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>Soros-type supervillain As in, someone who survived the Holocaust and uses his money to promote democracy around the world?
by ProjectArcturis 3y ago
>Soros-type supervillain
As in, someone who survived the Holocaust and uses his money to promote democracy around the world?
- chrisdhoover 3y agoPolanski survived the Holocaust.
- jjtheblunt 3y ago[flagged]
- ProjectArcturis 3y agoThis is an incredibly disingenuous post. Soros called 1944 the happiest year of his life because he witnessed his father's bravery in saving other Jews.
- jjtheblunt 3y ago[flagged]
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoSoros’s fellow Hungarian Jew Imre Kertész, survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, said that he sometimes looked back on the death camps and recalled the moments of happiness he experienced there. It’s [spoiler warning] the climactic moment of his most acclaimed book. For Jews, living through the Holocaust brought some paradoxical emotions, which ultimately serve as proof that the human spirit is indomitable even in the darkest times.
- jjtheblunt 3y agoIt's sad and interesting. I once sat next to an old man on a bus in Boston (summer 1996) who had the serial number tattoo on his wrist, and since he was about the age of my own dad, asked him about it. He was thankful that I asked, i think something about people are afraid to ask how he is, or similar. he told me he had survived a camp (which one i forget) and had lost his family, and that he realizes it was not Germans in general but the crazy criminals in power, but he was forever wary of anything that reminded him of it. Very kind avuncular conversation.
- froggysnail 3y agoDemocracy is a beloved system of billionaires because they are able to pressure the weak men in power with money.
- permo-w 3y agowhat's the better option
- froggysnail 3y agoYou already know the answer but you also know that we can't talk about it on the "open" internet.
- darkmarmot 3y agoLaws that preclude the existence of billionaires...
- permo-w 3y agoI agree that society should be structured more like it was in the post-war era - to the end of a better distribution of wealth, but there are always going to be powerful actors with interests contrary to yours, whoever you are, whatever you believe, whether that power is through business, religion, unions, wealth, or international relations. Solving the issue of billionaires cuts off one head, but it doesn't fix human weakness to influence
- dontlaugh 3y agoSoros gets demonised by the right because he’s Jewish, but he’s still no friend of the working class and has no interest in actual democracy. Like most capitalists, he funds people and systems that benefit the profits of his faction of capital.
- azmodeus 3y agoI thinking funding the Central European University in Budapest originally with full scholarships to poorer Hungarian students is in the spirit of democracy and helps working class people. Could you highlight what part of his philanthropy you disagree with?
- stefantalpalaru 3y ago[dead]