So I just read Bill Gates’ 1976 Open Letter To Hobbyists, in which he whines about not making more money from his software. You know, instead of being proud of making software that people wanted to use. And then the bastard went on and made proprietary licences for software the industry standard, holding back innovation and freedom for decades. What a douche canoe.

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    It’s just every thread man, every one of them devolves into it and I’m so tired. It’s quite literally like the Good Place where even the act of buying a tomato will get people raging in the comments about how apparently you support climate change, slavery, and every other bad thing involved in the growing of it. Or, hear me out, I just bought a tomato. I’m just so tired of it here

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      It’s quite literally like the Good Place

      LOL, just no.

      Just hear me out guys, Hitler was a nature lover! You can’t be judging people by just their worst acts!

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          Not at all. It’s absolutely true that Hitler had some good points to his personality. It’s silly as fuck to bother defending him by pointing them out, but they existed.

          The same is true of Gates, and it’s nothing like the silly tomato analogy.

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            The fact that you don’t get the nuance that I’m trying to show and going right to comparing to literally Hitler is exactly my point. That’s not discussion, it’s quite literally the Moral Equivalence fallacy. There have been a few good comments here that made me stop and think, actual discussion, weighing pros and cons. Jumping right to Hitler was not one of them.

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      I’m just so tired of it here

      Have you tried asking a mod to unlock your prison cell and let you leave?

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      Maybe pick a billionaire that wasn’t a frequent flyer of the Lolita Express to have this epiphany.

      Seriously. He is a deeply bad evil person that paid a lot of money for propaganda, and you fell for it.