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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: 2) by Lagg on Thursday July 13 2017, @01:15AM (2 children)

    by Lagg (105) on Thursday July 13 2017, @01:15AM (#538494) Homepage Journal

    My issues are based on the fact that RT is a tool of the state and disease of the mind spreads far. RT and co. are the people hackers are supposed to fight and hate. Cyberpunk is befalling us all without the benefit of the cool aesthetic and people are fine with it. Is it not a sign of intentionally poisoned discourse on a large scale that what was in your head was fighting age muslims - and what popped into mine upon seeing Gates' comments were things like Africans and Mexicans? Which I am going to suspect was on his mind too because the former is one of the climbing "demographics" (for lack of better word).

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @04:57AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @04:57AM (#538572)

    My issues are based on the fact that RT is a tool of the state and disease of the mind spreads far.

    And your point is?
    (Hint: All 'media outlets' are tools of the state, one way or the other, and their output has to be 'read' with whatever particular 'spin' they're known for, it doesn't matter what 'colours' the state flies, the state is the state...your Washington bureaucrat has more in common with a Moscow apparatchik...sorry, counterpart than he has with any mere US plebeian...sorry, citizen)

    RT and co. are the people hackers are supposed to fight and hate.

    Really? WTF has code to do with this?

    Cyberpunk is befalling us all without the benefit of the cool aesthetic and people are fine with it.

    Oh, FFS! 'Cyberpunk', those sort of 'hackers'...talk about gullible and naive...

    • (Score: 2) by Lagg on Thursday July 13 2017, @06:03AM

      by Lagg (105) on Thursday July 13 2017, @06:03AM (#538591) Homepage Journal

      You seem to have misplaced your ADHD medication for as much sense as this post makes to me. But no, there are hackers of all kinds, shapes and interests. Code is one. And the general tendency to loathe shit like this and even specific affiliation is something well noted as a common attribute [catb.org]. Thank you for proving my point about something in the spirit of it having been lost though. :D

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