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Phoenix61

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1. Says the billionaire who has benefited for decades

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Tue Jul 15, 2025, 07:30 AM

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'I'm alarmed': Bill Gates op-ed warns GOP risking lives -- and national security [View all] BumRushDaShow Tuesday OP

Says the billionaire who has benefited for decades Phoenix61 Tuesday #1

And has given away billions to humanitarian needs instead of a new Yacht Bengus81 Tuesday #4

He's worth 117 BILLION dollars!!! Phoenix61 Tuesday #5

Here is a good place to start research on the good Bill and Malinda Gates do... pazzyanne Tuesday #7

And he just gave almost all of it to his charitable foundation back in May BumRushDaShow Tuesday #8

And...Bezo's ex wife plans to give away her billions for the same causes by the time she dies Bengus81 Tuesday #16

They just got married, when? BumRushDaShow Tuesday #17

No...his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott....not his new wife. So she's worth about $40+ billion Bengus81 Tuesday #23

Thanks for clarifying! BumRushDaShow Tuesday #24

Ex wife. Joinfortmill Yesterday #33

Stop with the making the perfect the enemy of the good. It's a RW kind of mental habit they apply to us when we're in ancianita Tuesday #9

As I travel in central Africa ... SomewhereInTheMiddle Tuesday #11

And lets not forget the Carter Foundation milestogo Tuesday #14

And of course his "Habitat for Humanity" BumRushDaShow Tuesday #18

☝☝☝☝☝☝ THIS!!!! ☝☝☝☝☝☝ nt wolfie001 Tuesday #13

And...plans to give ALL of it away to humanitarian aid by 2045. What other Billionaire Bengus81 Tuesday #15

He will die a billionaire. How exactly is he standing Phoenix61 Tuesday #19

How the hell would you know who he voted for? Every rich person votes for Trump? Hardly Bengus81 Yesterday #35

I don't hate him I'm just not going to heap praise a Phoenix61 Yesterday #36

I could probably give away ten more dollars myself. Torchlight Tuesday #20

He is planning on giving 99% of it away. applegrove Tuesday #26

Calling out rePUKES is what matters. Has Bob Dylan ever said a word? Silent as a church mouse wolfie001 Tuesday #12

"Ha ha. Suckers. It's what we do." - G.O.P. Darkside Kabal BoRaGard Tuesday #2

We need more influential people to speak out. gab13by13 Tuesday #3

I agree. riversedge Tuesday #10

good for him et tu Tuesday #6

Surely he realizes, with a statement like this... slightlv Tuesday #21

They've been doing their best trying to turn "empathy" into a dirty word Jack Valentino Tuesday #28

Not just empathy... but words like kindness and sharing. nt slightlv Tuesday #29

Now he's upset Miguelito Loveless Tuesday #22

He's been upset. Let's not eat our own. Joinfortmill Yesterday #34

He is hardly, Miguelito Loveless Yesterday #37

Well, ok, then. Joinfortmill Yesterday #38

the "pro-life Christian" party DOES NOT CARE Skittles Tuesday #25

Talk is cheap. Shut down ALL their fucking Windows computers as part of a national strike. PERIOD usonian Tuesday #27

He owns less than 1% of outstanding Microsoft shares fujiyamasan Yesterday #30

But he must have "friends on the inside" usonian Yesterday #31

I'm sure he's in touch with Nadella fujiyamasan 16 hrs ago #39

The GOP are fascists. Joinfortmill Yesterday #32