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So she is very much suggesting here that he did go to pedo island and that he did have sex there...
Not that it surprises me, but... I've hated Microsoft since it's founding, it's been one evil fucking company, but Bill Gates going down as a pedophile isn't on my 2026 bingo card.
Edit: Do we have any more sources on this? I somehow find it hard to believe
I don't think she is suggesting that. The emails don't say anything about him going to the island. They were emails Epstein sent to himself and one of them which he signed "Boris" says he was asked to do inappropriate things "from helping Bill to get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of sex with russian girls, to facilitating his illicit trusts, with married women". Bill Gates was alleged to have had an affair with Russian bridge player "Mila Antonova" in 2010 so likely the email is referring to that, and Melinda Gates is referring to the painful time when her husband had an affair.
There is a lot that's been going on with these files, but the island wasn't only underage girls right? It was underage and just legal types?
So it's possible Bill never partook in the underage stuff, still got the STD, but is still a scumbag since just being involved with it all means he knew what was going on even if he didnt put his dick in it.
So he either is a pedo, or knowingly supported a large group of them.
Yes, but he donated a fraction of his fortune to a set of charities chosen to maximize their PR value! That totally absolves him!
Not even purely for PR value. One of his foundation's causes is providing free medicines to third-world countries -- to stave off their saying "fuck patents" and producing the drugs for themselves, thereby helping to erode intellectual property rights.
Fun fact this has always confused me because I would think the best way to maximize PR value would be to just set up a metric fucktonne of charities basically everywhere with a wide breadth of functions. The whole hyper specific charity thing just comes across as weird at best intentionally manipulative at worst, which I guess is the point but it should be harder to tell at first glance y'know?
As I understand Bill Gates is a member of the effective altruism movement, which is a movement that argues that we should support the most effective charities that are actually proven to do good by measurable metrics, not just assumed to do good. The idea is to study different interventions and see how effective and how expensive they are (e.g. let's say we want to pay for textbooks for kids in Sierra Leone to help them complete school. Sure, seems like a good idea. But does that actually result in a greater percentage of students completing school? or is the reason they don't finish school mainly because they can't get enough to eat and they're suffering from tuberculosis, in which case the money would be better spent on tuberculosis treatment and food or just giving money directly to the families?). As a baseline, it compares how effective it is to just give money directly to the world's poorest people. And it only supports charities that are more effective than that, per dollar. This ends up supporting a few niche charities because if charity A proves they can save a life for $100 and charity B proves they can save a life for $200, you may as well dump as much money into charity A as they can handle, and only give money to charity B if charity A runs out of capacity/ability to save lives at that price.
Or she was just talking in general terms that he has some … issues.
I would hate to find out that she knew he was a pedo.