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Bill Gates of today is a very different person from the one who ruled over Microsoft back then. See Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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His PR is certainly a lot better, and there does exist a charitable foundation, sure, but a lot of foundations are just tax shelters, and just starting a charitable foundation doesn't absolve you of your sins or make you a good person, but it's great PR

Unless you know Bill personally you're just commenting on the quality of his public persona 's public messaging, or your parasocial relationship with that persona

Melinda Gates definitely still thinks Bill is worth divorcing, you know

That’s literally what everyone does every day with Musk. Not sure how Gates is any different here besides the fact that he is competent at said PR, as you say, and hasn’t done anything outright ridiculous to destroy his reputation.

Source? Do you know him personally?

You don’t see news about him trying buy a well known social network to destroy it or trying to use fruit to cure cancer. For one.

Sure but you don’t see anyone trying to do the former.

Elon brings wrecking ball and mass layoffs causing mass exodus of social media site

nailer: doesn't look like anything to me

You seem to have forgotten what you wrote - here’s a link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755503

If he’s trying to destroy twitter per your conspiracy allegation (remember how you wrote that?) he’s doing a poor job: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755503

Read a recent news article about how many advertisers have already pulled out and get back to me on that.

Edit: here you go: https://www.mediamatters.org/elon-musk/less-month-elon-musk-...

You seem like a very confused individual.

Done! Before we even had the conversation. Except from a credible source, rather than media matters. Guess how many pulled out at the point zero changes had been made?

But obviously even some alternate timeline where they had, that wouldn’t really prove Elon is somehow secretly trying to destroy twitter, would it? Someone is indeed very confused here.

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