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Bill Gates Shares His Memories of Donald Trump (cnn.com)
MSNBC recently published a video of Bill Gates telling his staff at the Gates Foundation that he had two meetings with Donald Trump since the president was elected. In the video, Gates says Trump doesn't know the difference between two sexually transmitted diseases -- human papillomavirus (HPV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) -- and that it was "scary" how much Trump knew about Gates' daughter's appearance. Gates also said he urged Trump to support innovation and technology during those meetings. CNN reports: Taking audience questions about his interactions with Trump at a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation meeting, the former Microsoft honcho said he first met Trump in December 2016. He told the audience that Trump had previously come across his daughter, Jennifer, at a horse show in Florida. "And then about 20 minutes later he flew in on a helicopter to the same place," Gates said, according to video of the event broadcast by MSNBC late Thursday. "So clearly he had been driven away but he wanted to make a grand entrance in a helicopter. "Anyway, so when I first talked to him, it was actually kind of scary how much he knew about my daughter's appearance. Melinda (Gates' wife) didn't like that too well."
Gates also said he discussed science with Trump on two separate occasions, where he says the President questioned him on the difference between HIV and HPV. "In both of those two meetings, he asked me if vaccines weren't a bad thing because he was considering a commission to look into ill-effects of vaccines and somebody -- I think it was Robert Kennedy Jr. -- was advising him that vaccines were causing bad things. And I said no, that's a dead end, that would be a bad thing, don't do that. "Both times he wanted to know if there was a difference between HIV and HPV so I was able to explain that those are rarely confused with each other," Gates said.
Gates also said he discussed science with Trump on two separate occasions, where he says the President questioned him on the difference between HIV and HPV. "In both of those two meetings, he asked me if vaccines weren't a bad thing because he was considering a commission to look into ill-effects of vaccines and somebody -- I think it was Robert Kennedy Jr. -- was advising him that vaccines were causing bad things. And I said no, that's a dead end, that would be a bad thing, don't do that. "Both times he wanted to know if there was a difference between HIV and HPV so I was able to explain that those are rarely confused with each other," Gates said.
To trash Trump
And convicted criminal bill g. is still not worth my, or any, attention.
Or what is this, a contest of who's the bigger idiot?
Nope, still not interested.
He would find Gate's daughter attractive. He openly said he would "do" his own.
Cue old head techie conservatives from the mid-west shouting about how it's actually a good thing that our president is an ignorant moron. You know because H1Bs or some shit.
I'm not even going to comment on the obvious bias with this one.
Did Trump try to grab Jennifer Gate's pussy?
"You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything." - President Donald J. Trump
Everyone knows it. How can you live with yourself for voting for a PAEDOPHILE?
>waaah im a moran
no need to post. everyone already knows.
You know they're sparring now. He bashed Trump. Holy shit. What an asshole Gates is. I can't wait to see them make fun of each other's hair.
Don's bestest buddy in the entire world was McCarthy's attack dog, Ray Cohn, who died of AIDs. As soon as Don found out that Cohn was sick, he dropped him like a live rattlesnake and coincidentally developed a massive case of germophobia. Its probably why he thinks avoiding STDs was his own personal Vietnam.
Don definitely knows the difference between HIV and HPV, he was just trying to wind up Gates because he knows Gates takes public health seriously. Its a relatively common sociopath move - figure out what some cares about and then take plausibly deniable digs at it in order to get them twisted. Source: have a couple of clinically diagnosed sociopaths in the extended family.
The link between HIV and HPV. BeauHD is a faggot democrat cocksucker who loves to spew hate and vitriol. The perfect example of fascism is BeauHD.
Next you'll be telling us Trump doesn't know the difference between Kerberos and Kubernetes.
Simpsons Comic book guy scoffs at Trump!
Always interested in women, unlike those Marxists, who are interested in all forms sicknesses. Fagotts, Lesbians, self mutilators, men who use a cigar instead of their penis.
Thank god for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Healthy white old men!
I have to wonder if Trump was actually unaware of which groups of people have what opinion about vaccines (regardless of his knowledge about the actual science), which makes me wonder if his repeated questions weren't intended to deliberately make Gates uncomfortable. The word "innovation" coming from MS similarly makes me feel uncomfortable. Perhaps Gates can have someone innovate a way to help his daughter fool digital photography. Maybe strong IR emitters in the cloths coupled with IR reflecting particles in makeup or CNC face painting that subtly gives the impression of bone structure that isn't there.
