Why are people not protesting ? Businesses should stop buying Microsoft licenses and that should force Microsoft to remove bill gates completely from the company. Same should be done with Musk, trump etc.

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    The guy that thought union-busting was the key to improving education and campaigned hard to keep Covid vaccines under patent?

    Yeah, man, keep licking those billionaire boots.

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      If by campaigned hard you mean backpedaled immediately then yes, that’s the guy. His foundation also paid billions to distribute the vaccine at no cost.

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        he backpedaled precisely because it backfired on him spectacularly. Stop jumping through the hoops to clean his spoilt image.

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          I think in this day and age we can stop pretending public relations actually mean anything for the 12 digit club.

          Elon Musk literally exposed everyone’s grandma’s social security, waved a nazi salute, and turned Twitter into a CSAM generator.

          They backpedaled because backpedaling was the right thing to do, not because of any fake consequences you’re imagining.

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            I think in this day and age we can stop pretending public relations actually mean anything for the 12 digit club

            I wonder why your mindset is like this.

            At the 12 digit club it’s ALL about image. Why else would Bill Gates try to do stuff with his foundation? Why would Jeff Bezos try to fly to space with fuck you money? Why would Elon Musk enter a slap fight in twitter and end up buying the damn company?

            Elon Musk literally exposed everyone’s grandma’s social security, waved a nazi salute, and turned Twitter into a CSAM generator.

            They backpedaled because backpedaling was the right thing to do, not because of any fake consequences you’re imagining.

            No they backpedalled because they care about their image. For them, any consequence is far preferrable to tarnishing their image or becoming irrelevant.

            Egos control people who have such wealth.

            And they wouldn’t do the right thing if it meant they have to admit they are wrong.

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        People here are looking for someone to hate right now and your getting down voted for submitting facts. There’s always a lot of bandwagoning on this site.

        There’s no certification when it comes to bad and good. Sometimes evil assholes can do good things and vice versa.

        Life exists mostly in the grey area. The court of the Internet is black and white and arguments here forget that. Unless you’re Trump, Musk, or Bezos them fuckers are straight up evil.