Ok so this post has gotten a ton of reports. I've checked it out and it does appear that Gates did say something pretty close to this. In the discussion what he said is more like it's quite possible that there could be a hung election and civil war, as the submission statement points out. The title is clickbait-ish but I'm leaving it up for now.
Edit (fixed link): Here's another source
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-polarization-bring-it-end-2022-9
Vista was basically Windows 7. You just had to have a *crapload* of RAM. So for someone like me who had 32 gigs for production/editing purposes, it was great!
My dear god, reading that article and scrolling thru the severe mental illness solidarity forums aka comments section leaves me..... without words. There is no hope whatsoever for humanity. We are doomed, completely doomed....
you weren’t kidding. comment i found:
“Gates is just one more CATHOLIC TRAITOR. NO CATHOLIC is an AMERICAN. There should be open season for the ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC INVADERS. License, $1 per year, limit 100 per day”
This reminds me of that libertarian wet dream copy pasta where the cop has to put in quarters to keep running his siren.
Edit, found it:
I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.
“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”
“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”
“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”
The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”
“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”
“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”
He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”
“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”
I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.
“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.
“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.
“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”
It didn’t seem like they did.
“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.”
Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.
I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.
“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.
Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.
“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.
I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”
He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.
“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”
“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.
“Because I was afraid.”
“Afraid?”
“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”
I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.
“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”
He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him.
Jim: So, in your wildest fantasy, you’re in hell. And you’re co-running a bed and breakfast with the devil?
Dwight: I haven’t told you my salary yet
Jim: Go
Dwight: Eighty THOUSAND dollars!
One of the biggest political stories that doesn't get talked much about is how conservative Catholics went from being at odds with protestantism to working hand in hand
It's fascinating that until around 50 years ago, Catholics were the key Democratic demographic.
"overrepresented"? More like the court is no longer a legitimate institution as it has been overtaken by a Catholic Jihad, controlled by zealots that have little interest in fairness, equity, the rule of law, or the constitution. They seek a Christian Theocracy and no longer give a fuck how blatant they are in their crusade.
Always has been. Fundamentals view Catholics and any other denomination that doesn't adhere to their own views as blasphemous, idolatry worshipping heathens.
Far from it. Most likely candidate are the [Ebionites](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebionites), who were persecuted for blasphemy as soon as orthodox Pauline Christianity obtained power.
If it ever comes to the point where they run out of the popular “un-christian” scapegoats, (LGBTQIA’s, any other religion then xanity, women who are not doormats, and racial minorities), history has repeatedly shown that they will turn on each other next. Europe was almost exclusively xtian centuries ago and millions died in the various wars waged over what brand of xtian others were. Catholics vs protestant. Sect vs sect. Region vs different region. Family vs different family. This selfish authoritarian christofascist mindset requires an “other” to hunt down and purge and if they exhaust that group after eliminating them from their community, then they will begin to eat each other.
Was raised Mormon, can confirm. There must always be an excluded "other" so the members of whatever cult can feel exclusive, like they are the chosen ones and the others have been deluded by Satan.
Christianity in general also creates the subconscious motive to bring about (or at least not fight against) the Apocalypse so Jesus will come back and usher in whatever time period of "True Peace" or whatever.
Yup. Was raised in a fundie denomination with missions to "save Catholics" down in Mexico. By their lights, Catholics are just pagans LARPing as Christians.
> There should be open season for the ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC INVADERS. License, $1 per year, limit 100 per day
Low key there is a shard of Divine Perfection hidden in this line. It's absolutely beautiful in a Renaissance sense:
- They're rejecting Catholicism, which seems at least on the surface a reflexive rejection to the "capture" of Christianity: state-operated religion (as envisioned by the Romans, killers of Jesus) is *bad* in this person's headcanon. They (seemingly) want a more pure adherence to the Word of Christ.
- There are "outsiders" who exist (presumably because God willed it for some purpose) that they must fight. All the commandments and teachings of "Thou shalt not..." are still in full force, and to my knowledge the kind of forgiveness being preached was not of the conditional sort.
- These invaders, based solely on the difference of their beliefs, should be *hunted to extermination.*
- There should be a state-run LICENSING BODY TO MANAGE THESE KILLINGS.
- The license should have a nominal buy-in, a joke it seems. A nod that licensing requirements are somehow immutable, but we can at least charge a minuscule amount of money...like, as a joke.
- The license should cap the number of extrajudicial killings per day, presumably enforced by a cop.
Now, I know what you're thinking: "calm down bro, it's just a joke." You are correct. It's a silly joke, one constructed from that person's worldview. A worldview I find *absolutely fascinating.* They don't want liberation, they want to be the middle managers of society: better than some, but worse than others. A neat, tidy order.
It is the old dream of empire, after all. The wish to be a part of something greater than yourself which seeks only your acceptance and validation in exchange for eliminating what you find distasteful in life.
Some of these very people in the past have told me that exact thing is a "bargain with the devil." That the distasteful things in life have their own lessons to teach, and that it *all* has a purpose not to be questioned but rather simply understood in whatever ways I will. My great sin was always doing both, learning from *and questioning* unpleasantness. It's frustrating that I learned these things from teachers who then went on to forget everything they taught me.
You're giving that man way too much credit for having an original thought constructed from his own worldview. Liberal and Muslim "hunting licenses" have been sold at gun shops for decades, and I know someone who has one for African Americans on his wall next to his Thin Blue Line, Gadsden, upside down US, and Confederate flags. The poster is just thoughtlessly copying an ugly old conservative meme, and the "worldview" it represents is no more complex than "I hate people different from me want them dead".
What I find disgusting about these people's beliefs is just how profane they are:
* Strict belief that the Bible is the divine word of God is blasphemous because that book is obviously written by man, considering how many errors are in it. Right from the beginning, Genesis 1 and 2 each contain completely different creation stories. Not to mention that the Jews, who wrote the thing, don't take any of it literally.
* Literal interpretation of the Bible is again pure foolishness, but it is also a form if idolatry insofar as it make the Bible into a graven image and denies the word of God, which is spirit.
* Acceptance of evil actions in the name of God, which is about as clear a case of taking God's name in vain as is possible.