I guess we can envision Jennifer Gates in full bondage gear now. Way to go, Dad.
You should be thankful your daughter is worth remembering, and didn't come out looking like a spitting image of her dorkshit nerd father.
Remember how you cringed like a bitch? when you got smacked with that pie? I do. Me and Peprich Fahms recall how you curled and winced like a fucking weenie, and the gorillas around you stepped up to protect the frail William Scrupulous Gates.
We get it. It's hip to shade on Donald because he's a big dum-dum and the chances are small you could upset anyone of significance (except Donald). But really, you should just be very happy and pleased your daughter doesnt look like Chelsea "Gums" Clinton, whose features are memorable for all the wrong reasons.
Bill Gates has kind of a cult of personality among working class Americans who see him as somebody who came up from nothing to become the richest man on earth. For some reason He's not lumped into the "elites" category like Jobs or Bezos. Not sure why, since he grew up wealthy and used his mom's connections to get an in with IBM and his dad's advice to take advantage of it, but go figure.
Anyway, him saying Trump is a bit of a buffoon is going to resonate with Trump voters. It'll be a significant hit to Trump's reputation with his base.
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We are currently ruled by some of the worst people of our nation.
Why? Because of joy.
"What? Joy?" You may ask. Yes - joy, the emotion of joy - that little element of discovering something that pleases you.
Americans discovered that amongst the boring moments of their lives, and amidst the confusing cycles of our politics, the thing that brought them the most joy, was the crude, often cruel mockery of difference.
It's not quite comedy, in the professional sense - even the most crude professional comedians would find this kind of humor career destroying. See Kathy Griffin to see what happens when one wonders into that territory.
But the conservative movement doesn't really have comedians - instead, they have a unique brand of cruelty that takes the place of open comedy.
It's not always about laughing - it's about joy, the joy of knowing how you are treating your enemy, the joy of cruelty, of punishing difference. At all levels, from online sharing, to the highest offices.
This isn't new - there were large amounts of this spread across newspapers in the era of 'yellow journalism' - it's actually kind of shocking to read some of the stuff around the civil war. And we're kind of returning to that state of political cruelty - cruelty ahead of everything else.
And that's what Trump represents more than anything else - cruelty in place of political strategy, cruelty in the guise of comedy, cruelty as the dominant force in a major political party. And cruelty called common sense and wisdom in our popular culture.
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Find me stories on Slashdot that paint Trump in a positive light. I'll wait...
Trying to figure out what aspect of this story actually merits coverage on Slashdot.
It's the ignorance, stupid!
Kind of hard to tell in Trump's case since he is also quite stupid and has been sheltered and protected from the normal consequences of his stupidity. His father was only the first person to pump in money to cover the losses from Trump's bad decisions.
However I think it is much more significant that Trump doesn't care about what he doesn't know. I insist that Trump regards Bill Gates as admirable, for the money, if nothing else, but Trump still doesn't care enough to listen to him. Any moderately educated person should know the difference between HIV and HPV, but Trump doesn't know and doesn't care. Actually, given Trump's sexual peccadilloes (or perhaps you prefer to describe it as "raging libido"), it would even be normal self-protection to know a LOT about sexually transmitted diseases, but "Trump don't know and Trump don't care."
Not sure of the exact numbers, but there are a lot of proudly ignorant fools in America, and many of them voted for Trump precisely because they felt that Trump's disdainful attitude towards knowing things made him a true representative of their views, the kind of "leader" they wanted to follow. Scare quotes on "leader" because if you're ignorant you can't actually lead since you have no idea where you're going. Normal peasants like you and I would merely fail hard when we stumble blindly into holes, but Trump has always gotten more money to pull him out and hide his failures.
There's another option: Learning from mistakes. I actually think there is a tiny bit of evidence that Trump has learned two things along the way. That's why he doesn't gamble with his own money now. His bankruptcies didn't teach him how to be a better businessman, but they did teach him to take his own cut up front and to make sure the contracts allow him to walk away when projects fail.
Trump has never learned that truth matters.
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âoe That he lacks basic knowledge on a wide range of issues is simply a fact, and a very big problem considering his job. âoe
I have some bad news for you. The vast majority of our elected Presidents are all on equal footing with regards to intelligence and knowledge about the â wide range of issues â you speak of.
The only difference is some of them knew to keep their mouth shut until their â advisors â told them what to say. Trump didâ(TM)t get that memo apparently.
