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This is not a gender issue - more female CEOs and shit aint gonna fix the system. I am fed up of wealthy people ruining the world and you should be too.
If anybody thinks otherwise, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Karoline Leavitt, etc
“Psychotic old people” it’s not just old men voting for these idiots.
I was never not sick of it. I even tried to convince people to vote against it.
I mean, i think this is a pretty shared feeling in both men and women. No use is fragmentating hatred.
Structural misogyny, so it’s mostly the horrible old men doing it.
Im sure the horrible old women would be just as vile if we let them. (But we don’t)
Nobodys blaming the not-horrible old men. Nobody’s gunning for bernard sanders steve woczniak or mel brooks. Id mix a mocktail with metamucil in it for those guys any time.
Also, maybe pay attention to adjectives!
Also, maybe pay attention to adjectives!
… I’m sorry but could you elaborate? English isn’t my first language, so the problem is genuinely flying over my head.
Adjectives, words that function to modify or specify another word.
In the context of verbs-that’s action words- i might say ‘I walked carefully down the path beneath grandma’s window’-the adjective there is ‘carefully’, so you know this wasn’t a leisurely stroll to grandmas house, but a treacherous overgrown path, or i don’t want grandma to know im coming for that sweet sweet inheritance, or grandma thinks the geneva conventions are ‘cucked-ass yankee shit’, or maybe i just want my favorite old war criminal to enjoy her nap without interruption.
So in the context of nouns, thats people places and things, ‘terrible old men’
Refers to men (that’s a noun!)
But only the ones who are both terrible and old.
So, for example, a nine year old boy who rapes the family dog for shock value would not be in this group-he certainly sounds terrible, but nine years is not very old. We arent talking about him.
And a very old man who isn’t terrible, maybe the 90 year old guy who helped liberate dachau, came home, researched vaccines for the rest of his career then retired to his hobby of whittling toys for the neighborhood children. OP isn’t talking about him. He’s not ruining anything. He sounds great. More of that guy please.
So, ‘the quick brown fox’ would mean we’re talking about the fox who is quick and brown, not the quick red fox, or the other brown fox with the busted leg and the opium habit.
And when we say the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog, you know we’re talking about the lazy dog, and not the border collie who compulsively herds everything never seems to sleep and has so much energy it really seems to be a problem! Were talking about a fox (the quick brown one) jumping over a dog (the lazy one).
And now you know what adjectives are!
Witchcraft and resisting the patriarchy are both gender neutral activities.
“Witchcraft,” historically, has been used (by old white dudes) as a means of punishment and control of women.
I think they’re asking both men and women if they think old psychotic men ruining the world is annoying.
Because while psychotic billionaire women surely exist, I think we can agree that most autocrats and other crazy blood-hungry politicians are usually male.
I mean, name a female despot from modern times? History has a few. Queen Mary aka “Bloody Mary”, Cleopatra, Catherine the Great, etc. But they’re clearly a minority, just like with serial killers and other violent criminals.
Thatcher? Thatcher was pretty bad.
But that’s beside the point that caustic masculinity, excess wealth, and patriarchy need to meet the guillotine.
I thought about her, yeah, but she wasn’t a proper autocrat, was she?
Kinda hard to be with a queen above you, really. But yeah she wasn’t nice at all.
Idk if Hilary would’ve done much better first term. Shes like the archetype of chaotic evil pretending to be good.
Well no, obviously it’s not just an issue of mostly men being politicians. Reality isn’t exactly that black and white. But it does highlight… something.
I had the audacity to criticise Bill Gates (a hoarding billionaire), floods of people rose to protect him …
So yes.
Well, he is trying to give away ALL of his wealth before he dies now, so he has that up on other billionaires.
Now, as for how he ended up with those billions…
The inherent problem with this is that charity should be something guided by community consensus and expert opinion, not at the whim of an oligarch (who is primarily funneling money into his own foundation). Imagine if that money went into fair worker pay and then was taxed appropriately, where it could then be used for outreach programs, grants, funding ngos, etc dictated by political means rather than having some pseudo king having to decide your cause is worthy. granted in our current climate the political means are rotten but if we had an equitable system that didn’t allow for bill gates to exist we would hopefully have a better framework for this part too.
Also will take the time to point out that for all of his “charity” his net worth has, for the most part, stayed the same or increased throughout the years. Something tells me his kids will have still have obscene generational wealth
Oh, I don’t disagree. The how to his billions should be scrutinized heavily, which is what I was pointing toward with the last sentence.
As for his net worth, he has currently pledged (last month) to give it away before he dies. His now ex wife still has an impressive amount and his kids no doubt have massive trusts to their name, so they will not need to work for anything (a disservice, I think).
Again, I just think he is using his massive wealth in a more altruistic manner than the majority of the wealthy, which does not do away with his historical moral character.
I strongly recommend anyone that thinks Gates has redeeming qualities listen to the Behind the Bastards on the man.
Spoiler: there are no redeeming qualities about any billionaires.
And it is stupid to think people can’t change.
