https://newrepublic.com/post/172744/elon-musk-goes-full-antisemite-george-soros-dumps-tesla-shares

  • rubpoll [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    All this Elon shit lately is like Trump lite, less funny, more dumb, the same but degraded. Makes me worry the 2nd Trump administration will be even lower energy than ever. Lame.

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Soros declined to comment on the matter when contacted by The New Republic.

    Imagine being the person who works for Soros who's in charge of hearing requests for comments.

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Picturing a giant call center, each person issued a 600 page manual filled with anti-semitic conspiracy theories.

          • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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            1 year ago

            What's more unbelievable? George Soros has a call-center entirely dedicated to fielding anti-semitic conspiracy theories and categorically debunking them over the air? Or George Soros has a call center where the workers get lunch breaks?

        • Theblarglereflargle [any]
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          1 year ago

          You joke but I guarantee they have to go over at least a bit of this shot just to know what they are gonna have to deal with.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      They blocked my number when i set up an autodialer to call them every 20 minutes with a recording that read out my Antifa Inc employee number and asked why my paychecks from 2018 still haven't arrived. knock off super-soldier serum is expensive.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    magneto is way cooler than soros, wtf

    also holy shit, wasnt aware soros was a holocaust survivor. how do you go from that to imperializing the world as a billionaire? just wild

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      from what I remember he was like 12 at the time and pressed into some sort of unsavory service by the nazis

      • Fuckass
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        1 year ago

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          • xXthrowawayXx [none/use name]
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            1 year ago

            from wikipedia:

            Soros later described this time to writer Michael Lewis: "The Jewish Council asked the little kids to hand out the deportation notices. I was told to go to the Jewish Council. And there I was given these small slips of paper ... I took this piece of paper to my father. He instantly recognized it. This was a list of Hungarian Jewish lawyers. He said, 'You deliver the slips of paper and tell the people that if they report they will be deported'. I'm not sure to what extent he knew they were going to be gassed. I did what my father said."

            also from wikipedia:

            Later that year at age 14, Soros posed as the Christian godson of an official of the collaborationist Hungarian government's Ministry of Agriculture, who himself had a Jewish wife in hiding.

            Kaufman, Michael T. (2002). Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire. Knopf. pp. 32–33. ISBN 9780375405853.

              • kristina [she/her]
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                1 year ago

                also tbh a kid being complicit in nazi crimes is hardly the fault of the child even if it were the case somewhere.

                • SoyViking [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  I find it very hard to sit in my nice comfy chair and judge Jews for doing what they felt they had to do to survive the Holocaust, especially if they were children. Soros is a monster but not because of this, not at all.

              • xXthrowawayXx [none/use name]
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                1 year ago

                I’m not reading a bunch of books on soros to figure this out, but the Jewish council was set up by the nazis to act as a Vichy style governing body and the context I picked up from that snippet was that the “deportation papers” were basically the paperwork that the Nazis used to pick up people for concentration camps.

                Someone asked for a source for this claim that I’ve honestly heard since I was aware of the existence of the man and I spent less than sixty seconds chasing it down. Leave me out of whatever fight you’re having.

            • AusbildungDerAusbild [comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              Why would you include:

              Later that year at age 14, Soros posed as the Christian godson of an official of the collaborationist Hungarian government’s Ministry of Agriculture, who himself had a Jewish wife in hiding

              The topic you brought up was "unsavory service" a kid was pressed into. Plenty of people who survive the Shoa and Holocaust did it precisely by having other people claiming to be their parents.

              My grandmother was a kid herself (blue eyed, blond) during that time and was downstairs to another family while there was a check by the Nazis, the daughter of a Jewish family took her place so she would not get deported. The parents were deported at some point, though and likely died in KZ Sachsenhausen.

              She would later be fetched by people the parents knew, but her fate is not known to us, even after having my grandmother being a contemporary witness and working together with survivors of the Shoa.

              The point is that even before the Shoa it wasn't uncommon for Jewish parents who had kids to try to safe their offspring's lives and hid them during pogroms with Christians, but the Ghetto was a bad place and to include one venue of potential escape framed as unsavory is bad.

              In any case why would you repeat claims of that nature when in any case?

              • xXthrowawayXx [none/use name]
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                1 year ago

                Because elsewhere in the thread in addition to the distributing deportation papers (the process nazis used to fill the concentration camps) claim the claim was made that he survived the holocaust by living with the collaborationist government. Which seems to be true.

                I replied to the post because they asked for a source and it took less than sixty seconds to find one for both claims, in soros’ own voice.

                I did not bring up unsavory service. My first reply in this thread is the one you replied to.

  • determinism2 [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I swear I remember the trueanon gang saying that his maternal grandfather read the Protocols into canadian congressional record when he was active with that "technocratic" party.

    • Fuckass
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  • VHS [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Yeesh. That's pretty blatant even for him

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Soros Fund Management, bought up stock in the electric car maker over the course of 2022, holding a total of 132,000 shares by the end of the year. Then the fund capitalized on Tesla’s impressive 68 percent jump in value this year, selling off its entire Tesla stake in the first quarter of 2023

    This is just what hedge funds do. Whatever you think of Soros, he's a rational actor so of course he's not going to hodl like a Musk stan or a WSB cultist - he's gonna get his bag and leave with it because that's how he makes his money.

  • cactus_jack [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Oof, comparing the most powerful jew in the world to the antisemitic caricature... Magneto.

    When I say the Koch brothers want to erode the very fabric of civilization and I'm glad one of them is dead, is that a dog whistle for white genocide?