Who brought Trump into this comparison?

You can “win” this argument if you want to. I don’t really care. My issue was with Gates being described as a good hearted oligarch. I’m not trying to rank them or say that Gates is the worst or anything. Rewriting history so that Gates is a good guy is a bit much though.

I’m not going to give you a list, because I have other things to do, but you can read for yourself under Controversies here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates.

I was mostly thinking of the decades of anti-trust and “embrace, extend, extinguish”, as well as his sexual harassment of his employees. But I had forgotten that he was besties with Epstein and his wife divorced him after the extent of his endeavors there came out. So I guess child-raping may be on his list too.

Pretty swell guy.

Gates was (and arguably still is) an enormous asshole and has only recently started spending money on “charity” and PR to improve his public image (similar to Carnegie). That you’re willing to let him off the hook for all of his past evils only shows that spending a tiny fraction of their ill-earned gains on PR will wipe their slate clean and people like you will let them off the hook.

If you let Gates, Carnegie, etc off the hook for their rotten past, expect future generations to let Musk et al. off the hook once they buy back their reputation when they get old.

Should we really be propping up wealthy business owners by letting them create a underclass of desperate workers that can be deported at any moment?

Just because Trump is against something doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Broken clock and all.

Deportations aren’t the answer as much as actually prosecuting the “employers”, but having our economy dependent on unauthorized workers is not good at all.

I use this thing all the time. It will serve up ISOs and VMDK images also. It’s quite fast

I would argue that this sort of logical path wouldn’t be too shocking for the founders and they would just count on civility or elections to keep this from happening. The executive pardon itself is a fairly indefensible and corruption-facilitating loophole in the justice system.

Due to the very real and observable ratchet effect, the outcome of your strategy is that things actually get worse… just slightly slower than they otherwise would. Voting for the “lesser of two evils” will never, ever make things better. You need to take a risk and vote for a non-evil to even have a shot at making things actually better.

It didn’t burst?! That was not satisfying

He’s the biggest liability to all of his companies. Good on SpaceX for firewalling him from the company as well as they do.

I think that Israel’s habit of constantly fucking with its neighbors makes it more of a liability to the interests of the US. It leads to more local hostility towards US troops in other regions in the area and attacks on US people and interests both abroad and at home (9/11).

A better approach would be to ally with indigenous democracies and help them maintain stability. First, our allies should be at least mostly compatible with our own national values (not theocracies, monarchies, apartheid states, etc). Secondly, allying with an indigenous nation instead of a bunch of settler colonists is less likely to draw the ire of every common person in the region.

Some Palestinian children and international aid workers are going to pay dearly for this.

I did that because 2 minute screen lock plus crazy long password requirements made working hell. The alternative was going to be an arduino usb hid device that typed the password when a button was pressed.

Having unrealistic, bad security rules are counterproductive.

And they stand there over her like a bunch of fat Tweedle Dees and Dums after they knock her down.

Pathetic

Be careful everybody! This poster was extradited and is currently serving a prison sentence in London for the comment above. Don’t make the same mistake they did.

Relieved in the sprinkle pool? If not, I’m disappointed.

That’s not good enough. Threads like this show up in the comment count and give the appearance of activity on a post even when there is none.

Because it’s a wall of text bot-spam from a self-appointed arbiter of truthfulness with questionable methodology.

And it’s spammed to every posting on some subs giving the disappointing appearance of actual human activity.

Hiring “bad apples” needs to be a crime for the sheriff, chief, etc. It’s sad that’s what it would take to keep guns and badges out of these guys hands.

Dude, even mentioning it violates some international convention. There goes the rest of my day.

They were in violation of that treaty themselves and the US is no longer a party to it (as of 2019).