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[-] habanhero@lemmy.ca 39 points 11 months ago
[-] indepndnt@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

I hope no one ever seriously uses that, because he suggested it himself.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 8 points 11 months ago

Melongate then.

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago

I hope that’s what we call the media storm that occurs after we find out that he underwent surgery to lengthen himself.

[-] cbarrick@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago
[-] Gamers_Mate@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah you can just remove the S from Bill Gates and it works.
Also if he was a Goat he would Either be Bill Goats Or Billy Gates.

[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 11 months ago

A scandal involving a gate owned by Bill Gates would be called Gates' gate-gate.

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 11 points 11 months ago

A law banning Bill Gates gate scandals would be called: Bill Gates gate-gate bill.

[-] Nougat@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

And if someone was caught taking bribes to vote a certain way about that, it would be Bill Gates gate-gate bill-gate.

[-] ShunkW@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

If the scandal was a hoax it would be Bill Gates gate-gate-gate

[-] thomasloven@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

A scandal involving Bill Gates riding a horse through a gate might be called Bill Gates’ gate-gait-gate.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

If it is about multiple scandals all involving countfeit money, they'd collectively be Bill Gates' Billgates.

[-] remotelove@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

What about if he buys fence gates with that fake money?

Bill Gates Gate Bill-gate.

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

If it's for fence gates to a Shoebill enclosure?

Bill Gates' 'Bill Gates Bill-Gate

[-] hrimfaxi_work@midwest.social 13 points 11 months ago

I was kinda hoping that in the current era, political scandals would get a new suffix. Watergate happened 50 years ago, so popular first-hand memory of it is waning.

There was a moment when I thought we could transition to [scandal]-a-lago, but it never happened.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

maybe when independent inquires into government start happening again you'll uncover a scandal that can take the mantle.

I'll just be over here holding my breath.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Hey man, the dream isn't dead

[-] CptBread@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

No. It will be called Waterbill.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Gatesgate. Put down the bong dude.

[-] uphillbothways@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

Watergate is just the name of a hotel/shop/office complex in DC. The Watergate scandal had nothing to do with water, it's just named after the place where it occurred. The -gate suffix for scandals is dumb.

[-] Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 4 points 11 months ago

Thank you, I hate this trend so much. I'd rather be called a gate-gatekeeping douche than see it spread even more.

[-] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago
[-] theodewere@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

a scandal involving paper money could be a Bills Gate

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago
[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Bill Gates²÷s

[-] Oszilloraptor@feddit.de 5 points 11 months ago
[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago
[-] lingh0e@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Beat me to it.

[-] Unaware7013@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

Matt Gaetz tried that shit a few years ago when his taste in younger women (and maybe men, who knows) came to light, but I was really hoping people would have gone with "Pizza-Gaetz" just because it was more clever and pointed out that he was a sex trafficker to a minor.

[-] Michal@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago
[-] Alwaysfallingupyup@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Bill Windowgates

this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2023
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