• webdoodle@lemmy.ml
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    Want to do something about it? Come protest with me at the Billionaire’s SummerCamp in Sun Valley Idaho on July 6th. This yearly conference, AKA the Sun Valley Conference, is where the parasitic rich meet each year to consolidate the new and old media, and to plan the coming years news narrative. It is attended by several former CIA Directors and all the media Billionaires.

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    Billionaires are all bad. That said if some of them want to squabble over who is the least bad billionaire, and that causes a rift between them, so much the better.

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      Wow that AP article is insanely deceptive. They make a fact look like a conspiracy theory and then “debunk” it with a strawman.

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    Throughout the 90s Microsoft was the company equivalent of a serial killer, so Gates had to really step up his public relations. Goldfish-brained liberal techies ate it up, and love him now.

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      you know that batman quote “you either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain”? well with billionaires its backwards apparently, you throw enough money on PR campaigns and you’re literally worshipped

  • literally the first episode of the citations needed podcast details how Bill Gates uses his “charitable” foundation to support the privatization of education via charter schools

    they have another two parter episode later on about how his “charitable” foundation uses “partnerships” with media organizations to launder its own reputation even as it spends to influence government policy across the entirety of Africa

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    I love how the conversation went from “all billionaires are bad eat the rich!!” to “hey this good billionaire is talking smack about a bad billionaire, time to defend them from criticism because they did good thing”