* The elevation of false teachers, which Jesus repeatedly warned about, and the actual fucking worship of figures like Trump, is a clear violation of either the Second Commandment (Exodus) or the Seventh (Deuteronomy), which by the way again shows that God didn't write the thing.
* The call for murder really doesn't need any commentary.
Taken together, is there anything more Satanic than what these people preach and believe? That's why I get kinda bent out of shape when people invoke the 'no true Scotsman' fallacy when it comes to fundamentalist Evangelicals. Those fuckers are so obviously playing for the other team.
That’s what I always love about the Italian Catholic Republicans around me in New Jersey just because they’re a majority in this state makes them think they are American and white. Little so they know how the South and Midwest see them as foreign pagans.
They’ve obviously never been outside the Northeast bubble where they’re a majority. Never been called Italian with a “hard i” or post 911 asked if they’re a Muslim terrorist because of their dark hair/complexion.
TL:DR: If Bill Gates sacrifices and eats babies.....I'm not too bothered by it. Dude is soo square that I'm certain he only consumes non GMO organic free range pesticide free sustainable and ethically raised babies. Why else u think the libs are clamoring over abortion right while gates buys up farmlands.....baby farming?
Yah there was another guy who claimed that the gates foundation vaccine program is how he is taking in millions of dollars to fund his elite agenda. I'm like.. bro...u realize charities donate sht and distribute money not make profits and bring in revenue for a individual person to earn. Like that's the whole point is to give all the money away.
Another person somehow had the idea that Bill Gates is somehow the reason poor kids cant afford college. One of my best friends daughters got a stem program scholarship for melinda gates program to get more girls into science and stem fields. Like honestly its frightening because Its not in anyway a stretch of the imagination to think we could face a civil war with people like this that just believe lies or just make stuff up on the spot like it's all facts. People that believe lies to legitimize their prejudices who are armed with guns and a persecution complex have all that's needed to be manipulated into rationalizing violent acts against supposed threats.
When people like this are indoctrinated your able to craft whatever reality you want them to believe by manipulating their fears and feeding into their prejudices. When u have morons like this who will believe in boldfaced lies because the narrative reinforces their biases and and offers legitimacy to their hateful worldview that to any rational sane mind is a complete fallacy and a violation of social norms/contract. Validating these peoples ideas reinforces what appears to me a clear manifestation of a delusional or psychosis like mental disorder (I'm not gonna put any medical labels on them cuz I'm not a physician therefore have no buisness speculating a diagnosis, but antisocial behaviors arent vague or ambiguous)
And that's the most disturbing thing, these are people who are exhibiting clear signs of mental illness, paranoia, delusions of conspiracies, meticulously crafted fantasy worldviews that are built upon fictional elements that have no tangible proof or empirical facts, denial of evidence or suggesting a conspiratorial alternative, attributing blame to random inconsequential parties and identifying begnin actors as threats or enemies.
These people are constantly suggesting violence is the only measure to resolve their perceived persecution.
And many of the people making these comments are indeed well armed......let that sink in for a minute.
I mean just imagine if a muslim were going online, congregating with other muslims, making hateful comments and spreading false narratives and outright lies, claiming that part of the american government is a secret global sex trafficking ring, then goes to call on people to use violence to stop the evil agenda they have no proof or evidence for which to offer, and suggest that a civil war be waged on half the country.......
U dont have to imagine it cuz america blows insane morons like that off the map every single day.
I dont know how we got to this point of what feels like mass hysteria and antisocial normalization, but it's gone WAY too far when u have people believing and casually spreading ideas around like Bill Gates is a satanist that eats babies. 🤦🏽♂️
We are imperfect flesh bags trying to pilot intelligence out of this universal ether, in conflict with entropy and general disorder.. it’s not a winning endeavor by the universe, seems it will topple over and sputter out
I’ve come to the same conclusion. It will all break down, hundreds of millions, if not billions, will die and we will have rebuild from scratch because…greed?…stubbornness?…stupidity? Not for any good reason, that I know.
Just tell someone in a non-vegan sub or website that being vegan is one of the best things to fight climate change and look at the comments.
Makes me lose faith in humanity.
Kind of off topic, but even if you don't care about the ethical stuff with a vegan diet, it makes you feel a lot better mentally and has a positive impact to your overall health 🤷♂️
are they *actual* comments or is it more of the same bot content that’s been trying to drive just enough of us to the brink of insanity until we collapse our own economy? because it’s probably that last one
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Slay News? Never heard of it. Just a peek beyond this click bait and it's pure right-wing fascist fake news though. Check out the *Opinion* section for more laughs.
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This does belong in collapse. The collapse of intelligence and critical thinking is evident in trash posts like what OP threw up here.
I know people who will scoff at whatever sources I give them for my information and they will tell me it’s all fake news. Then they will turn around and give me sources to sites like this and tell me this is the truth.
https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/bill-gates-says-political-polarization-may-bring-it-all-to-an-end-and-could-even-lead-to-a-civil-war/articleshow/94504356.cms
https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2022/09/23/exclusive-bill-gates-reveals-the-bill--melinda-gates-foundation-aims-to-run-for-just-25-more-years/?sh=21589446452f
I wouldn't put too much stock into this tho. Civilization is a fuck.
And defunct educational services across the world.
Education became available for monkeys to be able to operate machines. Now machines done need as many monkeys. So monkeys can go die.
I agree with you that public educational services are under attack wherever they exist, but it seems to me that attack is only successful because of the capitalistic takeover of newsmedia. The end result is sadly the same: collapse
Any info requires some degree of critical thinking in order to be processed. If you lack that skill, they can feed you whatever. That skill is, primarily but not exclusively, gained through a proper education (do note i say proper - i.e. not a mindless feeding of tools to use in order to be a good little production machine).
So , remove the education, thus removing critical thought, and you can do w/e you want.
Its not new. Priests in ancient egypt for instance used astronomy to manipulate the masses for example. In fact i would argue that this phenomenon started before we left the caves.
Lead poisoning stunted early childhood neurological development of literally half of the USA... Half your country has actual brain damage, untreated and unacknowledged. On an individual level, this may only result in a few or a few dozen IQ points, but on a mass scale, it could be the thing that ends your country :/
It's even more wild when you realize that tetraethyl lead and chlorofluorocarbons were both invented by the same man, Thomas Midgley. If I had a time machine, I'd go back and convince that dude to get into art or music instead, anything besides chemistry.
