Every kurzgesagt video:
- we are fucked
- but thanks to bill gates we arent!
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Unironically that's pretty true tho.
It's not. Gates' "charity" does an incredible amount of damage, and also destroys a lot of positive change that would otherwise be happening. For example, he was instrumental in ensuring an open-source COVID-19 vaccine didn't get released, in a way that potentially denied access to COVID vaccines to millions—perhaps billions—throughout the Global South, in the interests of protecting the profits of big pharma. His diversion of education improvements into private and charter schools is pretty infamous for destroying attempts to improve public education...all so that education can be repurposed into creating good, obedient, unthinking workers for capitalist industry. And a lot of his "food programs" and "vaccination programs" throughout Africa have done a great deal of damage to the general public trust in such programs, while arguably doing as much harm as good materially as well.
You might want to do your homework. Here's a start:
- Maybe Bill Gates’ Billions Don’t Make Him an Expert on Hunger in Africa
- Gates Ag One: The Recolonisation Of Agriculture
- Bill Gates's vaccine monopolism is a global health disaster
- Prisons and Slavery: How Bill Gates, the Gates Foundation and Microsoft Profit From Racism and Human Suffering Part 1: The Prison Connection
- Prisons and Slavery: How Bill Gates, the Gates Foundation and Microsoft Profit From Racism and Human Suffering Part 2: The Prison – School Connection
- Behind the Bastards: The Ballad of Bill Gates, Part 1
- Behind the Bastards: The Ballad of Bill Gates, Part 2
Excellent comment. Thanks for your detail and hard work!
About the Kurzgesagt thing specifically: Think That Through also has a couple of videos that go very in detail:
Do you mean that it's true that Bill Gates will help, or that it's true that Every Kurzgesagt video is like that?
Yes
Its the internet, healthy skepticism is good, but not when it dismisses everything. I have never seen their videos and felt a particular bias.
The channel mainly just presents scenarios and explains natural processes. However this accusation sounds like exactly an accusation, and based on the reply from the head writer/founder I suspect its an unfounded accusation.
May I ask if you watched the video pertaining to the accusation?
The accusation video i did not watch, because they are accusations, I cant prove.
I did read the reply from the channel and based on that response, the intent of the accusation is what my response based on.
I can't get access their books to verify the claims but if the claim is about who is really paying the bills versus influencing the science delivered then to me valid data is more important than the funding.
Here the problem lies. You're misjudging something without even looking into it. The video isn't an accusation per se, but it proposes several recommendations to Kurzgesagt who failed to acknowledge any of them in his "response".
The video in question is well sourced and documented, it would be a shame to make a final conclusion without looking into what prompted the discussion in the first place.
If you're boycotting reddit, you can find responses instead at https://libreddit.privacydev.net/r/kurzgesagt/comments/10jlyyk and https://libreddit.privacydev.net/r/thehatedone/comments/10pb1q9
Thanks for the additional context!
Just seems like a guy chasing clout
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