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The billionaire philanthropist making hundreds of Londoners homeless (www.londoncentric.media)

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London Centric has learned that in the coming weeks the Aziz family’s Criterion Capital business intends to remove hundreds of Londoners – including some marking the month of Ramadan – from their homes. These mass “no-fault” evictions of private tenants, which sources say are planned to be finished before the government’s Renters’ Rights Act comes into effect, are taking place on an unprecedented scale.

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[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Using the word philanthropist for scum like that is a bit of a stretch

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Philanthropy has always been how the ruling class whitewash their crimes.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

and psychopathy, and deviances. people fell for gates "generosity" for decades.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People even argued about it here on lemmy like a year ago. Brainwashing goes deep.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

he was literally doing PR on REDDIT AMA, in around 2016-19, he stopped because epstein was arrested/suicided and dint want the attention to draw upon himself. in covid he made sure vaccines were only developed by specific companies, so no other generics/ similar was available to places like africa, whom he was "donating to"

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago

Him or his PR firm. We all know about their PR firms because elon started to believe his own PR firm and feeling so smart he sacked them all (then promptly calling people pedos and wrecking his carefully crafted image of some misunderstood genious) lol.

I remember that reddit thing btw. Wild actually.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 3 points 1 day ago

Philanthropist means stealing 10 million from the needy, and having someone else donate 1 million in your name to an organisation controlled by yourself, using 99% of the money on "administration" costs, and then giving a childrens hospital whatever secondhand clothes you can scrounge up for the rest.