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Last Tuesday, as the strongest Atlantic storm in 90 years slammed the western coast of Jamaica with 185-mph winds, Bill Gates was downplaying climate change.

The billionaire does not appear to have publicly addressed the disaster in Jamaica, which extended throughout the Caribbean, with Melissa having killed dozens across Cuba, Haiti, the Bahamas, and the Dominican Republic. And his overall point, frankly, does not hold up to scrutiny.

Gates isn’t alone; climate change has slipped down the world’s priority list in the past few years—and it shows. Governments and corporations are shelving emissions goals, budgets are being redirected from climate initiatives to warfare, the media is pivoting away from climate journalism, and even activists are urging a softer, more “hopeful” tone. It all signals a vibe shift in how we talk about climate change, reframing it from the existential risk it actually poses to a less urgent, peripheral issue—even as the floodwaters reach our front doors.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 119 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Why respectfully? Who has Bill Gates shown actual respect for?

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 93 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 46 points 19 hours ago

ok good point

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 17 points 18 hours ago

Yeah. Shut the fuck up, Bill.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Epstein, from who melinda seperated from when she found out. his "current entrepuenership, was nothing more than money laundering and reinventing his own image from his MS ceo/epstein days, he did not charity by accident/genuine. plus he was criticized for his "vaccine colonialism" during covid by african countries.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 61 points 18 hours ago

Gates does not need to “shut up”. He needs to testify as to what his relationship is with Epstein.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 44 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Respectfully, Bill Gates is complicit in genocide and should be investigated for his connections with Epstein.

[–] gressen@lemmy.zip 20 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Fact Check: List of claims about Bill Gates includes falsities

Not to defend the guy but there are enough real skeletons in his closet. We don't need to spread misinformation.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 6 hours ago

isnt thats why hes doing "charities" for africans, to reinvent his image because of that, the timing is more than a coincidence, although start way before epstein got on the news, but he probably knew he would be connected to him in the media sooner or later.

[–] cycadophyta@lemmy.world 31 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Fuck Bill. Let's throw him in the volcano with the other elites

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That's wasteful. Pit them against each other in death matches.

[–] cycadophyta@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago

We WILL have the Zuck vs Elon match after all

I LIKE THIS IDEA

[–] etherphon@lemmy.world 27 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe there is hope for a world where being rich doesn't mean you are assumed to be wise and all knowing and should be consulted on everything.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I mean… looking at people like Neil deGrasse Tyson, you don’t need to be super rich for people to give your intelligence too much credit.

[–] etherphon@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

He's definitely a very smart man, in his field, but yeah that doesn't translate to having the answers to everything or even having common sense sometimes.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

he also, has a list of women accusing him of sexual misconduct, none of the incidence could be proven, but they were 4 separate women in very different locations. He's charming on talk shows. No actual scientists get invited on talk shows.

[–] etherphon@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

I mean, Carl Sagan, but yeah not really much currently. I feel like due to streaming everything has been kind of put in it's own little box, everyone can have their own show and no one needs to interact with people different than them.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 26 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

Nah, not respectfully, bill Gates is a piece of shit who has spent millions in charities to pretend he's a nice guy.

I too can pretend to be really nice by slamming millions around even though I have acted like a shit stain before.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 6 hours ago

i once tried to question him when he did an AMA like a decade ago, the mods/filters dint allow it though,specifically about him money laundering.

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[–] Poayjay@lemmy.world 25 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I remember when he did an AMA on Reddit and every comment about his Epstein connection was instantly buried.

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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 23 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

~~Respectfully~~, Bill Gates Needs to Shut Up

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 15 hours ago

~~Respectfully~~, Bill Gates Needs to Shut the Fuck Up

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 19 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

High-school dropout nepo-baby Bill Gates? That one?

[–] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The guy that stole IBMs UI setup and made Windows?

[–] gahedros@lemmy.today 12 points 9 hours ago
[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

TBF, he dropped out of Harvard.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 17 points 19 hours ago

He never should have spoken on the first place.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 17 points 18 hours ago

Maybe he should stop raping children, aiding genocide and supporting climate deniers instead of treating philanthropy like a pre-reformation nobleman buying indulgences to get into heaven?

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 13 hours ago

But what about my good billionaire? :( /s

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Don't ask whether it's distraction from Epstein list, ask whether everything bad is distraction from climate change and wealth inequality.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

its mostly distraction from epstein, suddenly he started to "act out" when more attention was given to epstein files as of recently. it also make sense why hes doing charities, beside tax evasion/monely laundering, he using the goodwill image, to put himself in a positive light.

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago

Might I add, also disrespectfully.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago

No respect needed.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 8 points 18 hours ago

Forcefully.
Permanently.
Respectfully? Don't care.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

~~Donny~~ Billy, you’re out of your element!

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 16 hours ago

No, media needs to stop listening to him because he had one good idea 40 years ago. USA needs to get over their cults of tech bros.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Ladies and gentlemen and others, this is what they call "the good billionaire"!

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

I wish someone could just start removing problems for us.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

He is getting old and confused, obviously.

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