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Bill Gates discussed with Jeffrey Epstein how they could "get rid of" all the poor people in the world in 2011.
This is the true psychopathic mentality of powerful capitalists; to them, we are just ants to be stepped on if we no longer benefit them financially.
Source where i found this -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2019439855520891304#m
"Poverty ... is a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilisation. It is the lot of man – it is the source of wealth, since without poverty there would be no labour, and without labour there could be no riches, no refinement, no comfort, and no benefit to those who may be possessed of wealth" - Patrick Colquhoun (absolute scum), commenting on pauperism/workhouses
I'm imagining they had some Malthusian perspective like the above if not outright mass murder.
I've been taking notes on Liberals and how they function for years and I think I have a pretty good idea on how they want to deal with poverty.
They really do think they're the "best" human beings alive. Any flaw they see is either lack of effort, mental disorder or evil. No substantial analysis of underlying material conditions and their relations can be found there. This is huge part of why their campaign has been so successful.
Liberals think they have it all figured out. It's why they can keep getting away with it. They've created a culture that functions like them, using all the wealth and power that they got.
But I've seen how people react to me when I speak on stage wearing a suit and how they react to me when they think I'm "just another person" and it really showed me that work means nothing in this liberal world, ~~what you say is irrelevant~~ (redundant) and the only thing that matters is IDEAS if you fit their ideas of an important smart person, then you are one. That's all there is to it.
bill and microsoft can't get rid of poor programming in their software, do you really think that they'll be able to get rid of poor people?
Maybe the conspiracies of Bill Gates going to India and Pakistan to give fake vaccines to poor women that actually made them infertile are not that crazy after all huh?
I have an idea for how there could be less poor people but they're not going to like it
I literally just had a conversation with a coworker yesterday where I said the ruling class would have to be really high on their own shit and stupid to want to do population control when the working class is the basis of all their wealth
Turns out they are really stupid and high on their own shit
Hahahaha
why are they cutting people in half?
The left wanted to reduce homelessness. The Right wanted to kill all homeless. They found a middle ground.
see we need more of this. make sure in your midterms (USAmerican, no other country has a relevant electoral system except us Yanks) to voot BLUE to cleave poor people in HALF rather than obliterate them with a deadly laser. if you vote against this for the Party Hoping to Stop The Mass State Violence Against Poor People, you should kill yourself and we should build the deadly laser just so we can kill your filthy ilk
Expectation: "The chickens have come home to roost. I repeat, the chickens have come home to roost." "Confirmed. The pizza is in the oven. Proceed."
Reality: "man don't you just love being a pedopihle? i love beign a pedophile so much, my dear frind jeffrey epstein who lives at 123 Main Road, New York City and can be called at 555-000-12-12. sent from my blackberry."
This is how these people mock at the whole world. Opsec is not a luxury, it's the tool of the masses.
these emails are written so fucking weirdly
COOL!!! I’m excited. this is what i was messaging people when they said they were bringing slime to school. not my reaction when my friend was like “want to sexually abuse little kids with me”
War, defunding healthcare, lowering food and environmental standards, criminalizing homelessness.
probably bringing back workhouses. I don't have the list of stuff gates has been involved in rn but he has very eugenics-adjacent views, except his are more socially palatable. He's huge into charter schools, wants to rethink the entire world system in his image, all the stuff he gets up to in africa, etc. and he's in the epstein files asking epstein for antibiotics to slip his wife so she wouldn't know he caught an STD from someone epstein provided him.
probably bringing back workhouses.
100%. Been saying it for years. They look like them and they won’t be called that. And people just above that threshold will say “isn’t it great”.
All of that creates more poor people, not less.
Why is the sender redacted....?
Why is the subject line of this email “your niece”?
idk about you but i'd really rather not find out, personally
What I wanna know is where's the rest of it