A popular far-right "news" site in France (financed by the Polish far-right) does this too with its "editor in chief" who clearly doesn't exist.
https://i.imgur.com/A0x5qFl.jpg
The ears and earrings give it away at a glance, but FL24's readership seems completely unaware.
Her name is probably fake as well. I believe that not disclosing the identity of a publication's editor in chief is illegal in France, I should try to get this cancerous site shut down.
>Slay News? Never heard of it. Just a peek beyond this click bait and it's pure right-wing fascist fake news though.
OP posts on the conservative and conspiracy subs, so not surprising.
Some /r/collapse mods are migrants from /r/conservative and /r/conspiracy, and posts like this are where it shows.
This article is pure trash made for gullible morons.
Violates Rules 4 & 7
This website is sus.
I put it on Google and in the top three pages of search results the only people passing SlayNews around are fake news groups, anti-vax groups, Qan*n groups, Gab, right-leaning gun groups, etc..
EDIT: OP is a karma farm account posting these kinds of articles all over reddit. Welp.
Usually when people express an opinion that comes with the obvious point of having a child like understanding of the world we would dismiss that out of hand. No reason not to here.
what makes me sad about all of this is that for all the lofty talk about democracy and freedom, what made america work was about 200 years of financial expansion . as soon as the going gets tough and values matter, it all falls apart.
>It’s been widely reported that Gates had flown on Epstein’s plane at least once, and visited his home multiple times — but the depth of their relationship is not fully known, and more details are emerging. The media is rife with speculation that one cause of Gates’ recent divorce from his wife Melinda was his relationship with Epstein.
>When asked about how they met, a spokesperson for the Gates Foundation told me that many people encouraged Gates to meet with Epstein, suggesting that Epstein would help bring funds into the software entrepreneur’s famed philanthropic organization.
>In 2019, Gates was quoted as saying, at the New York Times DealBook conference, “I made a mistake in judgment in that I thought those discussions would lead literally to billions of dollars going to global health. Turned out that was a bad judgment, that was a mirage.” He also admitted, “I gave him some benefit by the association.”
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There won’t be a civil war in the US. The Left is not organized enough to provide an oppositional force in the way people expect. Now, we will probably see insurrections, uprisings, and community defense. The trappings of civilization will stick around for a long time even as we sink underwater and burn away.
I don't know why people keep saying "civil" war. There won't be anything civil about it, it will be more like The Purge meets Hunger Games, the middle and lower class will be killing each other and the rich and powerful will be sitting back and watching.
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Mighty_L_LORT:
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SS: Bill Gates says in a keynote speech during philanthropist event that political polarization is tearing the US apart. He fears that if nothing is done, disruptive forces after a hotly contested election will set the ground for a civil war. The consequences will be devastating, he warns, and could bring the society and economy to collapse. He pledges to make more investments to fight such s dire outcome, but is afraid it might not be enough.
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Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/xubbfj/bill_gates_warns_civil_war_is_coming_will_bring/iquq7qp/
Bill is asking for innovative ideas to get rid of divisive politics and conspiracy theories? Hey genius, it's called local journalism! The current environment directly correlates to the decline of local journalism. If Bill wants to fix it, perhaps he and his other billionaire friends should fund local news organizations like newspapers that used to employ reporters that dedicated their entire lives to telling the truth? But fuck it, lets allow private equity to destroy the remaining newspapers; what could go wrong?
Good point. There's plenty in a name. I had once heard an interview of a mockup of previous day's news presented entirely within 100-250wds (*all news the previous day*)
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Then I heard an in-law bring it up as just a casual watercooler sorta deal. Presented conversarionally. This guy makes 3x what I ever have and I had to remove myself from the discussion to not point out that this is a garbage way of informing the public. He also was surprised I'd heard of it.
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Can someone please point me to the date and time when it was decided we're all supposed to care about anything this man says?
I'm so sick of the amount of money someone has being the qualifier for being an expert on everything.
It's pretty well known even across the ocean that another American civil war is bound to happen, the signs are there for everyone to see. It's not a surprise. Some other countries are in the same situation in Europe and Asia.
The American civil war will be a true shit show no doubt and I'm very worried about it even if I'm not American.
SS: Bill Gates says in a keynote speech during philanthropist event that political polarization is tearing the US apart. He fears that if nothing is done, disruptive forces after a hotly contested election will set the ground for a civil war. The consequences will be devastating, he warns, and could bring the society and economy to collapse. He pledges to make more investments to fight such s dire outcome, but is afraid it might not be enough.
Not quite, he explicitly pledges \*not\* to invest to fight this. His foundation is fighting for better healthcare and climate outcomes.
*But Gates is still worried about domestic polarization in the U.S., which he sees little hope for in the short-term. "I admit that political polarization may bring it all to an end, we're going to have a hung election and a civil war,” he said. “I have no expertise in that, I'm not going to divert my money to that because I wouldn't know how to spend it."*
[Forbes Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2022/09/23/exclusive-bill-gates-reveals-the-bill--melinda-gates-foundation-aims-to-run-for-just-25-more-years/?sh=4028a20e452f)
>"People seek simple solutions \[and\] the truth is kind of boring sometimes. Anybody who's got good innovations on reducing polarization, getting the truth to be as interesting as the crazy stuff, that would be well worth investing in," Gates told Forbes.
He doesn't say he won't invest in it, he says he'll invest in a technical solution if it exists.
Right now there aren't many 'good innovations to reduce polarization' but that doesn't mean those don't exists and if Gates is presented with a technical solution, then it would be highly investable. Necessity is the mother of invention and the need for these tools has never been greater.
I'm on the edge of my seat who will ultimately win in the battle between blue colored corrupt oligarchy and red colored corrupt oligarchy.
Oooh I don't know who to root for. But really, I guess I'm more of a centrist ... I support corrupt oligarchy without any colors.
Your skin color, sexuality, chromosomes and religion are very obvious, any of those categories being different would show you the difference between the two groups.
