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Wave that ignorance flag proudly! Unlike you, I've actually worked at the Foundation and know what they do. One example:

My 1986 biology textbook notes that malaria was the largest killer in the world at the time. The previous year over $500 million was spent on cancer research in the US alone, while only $8 million was spent worldwide on malaria. The Gates Foundation has spent over $2 billion on malaria research and remediation so far, and it's now number 12 on the list.

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Yes they are selfless and magnificent billionaires who gives away the equivalent of us providing twenty bucks. And gets most of it back through software purchases and parents. Sand of course you think that he did everything rather bring a smaller part of a global movement.

That you can not even type the name of a woman is pathetic.

As are you. Please enjoy the taste of his shoes lol

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OMG, you worked there when Bill's trash racist dad ran it. That was a precious foundation that mostly funded the Discovery Institute and its attacks on public education.

The thing you are talking about The Bill Gates and Melinda Foundation. Their governance is trash. Their arrogance and mismanagement is well known. They align with autocrats, have attacked public school, and generally create a shitshow where ever they go.

I bet you fit right in.

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Woo hoo! Wave that flag!

I worked there when Bill was still mostly at Microsoft, although Balmer was CEO for some reason. Melinda was mostly running the foundation then, and in large part is responsible for its project funding methodology.

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LOLOLOLYou finally typed "Melinda". I guess they still had high tolerance for white nationalist then, eh Brian? So you flourished.

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Abso-fucking-lutely

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I don’t think there actually is a “lowest level Trump official”.

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they literally locked families in their houses to stop the spread. volunteers had to go in to remove the dead. it sounds horrific

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i know right? what is it with her and those scarves? she and susan collins must be in a club together

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not concerned collins?

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Goldie Hawn...

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vodka?

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There was a long-standing controversy in the early middle ages as to whether a sacrament could be valid if the priest administering it was somehow not in the proper "state of grace" or otherwise not a proper priest. Long communication times had a role. I believe it was decided that it was the *intent* that mattered, not the status of the priest, so such sacraments were allowed to be valid.

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