Gates’ connection to the U.S. detention and deportation machine is a company called Signature Aviation. Signature calls itself “the world’s largest network of private aviation terminals,” and it’s a linchpin in the day-to-day machinery of Trump’s immigration enforcement apparatus.
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The private firm that holds Gates’ and the Gates Foundation Trust’s assets, Cascade Investment, increased its stake in the company to 30% in 2021, when it and two partners bought Signature outright for $4.7 billion. Human rights advocates — plane trackers and activists who keep tabs on deportation flights, as well as the aviation and logistics companies profiting from them — say Gates’ stake in Signature is at odds with his humanitarian work, including the Gates Foundation’s support of a plethora of immigration-focused nonprofits. Without FBOs like Signature, they say, Trump’s mass deportation agenda would be stuck on the ground.
Gates himself has not publicly commented on Signature Aviation’s crucial role in servicing ICE Air flights. Neither the Gates Foundation nor Cascade Asset Management Company, which oversees Cascade Investment, responded to multiple requests for comment.
Always remember, there are no ethical billionaires. No matter how much good PR they have. Hoarding exponentially more resources than you could possibly use in a lifetime is a pre-requisite for being a billionaire. They do it because it gives them the power to subvert democracy.
Surprising how?
Linus Torvalds is an immigrant.
Oh wow, a billionaire owns a stake in the largest private airline in the country? No fucking way!
What a nothingburger of an article. HuffPo used to be good, now they’re just being useful idiots.
People are too easily conned by grandpa looking fuckers. The number of people that think Warren Buffet is the “one good” billionaire is astounding. Being austere does not make you a good person. Especially since it’s part of your extreme commitment to money hoarding.
Wait until you learn that the ICE computers run Windows as well.
Say what?!? A billionaire who exploits labor is a piece of shit???
He always has been.
That’s the point I was making
No surprise. I don’t get how anyone can see microsoft bill as anything other than a cold calculating asshole. Its like now that he has stepped away macroshit he is suddenly a good person. The whole company was founded on IP theft and his mom getting him in at IBM. Just another cluster B asshole.
Not surprising to me. Fuck Bill Gates. Him and Trump probably hung out together on Epstein’s island.
Its brilliant; destabilize a country to get wealthy and then get tax breaks for “fixing” the problems you create. Infinite money glitch. As Father John Misty wrote “…they build fortunes poisoning their offspring, then hand out prizes when someone patents a cure”
Really not that surprising if you know anything about him it didn’t fall for his obvious PR.
breaking news: billionaires are shitty people
Fuck Bill Gates. We all saw, him prostrate himself at that fucking dinner with Trump.
Bull Gates went to pedo Island, that’ll tell you everything you need to know about his true character.
I’m not surprised, being a billionaire implies a complete void of morality and ethics. He’d profit from any level of cruelty if the opportunity presented itself.