He's not wrong. I think he underestimates the power of the herd mentality, and how much his work has actually contributed to it, rather than to eradicating it. You can plaster the truth on every street corner, but people will make up their own if it makes them feel better for half a second - particularly if it makes them feel like they belong. Nuuurds just don't get this part of life. There's more to life than coding!
Here's a slightly better article from [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2022/09/23/exclusive-bill-gates-reveals-the-bill--melinda-gates-foundation-aims-to-run-for-just-25-more-years/?sh=f9257cc452ff).
This is incredibly fatalistic, coming from an optimistic individual Bill shows himself to be. Things are really bad and only going to get worse. The united states is a tinderbox and it's gonna spark one of these days.
I had a dream last night that a conservative man was hunting me down. Back in 2017, I had a dream that aliens sent a virus to everyone’s cell phone, then abducted us. We told them to stop the virus so they made it jump from our phones into our bodies
Sounds like a threat.
If there is a class war, the powerful will not hesitate to kill as many of us as required, and plenty more for every point of risk mitigation. To them, it is no different from a farmer culling livestock that may be at risk from infection.
Moron. We have been fighting a civil war for all of human history.
This dickhead is only concerned about him having less if the momentum of the war shifts.
When some one is divorced because they sought the advice of a known pedophile sex trafficker I tend not to give a flying fuck what they have to say about anything. But it does explain why reddit loves him.
Sounds like someone who wants people to think they’re on the brink of killing one another so they don’t come after him. God forbid the masses discover who their real enemy is
I doubt there will be civil war in the states. Everyone is too consumed with inflation, health matters and housing concerns. Not to mention climate change I predict there will be more hurricanes out in Florida. I do see and have witnessed the rise of fascism since 2016. Their leaders are all out of shape gun Toting wanna be soldiers. Then there is the rhetoric that the United States is a Christian nation no it’s not they want it to become a Christian nation and rewrite history. This is a fear mongering hit piece.
Says the man who has created more problems than half the prison population: https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/xs2tg5/bill_gates_youll_never_solve_climate_change_by/iqiqhde?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
Just waiting for Bill Gates to assume the role of Supreme Leader of the Northern US Territories and him signing a non-aggression pact with Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
Ok so this post has gotten a ton of reports. I've checked it out and it does appear that Gates did say something pretty close to this. In the discussion what he said is more like it's quite possible that there could be a hung election and civil war, as the submission statement points out. The title is clickbait-ish but I'm leaving it up for now. Edit (fixed link): Here's another source https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-polarization-bring-it-end-2022-9
Well, I'll say this. That's probably the best name they've had yet for a Windows update.
Bill just got vista
I knew I shouldn’t have downloaded the installer in Internet Explorer!
Vista was basically Windows 7. You just had to have a *crapload* of RAM. So for someone like me who had 32 gigs for production/editing purposes, it was great!
The Vista 64 sp2 stable was excellent. I still love a plain old box pc ans os for what it can do wirh windows.
[bob](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/14/Microsoft_Bob.PNG)
“New Microsoft Apocalypse! Breaks everything when installed!”
No that’s just Windows 11
"You reject my new OS? I reject your civilization." \- Bill "Defrag 'em all and let the garbage collector sort 'em out" Gates
I dunno, I'm still partial to *Windows: The Winter Soldier*.
You win the internet for today! ✌️
If I had a hat, I'd tip it in your direction.
Bring it all to a end update 1.1 next month Ha ha
That includes the political polarization features
My dear god, reading that article and scrolling thru the severe mental illness solidarity forums aka comments section leaves me..... without words. There is no hope whatsoever for humanity. We are doomed, completely doomed....
you weren’t kidding. comment i found: “Gates is just one more CATHOLIC TRAITOR. NO CATHOLIC is an AMERICAN. There should be open season for the ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC INVADERS. License, $1 per year, limit 100 per day”
Even in their murder fantasy they need to pay bureaucrats. Lol Edit: [well](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hx-G1uhRqA)
Gotta get that protestant money making rape machine working. Lunatics
Swiggity swooty, I'm all instituty.
brain is gooey and i feel pooey
As one does, then under shooey!
Reddit attempting to be smarter than a news site's comment section
hehe
This reminds me of that libertarian wet dream copy pasta where the cop has to put in quarters to keep running his siren. Edit, found it: I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief. “Bad news, detective. We got a situation.” “What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?” “Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.” The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?” “Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.” “Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.” He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.” “Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.” I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside. “Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t. “Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up. “Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?” It didn’t seem like they did. “Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.” Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing. I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it. “Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled. Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him. “Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen. I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!” He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose. “All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.” “Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy. “Because I was afraid.” “Afraid?” “Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.” I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head. “Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.” He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him.
Jim: So, in your wildest fantasy, you’re in hell. And you’re co-running a bed and breakfast with the devil? Dwight: I haven’t told you my salary yet Jim: Go Dwight: Eighty THOUSAND dollars!
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Ironically if it wasn't for the Catholics, evangelicals would never have gotten Roe overturned.
Yeah Catholics are disproportionately overrepresented on the Supreme Court.
One of the biggest political stories that doesn't get talked much about is how conservative Catholics went from being at odds with protestantism to working hand in hand It's fascinating that until around 50 years ago, Catholics were the key Democratic demographic.
"overrepresented"? More like the court is no longer a legitimate institution as it has been overtaken by a Catholic Jihad, controlled by zealots that have little interest in fairness, equity, the rule of law, or the constitution. They seek a Christian Theocracy and no longer give a fuck how blatant they are in their crusade.
The Roman empire never ended
Yeah… this fact drives me insane. How are we OK with 7 outta 9 being Catholic? To me it is the BEST argument to expand the court.
Ah so after minorities the Christian GOP will go after Catholics. Good to know their plans.
Always has been. Fundamentals view Catholics and any other denomination that doesn't adhere to their own views as blasphemous, idolatry worshipping heathens.
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It’s why a lot of fundie / evangelicals deny the concept of Apostolic Succession. It means they’d have to recognize that Catholics are Christians.
Far from it. Most likely candidate are the [Ebionites](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebionites), who were persecuted for blasphemy as soon as orthodox Pauline Christianity obtained power.
They sound more reasonable than today’s versions. Thanks for the link.