Why the hell do you think pre-selected / screened questions are even a thing ?
âoe That he lacks basic knowledge on a wide range of issues is simply a fact, and a very big problem considering his job. âoe
I have some bad news for you. The vast majority of our elected Presidents are all on par with intelligence and knowledge about the â wide range of issues â you speak of.
The only difference is some of them knew to keep their mouth shut until their â advisors â told them what to say.
Why the hell do you think pre-selected / screened questions are even a thing ?
The very stable genius good brain smartey man.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Sorry, just because something makes Trump look stupid doesn't mean it's biased against him. That he lacks basic knowledge on a wide range of issues is simply a fact, and a very big problem considering his job. Surprised you didn't go with "fake news"... is it because Trump himself admitted that what he calls 'fake news' is simply anything that portrays him in a negative light?
Scott Adams has an interesting insight on the two views of Donald Trump: one view has him as stupid and incompetent, and the other one has him as brilliant and capable.
His point being: each of these is a model of reality, so which is the better predictor?
Look at the predictions made about Trump using the "stupid incompetent" model:
Trump will never win the presidency
The economy will tank if Trump wins
Trump will get us into a nuclear war
Trump will start WWIII
End of the world
Numerous Hitler-like situations
There are even specific things that people have said about Trump:
"Every taunt back and forth between Trump and Kim Jong Un maked deescalation and diplomacy less possible" -- Ben Rhodes, via twitter
"Poll: What one thing will work with North Korea? a) Military strike (9%), b) Embargo or blockade (1%) c) A grand bargain w/China (4%) d) Trump has no idea (86%)" -- Bill Kristol, via twitter
So we're scientists here, we know that science works by making models and predicting outcomes, and when we have two models we throw one out and keep the one with the better predictions.
Which model is the better predictor for Trump?
If you still believe in the "stupid and incompetent" model, what future predictions can you make based on that model? And what specific criteria can we agree on to determine when those predictions have failed or succeeded?
I can see you want to ralk about Obama to change the subject, but doesn't that just show the problem? Fair enough. Obama left the USA as the worlds biggest trading block with a stable economy and lower deficit than now and better healthcare and a dead Bin Laden. Trumps has helped Chniese companies evade a trade war he has created (ZTE) and received over millions in kickbacks so far some of which have gone to pay off hookers and hackers via Cohen.
Because you're always so awesome and everyone else is such an ignorant low-life.
You've still got more DUIs than me or Trump, you drunk driving piece of shit.
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What's Bill Gates' daughter look like?
I don't see what the "insightful" mod was for, though the mod did get me to look at the troll's comment. Lowest form of lie, Level 0 self-contradiction. Don't need to check anything to know that there's at least one lie there, though the example here was a case of two lies. (The impossible case is multiple true statements that are in contradiction.)
One of the things that is interesting about Trump is that he is a low-level liar. He often contradicts himself, sometimes within the same tweet. He frequently lies at Level 1, counterfactual statements, but any fool can check the facts.
The better liars, such as the lawyers and politicians, are mostly working at Level 2 of partial truth. That depends on knowing the whole truth and picking bits and pieces, but Trump rarely if ever gets that high. The most professional liars at Level 3 are using framing and various other techniques that render the truth itself meaningless. If you actually listen to a pro like Conway or Bannon you wind up wondering if the sky is actually blue or if the sun actually rose yesterday.
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Sorry, just because something makes Trump look stupid doesn't mean it's biased against him. That he lacks basic knowledge on a wide range of issues is simply a fact, and a very big problem considering his job.
It is a fact, but it doesn't *have* to be a very big problem if he gets good and relatively unbiased advisers. At that level, you should NEVER know as much as the people who are advising you, because there's only so much time in the day and if you're supplanting their judgment then chances are you're making a *less* informed decision.
The problem is that without knowledge, it's easier to be misled, so you need really good advisers who are relatively unbiased and who share objectives that are desirable from the POV of the entity that he is running (in this case, the United States). It does not appear either that he is doing that or that anybody is meaningfully able to teach him how to take more intelligent personal actions to help that entity.
So Trump asks a bunch of people for advice. Including Gates. About a received wisdom ("Vaccines are an absolute good").
Can someone please explain what's wrong with that?
We're talking about a guy who saw what 99% of the vaunted elite failed to see. Is he really so stupid?
