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Kyrie Irving is creating headlines again, but this time it is nothing with basketball. The injured Dallas Mavericks All-Star has taken Twitch-like a directly broadcast platform, mostly known to players-to share some of their thoughts on all things, cultivated land and Bill gate.
“I still think it is strange that Gates’s family Bill Gates has a lot of land in the North Dakota,” said Irving in a direct clip, which is now circulating on YouTube and X.
“I think it’s strange. He owns most of the water in the US. I think it’s strange. Whatever his own. Everyone is for information only for information purposes. But at the same time as you go to the grocery store and see some products that are where they spray with a bunch of sh.”
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Irving’s comment lit a spark in social media, some viewers rushed to check the NBA champion’s claims. One person even asked Grok – Elon Musk’s Ai Chatbot – what was real and what wasn’t. “The Gates owns ~ 270,000 ares of agricultural land (0.03% of the total cultivated land in the US), making it the largest private owner, but not most,” said Chatbot. “It does not have most of the US water; rights are related to land and regulated, not a single person dominated.”
Another X user wrote:
“Kyrie Irving has a point – why @billgates scan America’s cultivated land and water? It’s not just” strange “; it’s power and water control is not just influence, it is a throttle for the essentials of society.
So how much land really belongs to Gates? Based on the latest Land Report 100, the founder of Microsoft currently includes about 275,000 ares of agricultural land for at least 18 states. It descends to him no. 43 The list of the largest landowners in America is not even in the top ten. Although he is the largest owner of private farmland in the country, the idea that he owns “most” anything is simply wrong. As for the context, the US has more than 900 million ares of agricultural land. Gates owns about 0.03% of it.
Most disputes arise from 2022. Acquisition in North Dakota, where Red River Trust is a entity related to the gate – for $ 13.5 million. The locals were not impressed, but the sale was lawful and approved by the State Prosecutor General. In the same year, Gates tried to clean the air through Reddit Ama: “I have less than 1/4000 in the US,” he wrote. “I have invested in these farms to make them more productive and create more jobs. There is no certain grandiose scheme – in fact, all these decisions are made by a professional investment team.”