Posted on 01/27/2018 3:52:09 PM PST by Kaslin
Liberal billionaire George Soros grabbed headlines at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday by attacking internet giants Google and Facebook. Conveniently ignoring his own investment in these companies, Soros branded them a “menace to society.”
“They deliberately engineer addiction to the services they provide,” Soros said. “This can be very harmful, particularly for adolescents. There is a similarity between internet platforms and gambling companies. Casinos have developed techniques to hook gamblers to the point where they gamble away all their money, even money they don’t have. Something very harmful and maybe irreversible is happening to human attention in the digital age. Not just distraction or addiction: social media companies are inducing people to give up their autonomy.”
Well, Soros would know about gambling: after all, he made his billions, by gambling in the casino of the financial markets. It worked out great for him, turning him into a fabulously wealthy plutocrat afforded the platform to pontificate pompously to his fellow elitists at Davos, and to indulge his personal political predilections by throwing his money at liberal causes.
But let’s remember: it’s money he made off the backs of the poor and the working class. Soros’ gambling happens to have wrecked the lives of millions of working people, not least in the United Kingdom, where his manipulation of the currency markets in the early 1990s caused a deep recession and untold misery for millions.
Of course, whatever the hypocrisy, many will agree with Soro’s characterization of the threat from Big Tech. But it was when he turned his attention to the Trump administration that he really went off the rails.
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deliberately engineer addiction to the services they provide,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
Move along. Nothing to see here...
He made billions more shorting the Thai Baht and Malaysian Ringitt about five years after that. The Singapore Dollar suffered as well. I believe Malaysia still has a warrant out for insider trading and currency manipulation. There are more than a few people in that part of the world who think he should be awarded the Order of the Hempen Necktie for what he did.
...and perhaps the antichrist...?
LOL (# 20)
Fact
Still, soros is in the running for the most despicable man on earth.
Also fact.
Yeah ! Autocorrect on my Surface seems to be on the Rat side more often then not!
Yeah ! Autocorrect on my Surface seems to be on the Rat side more often then not!
Pump & Dump?
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