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

    • Gamers_Mate
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      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.

  • pruwyben
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    1711 months ago

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

      • Nougat
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        611 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
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      If the scandal was a hoax it would be Bill Gates gate-gate-gate

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

  • Carighan Maconar
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    1411 months ago

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

      • Herbal Gamer
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        411 months ago

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

        Bill Gates’ 'Bill Gates Bill-Gate

  • hrimfaxi_work
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    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
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      511 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
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      411 months ago

      Hey man, the dream isn’t dead

  • @CptBread
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    1211 months ago

    No. It will be called Waterbill.

  • @db2
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    1111 months ago

    Gatesgate. Put down the bong dude.

  • uphillbothways
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    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.

  • Unaware7013
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    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.