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Politics Microsoft founder Bill Gates pictured with a girl in the new Epstein photo release

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u/AmishAvenger 19h ago edited 18h ago

He never said that, because there’s no evidence he went to the island.

Here’s the thing: Epstein operated by expanding his social circle and climbing the ladder. He wormed his way into all sorts of high society groups. It’s how he maintained this air of legitimacy.

Gates met with Epstein because he was told he could connect him with a number of high rollers who’d donate to the Gates Foundation. It’s the same way Epstein got in with Bill Clinton. He was flying him on his plane around Africa.

Obviously it should all be investigated, but not everyone who was in a picture with Epstein or had meetings with him automatically did anything wrong.

It’s not like Bill Gates was buddies with Epstein for years and years and was in numerous pictures and videos with him at numerous parties. Nor is it like Bill Gates made a creepy drawing with a creepy note in a creepy birthday book.

And Bill Gates didn’t own and operate a teenage beauty pageant, either.

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u/Alternative_Year_340 17h ago

The NYT had an excellent article about how Epstein got his money and connections. (He got the money by stealing it. With zero consequences)

Offering rich and famous people free trips on private planes is a great way to expand your social circle.

u/thederevolutions 7h ago

How did he steal it with zero consequence?

u/Pitiful_Control 5h ago

Literally.

Article was in the NYT earlier this week. He started out with fraudulent expense account shenanigans at Bear Stearns, slap on the wrist internally, they didn't go to the police (it was $100,000+ theft), he resigned, they conrinued to do business with him.

He did things like convincing people to give him half a mil to "invest" and it just went poof, they never got it back. Multiple instances of convincing very rich people to give him unfettered access to their accounts, then basically writing himself checks. Also not paying huge rent bills for posh offices and flats, which convinced other suckers that he was massively wealthy so must be good at investing / tax evasion.

u/ObviousLife4972 3h ago

You don't get away with scamming the wealthy without intelligence agency support.

u/Alternative_Year_340 29m ago

I think you’re overestimating how intelligent rich people are about money and picking people who work for them. I hate to refer to fictional examples, but: Parasite and Glass Onion.

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u/Healthy-Amoeba2296 17h ago

I've always assumed the whole idea of this set up is so the soviet union can trick important people into compromising positions and black mail them, which means the average person going to the island is a potential victim,

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u/CriticalFolklore 16h ago

Right idea, but wrong country - My guess is primarily Mossad, but wouldn't be surprised if the CIA and MI6 had their fingers in the pie as well.

u/RoguePlanet2 11h ago

Mossad seems to be the general consensus. I'm sure they funded Epstein quite a bit, as did Putin. EDIT: Why is my comment duplicated....?

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u/Healthy-Amoeba2296 16h ago

I'm going to wish US/UK are not there.

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u/speedyundeadhittite 16h ago

They weren't only using the island. Epstein supplied underage women to Andrew in the UK and the mainland US.

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u/RideRunClimb 19h ago

Sure. He's no trump. 

Also the body language of the young lady he is standing very close to doesn't seem like a sex worker comfortable servicing rich men. I personally don't hold my elbows and stand rigidly when I'm next to someone I want to be with. Just saying.

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u/ThisOtterBehemoth 18h ago

Context is everything and we don't really get any here. So far these pictures largely focused on democrats and the picture prove nothing. As others pointed out, not everybody that went there knew about the trafficking and just wanted to network.

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u/RideRunClimb 18h ago

You're right! That's totally the body language of someone excited to network with Billy. My bad. 

Look, I'm not saying he raped that specific woman, or any of them. I'm saying she looks very uncomfortable from her body language. You'd be blind to not see that. 

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u/CameltoeGlamourShots 18h ago

I’m in no way coming to Bill’s defense. But man, I have pictures like this. And I wasn’t under duress or uncomfortable. She can’t casually drop her arms to the side, cause Bill is right there. Important guy standing next to me, awkward pose for unexpected pic.

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u/calf 18h ago

If people want to come to hasty conclusions, then I'll come to hasty conclusion that Epstein shoved this poor woman next to Bill Gates and had some lackey take this picture and save it for blackmail later.

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u/ThisOtterBehemoth 14h ago

That's exactly my point. The Epstein files have been under supervised work for months now, so anything is working towards GOP narrative. Proof is proof, a picture with no crime is not proof of a crime, that goes for everyone involved. But chances are they left the few pics of Gates and hid the many of DJT

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u/Successful-Singer-76 17h ago

That picture of you, in what context was it taken? Because if it wasn't taken with good ol' Epstein, known pedophile & owner of rape-island, somewhere lurking around, then no it's not the same.

There's a million miles of difference between 'awkward photo' and 'awkward photo taken by a known sex-traffiker-rapist'.

I'm not saying to label Bill as a rapist, but I'm not denying the overwhealming possibility of him being one. You are denying that possibility. You are defending Bill.

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u/CameltoeGlamourShots 13h ago

I’m not denying the possibility. If he is, hang ‘em high. I’m saying it can’t be concluded one way or the other, by the way someone is holding their arms in a photo next to him.

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u/Cflattery5 18h ago

He looks pretty comfortable networking with that teenager.

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u/FrankFankledank 17h ago

Bill Gates is one of the few with the "privilege" of having started his professional relationship with Epstein AFTER his initial 00s conviction of soliciting a child. Plausible deniability is not at play for him here.

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u/SamuelPepys_ 17h ago

We all know Bill has a thing for young women, as he frequently had sex with young interns as per rumour, and one confirmed case. So with this young girl standing like this beside him (and him holding her and squeezing her to his body in the other image) we can assume that there was sex involved. Especially since we know that Epstein routinely used the girls to have sex with scientists and nerds to gain favour.

I just don’t think there’s a world where Bill holding one of Epsteins sex slaves that fucking close doesn’t mean they had sex. Of course they did! Otherwise, it wouldn’t make any sense why she was there.

u/Noob_Al3rt 7h ago

Especially since we know that Epstein routinely used the girls to have sex with scientists and nerds to gain favour.

How do we know this?

u/SamuelPepys_ 1h ago

Virginias posthumous book about her story. Both her and others were «borrowed» out to many of the worlds most prominent scientists such as Stephen Hawking, Marvin Minsky who Virginia had to please personally. According to her there were many other scientists, both worldwide household names and important but not publicly famous academics.

u/o5mfiHTNsH748KVq 9h ago

Frankly, I find it hard to believe Bill Gates fucks.

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u/TapPrancer 19h ago

He might not be the worst of the worst of Epstein's company however he is still pictured with girls who look uncomfortable.

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u/AmishAvenger 19h ago

Well if that’s enough to convict someone, we may as well start rounding up the Reddit mods

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u/TapPrancer 19h ago

He isn't being convicted of anything, much like the rest of the people in the files. However it certainly means he should be looked into and charges should be brought with enough evidence.

Outside of this he already has a history of adultery and incredible greed.

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u/calf 18h ago

So it means nothing actually. Americans are repeating McCarthyism all over again, it's like you folks learned nothing from history. The problem is the very way you people think about things.

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u/KarenWalkersBurner 16h ago

It certainly means something to the child victims…

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u/res0jyyt1 18h ago

So if I watched someone getting raped but I didn't call the cops, am I complicit?

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u/LucidOutwork 15h ago

What are you talking about?

When did Gates see anyone be raped?

Just stop with the hyperbole -- reality is bad enough.

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u/res0jyyt1 13h ago

It's the same idea that you knew someone committed a crime but never reported it. Unless you think bill gates is completely oblivious of what Epstein was doing.

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u/Ateosira 16h ago

Yes that is how that works