I strongly recommend that people don’t listen to bullshit podcasts like they are beacons of truth
You can literally just go to the episode and read the sources for yourself if you hate fun dude
Isn’t Gates the guy who convinced Oxford to turn away from licensing their Covid vaccine under an open license so anyone could distribute it for cheap, and instead made them sign with Astrazeneca “to scale up production and distribution”
Y’all need to get some reading comprehension. I’m not defending but damming by faint praise.
ml users don’t like nuance.
You all need some engagement skills. I’m not damning, just vibing off vauge statements
I was damning Gates with my faint praise.
I found that vague
He isn’t giving away his wealth my poor summer child.
He said that in the nineties and he did “give away” 45 billions, but to his own “charity” which he controls, to avoid paying taxes.
Let that sink in, you have a hundred billions and you wake up early to figure out how to pay less taxes…
And he and his charity has been putting massive amounts of money into sicle cell. Or has that changed.
This is a recent statement.
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articles/next-chapter
Again, not saying he is a good guy. Just better than other billionaires.
Many billionaires have said that. Look at what they do. Not what they say.
So he’s repeting it, and not doing it? Like he lies again? What are you trying to convey?
Can ya calm yer shit down and quit being a condescending ass to another person? Is that at all possible?
This is a change from what his plan was previously and was just announced last month. If you could read, I have not once defended the guy, just pointed out a difference between him and others. That’s it. He has always been a conniving schmuck and billionaires should not exist.
People without arguments use their hands.
He has told that lie 20 years ago, 30? But never done it, what’s news in that link if it isn’t that its not news but a lie?
Bill Gates is 69, Mark Zuckerberg is 41. When Gates was 41 he was much worse than Zuckerberg(or most other billionaires) is now and we don’t even know what Zuck will be doing when he’s 69. Time will tell but it will take a bit of effort to be worse than Bill Gates.
He’s not the worst, but Epstein, hoarding, Windows Vista…
Too bad the only language they understand is violence but we’re all domesticated to think that’s unacceptable
The great thing about domestication is that when enough people are unhoused, it fixes itself!
“Women are too emotional to be leaders”
hahahahhahahahhahahahahahahaahahahhahahahahhahahahhaha
/me takes deep breath
hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhaha
Women are too emotional to be leaders
Seems to only ever be said by people who don’t count anger as an emotion.
In my experience it’s said by people who have no respect for women
Well yeah! Have you ever seen the turd doing anything that he (or the world) would regret?
(I am trying to write this with a straight face, it’s hard)
Who will ruin the world for the rest of us, though? I have serious concerns about a population who does not have complaints about leadership.
Don’t worry. I think large language models are up for this one.
Certainly no shortage of training data
health secretary said we gotta put rocks and glue on all pizza
So… Pebbledash pies only?
looks like.
But we can have other toppings too still, right?
yep! I made sure to check. Pebbles sausage and glue is cleared.
But we still get to have vaccines, right?
yeah. I asked. Also, taking flouride out of the water
…why!?
replacing it with LSD.
Human here. Not a witch and definitely not a velociraptor. I am too fed up of them.
The username checks out, but I don’t know enough about witches to be certain.
Anyone else getting sick of young people who voted them in?
And the other psychotic old men who deliberately poisoned those young people’s minds? Yeah.
Honestly, I’m so fucking over men’s rule in general. How about we let women rule instead?
Simply replacing the gender of those in power does not change the systemic conditions of power. In other words, a system designed by and as a patriarchy does not cease to be a patriarchy because it is run by women. It would only cease as such by the very same systemic changes needed to bring non-(wealthy-CISHet-WASPs) into the the majority of leadership.
I truly do not want a government loaded full of MTG’s nor Barretts.
Do you think Margaret Thatcher effectively utilized girl power by funneling money to illegal paramilitary death squads in Northern Ireland?
So your argument against women ruling is one empire bitch?
Or every women who has had or currently has power. How about that.
Like Thatcher?
I’m not trying to defend men here, in fact they are horrible; but it’s not like history hasn’t seen horrible female leaders. Almost like it’s a human instead of a gender-specific trait
Look, Thatcher was a complete asshat and I hope people use her grave as a toilet for the next 1000 years, but scoring one point for women are just as bad, compared to the thousands of male asshats just feel forced.
Do we know a matriarchy would be better? Noop. Do we know it would be worse? Noop. We could at least try something beyond the dysfunctional system we have today.
Women ruling we’ll be no different. Example all the women who have power now. The problem is people who want power shouldn’t have it and the people who would be good rulers don’t want power.
I agree - let’s have bourgeois women shafting workers instead of bourgeois men shafting workers.
We’re progressive like that!
We should try no gods no masters for a change.
And this is how david hogg got fired after winning the dnc election. We dont need one type of person, what we need are qualified individuals no matter what gender or race.
We tried that. She was as power hungry as the rest of them.
Do you think the Spice Girls effectively utilized girl power by funneling money to David Beckham’s estate?
Psychotic? You’re saying Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, etc. are suffering from an acute period of paranoid delusions and hallucinations?
Or are you and everyone else who upvoted this meme ready to admit that you have no idea what most psychological terms mean, and just sprinkle them randomly through your sentences like SpongeBob and Patrick after learning a swear word?
Psychotic as in senile…
That’s not what psychotic means. These are medical terms with important meanings. These words aren’t toys.
