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[–] MortUS@lemmy.world 6 points 21 minutes ago* (last edited 21 minutes ago) (1 children)

I don't clear Gates for falling in with Epstein, but this dude is clearly the fall guy for the tech sector. From old media to social media.

It wasn't Gates at the front of the inauguration: Meta, Amazon, Google, Twitter. DJT kept all his Epstein stooges close, that's a consistent. These folx also are all mysteriously missing from the Epstein files.

Gates is just the easiest target because Microsoft is the enemy of where The Big 4 want the tech sector to go.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 1 minute ago

You are probably right, all of the guys that weren't redacted were done so at the direction of the president, we only found out about the ones that didn't make a deal with him, be it to do him favors like sending money into his secret accounts, his favorite type of favor to receive I suspect; and or not telling people the things they themselves know, or the evidence they have, that can implicate the president and his pals.

That said, fuck them all. Let's nail these fuckers to the wall, then work and razing and burning the rest. This scandal is the key, it's not going away.

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

book tour in 3,2,1 epstein unleashed

[–] dandylion@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 minute ago

I am honestly tired of seeing the faces of assholes

[–] OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

Normally i would try and be objective but i dont care anymore with these guys

[–] ecvanalog@lemmy.world 22 points 2 hours ago

Both “affairs” and “women” doing some heavy lifting here.

[–] jve@lemmy.world 13 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Bill really nearly whitewashed away all the horrible business practices and cutthroat shit he did in the 80s and 90s with the Gates Foundation.

But man, he looks like he aged a shitload in the short while since all the Epstein stuff really came to light.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 4 points 34 minutes ago

Yeah, never trust billionaires who are all talk about being charitable and yet their net worth hadn't even gone down significantly. They're still billionaires.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 35 minutes ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago)

I dint believe him one second, most because he was obviously using it to do money laundering, he went on AMA subreddit quite a few times too pre-2020, plus his vaccine push in africa was met with criticism too.i always felt he was quite a slimy person. and it was well known rich people like to do 'philantrophy" in AFRICA to cleanse themselves of guilt, or hate done to POCs.

[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

One of the few Russian works I know is "kompromat".

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

All this is making Torvalds and FOSS look better.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 34 points 5 hours ago

The phrase "underage women" is the biggest lie mainstream media has pushed as part of all of this. These scumbags didn't have sex with "underage women". The raped children.

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 12 points 4 hours ago

i cannot give this sleezbag tax-evading wealth-hoarding genocidal pedo any benifit of doubt because he's a billionare and there are no good billionares.
the first thing a good billionare would do is not become one, and look around the world where their resources could alleviate so much suffering.

[–] doomslang@lemmy.zip 28 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] null@lemmy.org 10 points 5 hours ago

Soon enough the two Russian women will in fact be two Russian girls.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Slightly better than Spacey suddenly deciding to come out as a proud gay man, but not by much

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 28 minutes ago

or saying his job was tied to COVID.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The shit about trying to secretly dose his wife without telling her, what the fuck dude.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 30 minutes ago* (last edited 28 minutes ago)

without a doctors direction, whatever antibiotics would be ineffective if you arnt dosed properly. and also MEDICATION have added bitterent so you would be able to taste it.

There was an SVU/LAW AN Order episode about similar situation, the guy was "tracking the wife" whom he injected her with some kind of rfid chip without her noticeing while she slept and she got an infeciton from that, and he tried to secretly treat her with antibiotics without her noticing, turns out it dint work, because (you need to be properly told how long and how much to take).

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 10 points 6 hours ago

Announcing "affairs" seems carefully chosen. "Affair" implies an ongoing extramarital relationship. Sampling each of Epstein's new child sex slaves would be pedophilia and cheating, but not affairs. He wants to imply his only extramarital sex was with consenting adults.

[–] Lemmynated@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

Bill Gates fucked kids

[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

Did he try to dose them with anti STD pills?

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours ago

I’m conflicted in these situations.

Obviously apologizing is better than nothing but at the same time, it’s an empty gesture at this point given how there is no consequence.

The only benefit is that it’s another domino that hopefully leads to actual justice.

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 25 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

With Russian Women

Russian underage women aka, children.

[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 25 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

“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.

Sounds like actual adults.

[–] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 minutes ago

Assuming he's telling the truth

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Russian nuclear physicist, really, that would be an unimaginative plot for a porn movie.

[–] Ash@piefed.social 1 points 6 minutes ago

"Oh no,I have fallen on your control rod."

[–] phtheven@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago

So he met both these accomplished adult Russian women just going about his billionaire day, nothing to do with his good buddy Jeff whatsoever. When he caught the nasty clap from one of these only two accomplished adult Russian women, he ran straight to his good buddy Jeff for help spiking his wife, even though his good buddy Jeff had nothing to do with ~~trafficking~~ ~~procuring~~ introducing him to these exactly two, definitely adult, women.

I have no further questions, just glad we can finally put these "BILL GATES IS DEFINITELY A PEDOPHILE" rumours to bed. Phew.

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago

Or very accomplished children.

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[–] moebiusstrop@piefed.social 30 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Russian women or Russian girls? Even now, he's trying to soft-pedal his abuses.

Fuck that fucking fucking guy.

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[–] Ashenlux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 8 hours ago

If what he says is true, why lie and try to hide it? Sure, having your affairs brought out into the open is uncomfortable, but with it being a part of the Trump- Epstein files, the best thing to do would be to be up front and honest about why his name is coming up. Trying to hide it at first and then coming out with this sounds like a PR move. There is probably something he is trying to hide by sharing a partial truth.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 174 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 70 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 24 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 hours ago

OH MY GOD RUSSIAN WOMEN ARE THEY EVEN HUMAN WAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGH

[–] wizbiz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

If he gives his fortune away to a good charity and commits seppuku then I will think about some sympathy

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[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 131 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 41 minutes ago

and his PR stunts, for the last few decades was pretty obvious he wasnt doing out of sincerity.

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[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Cool. Give your billions to the bottom 90%, and we'll decide whether to believe that's all you did with Epstein.

(We'll definitely decide to not believe you)

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 64 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

“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?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 36 minutes ago

also to partially shield himself from Epsteins fallout apparently.

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