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Did you just see the words "Bill Gates" and jump to your own conclusions, then call out the parent poster based on your jumped-to conclusions?

The article is posted on a mainstream site and describes how Bill wants additional funding to research preventative measures against future pandemics. What is the dog whistle? Where is the sinister puppetmaster references? Where does it say Bill Gates is unleashing a pandemic?




> What is the dog whistle?

The original article has nothing to do with Bill Gates, but the commenter in this thread posted this wholly unrelated article, pronouncing it "Related", without any other comment to explain the context of the linked article or how it relates to the original story. You need look no further than the other (also heavily downvoted) commenters in this thread to see who heard the dog whistle loud and clear.


Where does the puppet master/unleashing pandemic stuff come into play?

The article of Bill Gates talking preventative measures against future pandemics (including smallpox, which funny enough is related to smallpox vials), has literally 0 conspiracy-related things in it. How can that even be a dogwhistle?

If you post a story about cancer, and I post a semi-related story of Bill talking about cancer prevention, am I also dog-whistling? Is anything that has Bill in it now a dog whistle?

Edit to add: The linked artile even has smallpox in the title. How you can say it is "wholly" unrelated is baffling.




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