I don't know exactly when it happened that people of certain political leanings started to feel as though Bill Gates is evil incarnate but it was probably right around the time when he became very vocal about vaccines. I'm rather indifferent towards the guy and only get upset with him when my computer is demanding I do yet another half an hour update only to have things added to my desktop that I will not use and do not want.
A publication that is extremely right-leaning seems to freak out anytime that Bill wants to do anything though and that publication is something I don't often read. It is called Patriot Fetch and I am sure you can guess which way they happen to lean in the political spectum.
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In this recent article the authors are warning the people that Bill Gates has bought up a bunch of land in North Dakota and are applauding the Attorney General for stepping in to have an investigation and send a warning letter to the group acting on Gates' behalf that the land can not be used for corporate farming.
The article goes on to try to scare their readers, which probably isn't a really big number of people, by stating "Bill Gates, as of January 2021, is the largest owner of farmland in the United States, owning a whopping 242,000 acres across 18 different states."
Holy crap that's a ton of land! Or so it would appear to anyone that hasn't ever bothered to learn what an acre is. 242,000 of anything seems like a lot until you bother to find out how big one of them is. As it turns out 250,000 acres is a little under 20 square miles and sure, this is a lot of land for one person to own but it isn't big enough for Bill Gates to be up to anything super devious.
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I suppose if you want to be worried about Bill Gates that's your business but this article is dumb because it tries to keep the "be scared of Gates" fire burning the same way that the left does the same thing with Elon Musk. Whether or not the person in question has actually done anything wrong doesn't seem to be all that important. What is important to publications like this is that they keep their base constantly afraid of anything that is different to them.
The article, which of course is an op-ed piece, later gives us this amazing quote from the author.
I, for one, do not feel comfortable with a guy of Gates’ reputation possessing this much of our nation’s farmland. We all know he wants to try and find a way to make people eat fake meat, you know, to save the planet or some such nonsense.
I'll give Patriot Fetch this much. At least they aren't even trying to pretend to be real journalists. If Gates is in fact trying to make fake meat then you have a wonderful option available to you: Don't buy it. We should be a lot more concerned about how everyone continues to use Windows.
