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.
Why respectfully? Who has Bill Gates shown actual respect for?
Jeffrey Epstein?
ok good point
Yeah. Shut the fuck up, Bill.
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.
Gates often gets a pass because he gives away a lot of money and “advocates” for a wealth tax. But he’s still a billionaire and still hoards more resources and power than any single person could ethically possess.
Not really what the article is about
He can blather as mich as he wants, stop giving the douche air time or column inches ffs.
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.
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.
For a billionaire he is pretty nice. Which only makes him an absolute piece of shit.
By all means do so then, please. An asshole spending millions on charity helps way more people than a nice guy receiving government aid.
You so understand that people as rich as him didn’t get to be that rich by being all ethical and having good morals, right?
And you do understand that being a nice guy doesn’t mean you rely on government assistance?
You’re not dumb, are you?
I never said he was ethical in every way. I said he helps people more than someone who doesnt have the resources he has. You said you could spend a million on charity to seem nice andd I said do it. I dont care if youre an asshole in every other aspect, if you spend a million on charity thats still a good deed. Judging someone based on the idea of them being a hypocrite instead of accepting their good deeds as such is a little pathetic, its like hating vegans because they ‘think theyre morally superior’.
I also never said being a nice guy means receiving government aid, I just said Id rather have an asshole helping millions. There are enough nice guys that dont have a positive impact on poverty around the world.
Capitalism is pretty good at creating wealth, its been successfully increasing the average living conditions of people for centuries. The problem we currently have is that, while the average is still growing well, the median is decreasing because the richest hold most of the wealth and most of its gains, so the poor effectively get poorer. Why hate on the one guy that uses capitalism to help millions? If every billionaire donated most of their wealth, this system could actually work out pretty well.
A guy receiving government aid has a MUCH smaller climate footprint than this asshole.
And a car has a smaller climate footprint than a ship transporting solar panels, or the factory producing them. What is your point?
What exactly is your point
That his carbon footprint being way higher than that of an average person is outweighed by the positive impact. If every billionaire spent a majority of their wealth on charity we would live in a completely different world.
We would also live in a different world if we taxed them, or stopped believing in fake borders and just started helping people regardless of which side of an invisible line two people fucked on. There’s lots of low carbon high value things that could be done, none of which involves one billionaire having life or death decision making power from his private jet.
While all of that is true, I dont understand how it contradicts my statement that a person spending billions on helping people has higher impact than another person that doesnt.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
Gates does not need to “shut up”. He needs to testify as to what his relationship is with Epstein.
Quiet, you fool! Don’t antagonize him. You think all that Windows AI is out there for our benefit? Oh no, it’s there for Bill to press the button and blue screen the world. And don’t tell me Linux users are safe; that’s what the assassination squads are for.
That guy that told me to sell my GameStop shares and that investing in that company is gambling? Yeah just shut the fuck up already!
Why do subscription billionaires think they automatically become “professionals” of societal progress?
Disrespectfully, Bill Gates needs to shut the fuck up
Bill Gates is a monopolist whose shady business practices in the 90s and 2000s make him a very evil man.
All billionaires are inherently evil by their own nature. Unless they literally won the lottery with take home $1 billion.
To become a billionaire you have to do some dark Machiavellian deeds whether by exteeme exploitation of human labour or manipulation of the most unethical proportions. A billion in wealth is something quite unimaginable before the 20th century, and the means to obtain that level of wealth in history has always been dark and dirty.
I think your point stands generally, but Paul McCartney is a billionaire and I don’t think writing a bunch of pleasant tunes qualifies as “dark Machiavellian deeds”.
The music industry is though.
True. In a sense, being a successful musician is more like winning the lottery. The best songwriter in the world isn’t going to sell shit without a label behind them.
Paul didn’t get that rich by writing music. He is a businessman and the music industry is quite a controlling evil mafia.
This is libelous. His business practices were also shady in the '70s and '80s.
Respectfully, Bill Gates is complicit in genocide and should be investigated for his connections with Epstein.
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.
Respectfuly, if you want to fact check someone atleast say what fact you are checking. Although perhaps I could have been more clear.
For the record, Bill Gates is complicit in the genocide in Gaza
- https://timschwab.substack.com/p/is-philanthropy-profiting-from-genocide
- https://www.mintpressnews.com/microsoft-israel-surveillance-azure-idf-gaza-genocide/290534/
- https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/11/11/bill-gates-should-know-better-how-israeli-occupation-ravages-environment-palestine
And he has connections with Epstein who on top of the whole child rape side gig was very successful at laundering money to send to Israel.
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-27/epstein-files-six-pages-released/105823750
- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/house-democrats-release-partial-epstein-records-referencing-musk-gates-and-prince-andrew
- https://pagesix.com/2025/04/15/celebrity-news/melinda-gates-addresses-ex-bills-deeply-disturbing-jeffrey-epstein-link/
For the record, Bill Gates is complicit in the genocide in Gaza
https://timschwab.substack.com/p/is-philanthropy-profiting-from-genocide https://www.mintpressnews.com/microsoft-israel-surveillance-azure-idf-gaza-genocide/290534/For both of these to support your argument, you must be saying that owning stock in a company that benefits from business or weapons that benefit Israel makes the stockholder “complicit in the genocide in Gaza”. If you’re saying that than probably about 60% of Americans would be “complicit in the genocide in Gaza” as they have stock including index total market funds or S&P 500 funds which have fractions of shares in many of those same companies.
That seems like an overly broad definition to me, but if that is your definition, then your claim is true.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/11/11/bill-gates-should-know-better-how-israeli-occupation-ravages-environment-palestineThis one just talks about Gates being involved with Israel on climate change actions without any Gates involvement in Gaza. So have to assume your position is that being involved with Israel on issues affecting all of us globally is also an endorsement of genocide. That too, seems like an extreme position.
Please stop with all your critical thinking. /s
Is this logic that someone specifically investing vs having a retirement fund or similar is the same thing?
Is this logic that someone specifically investing vs having a retirement fund or similar is the same thing?
You’d have to ask @ CubitOom@infosec.pub. My guess is they would consider both “complicit in genocide in Gaza” with their broad definition.
Melinda shit canned his ass for good reasons.
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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.
I think he and Melinda have been pouring money into charities since he left Microsoft. They have saved countless lives with malaria assistance alone.
i dont doubt that, but other than melinida, he likely had an ulterior motive.
Irrespectfully most tech moguls need to shut the fuck up, especially about shit that has nothing to do with tech
he was always known to be ruthless during his ceo days, his current image is trying to reinvent, and also to soften the blow of him being associated with epstein.
This does have to do with tech because the firm he founded is knee deep in the AI bullshit which is burning energy at an incredible rate.
You do know people can learn new things. Especially people with tons of money and time. You should try sometime, it’s fun!
I know people in the tech field can be very biased towards tech bullshit, and they tend to model everything through the cold vision of their industry.
Ok but define “tech” at this point. That made sense in 2000, maybe 2010, it’s… ubiquitous now
Fuck Bill. Let’s throw him in the volcano with the other elites
That’s wasteful. Pit them against each other in death matches.
We WILL have the Zuck vs Elon match after all
on top of a volcano. loser goes in. that would make Hephaestus happy
I LIKE THIS IDEA
He should only take advice from Balmer. And to be clear, the cocaine Balmer.
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High-school dropout nepo-baby Bill Gates? That one?
The guy that stole IBMs UI setup and made Windows?
Xerox’s
TBF, he dropped out of Harvard.
