• answersplease77@lemmy.world
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    i cannot give this sleezbag tax-evading wealth-hoarding genocidal pedo any benifit of doubt because he’s a billionare and there are no good billionares.
    the first thing a good billionare would do is not become one, and look around the world where their resources could alleviate so much suffering.

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    The phrase “underage women” is the biggest lie mainstream media has pushed as part of all of this. These scumbags didn’t have sex with “underage women”. The raped children.

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    He’s trying to satisfy people by admitting to a smaller thing rather than the worse things he did. Classic PR.

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    I’m conflicted in these situations.

    Obviously apologizing is better than nothing but at the same time, it’s an empty gesture at this point given how there is no consequence.

    The only benefit is that it’s another domino that hopefully leads to actual justice.

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    Announcing “affairs” seems carefully chosen. “Affair” implies an ongoing extramarital relationship. Sampling each of Epstein’s new child sex slaves would be pedophilia and cheating, but not affairs. He wants to imply his only extramarital sex was with consenting adults.

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    For anyone that still needs to hear this: there are no good billionaires! ABAB. This dude right here was the poster child for "good billionaires’. I don’t know whether only evil fuckers can become billionaires (probably), but I do know that having access to functionally unlimited wealth and power will inevitably warp your soul.

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      This dude right here was the poster child for “good billionaire”

      Really? I mean he tried really hard to whitewash his image with his charity and malaria research, but he was always a piece of absolute shit and the ‘good billionaire’ label was always a scam: DOS deal games, monopoly behavior, billionaire policy capture through his foundation, education meddling, vaccine-IP politics, nothing he did was truly charity, everything was self serving.

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        I fully agree with you. I been team “fuck Bill Gates” forever. I just mean that there’s a whole lot of people that were jock-riding him.

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        Imagine winning the game. But you have decades of your life left. By definition, you have access to the most exclusive of everything. Nobody ever tells you “no”. I’m not surprised these fucks decide that even the the most universal social taboos shouldn’t confine them.

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      “I did have affairs, one with a Russian bridge player who met me at bridge events, and one with a Russian nuclear physicist who I met through business activities,” he said.

      Sounds like actual adults.

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        So he met both these accomplished adult Russian women just going about his billionaire day, nothing to do with his good buddy Jeff whatsoever. When he caught the nasty clap from one of these only two accomplished adult Russian women, he ran straight to his good buddy Jeff for help spiking his wife, even though his good buddy Jeff had nothing to do with trafficking procuring introducing him to these exactly two, definitely adult, women.

        I have no further questions, just glad we can finally put these “BILL GATES IS DEFINITELY A PEDOPHILE” rumours to bed. Phew.

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    If what he says is true, why lie and try to hide it? Sure, having your affairs brought out into the open is uncomfortable, but with it being a part of the Trump- Epstein files, the best thing to do would be to be up front and honest about why his name is coming up. Trying to hide it at first and then coming out with this sounds like a PR move. There is probably something he is trying to hide by sharing a partial truth.

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    Cool. Give your billions to the bottom 90%, and we’ll decide whether to believe that’s all you did with Epstein.

    (We’ll definitely decide to not believe you)

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    Russian women or Russian girls? Even now, he’s trying to soft-pedal his abuses.

    Fuck that fucking fucking guy.