Old nocoiner shouts on people from Ivory tower
I hope Secret Service is on the ball, because I can really only see one thing saving a republican presidency in the next election.
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"In both of those two meetings, he asked me if vaccines weren't a bad thing because he was considering a commission to look into ill-effects of vaccines and somebody -- I think it was Robert Kennedy Jr. -- was advising him that vaccines were causing bad things. And I said no, that's a dead end, that would be a bad thing, don't do that.
The Cult of Science has spoken: Researching into BAD effects is a BAD thing, mmmkay?
Especially if it exposes flaws, or fraud!
Is because he wants to bang her.
Besides that, it’s poetic justice that a tech giant feels like his daughters life has been invaded. Welcome to the club.
Wasn't it Bill Gates that banged Phillipe Kahn's wife?
She's gross looking. He was probably trying to be generous, and overcooked the praise
until it wandered into 'little too much' territory.
But yeah, she is barf-bag ugly. Maybe that's what tipped Bill off? Nobody ever sang such praises over his barf-bag daughter before, with such detail.
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is his comment about immigrants being animals. Don't get me wrong, I have issues with America's immigration policies (I'm a tech worker and the constant stream of H1-Bs has killed my wages and lead to companies that won't train or promote), but it frightens me to see anyone referred to as an animal. Once we start dehumanizing people we can do anything to anyone because it's not a big leap to declare anyone who's inconvenient an 'animal'. That line of thought shouldn't be in our country much less our president.
Now, I don't actually thing Trump believes that. But that's the problem. He knows how to work a crowd and will do and say _anything_ to do it. He's amoral. No immoral, amoral. He has no morality whatsoever. He feeds the crowd whatever it wants and, well, things are tough in America right now for about 80% of the population. And when things get tough people get mean. Trump's feeding that sentiment with wild abandon...
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Isn't it a shock how dumb *all* of the Republican presidents are? Either they were all just ridiculously stupid, including Trump, or the media is lying.
Yes, it's option 2.
You are supposed to be the smart ones, the kind of people who don't take media at face value, and look underneath the hood.
But you have been brainwashed by the media.
Well done.
Perhaps, do some more research and understand politics a little better. Or just stay being brainwashed little sheep without a clue on what's going on, but chiming in "popular" anecdotes about Trump with little knowledge of the truth.
Ps. Weiner's laptop got released for discovery on May 16th.
You also got 1.2 trillion in debt your grandchildren will be paying for you. But hey, enjoy those extra $50 a month.
A politician like Trump than one like a tech CEO who feels like it's his/her place to police speech and silence their political opponents on their personal internet platforms.
You low life scum will never have a conversation with any president. To lie and say you can is pathetic. Or is English your second language and you didnâ(TM)t mean it like that.
You donâ(TM)t matter. You never will.
Though Gates is far less corrupt than Trump, both came to their fortunes by great luck, embellishing their own worth, and a lack of guilt about screwing people over for a buck.
That held a science degree...
After all, he's so heavily invested in the democratic socialist machine, you think he would say anything nice about Trump? And get thrown out of the club?
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Trumptard spotted.
Microsoft needs.it's cheap supply of H1B to keep profits up, or Bill might.loose a few billion, time to make fun of Trump.
Don't you mean Melanie?
> ISIS - No longer a major threat.
Trump had nothing at all to do with this.
> US economy - Heading back in the right direction.
Trump had nothing to do with this either. All he's done is give a lot of money to rich people with his future-robbing tax cuts.
> N. Korea - Coming to the negotiating table.
That's all down to China! How ignorant are you?
It's absurd to suggest Trump has done anything useful!
If itâ(TM)s important itâ(TM)ll be explained on Fox News
telling them what they wanted to hear was Bernie Sanders, and it's been pretty well documented that the DNC & the Mass Media (CNN/MSNBC/Fox News, etc) were actively ignoring him and trying to bury his campaign.
Like Trump said, what have you got to lose? Hilary is pretty far right economically. What folks wanted was a populist. Trump is a populist on the podium. Too bad that ended as soon as he got elected.
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Obama put on more debt during his 8 years than that...
Clearly the man is dead end.
The liar and chief is as ignorant or as willfully ignorant as his followers.
MS-13 is an American gang, started here in the USA.
Yeah, but it took him eight years. Donnie only took one!
Tard who doesnâ(TM)t know Trump has been talking about issues since the â80s and even been encouraged to run.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) fights with "sovereign citizens" I.e. people who want the benefits of the USA but not the responsibilities or taxes... Could have happened under any President.
