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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday July 12 2017, @09:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the switching-to-mac dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has called on Europe to stop demonstrating generosity towards asylum seekers to avoid an overwhelming migrant influx. He also advises European states to make Africans' way to the continent much more difficult.

During an interview Germany's Welt am Sonntag, Gates, one of the richest people on the planet, warned of the grave consequences of exceeding generosity towards refugees coming to Europe, whose numbers would only rise unless something is done.

"On the one hand you want to demonstrate generosity and take in refugees, but the more generous you are, the more word gets around about this – which in turn motivates more people to leave Africa," Gates said.

While Germany has been one of the pioneers of the open door policy, it cannot "take in the huge, massive number of people who are wanting to make their way to Europe." Thus Gates advised European nations to take action in order to make it "more difficult for Africans to reach the continent via the current transit routes."

Source: https://www.rt.com/news/395356-migrants-overwhelm-europe-gates/


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 12 2017, @10:37PM (15 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday July 12 2017, @10:37PM (#538404) Homepage Journal

    Don't give handouts to people comes from give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day... It's good sense not heartlessness.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @10:47PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @10:47PM (#538408)

    How about instead of a handout we give them a helping hand?

    • (Score: 4, Funny) by Gaaark on Wednesday July 12 2017, @11:25PM

      by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday July 12 2017, @11:25PM (#538430) Journal

      So, a hand job?
      ;)

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @03:16AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @03:16AM (#538534)

      Engineers Without Borders
      Doctors Without Borders

      Especially Engineers Without Borders should be better funded and more expansive.

      The problem is they have modern weapons, but they have no modern infrastructure. Looks upside down to me. Modern infrastructure first, let weapons remain primitive. Humans have different priorities than I do.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @09:26AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @09:26AM (#538642)

        Modern infrastructure first, let weapons remain primitive. Humans have different priorities than I do.

        Tell that to the US and UK Govs. They seem happy to send weapons to the Middle East whether directly or via Saudi Arabia.

        If you observe carefully you'll realize the supplied arms and training aren't really to eliminate ISIS but to weaken Syria. Fighting ISIS happens from time to time but only to contain it (google for contain ISIS and you'll see that phrase come up often from the US military, they want something like ISIS)

        They are happy to send "fuel" to keep the fires burning: http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-isis-20160327-story.html [latimes.com]
        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/10/uk-arms-sales-saudi-arabia-lawful-high-court-rules/ [telegraph.co.uk]

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @11:14PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @11:14PM (#538427)

    give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day..

    Teach a man to fish, and he'll sit in a boat on a lake drinking beer all day.

    Or better, for the richies:
      Give a man a fire, and he's warm for now. Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life!

    Alt-right psychology! Or, Fake psychology!

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @06:43AM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @06:43AM (#538601)

      Or:
      "You can lead a Mighty Buzzard to justice, but you cannot make him drink, because he's sitting in a boat on a lake drinking beer instead."

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @09:14PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @09:14PM (#538866)

        Nothing a good dose of "personal responsibility" won't fix while simultaneously making the commenter feel superior for their own success. Gotta love the narrow minded, who else would we have to tease? Just sit here and have reasonable discussions all day? Actually fix some problems?

        hahahahahah sounds like work! Bring it on TMB, we need more distractions! Give us some more pearls of wisdom!!

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @05:31AM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @05:31AM (#538977)

          Oh, boy! Stick that "personal responsibility" as far up your ass as you are personally able! I love it how Republican Talking Points get outted and then become maxims of derision. A rising tide, drowns all the people who can' afford to move. Good one. Crab bucket! Some try to climb out, using the bodies of the rest of us, and they are indignant when we pull them down? (And this is not all we do, those climbing bastards, we dis member them, so to speak, and after that, well, we "eat the (aspiring to be) rich. And low rent fuckers we be free to buy health insurance policies that don't actually cover shit, just like in the old days, because Republicans really think Americans are that Stupid.

              Well, if it was up to me, I would not have a 99% disability, and I would not have a pension from a suck-ass job, and I might live in a country where health care was right, and not some kind of goddamed commodity that Paul Ryan would think he could balance on his erect penis that my fucking tax dollars went to pay for his Congressional health care is paying for, so he can fuck the United States from his secret Republican Lair in Wisconsion. I am starting to Blame all of Wisconson for the downfall of America. Cheeseheads, get your shit together, or it will be a civil war of all the states, against you and your idiot Koch sucking governor.

          • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday July 14 2017, @12:15PM

            by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 14 2017, @12:15PM (#539081) Journal

            Well, if it was up to me, I would not have a 99% disability

            As my young nephew said, "It's not about you, it's about MEEEEE!" To the contrary, personal responsibility can still happen even if you have "99% disability". Despite what you've might have heard in your echo chambers, expectations are lowered for those who can't fully provide for themselves. You might count as such.

            Sure, bad things happen to people. But bad things didn't happen to everyone. The people who didn't get unlucky should be taking care of themselves.

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday July 14 2017, @09:52PM

        +1 Insightful

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @12:16AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @12:16AM (#538463)

    When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick. Now when it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves.” But Jesus said, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.” They said to him, “We have only five loaves here and two fish.” And he said, “Bring them here to me.” Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces left over. And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

    Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @02:08AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @02:08AM (#538518)

      Why doesn't jesus just come back and feed them all then? Maybe he knows something, and that they will just make more of them.

      Ok bad example, why dont the African sky faries help them?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @03:22AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @03:22AM (#538539)

        Can't. Trying to wedge a food-giving hole in the ground open wider still so he could have more food for himself and his family made their sky fairy angry. Every time he tried, the sky fairy closed the hole a little more until he was left with a bare minimum of unappealing food.

        This middle-Eastern sky fairy sounds like a great guy, but seems... fishy.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Thursday July 13 2017, @12:36AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 13 2017, @12:36AM (#538474) Journal

    Don't give handouts to people comes from give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day...

    Gotta like how the Western World cynically put into reality the sick part of the joke... yeah, that's the one, with "set him alight and he'll be warm for the rest of his life".
    America sowing wind and then teaching Europe how to fend the storm (e.g. that sick bitch with "We came, we saw, he died" really made the life of Libyans so much happier and easier)

    Good teacher, high moral fiber... How many Syrian refugees has USofA managed to accept last year?
    'Cause the "fishes" USA keep dropping into Syria and assisting "the rebels" with managed to displace about 11 million refugees.

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  • (Score: 2) by aclarke on Thursday July 13 2017, @03:15PM

    by aclarke (2049) on Thursday July 13 2017, @03:15PM (#538719) Homepage

    As I like to point out, give a man a fire and he's warm for a night. Light a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.