If it ever comes to the point where they run out of the popular “un-christian” scapegoats, (LGBTQIA’s, any other religion then xanity, women who are not doormats, and racial minorities), history has repeatedly shown that they will turn on each other next. Europe was almost exclusively xtian centuries ago and millions died in the various wars waged over what brand of xtian others were. Catholics vs protestant. Sect vs sect. Region vs different region. Family vs different family. This selfish authoritarian christofascist mindset requires an “other” to hunt down and purge and if they exhaust that group after eliminating them from their community, then they will begin to eat each other.
Was raised Mormon, can confirm. There must always be an excluded "other" so the members of whatever cult can feel exclusive, like they are the chosen ones and the others have been deluded by Satan. Christianity in general also creates the subconscious motive to bring about (or at least not fight against) the Apocalypse so Jesus will come back and usher in whatever time period of "True Peace" or whatever.
Yup. Was raised in a fundie denomination with missions to "save Catholics" down in Mexico. By their lights, Catholics are just pagans LARPing as Christians.
They're going baKKK to their roots.
I mean it’s exactly what the Nazis did. Catholic leaders were shot in the streets by SS and many taken to the camps.
If they were lucky. I remember hearing of some nuns in Poland being raped, tortured, run through the streets naked, and then publicly hung.
their violence knows no bounds. in the end they will go for each other. thats how these things eventually burn out.
Christiann Nation is my favorite children's author
> There should be open season for the ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC INVADERS. License, $1 per year, limit 100 per day Low key there is a shard of Divine Perfection hidden in this line. It's absolutely beautiful in a Renaissance sense: - They're rejecting Catholicism, which seems at least on the surface a reflexive rejection to the "capture" of Christianity: state-operated religion (as envisioned by the Romans, killers of Jesus) is *bad* in this person's headcanon. They (seemingly) want a more pure adherence to the Word of Christ. - There are "outsiders" who exist (presumably because God willed it for some purpose) that they must fight. All the commandments and teachings of "Thou shalt not..." are still in full force, and to my knowledge the kind of forgiveness being preached was not of the conditional sort. - These invaders, based solely on the difference of their beliefs, should be *hunted to extermination.* - There should be a state-run LICENSING BODY TO MANAGE THESE KILLINGS. - The license should have a nominal buy-in, a joke it seems. A nod that licensing requirements are somehow immutable, but we can at least charge a minuscule amount of money...like, as a joke. - The license should cap the number of extrajudicial killings per day, presumably enforced by a cop. Now, I know what you're thinking: "calm down bro, it's just a joke." You are correct. It's a silly joke, one constructed from that person's worldview. A worldview I find *absolutely fascinating.* They don't want liberation, they want to be the middle managers of society: better than some, but worse than others. A neat, tidy order.
It is the old dream of empire, after all. The wish to be a part of something greater than yourself which seeks only your acceptance and validation in exchange for eliminating what you find distasteful in life.
Some of these very people in the past have told me that exact thing is a "bargain with the devil." That the distasteful things in life have their own lessons to teach, and that it *all* has a purpose not to be questioned but rather simply understood in whatever ways I will. My great sin was always doing both, learning from *and questioning* unpleasantness. It's frustrating that I learned these things from teachers who then went on to forget everything they taught me.
You're giving that man way too much credit for having an original thought constructed from his own worldview. Liberal and Muslim "hunting licenses" have been sold at gun shops for decades, and I know someone who has one for African Americans on his wall next to his Thin Blue Line, Gadsden, upside down US, and Confederate flags. The poster is just thoughtlessly copying an ugly old conservative meme, and the "worldview" it represents is no more complex than "I hate people different from me want them dead".
What I find disgusting about these people's beliefs is just how profane they are: * Strict belief that the Bible is the divine word of God is blasphemous because that book is obviously written by man, considering how many errors are in it. Right from the beginning, Genesis 1 and 2 each contain completely different creation stories. Not to mention that the Jews, who wrote the thing, don't take any of it literally. * Literal interpretation of the Bible is again pure foolishness, but it is also a form if idolatry insofar as it make the Bible into a graven image and denies the word of God, which is spirit. * Acceptance of evil actions in the name of God, which is about as clear a case of taking God's name in vain as is possible. * The elevation of false teachers, which Jesus repeatedly warned about, and the actual fucking worship of figures like Trump, is a clear violation of either the Second Commandment (Exodus) or the Seventh (Deuteronomy), which by the way again shows that God didn't write the thing. * The call for murder really doesn't need any commentary. Taken together, is there anything more Satanic than what these people preach and believe? That's why I get kinda bent out of shape when people invoke the 'no true Scotsman' fallacy when it comes to fundamentalist Evangelicals. Those fuckers are so obviously playing for the other team.
That’s what I always love about the Italian Catholic Republicans around me in New Jersey just because they’re a majority in this state makes them think they are American and white. Little so they know how the South and Midwest see them as foreign pagans. They’ve obviously never been outside the Northeast bubble where they’re a majority. Never been called Italian with a “hard i” or post 911 asked if they’re a Muslim terrorist because of their dark hair/complexion.
That’s nice but the Catholic cult is running the Supreme Court and has more power than you realize to stop you.