Popular on here? I'd have thought so, given the volume of neckbeard-wearing, women-hating, immigrant-hating, black-hating cunts that festoon this place. Oh, hardly anyone here is brave enough to face up to climate either.
we got 10 trillion in debt under obama and NOTHING for it. at least now we get some extra cash
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
So what? He can judge a young lady's looks, we ALL do that because it requires no skill. As for him not knowing anything about a disease, I'm more scared about why Bill Gates DOES know that.
So... what is the difference?
Everyone's terrified of the former but everyone's got the latter.
I'm familiar with Bill Gates' daughter's appearance despite never having met her, that's the result of reading DailyMail.co.uk which has an obsession with women's appearance.
HPV is relatively unknown yet blasted all over TV in scummy ads trying to work up the hypochondriac crowd into taking more medicine they don't need. It does not surprise me that someone would have heard that acronym yet have no idea what it is actually in regards to, I certainly don't.
#FakeNews #Trump2020
That's like saying Philip Morris is an American company, started in America. However when rounding to the nearest percent, they derive 100% of their revenue from countries other than the US.
whats the "difference between HIV and HPV", cause you know..... just asking for a friend.
You people are obsessed. Nuts.
For one thing, this is third party hearsay.
For another ... if you lose to a clown, the fault is not within the clown. If even a clown sounds better than you, it might be you with the problem.
Bill won't be free much longer.
And he's like a smart person, you idiots keep telling us, a genius, playing 3D chess with all the libruls. Are you saying he's, like, stupid?
So he asked, but did not care to listen.
Last I checked Bill Gates was a c student right?
Started ISIS? If only that was the stupidest comment here.
Surely there is a 'news for idiots' website where you could all hang out and spout diarrhea at each other without bothering the rest of us?
"...to the exclusion of others". That doesn't apply when BLM is an argument for not being excluded from being treated with respect and equality. When people protest "Hookers' Lives matters", that's not to exclude others, that's another way of saying, "Motherfuckers, investigate Hookers murders and catch serial killers".
No, that's being tone deaf. It's like saying "I'm in pain" and the asshole beside you oblivious to your problem says, "we all feel pain".
I couldn't stop laughing reading that and thinking of Trump's Mexican wall. The repeal of ACA, locking up Hillary, all the fucking jobs he's bringing back, etc. Fuck, he did more for jobs in China than the US.
Are you high? None of that is true, thinking of abortions and hypocrisy off the top of my head.
Arnold Schwarzenegger can't be US President.
I don't believe Trump invalidated the deal or provided any proof that Obama couldn't make the deal, he just pulled out of it because of a couple of deal points. What really makes Trump make US look like shit is how it's going against it's allies on these deals. Now he's trying to fuck with the world's pharmaceutical prices because the US health care system is insane in the membrane. Fuck that guy.
We *know* that he walked into the dressing room at one of his beauty contests, and that the young women in there were only semi-clothed or nude. We *know* he's got a yen for Ivanka. Why should we not believe Gates when he implies Trump is a creep?
If they needed any help, I would *NEVER* let that sexual predator near my daughters or granddaughter.
In my imagination, Melania didn't have HPV when she got married but does now and that her recent hospital visit wasn't some kidney thing. That's why shit is ice cold between them now.
By Salvadoran immigrants, or so I've read.
If the embassy didn't cost a billion dollars, tear it down, it's fucked. That shit is bugged.
Swing and a miss. The guy had to ask twice. Also, you can't forget all the times Trump boasted how he made shit up in discussions with other countries and still didn't learn the facts after being corrected.
I think the lesson is not to be exclusionary. Then you don't have to say "...but we really don't mean it the way it sounds".
Why would anyone in their right mind even acknowledge they had any kind of interaction with that orange toad of a man?
That's like running around proclaiming at the top of your voice that you have Herpes.
provided any proof that Obama couldn't make the deal,
Proof? Like Iran not signing on the deal because "not a treaty"? I am sorry but this doesn't make any sense. Sure, Obama can promise things that Obama can fulfill like "political commitments" but when it comes to promises of the United States the Senate must approve precisely because of shit like this. Obama set the Iran deal up for failure by ignoring the Congress. That is not how the US operates and Obama should have known better instead of trying to create a legacy built on lies and executive overreach.
