George Soros

[Red Memories]

So let me get this right, because he is an atheist he's wicked?

I'm not sure that supporting the charities of his choice is exactly smoothing out the world's imperfections.

Its a seriously far cry from perfectionism to simply want the world to be better or at the very least to try to arrest some of its worst failings, which is to say do something about avoidable suffering while accepting that there's a fair share of suffering besides that it'll never be possible to do anything about.

All that said I'm making generalizations there as I dont know anything about Soros other than he supports charities I wouldnt, if I had any money to do so, that he is a pretty wealthy guy and the subject of a load of ridiculous conspiracy theories, the majority of which all boil down to anti-semitism anyway. That kind of world view is reductionist and ridiculously over simplified. I'm sure there are conspiracies, plural, but they never turn out to be what people think and they've often got a lot more to do with organized crime, vice, drug trafficking, organized war and old money than the sorts of sectarian and/or ethnocentric ravings that pass as the staple.

Take as an example population, Earth First!, various racist groups, Malthusian conservatives, capitalists, consider some or all of the human population as better off dead. They converge on that single conclusion or policy, famine, war, pestilence, pandemic, poverty, scarcity, maldistribution, its all great so long as it reduces the numbers. Simply because they're all agreed upon that same end does not mean that they believe it justified for the same reasons, not for a second.

However, the conspiratorial outlook would have to decide that they're all part of a singular plot or the plotters are hidden behind the scenes pulling the strings of the whole lot of them no matter how seemingly at odds they in reality are. Its how you get raving lunatic absurdities like anti-semites suggesting that the jews created both communism and nazism or capitalist libertarians suggesting that communism, nazism, tax funded health services, its all socialism really. Daft. It suits a certain mindset though, one that never got used to thinking or one that's just gotten tired of it.

I do not see him as wicked for being an atheist. I'm trying to sort out why he is really the center of all these right conspiracy theories. They all seem to have George Soros in common so I am more desiring to understand the complete obsession with this one individual though many here already gave a perspective.

I also find it confusing how the media can take only a piece of something and try to make an opinion piece off of it and call it journalism...it is frustrating while you try to find anything.

 

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I do not see him as wicked for being an atheist. I'm trying to sort out why he is really the center of all these right conspiracy theories. They all seem to have George Soros in common so I am more desiring to understand the complete obsession with this one individual though many here already gave a perspective.

I also find it confusing how the media can take only a piece of something and try to make an opinion piece off of it and call it journalism...it is frustrating while you try to find anything.

But why is it confusing? This is what conspiracy theories are. The legit media never paid them any mind until recently. But when opinion and churnalism are touted as actual investigative journalism and news - this is the end result.

'Pizzagate' Gunman Sentenced To 4 Years In Prison : The Two-Way : NPR

Edgar Maddison Welch fired an AR-15 rifle (this part doesn't matter, it just looks good to say AR-15) inside a pizza restaurant in Washington, D.C., last year as he was "investigating" a baseless conspiracy theory has been sentenced to four years in prison.

In a letter to the court, Welch stated that he was "truly sorry for endangering the safety of any and all bystanders who were present that day." He claimed that he "came to D.C. with the intent of helping people."

Comet Ping Pong advertises itself as a "hipster-heavy pizza parlor" that features "table tennis galore." Its owner, James Alefantis, told NPR in December that the conspiracy theory has been difficult for the restaurant, calling it "an insanely complicated, made-up, fictional lie-based story" and a "coordinated political attack."

I've seen interviews with Edgar. He was 100% positive without a doubt Hillary Clinton and John Podesta and other Dems had a Satanic child sex abuse ring in the basement of a pizza parlor. He took it upon himself to go free these little kids being abused at the hands of pedo Democrats.

People like Alex Jones, Jacob Whol, Fox News, One America News, Seb Gorka, Mark Levin and all the other right wing kooks and conservative influencers want people to focus on these insane theories so you don't focus on what they are doing or the people they have an interest in keeping in office or other positions of power to enrich them. And it works, that's why they do it.

Here's some more reading.

Debunking the myths surrounding George Soros