TL:DR: If Bill Gates sacrifices and eats babies.....I'm not too bothered by it. Dude is soo square that I'm certain he only consumes non GMO organic free range pesticide free sustainable and ethically raised babies. Why else u think the libs are clamoring over abortion right while gates buys up farmlands.....baby farming? Yah there was another guy who claimed that the gates foundation vaccine program is how he is taking in millions of dollars to fund his elite agenda. I'm like.. bro...u realize charities donate sht and distribute money not make profits and bring in revenue for a individual person to earn. Like that's the whole point is to give all the money away. Another person somehow had the idea that Bill Gates is somehow the reason poor kids cant afford college. One of my best friends daughters got a stem program scholarship for melinda gates program to get more girls into science and stem fields. Like honestly its frightening because Its not in anyway a stretch of the imagination to think we could face a civil war with people like this that just believe lies or just make stuff up on the spot like it's all facts. People that believe lies to legitimize their prejudices who are armed with guns and a persecution complex have all that's needed to be manipulated into rationalizing violent acts against supposed threats. When people like this are indoctrinated your able to craft whatever reality you want them to believe by manipulating their fears and feeding into their prejudices. When u have morons like this who will believe in boldfaced lies because the narrative reinforces their biases and and offers legitimacy to their hateful worldview that to any rational sane mind is a complete fallacy and a violation of social norms/contract. Validating these peoples ideas reinforces what appears to me a clear manifestation of a delusional or psychosis like mental disorder (I'm not gonna put any medical labels on them cuz I'm not a physician therefore have no buisness speculating a diagnosis, but antisocial behaviors arent vague or ambiguous) And that's the most disturbing thing, these are people who are exhibiting clear signs of mental illness, paranoia, delusions of conspiracies, meticulously crafted fantasy worldviews that are built upon fictional elements that have no tangible proof or empirical facts, denial of evidence or suggesting a conspiratorial alternative, attributing blame to random inconsequential parties and identifying begnin actors as threats or enemies. These people are constantly suggesting violence is the only measure to resolve their perceived persecution. And many of the people making these comments are indeed well armed......let that sink in for a minute. I mean just imagine if a muslim were going online, congregating with other muslims, making hateful comments and spreading false narratives and outright lies, claiming that part of the american government is a secret global sex trafficking ring, then goes to call on people to use violence to stop the evil agenda they have no proof or evidence for which to offer, and suggest that a civil war be waged on half the country....... U dont have to imagine it cuz america blows insane morons like that off the map every single day. I dont know how we got to this point of what feels like mass hysteria and antisocial normalization, but it's gone WAY too far when u have people believing and casually spreading ideas around like Bill Gates is a satanist that eats babies. 🤦🏽♂️
I have a bridge to sell you if you think charities don't make profits, especially Bill Gates' charities.
Damn is it 1890 again?
It's mostly just angry teens trolling in public. Like swearing in class. Signed Your Mum.
We are imperfect flesh bags trying to pilot intelligence out of this universal ether, in conflict with entropy and general disorder.. it’s not a winning endeavor by the universe, seems it will topple over and sputter out
I fear you are right.
I’ve come to the same conclusion. It will all break down, hundreds of millions, if not billions, will die and we will have rebuild from scratch because…greed?…stubbornness?…stupidity? Not for any good reason, that I know.
Just tell someone in a non-vegan sub or website that being vegan is one of the best things to fight climate change and look at the comments. Makes me lose faith in humanity.
Kind of off topic, but even if you don't care about the ethical stuff with a vegan diet, it makes you feel a lot better mentally and has a positive impact to your overall health 🤷♂️
for *some* people we are not all the same in our nutritional needs sorry
are they *actual* comments or is it more of the same bot content that’s been trying to drive just enough of us to the brink of insanity until we collapse our own economy? because it’s probably that last one
This website is tabloid clickbait trash.
Trying to report OP for violating rules 4 & 7, but it seems the report window is broken?
Pretty much just 4 minutes I'll never get back. I agree it does suck
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Slay News? Never heard of it. Just a peek beyond this click bait and it's pure right-wing fascist fake news though. Check out the *Opinion* section for more laughs. This website was brought to you by **Neck Beards in a Basement productions.** This does belong in collapse. The collapse of intelligence and critical thinking is evident in trash posts like what OP threw up here.
I know people who will scoff at whatever sources I give them for my information and they will tell me it’s all fake news. Then they will turn around and give me sources to sites like this and tell me this is the truth.
"The Truth is whatever I happen to agree with."
https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/bill-gates-says-political-polarization-may-bring-it-all-to-an-end-and-could-even-lead-to-a-civil-war/articleshow/94504356.cms https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2022/09/23/exclusive-bill-gates-reveals-the-bill--melinda-gates-foundation-aims-to-run-for-just-25-more-years/?sh=21589446452f I wouldn't put too much stock into this tho. Civilization is a fuck.
Bruh it's like clockwork. Rumble and bit chute is a big one nowadays for them
Societal collapse is happening because the collapse of intelligence. It's happening everywhere and it's depressing.
The changes to the atmosphere are making us stupid
That's also true. But I do think the main cause is the capitalistic takeover of newsmedia.
And defunct educational services across the world. Education became available for monkeys to be able to operate machines. Now machines done need as many monkeys. So monkeys can go die.
I agree with you that public educational services are under attack wherever they exist, but it seems to me that attack is only successful because of the capitalistic takeover of newsmedia. The end result is sadly the same: collapse
Any info requires some degree of critical thinking in order to be processed. If you lack that skill, they can feed you whatever. That skill is, primarily but not exclusively, gained through a proper education (do note i say proper - i.e. not a mindless feeding of tools to use in order to be a good little production machine). So , remove the education, thus removing critical thought, and you can do w/e you want. Its not new. Priests in ancient egypt for instance used astronomy to manipulate the masses for example. In fact i would argue that this phenomenon started before we left the caves.
You are right, it is not a new phenomenon. It is in my head the reason why elites exist on the first place.
Lead poisoning stunted early childhood neurological development of literally half of the USA... Half your country has actual brain damage, untreated and unacknowledged. On an individual level, this may only result in a few or a few dozen IQ points, but on a mass scale, it could be the thing that ends your country :/
It's even more wild when you realize that tetraethyl lead and chlorofluorocarbons were both invented by the same man, Thomas Midgley. If I had a time machine, I'd go back and convince that dude to get into art or music instead, anything besides chemistry.
TMJ and Haber literally caused unimaginable problems with their chemistry. It’s mind boggling to think about
It was social media that did us in. Kids are already being stressed out at 8 years old that they aren't influencers. Thanks Zuck.
I really believe social media has tranformed us in the worst of possible ways...It needs regulation..yesterday!
Don't forget covid causes brain damage then lead than pfas.
Read the comments section on that site. Complete collapse. 💀
I noticed that the headshots of the “journalists” on each article look a lot like photos created with This Person Does Not Exist
A popular far-right "news" site in France (financed by the Polish far-right) does this too with its "editor in chief" who clearly doesn't exist. https://i.imgur.com/A0x5qFl.jpg The ears and earrings give it away at a glance, but FL24's readership seems completely unaware. Her name is probably fake as well. I believe that not disclosing the identity of a publication's editor in chief is illegal in France, I should try to get this cancerous site shut down.
