• moebiusstrop@piefed.social
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    Russian women or Russian girls? Even now, he’s trying to soft-pedal his abuses.

    Fuck that fucking fucking guy.

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      How about bad charities that he uses to enrich himself while millions die, like he did with Covid?

      Sympathy going to happen.

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    Yes those nobel-prize-winning russian underage physicists. Suuuuure. Totally believable.

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    He’s sorry he got an STI from an underage Russian prostitute and he gave it to Melinda, then asked Epstein how to slip her antibiotics without her knowing.

    “affair”. fuck right off Bill.

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    Ahhh guys, he apologized. I mean, it’s only a bit of foreign blackmail targeting a man with unbearable weight on global tech. He said he was sorry!

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    No sympathy here. If he is admitting to that, no reason to believe him on the kid stuff, better do a very deep look.

    He can keep the cell warm for Trump as far as I’m concerned.

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      It’s not the same severity, but it reminds me of when Kevin Spacey was having rape allegations or something. So he came out and said he was finally coming out of the closet.

      It was like, “yeah … okay … what about the other stuff … ?”

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      Yeah, this comes across as admitting to a small thing to try and avoid consequences for the big thing. If we’re already in a place where we’re talking about a man with a life of elicit affairs while spending time around a child sex trafficker, it is absurdly unbelievable that at no point did those wires get crossed or that he was unaware of what he was getting himself into.

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    “I apologize to other people who are drawn into this because of the mistake I made,” he said. “It definitely is the opposite of the values of the Foundation and the goals of the Foundation.”

    It’s not though. The foundation is a way to spread his influence, bolster his ego, and pay less in taxes. Wasn’t that why he was pals with the pedo kingpin?

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    In one email, dated July 2013 and written by Epstein about Gates, the late pedophile alleges the billionaire sought to conceal from his wife Melinda French Gates a sexually transmitted disease he contracted after having sex with “Russian girls.”

    The email claims Gates sought antibiotics to secretly give her. It is not clear whether the email was sent to Gates, but he denied the allegation as “completely false” via a spokesperson in late January.

    In his call on Tuesday, however, Gates confirmed he had extramarital relationships during his 27-year marriage with two Russian women.

    “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.

    During the call, Gates acknowledged flying on a private plane with Epstein and spending time with him in the U.S. and abroad — but insisted that he had not witnessed or participated in illegal activity.

    “I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit,” Gates reportedly told staff. “To be clear, I never spent any time with the victims, the women around him.”

    Gates said he first met Epstein in 2011, after the financier’s Florida conviction for procuring a child for prostitution, and continued to socialize with him despite concerns raised by his then-wife.

    A physicist and a Bridge player…

    Sure, we believe that Bill, we just need you to answer a few more questions. Maybe some pointed questions about this and a few other subjects. Maybe even edged questions if you will.

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    It’s weird how everyone has his number, even if their reasoning was off. The Slashdot penguinheads thought he a literal Sith lord, the Q-nuts thought he, Soros and Fauci were running 5G vaccine chip biolabs, and now it turns out he was an Epstein Island frequent flyer.

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      The slashdotters likely remember when Gates literally tried to make the web proprietary with IE6 and ActiveX, among other sleazy BS.

      He can get wrecked.

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        Yeah, reflecting back on the hell he made my life with all that antitrust shit recently really got me ashamed I’d ever slipped and given him any generous thoughts at all. The dude is a piece of shit, through and through.