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Bill Gates says political polarization 'may bring it all to an end' and could even lead to a civil war
Business Insider ^ | Sept. 24th, 2022 | Sarah Jackson

Posted on 09/30/2022 12:29:31 PM PDT by shadowlands1960

- Bill Gates is sounding the alarm on political polarization in the US.

- "Political polarization may bring it all to an end, we're going to have a hung election and a civil war," he told Forbes recently.

- Gates, who has been the target of many conspiracy theories over the years, also pointed out the dangers of misinformation.

Bill Gates usually focuses on issues like poverty and infectious diseases through his charitable foundation, but another problem on his mind is the polarization of US politics.

"I admit that political polarization may bring it all to an end, we're going to have a hung election and a civil war," he recently said in the keynote conversation at this year's Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy. "I have no expertise in that. I'm not going to divert my money to that because I wouldn't know how to spend it."

Political polarization, he says, goes hand-in-hand with another issue: the spread of misinformation.

"The polarization and lack of trust is a problem," he continued to Forbes. "One of the best-selling books last year was a book by Robert Kennedy, saying that I like to make money and kill millions of people with vaccines. It's wild that sells well."

Over the years, Gates and ex-wife Melinda French Gates have donated billions to vaccine research, development, and delivery through their foundation. Gates has been the subject of conspiracy theories that claim he puts microchips in vaccines to track people. Earlier this month, Gates said people have yelled such accusations at him on the street.



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To: shadowlands1960

Stop the polarization.

ya’ll should just do what I want to do.


21 posted on 09/30/2022 12:50:27 PM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: shadowlands1960

Here’s an idea, genius, make a machine that counts legal
ballots and nothing else.


22 posted on 09/30/2022 12:52:34 PM PDT by arizonarick
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To: shadowlands1960; Chode

MD, Zagreb Medical School; clinical training, Medical Centre, University of Zagreb, Croatia. 1994, Harvard Graduate Program in Immunology; postdoctoral fellowship in transplantation immunology; Instructor in Surgery; Instructor in Medicine; Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; since 2002, Founder and Director, Advanced Immunology Laboratory for Tolerance Induction Stem Cell Transplantation, Renal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School; since 2007, current position, on leave from faculty position, Harvard Medical School. Author of over 50 articles and patent applications. Co-Founder, three biotechnology companies. Research interests: immunogenetics, immunological tolerance induction for transplant, auto immunity and stem cell research. Recipient of awards.


23 posted on 09/30/2022 12:53:59 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: shadowlands1960

Will the FBI raid his house for suggesting war?


24 posted on 09/30/2022 12:58:27 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: shadowlands1960

Is he projecting or divulging the NWO plan?


25 posted on 09/30/2022 12:59:30 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: EEGator

So he’s Gate’s Dr. Frankenstein... I wonder if he persuaded Bill or Bill just shopped for an academic that fit his presumptions?


26 posted on 09/30/2022 12:59:42 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 ("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
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To: shadowlands1960

I’m thinking the latter.


27 posted on 09/30/2022 1:00:53 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: shadowlands1960

It’s possible that the midterms could be rejected by the left and they’ll get in the street. It could be they simply don’t leave office. Who’s going to stop them? The capital police, FBI, military? They own it all and Republicans are gutless. Anyway, your guess is as good as mine.


28 posted on 09/30/2022 1:02:13 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: nascarnation

i’d say no... they don’t get paid to take pix and he wouldn’t be doing his job


29 posted on 09/30/2022 1:06:35 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: shadowlands1960

thx...


30 posted on 09/30/2022 1:07:00 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: shadowlands1960

He’s doing his best to get us there. It just takes so long! It’s like herding cats.


31 posted on 09/30/2022 1:07:05 PM PDT by blackdog ("That's an applause line you useful idiots" )
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To: EEGator

in other words, Dr Evil...


32 posted on 09/30/2022 1:07:46 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode

I heard he wants sharks with friggin’ laser beams on their heads...


33 posted on 09/30/2022 1:08:41 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: shadowlands1960

You mean there’s hope?


34 posted on 09/30/2022 1:09:44 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: JonPreston

If the GOP takes back the House, the left will say that ‘voter suppression’ laws stole the election. I don’t know if they still have the steam they had summer of 2020. I don’t remember much push back then, doubt they’ll be a lot in the future.

Everybody is somewhat in the pose of all those citizens dutifully recording the rapes and assaults on their iPhones while doing nothing to interfere...


35 posted on 09/30/2022 1:10:31 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 ("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
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To: butlerweave

Whitest extremist I’ve ever heard tell. Talking violence now too. He’s usually talking about culling the herds with vaccine shots and starving people. I guess his patience is wearing thin and he needs an accelerant to fan the flames of death.


36 posted on 09/30/2022 1:10:33 PM PDT by blackdog ("That's an applause line you useful idiots" )
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To: sport

There has to be an action that takes it to the personal. Unlike 1860, Americans are just not that invested in politics and the operations of the political system. The same is true of all of western Europe as well. Bur something personal, such as the drag queen incidents translates politics to the personal and ignites rage. Some sort of neo-martial law as a result of a real or fake kind of Oklahoma City incident that becomes attempts at civilian disarmament would be a trigger for a slow moving but real armed resistence in largely rural and southern America. It would be a war of murders, ambushes, assassinations and reprisals.much like the Irish War of Independence.


37 posted on 09/30/2022 1:12:11 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: robowombat

The model I’m predicting looks more like Rwanda. Let’s not do it.


38 posted on 09/30/2022 1:14:24 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 ("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
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To: shadowlands1960

A “hung election”?

Would that be a well hung election?


39 posted on 09/30/2022 1:14:30 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: shadowlands1960
Growing up, that Gates boy went to fancy private schools. Good thing too, otherwise he would have had plenty of ass kickings. Not to mention wedgies.

40 posted on 09/30/2022 1:16:08 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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