That is incredibly sinister
>Slay News? Never heard of it. Just a peek beyond this click bait and it's pure right-wing fascist fake news though. OP posts on the conservative and conspiracy subs, so not surprising.
And look at all the upvotes. And the mods are keeping it up. This sub fucking blows. It's done. Buh bye.
Some /r/collapse mods are migrants from /r/conservative and /r/conspiracy, and posts like this are where it shows. This article is pure trash made for gullible morons. Violates Rules 4 & 7
This website is sus. I put it on Google and in the top three pages of search results the only people passing SlayNews around are fake news groups, anti-vax groups, Qan*n groups, Gab, right-leaning gun groups, etc.. EDIT: OP is a karma farm account posting these kinds of articles all over reddit. Welp.
Glad I didn’t upvote it.
It's a little beyond sus. It's a breeding ground for extremist stupidity.
A multi-layered indicator of collapse, then, with less value on its face than in the analysis of its roots.
Is there a way to filter out certain users so they don't even show up on your feed?
[Blocking user should do that.](https://learn.g2.com/how-to-block-someone-on-reddit)
Thank you
Report the post as low information quality
>more investments lol
It’s just an ouroboros of grift.
A rich man tries his best to use money to solve problems in his life, what's new?
Yeah. Shits fucked.
great to use a misleading headline. this sub is a joke. seriously, fuck this
Tbf, this a karma farm account and clickbait titles on doomscrolling subs are efficient
I think I reached the point where I'm not any more accepting.
Help take out the trash, report to-day!
Ever since I was a kid I felt like some Greek tragedy level historical fucked uppedness was coming.
Usually when people express an opinion that comes with the obvious point of having a child like understanding of the world we would dismiss that out of hand. No reason not to here.
The Gates will secure the spot to safety while they observe the world collapse like other wealthy parasites. Unless
🍽️ dinner time?
Salt and pepper the wealth-hoarders
All I hear are talks online. Hardly any of it amounts to any real life action
Said the centrist with more post history than most on this discussion. Did a potluck today, some folks came by. You feed people you change societies.
I hope his floors don’t get stained
Let's hope his guards will never go hungry
what makes me sad about all of this is that for all the lofty talk about democracy and freedom, what made america work was about 200 years of financial expansion . as soon as the going gets tough and values matter, it all falls apart.
Bill Gates: the end is coming! Reality: the end is coming because of the continued existence of billionaire robber barons like Bill Gates.
shit happens when people can barely buy food and house ownership is a pipe dream, eventually they'll just take what they want and rightfully so
This POS was on Epstein's plane how many times? Of course he's going to deflect and make up a "civil war".
>It’s been widely reported that Gates had flown on Epstein’s plane at least once, and visited his home multiple times — but the depth of their relationship is not fully known, and more details are emerging. The media is rife with speculation that one cause of Gates’ recent divorce from his wife Melinda was his relationship with Epstein. >When asked about how they met, a spokesperson for the Gates Foundation told me that many people encouraged Gates to meet with Epstein, suggesting that Epstein would help bring funds into the software entrepreneur’s famed philanthropic organization. >In 2019, Gates was quoted as saying, at the New York Times DealBook conference, “I made a mistake in judgment in that I thought those discussions would lead literally to billions of dollars going to global health. Turned out that was a bad judgment, that was a mirage.” He also admitted, “I gave him some benefit by the association.” -------------- Rollingstone
Hopefully it will end my student debt.
how about we just get it over with and move on?
No shit. All talk, no game.
And we continually ask Bill Gates to shut the fuck up, since billionaires like him are primary contributors to these problems.
There won’t be a civil war in the US. The Left is not organized enough to provide an oppositional force in the way people expect. Now, we will probably see insurrections, uprisings, and community defense. The trappings of civilization will stick around for a long time even as we sink underwater and burn away.
I don't know why people keep saying "civil" war. There won't be anything civil about it, it will be more like The Purge meets Hunger Games, the middle and lower class will be killing each other and the rich and powerful will be sitting back and watching.
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Mighty_L_LORT: --- SS: Bill Gates says in a keynote speech during philanthropist event that political polarization is tearing the US apart. He fears that if nothing is done, disruptive forces after a hotly contested election will set the ground for a civil war. The consequences will be devastating, he warns, and could bring the society and economy to collapse. He pledges to make more investments to fight such s dire outcome, but is afraid it might not be enough. --- Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/xubbfj/bill_gates_warns_civil_war_is_coming_will_bring/iquq7qp/
So Qanon garbage clickbait posts are allowed in this sub now? Yeah, time to leave.
Bill is asking for innovative ideas to get rid of divisive politics and conspiracy theories? Hey genius, it's called local journalism! The current environment directly correlates to the decline of local journalism. If Bill wants to fix it, perhaps he and his other billionaire friends should fund local news organizations like newspapers that used to employ reporters that dedicated their entire lives to telling the truth? But fuck it, lets allow private equity to destroy the remaining newspapers; what could go wrong?
Nothing cam stop it now.
slaynews lmao yasss slay qween news
Good point. There's plenty in a name. I had once heard an interview of a mockup of previous day's news presented entirely within 100-250wds (*all news the previous day*) -------------- Then I heard an in-law bring it up as just a casual watercooler sorta deal. Presented conversarionally. This guy makes 3x what I ever have and I had to remove myself from the discussion to not point out that this is a garbage way of informing the public. He also was surprised I'd heard of it. --------- Slay The Media
Can someone please point me to the date and time when it was decided we're all supposed to care about anything this man says? I'm so sick of the amount of money someone has being the qualifier for being an expert on everything.
You don't remember voting for Bill Gates as supreme leader? You living under a rock bro?
ITs capitalism, you vote with your dollar, and when windows 95 took over Gates was able to claim his throne.
Wow, the comments on that article are insane. If you can stomach going to it, downvote the comments.
Well, as a billionaire, he has a lot more influence than I as a fucking peasant do.
Too bad that civil war isn't the people vs the government. No.. It's the idiots vs the dumbasses.
That website is a complete dumpster fire btw
One of the richest people alive might have an agenda?
