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Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by ekianjo on Friday March 21, 2014 @12:01AM (#7440577)
> FDR turned giving money away into something that was literally awesome

Yeah, like the FDR war bonds to finance war activities in WWII in order to burn Japan and Germany (civilians included) to the ground ? Using even popular children cartoons for propaganda : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99zmpod_zbE

Seriously, if you want to use an example of someone who did good things, choose actually a good person in the first place.

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Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by gdy on Friday March 21, 2014 @05:19AM (#7441331)
> to burn Japan and Germany (civilians included) to the ground You say that like it was a bad thing.
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