing it.
If you went through school without learning anything, it means you’re a normal person.
Don’t worry too much. What you need from your school is a degree, not an education. You do your own education. The degree doesn’t mean you know anything: it only tells your employer you were patient and dogged enough to sit through boring classes and terrible teachers all the way through.
That’s the real value for your future boss: they like someone who can withstand and survive the idiocy of the workplace. You getting your degree is reasonable proof that you won’t be a snowflake and leave them hanging when the going gets a little tough.
But make no mistake: you know nothing out of school. Nobody does. All employers know that. The best you can hope to get out of school is the ability to learn all the rest quickly after you’re hired.
Well, cheers guys!