Justin Spahr-Summers: This is seriously scary, and, unfortunately, probably indicative of public opinion at large.
This is seriously scary, and, unfortunately, probably indicative of public opinion at large.
I don't think George Soros is an accurate generalization of individuals' will.
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Laughing Man:I don't think George Soros is an accurate generalization of individuals' will.
I agree, but I think the sentiment is shared by a lot of people. "Capitalism has faaaaaiiiiiiled uuuuuus!"
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
He's just another rent seeker.
No, he's a loathsome parasite. Not merely a rent seeker. Hopefully in time he will be excised like the tumour he is.
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Justin Spahr-Summers: Laughing Man: I don't think George Soros is an accurate generalization of individuals' will. I agree, but I think the sentiment is shared by a lot of people. "Capitalism has faaaaaiiiiiiled uuuuuus!"
Laughing Man: I don't think George Soros is an accurate generalization of individuals' will.
This was pretty much the consensus in my political science class.
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Daniel:This was pretty much the consensus in my political science class.
The slave pits of academia...I need to get back to school.
He can polish turds all he wants for all I care. The only people who will buy it are other turd polishers.
George Soros is not a good guy. Do you know the other schemes he's put forward?
According to him, since the international community thinks there are too many Jews in financial positions, there needs to be quota on Jews in public postings and private positions. That is, except himself, because he's not an imperialist as he says.
Or, for instance, he funded Obama, because it gives him an advantage in speculating on currency (to know lots more will be printed). Now this. He wants to replace people who can hurt his currency speculation with people who agree with him, and will pay him back favors by printing more money. He's just another bandit, who wants other people's stuff.
If anyone wants to know Soro's character, read one of his interviews from the last time he did some propaganda, cited by Richard Landes, who is an excellent historian (economic historian David Landes' son, apparently): http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2007/03/25/mis-applying-a-problematic-paradigm-soros-redefines-"deeply-superficial"/
Soros equates markets and theft in his mind. Here's his interview concerning his experiences in Nazi Germany. He's got no other problem with murder of other people; he is only concerned when he is threatened.
Kroft: “And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps.”
Soros: “Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say that that’s when my character was made.”
Kroft: “In what way?”
Soros: “That one should think ahead. One should understand that–and anticipate events and when, when one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, it was a– a very personal threat of evil.”
Kroft: “My understanding is that you went … went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.”
Soros: “Yes, that’s right. Yes.”
Kroft: “I mean, that’s–that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?”
Soros: “Not, not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don’t … you don’t see the connection. But it was–it created no–no problem at all.”
Kroft: “No feeling of guilt?”
Soros: “No.”
Kroft: “For example, that, ‘I’m Jewish, and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be these, I should be there.’ None of that?”
Soros: “Well, of course, … I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn’t be there, because that was–well, actually, in a funny way, it’s just like in the markets–that is I weren’t there–of course, I wasn’t doing it, but somebody else would–would–would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the–whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the–I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.”
It's interesting. If you read any of Stiglitz' book, he spends a couple of chapters blasting the "free-market" and then his solutions are just free-market solutions, just not taken to their full degree.
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I think Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia spent far more money trying to suppress information and failed.
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