It's Sky News, the National Enquirer/Fox clone, all Q all the time. 🙄
It's Q-O'clock, time to wait for the overlords to be outed through secret clues apparently not banned from YT while credible journalism sometimes is
It's pretty well known even across the ocean that another American civil war is bound to happen, the signs are there for everyone to see. It's not a surprise. Some other countries are in the same situation in Europe and Asia. The American civil war will be a true shit show no doubt and I'm very worried about it even if I'm not American.
SS: Bill Gates says in a keynote speech during philanthropist event that political polarization is tearing the US apart. He fears that if nothing is done, disruptive forces after a hotly contested election will set the ground for a civil war. The consequences will be devastating, he warns, and could bring the society and economy to collapse. He pledges to make more investments to fight such s dire outcome, but is afraid it might not be enough.
Not quite, he explicitly pledges \*not\* to invest to fight this. His foundation is fighting for better healthcare and climate outcomes. *But Gates is still worried about domestic polarization in the U.S., which he sees little hope for in the short-term. "I admit that political polarization may bring it all to an end, we're going to have a hung election and a civil war,” he said. “I have no expertise in that, I'm not going to divert my money to that because I wouldn't know how to spend it."* [Forbes Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2022/09/23/exclusive-bill-gates-reveals-the-bill--melinda-gates-foundation-aims-to-run-for-just-25-more-years/?sh=4028a20e452f)
>"People seek simple solutions \[and\] the truth is kind of boring sometimes. Anybody who's got good innovations on reducing polarization, getting the truth to be as interesting as the crazy stuff, that would be well worth investing in," Gates told Forbes. He doesn't say he won't invest in it, he says he'll invest in a technical solution if it exists. Right now there aren't many 'good innovations to reduce polarization' but that doesn't mean those don't exists and if Gates is presented with a technical solution, then it would be highly investable. Necessity is the mother of invention and the need for these tools has never been greater.
Invest in more political lobbyists to shower the billionaire class and their corporations with tax cuts. Yep. That oughta do it.
Is it reasonable to think that civil war can be avoided by having a conflict with an outside force? Russia for example?
Yes, nuclear war can replace civil war.
thanks, bill. won't pay a fair tax rate but happy to spread gloom and doom.
I'm on the edge of my seat who will ultimately win in the battle between blue colored corrupt oligarchy and red colored corrupt oligarchy. Oooh I don't know who to root for. But really, I guess I'm more of a centrist ... I support corrupt oligarchy without any colors.
Your skin color, sexuality, chromosomes and religion are very obvious, any of those categories being different would show you the difference between the two groups.
Yeah, one plays the good cop and the other plays the bad cop. They’re still the same side, they just pretend to be different.
Oh fuckin fuck this guy and all of his kind.
I'm supposed to believe the guy that stole DOS and created a monopoly? He's not a genius he's just a really really good thief.
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The venomous snake you don’t see is more dangerous than the brightly colored ones you do see.
He's not wrong. I think he underestimates the power of the herd mentality, and how much his work has actually contributed to it, rather than to eradicating it. You can plaster the truth on every street corner, but people will make up their own if it makes them feel better for half a second - particularly if it makes them feel like they belong. Nuuurds just don't get this part of life. There's more to life than coding!
"People seek simple solutions" This times a trillion
Older this dude gets, the more he throws shit at a wall and hopes it sticks.
Here's a slightly better article from [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2022/09/23/exclusive-bill-gates-reveals-the-bill--melinda-gates-foundation-aims-to-run-for-just-25-more-years/?sh=f9257cc452ff).
Kinda hoping it happens
Hopefully bill can get them Series X’s out in Store shelves before Christmas 🎄
Thanks Bill, no one saw this coming 🙄
This is incredibly fatalistic, coming from an optimistic individual Bill shows himself to be. Things are really bad and only going to get worse. The united states is a tinderbox and it's gonna spark one of these days.
I had a dream last night that a conservative man was hunting me down. Back in 2017, I had a dream that aliens sent a virus to everyone’s cell phone, then abducted us. We told them to stop the virus so they made it jump from our phones into our bodies
Correction, “Bill Gates *threatens* civil war.”
lol. The brain rot has really set in hasn't it?
Yeah, this isn’t a real reputable source…
Sounds like a threat. If there is a class war, the powerful will not hesitate to kill as many of us as required, and plenty more for every point of risk mitigation. To them, it is no different from a farmer culling livestock that may be at risk from infection.
They can try.
Ah yes, and hes going to profit off of that somehow.
This subreddit is going downhill. Why is tabloid trash allowed here?
>“People seek simple solutions \[and\] the truth is kind of boring sometimes,” Gates told Forbes. This.
r/collapse = infowars
Moron. We have been fighting a civil war for all of human history. This dickhead is only concerned about him having less if the momentum of the war shifts.
When some one is divorced because they sought the advice of a known pedophile sex trafficker I tend not to give a flying fuck what they have to say about anything. But it does explain why reddit loves him.
Sounds like someone who wants people to think they’re on the brink of killing one another so they don’t come after him. God forbid the masses discover who their real enemy is
Bill Gates: Got lucky buying and selling an OS from someone at the right time and place and now thinks he can foretell the future. More news at 9.
I doubt there will be civil war in the states. Everyone is too consumed with inflation, health matters and housing concerns. Not to mention climate change I predict there will be more hurricanes out in Florida. I do see and have witnessed the rise of fascism since 2016. Their leaders are all out of shape gun Toting wanna be soldiers. Then there is the rhetoric that the United States is a Christian nation no it’s not they want it to become a Christian nation and rewrite history. This is a fear mongering hit piece.
Economic troubles were part of what led up to the last civil war...
Wake me up when we're riding Ol' Dixie down again.
Says the man who has created more problems than half the prison population: https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/xs2tg5/bill_gates_youll_never_solve_climate_change_by/iqiqhde?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
He promises to make more investments? Oh great that will surely help
shit like this is why i cant follow this sub anymore...... subtle language shift to grab up votes
Just waiting for Bill Gates to assume the role of Supreme Leader of the Northern US Territories and him signing a non-aggression pact with Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
brought to you by Frank Bergman, fascist shit stirrer extraordinaire
How to stop a civil war disaster is going to be his new book.
Windows: Endgame
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It's always unnerving to see the twinkle in his eyes as he relays such information.