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「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 day ago

If Bill Gates get involved in a scandal, is it now called a Billgate?

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If Bill Gates get involved in a scandal, is it now called a Billgate?

「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 day ago
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Context: Scandals are commonly appended by the suffix -gate, named after the Watergate Scandal

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  • FreddiesLantern@leminal.space
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    Thing that’s starting to irk me is the bigger picture. To some degree we kinda present the “-gates” as the next thing in the media. Like as if you’re following a television series waiting for the next episode to drop. And that creates this feeling that it’s just a temporary thing that has no impact. Once it’s out of the news cycle it’s resolved and life goes on as usual.

    I think we all know rationally speaking that with everything that’s going on, it’s quite the opposite. It’s not just Epstein/Trump/…-gate. It’s fucking “everything is connected and everything is fucked”-gate.

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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    wait until you find out that if the same happens to Elon Musk, Elongate will be really drawn out

    ba dum tss

  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I want it to be named Gatesgate.

  • Squigglez@leminal.space
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    Nah, it’s gonna be the Gatesgate

    • squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi
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      If it involves a gator at a gate it’s gonna be Gates Gator Gate Gate

    • myrmidex@belgae.social
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      Obligatory Mitchell&Webb

  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Have an upvote.

    Now dadjokes is over there.

    • 5PACEBAR@piefed.ca
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      1 day ago

      where? 😭

      • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
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        19 hours ago

        Under there

      • squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi
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        1 day ago

        !dadjokes@lemmy.world

  • jcorvera@quokk.au
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    We really need to stop affixing -gate on to every conspiracy and scandal.

    • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip
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      The problem isn’t the -gate suffix, it’s that we’ve had a once-in-a-decade scandal each month for the last 10 years.

      • jcorvera@quokk.au
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        23 hours ago

        Thing is, the most recent findings go back almost 15 or more…

    • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
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      You can’t just take it away - ya gotta come up with a good replacement that’ll catch on even better so people will switch.

      • rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafe
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        -slop seems to have already caught on

        • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
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          Gates-slop. Sounds like a mess made in the bedroom.

    • Kacarott@aussie.zone
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      That’s outrageous. What you are suggesting is gategate!

  • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works
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    If???

    • expatriado@lemmy.world
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      i guess has to be one that stands out above the others, so could be referred as the gates’ gate, or the gatest gate, or the mother of all gates

  • Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Only if it happened at the Billgate hotel. Otherwise it’s a 9/11

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    Gate^2

  • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
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    *Throws angry up-vote at OP & stomps off.*

  • Devolution@lemmy.world
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    No. Blowing bubba is a billgate.

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    For you, the day a billionaire is involved in a scandal is a big thing. For me, it’s a Wednesday.

  • Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world
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    It’d be the Gategate. It would only be called Billgate if Bill was a woman.

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