What really makes Trump make US look like shit is how it's going against it's allies on these deals.
Because our Allies were fed the same bullshit lies that Obama could keep his political commitments after his term ended. Absolutely it causes problems and it makes our government look retarded. Because the United States did not agree to anything and this is exactly why the Senate must approve deals and treaties and that they have the same effect as law when approved properly. You want a treaty to be taken seriously in the US and not subject to the whims of the president? Follow that damn law and have the Senate approve. Obama was a damned fool and his "legacy" will be one of overreach, failure, and lies.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) fights with "sovereign citizens" I.e. people who want the benefits of the USA but not the responsibilities or taxes
I wouldn't call Google or Apple 'citizens;' they're corporations.
How does the Republican position ("fetuses are human beings and deserving of the same protections as children") contradict "freedom of association, private property, free markets, and freedom of speech"? Where do you see the "hypocrisy"?
Well, one thing is sure. There is no doubt that the people who are currently in the White House share your opinion. You should try a career as a presidential adviser.
We're talking about Obama's presidency here and whether he kept his promises. In many cases, Obama didn't even try.
I have no opinion on whether Obama did better or worse in that regard than Trump; that's a question we can revisit in another six years, at the end of Trump's presidency.
If Bill Gates were sincerely interested in working with (or through) Trump in order to advance some portion whatever he believes is the right agenda for America ... why publicly mock Trump after the discussion? It seems short-sighted. That Trump 1) reads news about himself, 2) is sensitive about his image, and 3) is spiteful is well-established. So does Gates care more about advancing what he purportedly believes, or getting a jab in at a buffoon?
and calling them animals is still a problem. Did you know there were death squads set up in parts of South America to kill street urchins like rats because they were a nuisance to the tourist industry? This is a real thing that happened in the 20th century. No human being should ever be called an animal. Ever. That will always end the same way. Concentration camps and death squads. Because once you get folks thinking that a person isn't a person then you can kill with impunity. And they will _always_ come for you when you become inconvenient.
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He's the president of the United States. There are some things you _do_not_say_. Period. End of subject. Dehumanizing people leads to genocides. We have thousands and thousands of years of history to back this up. The fact that the quote can be taken out of context is itself a problem. To you and me we see it as a nasty gut reaction. To a White Supremacist they see it as a call to arms. Like being asked to Rid him of a meddlesome priest.
Go read Bruce Sterling's Distraction...
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Not sure why, since he grew up wealthy and used his mom's connections to get an in with IBM and his dad's advice to take advantage of it, but go figure.
Gates was selling microcomputer BASIC to Fortune 500 clients in the mid seventies. Microsoft ultimately developed a full suite of languages for CP/M ---- and MBASIC in its many incarnations defines the eight bit era. Gates didn't go to the IBM PC team. the IBM PC team came to him. The IBM PC was going to be a 16-bit CP/M or CP/M clone, of that there was never any doubt.
1. You say "black lives matter".
2. They say "yes, all lives matter" as a way of agreeing with you, explaining why they agree with you, and being as philosophically universal as possible.
3. You get mad.
And they're the one that's tone deaf?
You realize that up until the BLM phrase went viral "all lives matter" would have been about the most bland and inoffensive pro-equity statement anyone could have made? That you're demanding exclusive focus on your pet racism problem at the expense of all others, including making progress against racism in general? That somehow you've convinced yourself that you (and/or a group that you empathize with) are the only people in pain? Really?
It doesn't sound the way you're claiming.
You're claiming that the group is "only black lives matter" and nobody has ever implied that as a meaning, you chose to assign that meaning because you don't understand ANYTHING about what it's like to live as a minority.
"Reverse racism" isn't real, you're just overly sensitive because you insist that treating everyone the same regardless of social and economic circumstances is the only fair thing, while you deliberately ignore hundreds of years of stacked cards.
Voter ID laws treat everyone the same. But they're racist, they are put in place by people who KNOW that it will stop minorities from voting while not affecting white people. It's a system where treating everyone the same is still deliberately targeting one group, and at the end of the day that's the real motivation behind it.
Police action toward minorities is the same.
Nobody is asking for special treatment, they are asking for the rules that apply to EVERYBODY to stop singling them out unfairly.
That's the world you refuse to see.
for a presidential campaign? No surprise there. I always though an ruthless egotistic money grabbing person like him would run as a republican though. Well, he is better than Hillary but not by much.
The answer is: Woodrow Wilson.
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